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CAB ABSTRACTS PLUS

• Shaun Hobbs
• Database Publishing Director

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Why Full Text

• Feedback from Customers
• Feedback from sales staff
• Proof of Concept
• Questionnaires
• Evolutionary step for AI services
• Both CABI and third party full text
• NOT CABI primary journals or books

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CAB Abstracts Plus

• CAB Abstracts Full Text Select
• CAB Reviews Perspectives in Agriculture,
  Veterinary Science, Nutrition and Natural
  Resources
• Reviews Archive
• Distribution Maps of Plant Diseases
• Distribution Maps of Plant Pests
• Descriptions of Fungi and Bacteria

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CAB Abstracts Full Text Select

• A collection of hard to find third-party content
• International scope
• Starting with a base of 10,000 articles
• Building by further 10,000 in 2006
• Journals, conferences, reports
• PDF version of full article offered
• PDF created when none available

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FTS Journals

• Most start from 2005 volume
• Coverage aligned to CAB Abstracts vets, animal
  science, agriculture, crop protection,
  horticulture, plant and animal breeding, soils
• Forty-four journals accepted as of today
• Truly international Italy, Switzerland, Spain,
  Poland, India, Pakistan, Iran, Korea,
  Philippines, Brazil, Mexico, South Africa,
  Tanzania, Egypt

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Example journal titles

• Proceedings of the Interamerican Society for
  Tropical Horticulture
• Intas Polivet (back to Vol 1, 2000)
• Journal of Agricultural Science and Technology
  (Iran)
• Philippine Journal of Crop Science
• Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology

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FTS conference titles

• 88 Conferences to date
• 13th Australasian Vertebrate Pest Conference 05
• 58th New Zealand Plant Protection Conference 05
• North American Veterinary Conference 05
• 1st Arab Conference for Applied Biological Pest
  Control 04
• III Congreso Cubano de Malezologia 04
• Proceedings Annual Convention American
  Association Equine Practitioners 04

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CAB Abstracts Full Text Select

• Not a stand-alone collection - only available to
  CAB Abstracts subscribers
• Will work from all hosts
• Will work with link resolvers such as ExLibris,
  SFX, Serials Solutions, Article Linker, Endeavour
  and LinkFinder Plus.
• We are aiming to support most widely used
  commercial and non commercial link resolver
  products

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CAB Reviews Perspectives in Agriculture,
Veterinary Science, Nutrition and Natural
Resources

• Complements coverage of CAB Abstracts
• Provides analysis and information on the current
  research
• Authoritative resource for keeping up with latest
  developments in context.
• Exclusively electronic publication
• Can be purchased separately from CAB Abstracts
  (Full Text links from CA if purchaser has both)

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CAB Reviews content

• Continuous and rapid publication on an article by
  article basis
• International editorial advisory board
• Peer reviewed
• 70 reviews available on launch (from 2003-2005)
• 100 new reviews per year
• Content will build forward from 2003

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Reviews in-hand

• Organic sector in Ukraine A summary of the
  present state, challenges and strategy
  discussions
• Parasitic diseases of cats and dogs in the
  tropics
• Biofortified crops
• Prevalence and causes of childhood obesity
• Can dietary fibre improve glycaemic control?

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CAB Reviews Archive

• Coverage back to the mid-1930s
• Around 2,500 PDF articles
• Metadata fully searchable
• Electronic only
• One-off purchase

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Example Reviews Archive content

• Avian influenza--recent developments 1982
• Airborne foot-and-mouth disease 1979
• Diets of working-class families with children
  before and after the second world war 1963
• The qualitative aspects of nutrition. John Boyd
  Orr. 1931
• The depletion of soil and water resources in
  relation to climatic change 1951
• The environmental risks of transgenic crops an
  agroecological assessment 1998

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Distribution Maps of Plant Pests/Diseases

• Current product in print started 1951 (DMPP) and
  1942 (DMPD)
• Expertly compiled and verified
• Essential for quarantine and other users
• 665 DMP Pests to date - 18 added p.a.
• 940 DMP Diseases - 36 added p.a.
• All fully searchable through metadata
• Browsable by date or geographic area
• All now have online PDF

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Descriptions of Fungi and Bacteria

• Current product in print started in 1964
• For plant pathologist, vet/med mycologists
• Over 1600 descriptions with 40 added p.a.
• Expert and authoritative compilation
• All fully searchable through metadata
• All have online PDF

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Summary

• CAB Abstracts Plus has six components
• Each has different Full Text
• All except the Reviews Archive are subscription
  products
• Full Text Select can only be purchased by CAB
  Abstracts customers
• All others can be purchased separately but PDFs
  will link from CAB Abstracts too

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Where to find information

• General information www.cabi-publishing.org/
  cabplus
• FTS journal list www.cabi-publishing.org/fu
  lltext/pdfs/Accepted_Journals.pdf
• FTS conference list www.cabi-publishing.org/
  fulltext/pdfs/Accepted_Conferences.pdf
• Demonstration CAB Reviews site
  www.cababstractsplus.org/cabreviews/
• Proof of Concept for FTS linking
  www.cabi-publishing.org/fulltext/index.html