Advanced Searching of CAB ABSTRACTS with WoK

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Advanced Searching of CAB ABSTRACTS with WoK

• Free-Text searching
• Field Searching
• CABICODES
• The CAB Thesaurus
• Search Limits

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Free-Text Index

• English Item Title
• Original Item Title
• Abstract
• CABICODE Names
• Descriptor Index
• Organism Descriptors
• Geographic Location CABI Indexing Fields
• Identifiers
• Broad Terms

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Free-text index

• Referred to as Topic on ISI
• Word indexed
• Quick Search default field
• Multiple words are searched with AND
• Eg cattle sheep housing
• cattle AND sheep AND housing
• Search for phrases using inverted commas
• Eg cattle breeding genetics
• Searched as TS in Advanced Search mode
• Eg TScattle breeding and TSgenetics
• Note dont use field tags in Quick or
  General search mode, they give incorrect
  results

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Truncation and Masking

• The truncation/masking character on ISI is the
  asterisk ()
• Right-hand truncation
• Eg environment searches for environment or
  environments or environmental or environmentally
• Masking (zero or more characters)
• Eg sulur searches for sulfur or sulphur
• color searches for color or colour
• Masking and truncation
• Eg womn searches for woman or womans or
  womenor womens

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Title Fields

• The title of the original article
• All records have an English title
• non-English articles may have an Original
  Language title
• Word searchable
• Useful for reference searching
• Examples
• TIcattle production (searches cattle AND
  production)
• TIair pollution (searches the phrase air
  pollution)
• TI(forestry AND ecotourism)

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Authors and Editors

• Searchable in Search and Advanced Search modes
  (AU)
• Personal Authors (Eg smith t a)
• Author variations included
• Editors names included in AU
• Search surnames only or complete names
• Eg AUsmith
• AUsmith t a
• Browse the Author index
• Corporate Authors included in AU
• Remember variations
• Eg World Health Organization
• AUWHO
• Corporate author is phrase indexed. Be careful!
  AUWHO searches for all CAs staring with WHO but
  doesnt retrieve The WHO

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Address field

• The address of where the work was done. Usually
  the address of the first author.
• Word indexed
• Searched as AD
• Eg ADfruit laboratory usda
• AD(cabi bioscience AND nairobi)
• Avoid the use of stop words like of and at.

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Source field

• Source Title
• Phrase Indexed
• Searched using SO
• Search full name or use truncation
• Eg SOjournal of stored products research
• SOwater science

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Indexing Fields(Descriptors)

• Organism Descriptors
• Geographic Location
• Descriptor Index
• Broad Terms
• Identifiers

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DescriptorsOrganism DescriptorsGeographic
Location Descriptors

• Controlled Terms from the CAB Thesaurus
• Manually added by CABI Indexers
• Added at the specific concept level
• ISI tag, DE, searches all three at once.
• Examples
• DECattle
• DENitrogen fertilizers
• DE(rice and irrigation and south east asia)

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Broad Terms

• Automatically added to records
• Only added for OD and GL terms
• All levels of Broad terms are added
• Searched using the BD field tag or by checking
  the Include Broad Terms check box in General
  Search mode
• Examples
• BDColeoptera
• BDAnimals

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Identifiers

• Non-Thesaurus Terms
• New concepts
• Potential future Thesaurus terms
• Not included in the DE or BD index
• Only searchable in the TS field
• Eg
• TSboring insects
• TSaeolesthes holosericea

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CABICODES

• Subject classification
• 23 broad subject areas
• Hierarchical structure
• Used as well as descriptors
• At least one per record
• Useful for searching broad concepts
• Searched using the tag CC
• Note only the CABICODE names are searchable in
  the Free-Text index (TS)

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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 Trees 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

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CABICODES

• Examples
• CCkk160 AND TSurban development
• CCkk AND DEmanagement
• TSforest products (includes names)

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The CAB Thesaurus

• CABIs Controlled indexing vocabulary
• 56,000 terms
• hierarchically structured
• Preferred Terms
• Broad Terms
• Narrow Terms
• Related Terms
• Use for Terms
• Integrated search tool

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Publication Year

• Year of publication of the original article
• Searchable in the Publication Year field or using
  the tag PY in the Advanced Search mode
• Single years or year ranges can be searched in
  Search mode
• 10 limit on year range searches
• PY field can only be searched with a keyword or
  code

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CAS Registry Numbers

• Automatically added to all records for which a
  chemical has been added to the Descriptor field
• Phrase indexed
• Searched in the CAS Registry Number search box in
  General Search mode
• Searched using the tag CR

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Limit Fields

• Database Update Time span
• Original Language
• Document Type