THE SCIENCETHE SEARCHTHE SOLUTION www'cabipublishing'org

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New Publishing Paradigms and their impact on a
not-for-profit organisation

• Shaun Hobbs
• Database Publishing Director
• CAB International

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CAB International

• Mission to serve agriculture and the life
  sciences globally
• Generation, delivery and use of knowledge in the
  applied life sciences
• 40 member government stakeholders
• Established since 1913
• CABI Bioscience and CABI Publishing

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CABI locations worldwide
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CABI Bioscience Centre
CAB International HQ
CABI Regional Centre
CABI Publishing office
Project staff
CAB International office
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CABI Bioscience

• Scientists based worldwide
• Core biodiversity skills, particularly in fungi
  and insects
• Sustainable Agriculture projects
• Biocontrol emphasis

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CABI Publishing

• Books and Reference Works
• Bibliographic Databases
• - CAB Abstracts
• - Subsets, including Forest Science Database,
  Forestry Abstracts, Agroforestry Abstracts
• Primary and Review Journals
• Compendia and multi-media CD-ROMs
• Information Science

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Our Brand

• THE SCIENCE THE SEARCH THE SOLUTION
• CONTENT FUNCTIONALITY CONTEXT
• CUSTOMER VALUE---CUSTOMER VALUE---CUSTOMER VALUE

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Search and navigation

• 11.5 billion pages on the indexable web
• Deep web estimated to be up to 500 times greater
• Broad search engines necessary

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Science-specific search and navigation

• Publishers websites
• Google Scholar
• Abstracting and Indexing databases
• A need to cover electronic and print material

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CAB Abstracts

• 90 years unbroken activity
• Premier agricultural database
• Agriculture, environment and forestry
• Access to nearly 5 million references from 1973
  to 2005

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What we do

• 230,000 abstract records per year
• From 43,000 documents
• Around 9000 journals, books, conferences, etc,
  screened each year (2000 unique serials)
• Material from 125 countries in over 50 languages
• Maximise linkage to full text

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CAB Abstracts Development

• Customer focused development of niche
• Increased coverage - water, food
• Increased journal coverage
• Indexing new electronic only web publications

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Scientific Content

• Increased scientific information available
• Primary journals still important
• Move to online access (55 of STM information
  sales in Europe)
• Interest in digitising archival literature
• Open Access repositories

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Content development

• Publishing in print and electronic media
• Partnerships with other organisations, e.g.
  Chinese Agricultural University
• Digitising Archives

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CAB Abstracts Archive

• CABI has produced print abstract journals since
  1913
• 600 volumes, produced over 60 years
• Forestry Abstracts (1939-1972)
• Review of Agricultural Entomology (1913-1972)
• Plant Breeding Abstracts (1930-1972)
• Over 1.8 million archival records

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Content Repositories

• Often free access
• Pre-print and post-print
• arXiv, PubMed Central, Public Library of Science
  - Biology
• University repositories

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Content Developments

• CAB Abstracts indexes difficult-to-get material
• Users expect easy link to electronic full text
• CAB Abstracts Full Text Select will digitise,
  host, archive and link difficult content

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CAB Abstracts Full Text Select

• Advances in drying of wood. NTI papers from COST
  seminars
• Japanese-European workshop on Cellulose and
  functional polysaccharides
• Prospects for high value hardwood timber species
  in the dry tropics of N Australia
• Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology
• Journal of Plant Pathology
• Journal of Soils and Crops

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Scientific Information in Context

• CABIs Compendia

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Sharing information

• Blogs
• Wikis
• Web 2.0 - Architecture of participation
• Collaboratories

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Conclusions

• Major changes in the publishing environment
• Digitisation of old and new material
• Multiple publishers
• Information for free
• New search tools
• Analytical tools
• Sharing information/data
• Examples given of sustainable developments from a
  not-for-profit organisation.