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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. searching Agenda

Advanced searching Independent field searching for search terms Language, document and full text filters Date refining options

CAB Abstracts – adv. search CABI 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. search CABI 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 Subject

Super indexes Super index nameSuper index field tagFields searchedExample Titletitle: English title Foreign title Authorauthor: Personal author Author variant Additional author Document editor Corporate author Subjectsubject: Geographic location Organism descriptor Descriptor Identifier

Kenya East Africa Africa South of Sahara Francophone AfricaAnglophone Africa West Africa Southern Africa Central AfricaSahel RwandaSudan Tanzania Ethiopia Africa NARROWER TERMS BROADER TERMS

CAB Abstracts – adv. search CABI metadata fields Broad term - practical examples ● Search for research covering large geographic regions ● Search for research on all organisms from Linnaean category ● Combine with NOT to omit narrower terms

CAB Thesaurus Controlled vocabulary for indexing terms Hierarchical structure Searchable database for easy referencing Multilingual resource covering 11 languages

CAB Abstracts – adv. search Additional 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 ad Author Affiliation aa CAS Registry Numbers ry Conference Dates cd Conference Titlect Corporate Authorca Country of Publicationcp Descriptorsde Digital Object Identifieroi Document Editorsed Document Titledo em English Item Titleet Non English Item Titleft Geographic Locationgl Identifiersid DescriptionField Tag ISBNbn ISSNsn Item Typeit Language(s) of Summaryls Language(s) of Textla Location of Publisherlp Main Abstractab Organism Descriptorsod Pan Numberpa Personal Authorau Personal Author Variantsav Publisherpb CABI Product Codesc Up-posted Descriptorsup Web URLur Year of Publicationyr CAB Abstracts – adv. search Manual 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 CAB Abstracts We have covered…

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