Download Environmental sciences coverage of the CAB ABSTRACTS

Environmental sciences coverage of
the CAB ABSTRACTS database
Halina Dawson, Content Manager for Environmental Sciences, CABI
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“Current File” - 1973 to present
Over 5 million records to date
200,000+ new records added each year
6,000+ core sources screened
Over 3,500 other documents, including journals, books,
conference proceedings and some grey literature
Coverage of material in over 50 languages from over 158
countries (20% of environmental records non-English)
Regular updates, weekly for CAB Direct
Over 95% records with abstracts
Powerful search tools including the CAB Thesaurus and
CABICODES
Types of source documents
● Scientific journals
● Bulletins
● Books
● Theses (if published in a series)
● Reports
● Conferences
Main areas of environmental subject
coverage
● Forestry
● Soils
● Water
● Grasslands
● Climate change
● Biodiversity
Forestry
● Forest management
● Forests and forest trees
● Agroforestry and community forestry
● Non-wood forest products
● Wood technology
Soils
● Soil chemistry, physics and biology
● Soil morphology, formation and erosion
● Soil fertility and management, fertilizer science
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and plant nutrition
Soil classification and types
Land resources, land classification, land use and
development
Reclamation and land improvement, pollution
Waste management
Water
● All aspects of hydrology, water resources, supply
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and management of freshwater, irrigation and
drainage
Water conservation and harvesting
Water treatment, quality and wastewater
management
Water policy, legislation and socioeconomics
Water security, rights and access
Hydraulic engineering
Pollution and public health
Grasslands
● All types of grassland and rangelands covered
● Management, ecology and biodiversity
● Phytogeography
● Reclamation and desertification, grassland
improvement
Climate change
● effects on vegetation types
● agroforestry, and crop production and pathogen
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management
soil and water management, agrometeorology
human and animal health
economic aspects
tourism
biofuels
Future developments for 2008 –
enhanced coverage of biodiversity
● extension of coverage to cover all vegetation
types more comprehensively (e.g. tundra, fynbos)
● enhanced coverage of freshwater aquatic
biodiversity
● improved coverage of ecology – theoretical and
applied
CAB ABSTRACTS primarily seen as an agricultural
database - need to appeal to both pure and applied
environmental researchers
Why search CAB ABSTRACTS for
environmental information?
Comparison of serial cited lists using 222 core environmental
titles covered by CAB ABSTRACTS
No. titles
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CAB Abstracts
222
100
Scopus (Elsevier)
129
58
Environmental Sciences database (CSA)
100
45
Biosis Previews (Thomson)
88
40
Environment Abstracts (CIS)
58
26
Windows Academic
12
5
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● 104 Journals – all papers (cover-to-cover)
● 130 Conference proceedings
● 15,000 FT records available
CAB ABSTRACTS ARCHIVE
● Covers 1910 to 1972
● Equivalent to 600 printed volumes
● 1,860,000 records
● Re-indexed using the CAB Thesaurus
● Compatible with Current CA file
● Unique access to long lost material
Thank you.........
Halina Dawson
Content Manager for Environmental Sciences
email: [email protected]