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CAB Abstracts

CAB Abstracts. How can I access CAB Abstracts. CAB Abstracts can be accessed from the Jotello F Soga Library’s “The Virtual Library in your office” ( http://www.library.up.ac.za/vet/virtlib )

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CAB Abstracts

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  1. CAB Abstracts

  2. How can I access CAB Abstracts • CAB Abstracts can be accessed from the Jotello F Soga Library’s • “The Virtual Library in your office” (http://www.library.up.ac.za/vet/virtlib) • The complete list of databases of the University of Pretoria (http://www.library.up.ac.za/eresources/eresourcesaz.htm)

  3. Start from Jotello F Soga Library website: www.library.up.ac.za/vet Click on Veterinary databases

  4. Scroll down on the displayed list and click on CAB Abstracts

  5. Supply your student/personnel number and PIN

  6. Starting page of CAB Abstracts. Click on Establish a new session

  7. How to construct a search • Plan your search strategy before you start your search • Formulate your information need e.g. Stress factors in dairy cattle in South Africa • Select the important keywords from this sentence e.g. stress, dairy, cattle , South Africa • Always think of all the synonyms of words or terms e.g. (dairy or milk), (cattle or bovine or cow or cows) • Combine your terms with and e.g. (dairy or milk) and (cattle or bovine or cow or cows) and “south africa” • Keep your search simple. • Remember your Boolean operators (and, or, not). • Keep in mind the different American and English spelling. • Two (or more) terms that are always used together, in the same order, can be use as a term. (e.g. “babesiacanis” and treatment)

  8. Boolean operators • AND • Use AND to retrieve records containing both search terms: all terms must be included in the record.Use AND to narrow your search and retrieve fewer records. • Example: elephants AND lions retrieve records containing both the keywords. • OR • Use OR to retrieve records containing either or both search terms.Use OR to broaden your search and retrieve a greater number of records.Use OR for synonyms or spelling variations. • Remember always to put your terms in brackets when using "or" e.g. (dog or dog or canine) •  Example 1: milk OR dairy retrieves records containing either milk or dairy, or both the keywords.Example 3: behavior OR behaviour • NOT • Use NOT to exclude certain items from your search.Caution: It is easy to exclude relevant terms; use the NOT operator with care! • Example 1: “dog” not “tick” (will retrieve all articles containing the word dog, but will exclude all articles containing the word tick)

  9. Type your search terms in the displayed window – remember about Boolean search operators Select a field to search

  10. The results of your search

  11. Repeat a search with a second search term

  12. The results of the second search To combine the searches click on Search History

  13. Select the sets you wish to combine and choose and/or

  14. The results of the combining process. Click on the number of results to view the complete list

  15. The results of the combined sets

  16. The number of results / page can be changed

  17. To view the full record click on the title of the article

  18. The full record Article title Authors Journal information Abstract Author’s e-mail address Full text access

  19. The Full text article

  20. Results can be refined with the help of Subject areas, Document types, Publication years, Source titles etc.

  21. Selected results can be e-mailed and /or printed.

  22. Click “Print this page” to print the selected results

  23. Complete this page to send results by e-mail

  24. Selected results can be exported to Refworks

  25. Should you ever come across this page click on “Continue to this website”

  26. Login to Refworks to export your results into your Refworks folders

  27. Please take note of this message

  28. If you wish you can register yourself on CAB Abstracts. Click on “Search History/Create alerts”

  29. Why Register? • As a registered user, you can: • Save searches to our server that you can later open when you resume your research. • Set up search history alerts. The alert automatically searches the latest update to the database, and then sends the results to you by e-mail. • Set up citation alerts whereby you are notified by e-mail whenever an article on your Citation Alerts list has been cited by a new article. This feature requires a subscription to Web of Science. • Create and maintain custom journal lists that you frequently read. This feature requires a subscription to Current Contents Connect.

  30. Click on Register

  31. Supply your e-mail address as requested and click on “Continue” . Complete the next page as well

  32. From now on you will be able to Save searches and Create Alerts

  33. A saved search

  34. CAB Abstracts can be accessed from your mobile device

  35. The mobile site

  36. Supply keywords (remember Boolean operators). Click on “Search”

  37. The results page. Selected references can be exported to Refworks or e-mailed. Results can be refined

  38. Results can be refined

  39. Please feel free to contact the library if you have any suggestions or questions

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