CAB Direct – CAB ABSTRACTS

CAB ABSTRACTS provides information more than 7.4 million records from 1973 onward. It covers applied life sciences subject such as agricultural engineering, applied economics and sociology, animal production, animal health, animal nutrition, aquaculture, biofuels, biosafety and bioterrorism, biotechnology, breeding, chemistry, climate change, crop science and grasslands, ecotourism, entomology, environmental science, food science and technology, forestry, genetics, helminthology, horticultural science, human nutrition, invasive species, leisure and tourism, medicinal plants and pharmacology, microbiology, mycology, natural resources, land/water management, nematology, organic and sustainable agriculture, parasitology, plant pathology, plant protection, postharvest, protozoology, soil science, veterinary medicine, virology, and waste management.

How to begin
Go to http://www.car.chula.ac.th/curef-db/slist.html#science and click CAB Direct
The screen is shown as the following picture.

Information search
1. Basic Search: Type words or phrases in the search box and click Search
2. Advanced Search: Go to advanced search screen by click Advanced search
The screen is shown as the following picture.

2.1 Type words or phrases in the search boxes, select fields, and select operators (AND, OR, NOT)
2.2 Can refine search such as add a range of published year, select language, and select document type
2.3 Can select result show
2.4 Click Submit
3. Thesaurus: Go to thesaurus screen by click Thesaurus
The screen is shown as the following picture.

3.1 Finding thesaurus is divided into
3.1.1 All terms A-Z
3.1.2 Browse by subject/ category
3.1.3 Search thesaurus: Type words in the search thesaurus box, select language, search type, results format, terms per page, match terms, and term type, and click search
3.2 On the middle screen, click add that are backside of words users needed and can click Next to view words on the next page
3.3 Click Send to CAB Direct when the words selected are in the Search string box

Search results and result management
The example of search result screen with word nanofilm in Basic search is shown as the following picture.

1. Users can sort results from a list of Show me by select most relevant first or most recent first.
2. Users can refine results.
3. Users can click View Full Text to view PDF full text.
4. Users can click on document titles to view the information of documents. The screen will be shown as the following picture.

>> Click View Full Text to view PDF full text
>> Click Export citation to export citation to EndNote

Log out from the system
When finish the work, click Log Out to log out from the system.

By Pakapun Panich, Research Support Services Section (RSS), Office of Academic Resources, Chulalongkorn University, Issue 1, January 2014