Advanced Searching of CAB ABSTRACTS

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Advanced Searching of CAB ABSTRACTS

• Field Searching
• CABICODES
• The CAB Thesaurus
• Subject Codes
• Search Limits

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Free-Text Index

• English Item Title TI
• Original Item Title OT
• Additional Title AT
• Abstract AB
• Subject Headings SH
• Organism Descriptors OD
• Geographic Locations GL CABI
  Indexing Fields
• Identifiers ID
• Broad Terms BT

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Title Fields

• The title of the original article
• All records have an English title (TI)
• non-English articles may have an Original
  Language title (OT)
• Additional Title included in TI
• Word searchable
• Useful for reference searching
• Examples
• Cattle production.TI.
• (Forestry AND Ecotourism).TI.

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Authors and Editors

• Personal Authors (AU)
• Author variations included
• Editors names searched in ED
• Search as complete names
• e.g. smith t a.AU.
• smith.ED.
• Browse the AU or ED indexes
• Corporate Authors (CA)
• Remember variations
• e.g. World Health Organization.CA.
• WHO.CA.

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Indexing Fields(Descriptors)

• Organism Descriptors (OD)
• Geographic Locations (GL)
• Subject Headings (SH) (CABIs Descriptors field)
• Broad Terms (BT)
• Identifiers (ID)

Note 1 The SH, OD, GL and ID fields are Phrase
Indexed Note 2 Searching .DE. Searches SH, GL
and OD and is Word indexed Note 3 Searching .SU.
Searches SH, GL, OD, and ID and is Word
indexed Note 4 Searching .HW. (RECOMMENDED)
Searches SH, GL, OD, BT and ID and
is Word indexed
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SH, OD and GL

• Controlled Terms from the CAB Thesaurus
• Manually added by CABI Indexers
• Added at the specific concept level
• SU field tag searches all three at once
• HW tag searches SU plus BT
• Examples
• cattle.OD.
• drug resistance.SU.
• nitrogen fertilizers.SH.
• (rice and irrigation and south east asia).HW.

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Broad Terms

• Automatically added to records
• Added for OD and GL terms plus selective
  Identifiers
• All levels of Broad terms are added
• Use HW
• Examples
• coleoptera.BT.
• animals.BT.
• cereals.HW. (all CABI index fields)

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Identifiers

• Non-Thesaurus Terms
• New concepts
• Potential future Thesaurus terms
• Also included in the SU and HW search indexes
• e.g.
• boring insects.ID.
• aeolesthes holosericea.HW.

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CABICODES

• Subject classification
• 23 broad subject areas
• Hierarchical structure
• Used as well as descriptors
• At least one per record
• Useful for searching broad concepts
• Note only the codes are in the Free-Text index.
  Words are searched with the CW tag

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CABICODEs

• KK000 Forestry, Forest Products and Agroforestry
  General)KK100 Forests and Forest Trees (Biology
  and Ecology)KK110 Silviculture and Forest
  ManagementKK120 Forest Mensuration and
  Management (Discontinued March 2000)KK130
  Forest FiresKK140 Protection Forestry
  (Discontinued March 2000)KK150 Other Land Use
  (Discontinued March 2000)KK160 Ornamental and
  Amenity TreesKK500 Forest Products and
  Industries (General)KK510 Wood Properties,
  Damage and PreservationKK515 Logging and Wood
  ProcessingKK520 Wood Utilization and Engineered
  Wood ProductsKK530 Chemical and Biological
  Processing of WoodKK540 Non-wood Forest
  ProductsKK600 Agroforestry and Multipurpose
  Trees Community, Farm and Social Forestry

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CABICODES

• Examples
• KK160.CC. AND urban development
• KK.CC. AND management.HW.
• forest products.CW.

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The CAB Thesaurus

• CABIs Controlled indexing vocabulary
• 82,000 terms
• hierarchically structured
• Preferred Terms
• Broad Terms
• Narrow Terms
• Related Terms
• Use for Terms
• Integrated search tool

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Subject Codes (SubSet Codes)

• Classification codes
• Broad subject codes
• Coding to CABI full text
• Searched using the SS field tag
• E.g.
• Transgenic Plants and (FR or FA).SS.
• Environment and Management and 0F.SS.
• Tourism and GB.SS.
• A full list of Subject Codes can be found at
• http//www.cabi.org/datapage.asp?iDocID1076

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Institutional Address

• Address of where the work was done
• Usually the address of the first author
• Given in full when available
• Remember variations and name changes
• Word searchable using .IN.
• Examples
• Hungary.IN.
• (St Istvan or Szent Istvan).IN.

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Limit Fields

• Publication Year (YR) - Year of publication of
  the original article.
• Language of text (LA) - Language of the original
  text.
• Publication Type (PT) - Type of original
  publication , e.g. book, journal, etc.
• Abstracts
• Ovid Full Text Available