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CABI Publishing

• Dianne Miles
• Regional Sales Manager
• Sam Hemmant
• Marketing
• Richard Degg
• Content Manager

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Presentation overview

• Overview CAB International
• CABI Publishing - Hospitality
• The Book Programme
• Leisure and tourism products
• leisuretourism.com
• Who would use the database?
• Key features
• Conclusions and Trial Information

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What is CAB International?

• International, governmental,Treaty-level,
  not-for-profit organisation
• 40 Member Countries
• Formally established in 1928 as Imperial
  Agricultural Bureaux (IAB) in 1948, became
  Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux (CAB)
• Granted full international status under new
  constitution and renamed CAB International in
  1985.
• CABI Publishing, CABI Bioscience

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CABI Member Countries
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CABI PublishingCore activities

• Databases
• Journals Print Electronic
• Books and Reference Works
• Compendia (CD and Web)

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CAB Abstracts

• Archive - 1973 to present
• Over 4 million records to date
• 180,000 new records added each year
• 9,000 sources scanned including journals, books,
  conference proceedings and some grey literature
• Coverage of material in over 50 languages from
  over 125 countries
• Regular updates, weekly for CAB Direct
• A Research database including references to
  papers reporting or reviewing original research
• Powerful search tools including the CAB Thesaurus
  and CABICODES

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CAB Abstracts Subject Coverage

• Agricultural engineering
• Animal health veterinary medicine
• Animal sciences
• Crop protection
• Crop sciences

• Economics and social sciences
• Food nutrition in man
• Forestry, forest products agroforestry
• Human medicine
• Leisure tourism

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www.cabdirect.org
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CAB Direct

• CABIs direct platform for CAB Abstracts
• Weekly updates
• Competitively priced
• Full text linking
• SFX and Open URL compliant
• Built-in Export formats for Procite, EndNote and
  Reference Manager

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Nutrition and Food Sciences database

• Covers nutrition policy, public health, clinical
  and therapeutic nutrition, food sciences and much
  more
• Over 400,000 records derived from CAB ABSTRACTS
  database with links to full-text articles
• News, spotlight articles, reviews, conference
  proceedings and reference materials

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Primary Journals - Full-text

• SUBJECT NUTRITION
• British Journal of Nutrition
• Nutrition Research Reviews
• Proceedings of the Nutrition Society
• Public Health Nutrition

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Leisure tourism resources

• Books programme
• Database resources
• Content
• Platform
• Searching
• Value added factors
• International Editorial Board

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Leisure and tourism resources from CABI Publishing

• CABI Publishing has produced databases for
  leisure and tourism since 1976
• Coverage emerged from alternate uses of farm land
• Now covers all aspects of leisure, recreation,
  sport, tourism, and the cultural industries

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Leisure and Tourism Books from CABI Publishing

• More than 10 titles a year
• monographs
• conference proceedings
• undergraduate textbooks
• graduate textbooks
• practical titles for the professional reader

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Leisure and Tourism resources derived from CAB
Abstracts database

• Leisure, Recreation and Tourism abstracts - print
• leisuretourism.com - online

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leisuretourism.comyour information destination

• Over 52,000 abstracts spanning 30 years of
  research
• The latest news in leisure, tourism and
  recreation
• Showcase features bring together a wealth of
  material on the latest issues affecting the
  industry
• Book reviews of important texts and resources in
  the field
• Content and future development of website driven
  by an international editorial board

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Who would use leisuretourism.com?

• Global userbase - visitors from over 70
  countries.
• Main user groups
• Information scientists
• Researchers - newly published research
• Lecturers - reading lists/teaching plans
• Students - Peer approved

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The LT abstracts database
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The LT abstracts database
The content...

• Contains over 52,000 abstracts, spanning 30 years
  research in Leisure, tourism and recreation.
• All entries are indexed by subject specialists
• Entries taken from over 400 leading leisure,
  tourism, recreation, sport and related journals

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The LT abstracts database The platform...

• Fast access to the abstracts you want through the
  improved CAB Direct platform
• Flexible searching options to help you carry out
  the search most suited to your needs
• Enhanced search management functions allow you to
  mark specific records to refine, export to disc,
  email, print or export to bibliographical software

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Most requested journal titles

• September-December 2003
• Annals of Tourism Research
• World Leisure Journal
• Therapeutic Recreation Journal
• Leisure Studies
• Tourism Management
• The Journal of Tourism Studies
• European Journal of Physical Education
• Environmental Conservation

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Sample record
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Most popular search expressions

• ecotourism
• urban tourism
• residents and attitudes and tourism
• attend and sport
• Standard AND (hotel OR hospitality industry)
  AND (quality assurance or quality management or
  TQM)

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News Focus
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News Focus

• Keep abreast of the latest industry developments
  with weekly international news updates covering
  leisure, recreation, sport, tourism and the
  cultural industries
• Access to expansive news archive - featuring all
  news articles that have appeared on
  leisuretourism.com
• News updates search function allows you to select
  news articles most relevant to your area of
  research
• View the top 10 latest news highlights
• All news highlights undergo a rigorous review
  process by our specialist content editor

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Showcase feature
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Showcase features

• Focus on a current hot topic within the leisure
  and tourism research community
• Current showcase features on Ecotourism and
  Domestic tourism bring together a range of
  resource materials to assist researchers
• Subscribers have access to the full archive of
  previous showcases topics - providing them with
  an indispensable reference and research guide

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Book reviews
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Book reviews

• Access reviews of important texts and resources
  in the field
• Expansive book review archive and index of
  reviews to help you select the right resources
• Browse table of contents and view full text of
  selected CABI Publishing books in leisure,
  tourism and recreation

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E-mail broadcast
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E-mail broadcast

• Sign-up to monthly e-mail broadcasts and find out
  about the latest content on leisuretourism.com
• Includes details of new titles, review articles,
  new abstracts, calendar of forthcoming events,
  and the latest job vacancies
• Provides up-to-date information on related
  Leisure and Tourism products and services from
  CABI Publishing
• Perfect way for us to tell you when there is new
  information on the site that might be of interest
  to you!

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Content selected by an International Editorial
Board

• An international editorial board advises on the
  content of leisuretourism.com and its future
  development
• The board are hand picked and represent a variety
  of research interests from around the globe
• All are eminent academics and figures within the
  Leisure, tourism and recreation industries

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Conclusion - Benefits of leisuretourism.com

• Comprehensive - multi-disciplinary, reflecting
  CABIs wider interests
• Authoritative - Subject specialists guided by an
  International Editorial Board
• And constantly evolving - gt30 years experience in
  the discipline, our coverage evolves to reflect
  changes in subject area
• But dont take our word for it.

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Users comments

• This is going to be a very valuable and useful
  tool Professor Stephen L. Smith, Department of
  Recreation and Leisure Studies, University of
  Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
• ...a good number of relevant results came up -
  so I will be making this my first port of call
  again for leisure and tourism queries!"Manjeev
  Dhillon Subject Librarian (Leisure and Tourism),
  Birmingham College of Food and Tourism, UK
• ...in-depth features on subjects such as
  ecotourism are fruitful research tools for travel
  and leisure students".BBC Learning for Adults
  website

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Thank you for your attention

• Dianne Miles
• Regional Sales Manager
• d.miles_at_cabi.org
• Sam Hemmant
• Marketing
• s.hemmant_at_cabi.org

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CABI Publishing free trial

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