Advanced Searching of CAB ABSTRACTS

1. Advanced Searching of CAB ABSTRACTS • Field Searching • CABICODES • The CAB Thesaurus • Search Limits

2. Free-Text Index • English Item Title TI • Original Item Title OT • Authors/Editors AU • Abstract AB • Descriptors DU • Organism Descriptors OG • Geographic Location GL CABI Indexing Fields • Identifiers ID • Broader Terms BT

3. 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) • Word searchable • OT searches just the OT field • TI searches both TI and OT fields • Useful for reference searching Examples: TI Cattle production TI (Forestry AND Ecotourism)

4. Authors and Editors • Personal Authors (AU) • Author variations included • Editor’s names and variants in ED • Editors names included in AU search • Search as complete or partial names e.g. AU smith, t. a. (with or without punctuation) AU smith • Corporate Authors (CA) • Word indexed • Remember variations e.g. CA World Health Organization CA WHO

5. Indexing Fields(Descriptors) • Organism Descriptors (OG) • Geographic Location (GL) • Descriptors (DU) • Broader Terms (BT) • Identifiers (ID) Note 1: The OD, GL, ID and BT fields are Word Indexed Note 2: The DU tag searches DU, OG, GL and BT (Not ID) Note 3: The DU field is Phrase indexed – be careful Note 4: Searching SU searches DU, GE, OD, ID and BT is Word indexed (RECOMMENDED for 95% of index searches)

7. DE, 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, plus the BT and ID fields Examples: OD cattle SU drug resistance DE nitrogen fertilizers (NOTE: Phrase Indexed!) SU (rice and irrigation and south east asia)

8. Broader Terms • Automatically added to records • Only added for OG and GL terms • All levels of Broader terms are added • Use SU Examples: BT coleoptera BT animals SU cereals (all CABI index fields)

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

10. CABICODES • Subject classification • 23 broad subject areas • Hierarchical structure • Used as well as descriptors • At least one per record • Useful for searching broad concepts • Codes and heading words are searchable

11. 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

12. CABICODES • Examples: • CC KK160 AND urban development • CC KK* AND SU management • CC forest products

13. The CAB Thesaurus • CABI’s Controlled indexing vocabulary • 95,000+ terms • hierarchically structured • Preferred Terms • Broad Terms • Narrow Terms • Related Terms • Use for Terms • Integrated search tool

14. Institutional Address or “Author Affiliation • 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 AF Examples: AF Hungary AF (St Istvan or Szent Istvan)

15. Limit Fields • Full text • Publication Year (YR) - Year of publication of the original article • Publication Name (SO) • Author (AU) • Publication Type (PT) - Type of original publication, e.g. book, journal, etc. • Country of Publication (CY) • Language of text (LA) - Language of the original text.