Transcript Advanced Searching of CAB ABSTRACTS

Advanced Searching of
CAB ABSTRACTS
● Field Searching
● CABICODES
● The CAB Thesaurus
● Search Limits
Free-Text Index
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English Item Title
TI
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Original Item Title
OT
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Authors/Editors
AU
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Abstract
AB
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Descriptors
DU
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Organism Descriptors
OG
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Geographic Location
GL
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Identifiers
ID
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Broader Terms
BT
CABI Indexing Fields
Title Fields
● The title of the original article
● All records have an English title (TI)
● non-English articles may have an Original
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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)
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
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)
DE, OD and GL
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Controlled Terms from the CAB Thesaurus
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Manually added by CABI Indexers
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Added at the specific concept level
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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)
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)
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
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
CABICODEs
KK000 Forestry, Forest Products and Agroforestry General)
KK100 Forests and Forest Trees (Biology and Ecology)
KK110 Silviculture and Forest Management
KK120 Forest Mensuration and Management (Discontinued March 2000)
KK130 Forest Fires
KK140 Protection Forestry (Discontinued March 2000)
KK150 Other Land Use (Discontinued March 2000)
KK160 Ornamental and Amenity Trees
KK500 Forest Products and Industries (General)
KK510 Wood Properties, Damage and Preservation
KK515 Logging and Wood Processing
KK520 Wood Utilization and Engineered Wood Products
KK530 Chemical and Biological Processing of Wood
KK540 Non-wood Forest Products
KK600 Agroforestry and Multipurpose Trees; Community, Farm and Social
Forestry
CABICODES
Examples:
CC KK160 AND urban development
CC KK* AND SU management
CC forest products
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
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)
Limit Fields
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Full text
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Publication Year (YR) - Year of publication of the
original article
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Publication Name (SO)
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Author (AU)
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Publication Type (PT) - Type of original publication,
e.g. book, journal, etc.
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Country of Publication (CY)
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Language of text (LA) - Language of the original text.