CABI: CAB Abstracts

Name of service
CAB Abstracts

Licence agreed
Institution-wide for not-for-profit libraries, research and learning institutes in selected countries.

Service type
Online Current Awareness Database (includes journals, books, conference proceeding/papers, reports and handbooks).

Content
CAB Abstracts® is a bibliographic database compiled by CABI International. It covers the significant research and development literature in the fields of agriculture and related applied life sciences.

Titles of journals
A list of the journals screened for inclusion in the CAB Abstracts database, can be viewed here.

Subject strengths
Agriculture, forestry, aspects of human health, human nutrition, animal health, soil science, water supply and management, and the management and conservation of natural resources.  Further details are available from the website: www.cabi.org/datapage.asp?iDocID=165

Service strengths 

• coverage from 1973 to the present day 
•  over 6,500 learned, professional and trade journals scanned for materials to be included in this database 
•  bibliographic data with abstracts 
•  over 5 million records; approximately 220,000 new records added annually

Impact factors
N/A

Archival information
N/A

URL to platform/collection access
www.cabdirect.org

Registration
Each institution is required to register to use CABI Abstracts.  If you have not used this resource before you may need to check if your institution is registered and identify the contact person who has your access details. To do this, please go to the INASP registration database and select your country and institution.

Access information
Access is by username and password only.

URL to general publisher site
www.cabi.org

Help and support from the publisher
Please contact: CABI Customer Support staff at sales@cabi.org or
fax +44 (0)1491 829198.

For further information
Please contact your country coordinator - their details can be found on your country page.

More information for librarians
For more information, including promotional packs and registration details, go to the Librarian’s information page.