CAB ABSTRACTS

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CAB ABSTRACTS Comprehensive Agriculture
Applied Life Science Research
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CAB ABSTRACTS

• Disciplines
• Coverage of the Applied life sciences, including
  agriculture, forestry, human nutrition,
  veterinary medicine and the environment
• Coverage
• 1973 -- present over 220,000 records added
  annually
• 4.6 million records currently
• 95 of records include an English language
  abstract
• 9,000 serials 3,500 books conference
  proceedings
• Literature sources from 140 countries, 50
  languages

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CAB ABSTRACTS

• Classification indexing
• Subject classification and indexing is carried
  out by specialist editors
• Specially designed controlled vocabulary, CAB
  Thesaurus.
• Broad Descriptors
• Descriptors
• Geographic Location
• Identifiers
• Organisms Descriptors
• Over 340 CABICODES arranged hierarchically into
  24 broad categories.

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CAB ABSTRACTS Comprehensive Agriculture
Applied Life Science Research