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● Advanced searching page● Independent field searching● Multiple field searches● Refine by date, language, doc. type and FT
● CABI’s metadata fields and practical examples
● CAB Thesaurus platform
● Additional CABI fields
● Manual field searching using field tags
● Q&A
CAB Abstracts – adv. searchingAgenda
Advanced searching
• Independent field searching for search terms• Language, document and full text filters• Date refining options
CAB Abstracts – adv. searchCABI metadata fields
What are metadata fields?
● Extra keywords tagged to database records
● Keywords use controlled vocabulary from CAB Thesuraus
● Aims to improve accuracy of search results
● Should always be used in conjunction with CAB Thesaurus
CAB Abstracts – adv. searchCABI metadata fields
● Organism descriptor - organism name
● Geographic location - area relating to the subject of the article
● Descriptor - other descriptive terms outside OD&GL categories
● Broad term - Searches for that term and narrower terms
● Identifier – non-preferred terms & any outside CAB Thesaurus
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Super indexes
Super index name Super index field tag Fields searched Example
Title title: English titleForeign title
Author author:
Personal authorAuthor variant
Additional authorDocument editorCorporate author
Subject subject:
Geographic locationOrganism descriptor
DescriptorIdentifier
Kenya
East Africa
Africa South of Sahara
Francophone AfricaAnglophone Africa
West Africa Southern AfricaCentral AfricaSahel
RwandaSudan Tanzania Ethiopia
Africa
NARROWER TERMS
BROADER TERMS
CAB Abstracts – adv. searchCABI metadata fields
Broad term - practical examples
● Search for research coveringlarge geographic regions
● Search for research on all organisms from Linnaean category
● Combine with NOT to omit narrower terms
CABThesaurus
• Controlled vocabulary for indexing terms• Hierarchical structure• Searchable database for easy referencing• Multilingual resource covering 11 languages
CAB Abstracts – adv. searchAdditional CABI fields
● Subset codes (SC codes) – allow uses to search database subsets
● CABICODES – highly specified subject categories
Why use these codes?
● Subset codes:- Time saving and efficient searching
- Limiting to particular product databases and FT content
● CABICODES: - Refine results to certain research areas- Create alerts for narrow research areas for pertinent updates
Description Field Tag
Additional Authors adAuthor Affiliation aaCAS Registry Numbers ry
Conference Dates cdConference Title ctCorporate Author caCountry of Publication cp
Descriptors deDigital Object Identifier oi
Document Editors edDocument Title doEmail emEnglish Item Title etNon English Item Title ftGeographic Location glIdentifiers id
Description Field TagISBN bn
ISSN sn
Item Type it
Language(s) of Summary ls
Language(s) of Text la
Location of Publisher lp
Main Abstract ab
Organism Descriptors od
Pan Number pa
Personal Author au
Personal Author Variants av
Publisher pb
CABI Product Code sc
Up-posted Descriptors up
Web URL ur
Year of Publication yr
CAB Abstracts – adv. searchManual field searching
● Simple field searching and date refine options in advanced search
● CABI’s metadata fields
● Practical uses of subject, broad term and
● Building complex searches with CAB Thesaurus
● Manual field searching using field tags and ACBI specific indexing codes
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