CABI product training

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CABI product training

• Global Health

Tom Corser
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Global HealthAgenda

• CABI publishing and product overview
• Live product demo of CAB Direct including
• Platform navigation search functionality
• Basic exporting tools
• MyCABDirect
• Advanced searching page
• CABIs metadata fields
• Additional CABI fields and manual field searching
• Questions and answers

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Global HealthCABI publishing

• Over 100 years of publishing expertise 1910
  Bulletin of Entomological research launched
• Not-for-profit development led organization
  supported by publishing division and scientific
  research base
• Open yet selective editorial policy no fixed
  journal lists with selections approved by subject
  experts
• Regular content updates across all products
  -weekly updates
• Expert indexing for accurate searching
  Controlled vocabulary and database codes

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Global HealthUpdates

• Over 2.2 million Records from 1983 present
• 169k records added in 2012
• c. 7,000 serials indexed, from over 100 countries
  96 include an English abstract
• Over 35k Full Text Records (8816 records added in
  2011 vs. 8,496 in 2011 )
• Contains 475 unique full text serials

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Global HealthSubject coverage

• International health infectious and tropical
  diseases including parasitology, mycology and
  vectors
• Zoonotic disease and veterinary public health
• Epidemiology infectious diseases including
  tropical, non-communicable diseases, ageing,
  molecular epidemiology
• Biomedical life sciences clinical aspects of
  microbiology, immunology, biochemistry, molecular
  biology
• Bioterrorism
• Biostatistics
• Sexual and reproductive health including sexually
  transmitted diseases
• Disease prevention, surveillance and control
  vaccination, education, exercise, lifestyle
• Demography, population studies, ageing
• Non-communicable diseases
• Public health nutrition all aspects
• Food safety and hygiene
• Rural health all aspects including zoonoses

• Community health
• Nosocomial diseases
• Occupational health Environmental health
  including pollution
• Refugee and migrant health Travel medicine
• Traditional medicine, including medicinal
  plants/ethnobotany
• Toxicology
• Public health practice and policy
• Health education , promotion and information
  systems
• Health policy planning
• Health services including research and
  management, access to care, monitoring
• Health economics including indigenous populations
  
• Social medicine
• Maternal and child health
• Women's health
• Social and behavioral aspects of public health
• Disasters and their health consequences including
  natural and manmade war, food production

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Global HealthNeglected tropical diseases

• 65,375 records (over 1,000 FT) relating to WHOs
  17 recognized neglected tropical diseases

• Buruli Ulcer 500
• Chagas disease 8,180
• Dengue fever 10,631 (205 FT)
• Dracunculiasis 664
• Echinococcosis 5,661
• Human African trypanosomiasis 814
• Leishmaniasis Leprosy 115
• Lymphatic filariasis 2,113
• Onchocerciasis 4,142
• Rabies 9,684 (318 FT)
• Schistosomiasis 19,749 (159 FT)
• Soil transmitted helminthiases 80
• Taeniasis 1,619
• Cysticercosis 3,760
• Trachoma 1,015
• Yaws 185

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Global HealthSerials cited
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Global HealthGeographic coverage
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Global HealthProduct features

• User-friendly design allowing for simple database
  searching for novices
• MyCABDirect for saving records and searches and
  creating new content alerts
• Facets for refining search results
• Advanced search capabilities to conduct
  independent field searches

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Global HealthTechnical Updates

• Evidence Based filter added to CAB Direct
• Document type added to refine results
• Mobile skin functionality added to include
  Search, view search results, refine search
  results view abstracts, view full text email
  records, select records, view search history
• Roaming Passport available to users in
  subscribing institutions with IP authentication
  and remains active for 6 months

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What is a bibliographic database?

• A bibliographic database can be compared to a
  printed journal
• It contains
• Record articles with bibliographic data
• Indexes

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Homepage

• www.cabdirect.org

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Simple searching

• Free-text index
• Word stemming
• Automatic Boolean operations for white-space

• Free-text index fields

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Boolean searching

• AND
• e.g. epidemiology AND disease

Retrieves only records that contain all the terms
chosen
OR e.g. disease OR infection
Retrieves only records that contain any of the
terms chosen
NOT e.g. treatment NOT diagnosis
Retrieves only records that include keyword terms
and exclude certain terms
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Resultspage

• Bibliographic information
• Document metadata
• Full text linkage

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Record page

• Bibliographic information
• Document metadata
• Full text linkage

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Marking records

• Temporary marking of records for same session
  reference

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Exporting records

• Various exporting options by
• Print
• Email
• MARC files

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MyCABDirect

• Features include
• Save records
• Save searches
• Create alerts

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Global HealthWe have covered

• Conducting simple site searches and navigate your
  way through the site
• Refine searches using facets
• Creating email and RSS alerts for new content
• Permanently save searches and records

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