1 / 16

Advanced Searching of CAB ABSTRACTS

Advanced Searching of CAB ABSTRACTS. Field Searching CABICODES The CAB Thesaurus Subject Codes Search Limits. Free-Text Index. English Item Title TI Original Item Title OT Additional Title AT Abstract AB Subject Headings SH Organism Descriptors OD

fynn
Download Presentation

Advanced Searching of CAB ABSTRACTS

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Advanced Searching of CAB ABSTRACTS • Field Searching • CABICODES • The CAB Thesaurus • Subject Codes • Search Limits

  2. Free-Text Index • English Item Title TI • Original Item Title OT • Additional Title AT • Abstract AB • Subject Headings SH • Organism Descriptors OD • Geographic Locations GL CABI Indexing Fields • Identifiers ID • Broad Terms BT

  3. Title Fields • The title of the original article • All records have an English title (TI) • non-English articles may have an Original Language title (OT) • Additional Title included in TI • Word searchable • Useful for reference searching Examples: Cattle production.TI. (Forestry AND Ecotourism).TI.

  4. Authors and Editors • Personal Authors (AU) • Author variations included • Editor’s names searched in ED • Search as complete names e.g. smith t a.AU. smith$.ED. • Browse the AU or ED indexes • Corporate Authors (CA) • Remember variations e.g. World Health Organization.CA. WHO.CA.

  5. Indexing Fields(Descriptors) • Organism Descriptors (OD) • Geographic Locations (GL) • Subject Headings (SH) (CABI’s Descriptors field) • Broad Terms (BT) • Identifiers (ID) • Note 1: The SH, OD, GL and ID fields are Phrase Indexed • Note 2: Searching .DE. Searches SH, GL and OD and is Word indexed • Note 3: Searching .SU. Searches SH, GL, OD, and ID and is Word • indexed • Note 4: Searching .HW. (RECOMMENDED) Searches SH, GL, OD, BT and ID and is Word indexed

  6. SH, OD and GL • Controlled Terms from the CAB Thesaurus • Manually added by CABI Indexers • Added at the specific concept level • SU field tag searches all three at once • HW tag searches SU plus BT Examples: cattle.OD. drug resistance.SU. nitrogen fertilizers.SH. (rice and irrigation and south east asia).HW.

  7. Broad Terms • Automatically added to records • Added for OD and GL terms plus selective Identifiers • All levels of Broad terms are added • Use HW Examples: coleoptera.BT. animals.BT. cereals.HW. (all CABI index fields)

  8. Identifiers • Non-Thesaurus Terms • New concepts • Potential future Thesaurus terms • Also included in the SU and HW search indexes e.g. boring insects.ID. aeolesthes holosericea.HW.

  9. CABICODES • Subject classification • 23 broad subject areas • Hierarchical structure • Used as well as descriptors • At least one per record • Useful for searching broad concepts • Note: only the codes are in the Free-Text index. Words are searched with the CW tag

  10. CABICODEs • KK000 Forestry, Forest Products and Agroforestry General)KK100 Forests and Forest Trees (Biology and Ecology)KK110 Silviculture and Forest ManagementKK120 Forest Mensuration and Management (Discontinued March 2000)KK130 Forest FiresKK140 Protection Forestry (Discontinued March 2000)KK150 Other Land Use (Discontinued March 2000)KK160 Ornamental and Amenity TreesKK500 Forest Products and Industries (General)KK510 Wood Properties, Damage and PreservationKK515 Logging and Wood ProcessingKK520 Wood Utilization and Engineered Wood ProductsKK530 Chemical and Biological Processing of WoodKK540 Non-wood Forest ProductsKK600 Agroforestry and Multipurpose Trees; Community, Farm and Social Forestry

  11. CABICODES • Examples: • KK160.CC. AND urban development • KK$.CC. AND management.HW. • forest products.CW.

  12. The CAB Thesaurus • CABI’s Controlled indexing vocabulary • 82,000 terms • hierarchically structured • Preferred Terms • Broad Terms • Narrow Terms • Related Terms • Use for Terms • Integrated search tool

  13. Subject Codes (SubSet Codes) • Classification codes • Broad subject codes • Coding to CABI full text • Searched using the SS field tag E.g. Transgenic Plants and (FR or FA).SS. Environment and Management and 0F.SS. Tourism and GB.SS. A full list of Subject Codes can be found at: http://www.cabi.org/datapage.asp?iDocID=1076

  14. Institutional Address • 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 .IN. Examples: Hungary.IN. (St Istvan or Szent Istvan).IN.

  15. Limit Fields • Publication Year (YR) - Year of publication of the original article. • Language of text (LA) - Language of the original text. • Publication Type (PT) - Type of original publication , e.g. book, journal, etc. • Abstracts • Ovid Full Text Available

More Related