Searching CAB Abstracts, Medline & Zoological Record

1. Searching CAB Abstracts, Medline & Zoological Record • Cab Abstracts • Agriculture, Animal and crop husbandry • Animal and plant breeding • Veterinary medicine • Medline • Human medicine and health care • Zoological Record • Extensive zoological research information

2. From the Jotello F Soga Library’s homepage (http://www.library.up.ac.za/vet) click on Veterinary Databases

3. Scroll down and select CAB Abstracts

4. Supply your student/personnel number and PIN

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

6. How to construct a search • Plan your search strategy before you start your search • Keep your search simple. • Remember your Boolean operators (and, or, not). • Boolean operators are not case sensitive • Truncation can be used to indicate variants of a word e.g. enzym* matches: enzyme, enzymes, enzymatic, enzymic • Two (or more) terms that are always used together, in the same order, can be used as a term. (e.g. “babesiacanis” and treatment)

7. 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 dogs or canine) •  Example 1: milk OR dairy retrieves records containing either milk or dairy, or both the keywords.Example 2: behavior OR behaviour (American/ English spelling) • 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)

8. Type your search terms in the displayed window/s – remember about Boolean search operators Select a field to search. More search windows may be added Customise the publication years

9. The results of your search

10. Repeat a search with a second search term

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

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

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

14. The results of the combined sets are now displayed

15. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and change the number of results / page

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

17. The full record Article title Authors Journal information Abstract Full text access

18. The full record (cont.) Author information Language of the article

19. Try the various full text options

20. The Full text article

21. Results can be refined with the help of Research Areas, Document types, Publication years, Source titles, Authors, etc.

22. Selected results can be e-mailed and /or printed.

23. Decide on the output format

24. Click “Print” to print the selected results

25. Complete this page to send results by e-mail

26. Selected results can be exported to Refworks

27. Decide on the output format

28. Login to Refworks to export your results into your Refworks folders

29. Click on View Last Imported Folder to see the list of references

30. The list of imported references

31. To add references to a folder select “All in list”, click on the Folder icon and click on the folder name

32. References have been added to the Cattle diseases folder . Number of references in the folder changed

33. Not sure about the author or journal title? Click on “Select from index”

34. Use this screen to find the Author

35. Scroll though the list until you reach the Author’s name

36. Click on Add next to the Author’s name and then on OK

37. The Author will be added to the Author field

38. Follow the same steps to find Publication names (Journal/book titles)

39. Looking for more search terms ? Click on Select a Database and select CABI. Make sure that you see CABI:…. Select the Descriptors field and click on “Select from Thesaurus”

40. The Find or Browse function may be used

41. To find more terms type a keyword and click on Find Click on Add to transfer the keyword to your search page or click on T to see more detail

42. To use the Browse function click on Applied Science and Technology

43. Depending on your topic expand some of the sub-topics. If there is a + you can continue expanding for more specific terms. To add a term click on Add