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” ( ◦ The complete list of databases of the University of Pretoria ( rcesaz.htm) rcesaz.htm

Start from Jotello F Soga Library website: Click on Veterinary databases

Scroll down on the displayed list and click on CAB Abstracts

Supply your student/personnel number and PIN

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

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. “babesia canis” and treatment)

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)

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

The results of your search

Repeat a search with a second search term

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

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

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

The results of the combined sets

The number of results / page can be changed

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

The full record Full text access Author’s address Article title Authors Journal information Abstract

The Full text article

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

Selected results can be ed and /or printed.

Click “Print this page” to print the selected results

Complete this page to send results by e- mail

Selected results can be exported to Refworks

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

Login to Refworks to export your results into your Refworks folders

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

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 . ◦ Set up citation alerts whereby you are notified by 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.

Click on Register

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

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

A saved search

CAB Abstracts can be accessed from your mobile device

The mobile site

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

The results page. Selected references can be exported to Refworks or ed. Results can be refined

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