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Advanced Searching of Global Health on CAB Direct

Utilize CAB Direct for advanced global health research. Learn about field searching, CABICODES, the CAB Thesaurus, and various search limits. Access English and original article titles, author and editor searches, descriptor fields, organism and geographic terms. Use identifiers, broad terms, CABICODES, and the CAB Thesaurus for comprehensive searches.

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Advanced Searching of Global Health on CAB Direct

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  1. Advanced Searching of Global Health on CAB Direct • Field Searching • CABICODES • The CAB Thesaurus • Additional Fields • Search Limits

  2. Free-Text Index • English Item Title • Original Item Title • Conference Title • Personal Authors/Editors • Corporate Authors • Source Title • Publisher • Abstract • Descriptor • Organism Descriptor • Geographic Location CABI Indexing Fields • Identifier • Broad Term • CAS Registry Numbers • CABICODES • ISSN/ISBN • DOI • CABI Record Number

  3. Title Fields • The title of the original article • All records have an English title • non-English articles may have an Original Language title • Additional Title • Word searchable • Useful for reference searching Examples: title:"homeopathic drugs" title:("heart disease" AND "risk factors")

  4. Authors and Editors • Personal Authors • Author variations included • Editor’s names included in author search • Search as complete names e.g au:smith au:smith-j-a • Corporate Authors included in Author search • Remember variations e.g. ca:"world health organization" ca:(world health organization) ca:who

  5. Index Fields - Descriptors • Organism Descriptor • Geographic Descriptor • Descriptor • Broad Term • Identifier

  6. Descriptor, Organism Descriptor & Geographic Descriptor • Controlled Terms from the CAB Thesaurus • Manually added by CABI Indexers • Added at the specific concept level • Subject field tag searches all three at once Examples: od:anopheles de:("antiparasitic agents"):de subject:(anopheles and drugs and "south east asia")

  7. Broad Term • Automatically added to records • Only added for Organism Descriptor and Geographic Descriptor terms • All levels of Broad terms are added Examples: up:insects up:animals

  8. Identifier • Non-Thesaurus Terms • New concepts • Potential future Thesaurus terms • Included as part of Subject search e.g. id:"Sinorhizobium meliloti"

  9. CABICODES • Subject classification • 23 broad subject areas • Hierarchical structure • Used as well as descriptors • At least one per record • Useful for searching broad concepts

  10. CABICODES • QQ000 Food Science and Food Products (Human)QQ010 Milk and Dairy ProduceQQ020 Sugar and Sugar ProductsQQ030 Meat ProduceQQ040 Eggs and Egg ProductsQQ050 Crop ProduceQQ060 Aquatic ProduceQQ070 Other ProduceQQ100 Food Processing (General)QQ110 Food Storage and PreservationQQ111 Storage Problems and Pests of FoodQQ120 Microbial Technology in Food ProcessingQQ130 Food AdditivesQQ200 Food Contamination, Residues and ToxicologyQQ500 Food Composition and QualityQQ600 Food Chemistry (NEW June 2002)QQ700 Food Service (NEW June 2002)

  11. CABICODES • Examples: • cc:QQ100 AND apples • cc:QQ1* AND economics

  12. The CAB Thesaurus • CABI’s Controlled indexing vocabulary • 90,000+ terms • hierarchically structured • Preferred Terms • Broad Terms • Narrow Terms • Related Terms • Use for Terms • Integrated search tool

  13. Subject Codes • Classification codes • Broad subject codes • Coding to CABI Full Text • Searched using the SC field tag E.g. obesity and sc:(fr or fa) environment and health and sc:x9 allergies and sc:gb A full list of Subject Codes can be found at: http://www.cabi.org/uploads/file/user%20guides/cabisubjectcodes.pdf

  14. Limit Fields • Publication Year - Year of publication of the original article • Language of Text - Language of the original article • Document Type - Type of original publication: e.g. book, journal, etc. • Records Added Since - Database update date • CABI Full Text - Records with links to free, CABI Full Text articles

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