1. KNOWLEDGE FOR LIFE Let the database do the work (CAB Direct platform) CAB Abstracts (via EbscoHost) t.corser@cabi.org Tom Corser, Training manager November 2015

2. KNOWLEDGE FOR LIFE Agenda & objectives ●Intro to CAB Abstracts & Global Health ●Platform overview ●CAB Thesaurus ●Search history builder ●Personalised workspaces (MyCABDirect) ●Questions & answers

3. KNOWLEDGE FOR LIFE CLICK TO ADD TITLE Portfolio link http://portfolio:8090, enter your usual network username and password.http://portfolio:8090 CABI’s mission: Improve people’s lives worldwide by providing information and applying scientific expertise to solve problems in agriculture and the environment

4. KNOWLEDGE FOR LIFE CAB Abstracts & Global Health Subject coverage and content CAB Abstracts dedicated to applied life sciences over 8 million records (266K FT records) CAB Abstracts Archive – 1913 – present Global Health specialising in Public Health over 2.5 million records (62K FT records) Global Health Archive – 1910 – present Unique hard -to-source content grey literature incl. conference proc., reports & theses unique electronic international serials regular weekly updates

5. KNOWLEDGE FOR LIFE CAB Abstracts (subject coverage)

6. KNOWLEDGE FOR LIFE Global Health (subject coverage)

7. KNOWLEDGE FOR LIFE Geographical coverage ●8700+ international serials from over 119 countries covering 50 languages ●Translation for foreign abstracts valuable regional insights Latest global developments

8. KNOWLEDGE FOR LIFE CAB Direct www.cabdirect.org www.cabdirect.org

9. KNOWLEDGE FOR LIFE Database searching Useful search symbols SymbolFunctionExample “ Phrase search“Climate change” ( )Orders the searchClimate AND (floods OR rainfall) ?Individual character replacement Anly?e search analyze and analyse *Automatic truncationHous* searches house, houses, housing etc.

10. KNOWLEDGE FOR LIFE CAB Thesaurus Advanced & accurate searching Metadata fieldField tag Organism descriptorOD DescriptorsDE Geographic locationGL IdentifiersID Broader termsUP Subject term

11. KNOWLEDGE FOR LIFE CAB Thesaurus ●Controlled vocabulary containing 250,000 terms ●Integrated resource for complex search queries building ●Vocabulary hierarchies, relations and variants ●Multilingual resource - 11 languages (Dutch, Portuguese and Spanish for most terms)

12. KNOWLEDGE FOR LIFE Kenya East Africa Africa South of Sahara Francophone AfricaAnglophone Africa West Africa Southern Africa Central AfricaSahel RwandaSudan Tanzania Ethiopia Africa NARROWER TERMS BROADER TERMS

13. KNOWLEDGE FOR LIFE CABICODES ●Subject codes that return all relevant records on specific topic ●Search either alphanumerical code or subject title Heading titleCABICODE Forestry, Forest Products and AgroforestryKK000 Forests and Forest Trees (Biology & Ecology)KK100 Silviculture and Forest ManagementKK110 Forest Mensuration and ManagementKK120 Forest FiresKK130 Ornamental and Amenity TreesKK160

14. KNOWLEDGE FOR LIFE xie-xie zikomo thank you urakoze terima kasih ke itumetse dhanyawaad merci efharistó Assalamualikum tak kiitos शुक्रिया ありがとう gracias zikomo danke thank you 11 th November: Let the database do the work training webinar Tom Corser, Wallingford UK t.corser@cabi.org www.cabi.org/training