CAB Abstracts includes over 7,200,000 bibliographic records dating from 1910 to the present, with over 200,000 records added each year. Selective coverage includes over 9,000 journals, as well as more than 2,500 books, reports, patents, and conference proceedings. Major areas of coverage include agriculture, animal health, forestry, human nutrition, and the management and conservation of natural resources.
Use the drop-down search menus and operators (AND, OR, NOT) to customize your search. Search by topic, author, publication name , institutional affiliation, document type, CABICODE, CAS Registry Number, or descriptors (subject terms).
Use the Topic field to search within document titles, abstracts, and descriptors (subject terms); choose Title from the drop-down search menu to restrict your search to document titles only. Automatic lemmatization searches for both British and U.S. spellings and some plurals (lemmatization is not applied to keywords in quotes). Be sure to include synonyms and use truncation where appropriate.
There are two ways to search for authors; the Author Index and Author Search.
To use the Author Index, click the search aid icon (
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to complete the search.To use the Author Search, choose Author from the drop-down search menu and enter an author's last name and first initial, followed by an asterisk (*) wildcard. You may also enter last names without initials.
There are two ways to search for records from a specific source publication: the Publication Name Index () and Publication Search.
Select to see a list of source titles, or choose Source Publication from the drop-down search menu. Enter a full or partial title with an asterisk (*) wildcard.
Records include the addresses of the primary authors provided by the source publication. Abbreviations and spellings vary, so use truncation (*) to find variants. For example, Univ* matches University, Universidad, and Univ. Use the SAME operator to search for two or more words in the same address.
The default search includes all document types. Some available document types include Journal Article, Book Chapter, Conference Paper, Patent, etc.
CABICODES are classification codes that indicate the broad subject areas covered by source documents. Each code consists of two letters followed by three numbers and a name (e.g. JJ100 Soil Biology). Every record in CAB Abstracts has at least one CABICODE. Click the search aid () to select from a list of available CABICODES, displayed in a browsable hierarchy; click 
(scope note icon) to see more information about a specific code.
A CAS Registry Number is a unique numeric identifier assigned to a chemical substance in the CAS Registry database.
Descriptors are preferred terms assigned by subject specialists to represent the content of a source document. There are four types of CAB descriptors, all searchable by selecting Descriptors from the drop-down search menu:
Note: To browse available geographic terms, click the search aid () and click on the 
icon beside General, then select Named Regions and Countries.
Use the Search History link to combine the results of your previous searches, using AND or OR, and to save your search history and set up automated search alerts.
After performing your search, use the Refine Results menu on the Results page to filter your result set (up to 100,000 records) by broad subject areas, source titles, document types, year published, etc.
Use the Analyze Results 
link on the right side of the Results page to produce a report ranking your search results by author, source title, year, address, or other criteria.
Advanced Search enables you to create complex search questions using field tags, search operators, and wildcards. It also allows you to combine previous searches using the NOT operator. Remember to include a number sign (#) before each search number.
Use the 
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UC-eLinks works best with post-1972 CAB Abstracts citations; to locate the full text of pre-1972 citations, you may need to search for the full publication title in Melvyl or ask at the Bioscience Library Reference Desk.
Use the check boxes beside each record on the Results page to select records for output. Then scroll to the bottom of the page to choose from the following output options:
button collects selected citations across multiple searches in CAB Abstracts and allows you to print, save, email, or export them all at the same time.
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button to email the selected citations to yourself or a colleague, in HTML or plain text format.
button to save citations in plain text format for import into bibliographic management software (such as RefWorks® or EndNote®) or in HTML format.
allows direct export of citations into EndNote®.
Register with ISI Web of Knowledge to save your search history and set up automated search alerts and citation alerts, which can be delivered by email or as an RSS feed. See Keeping Up to Date in the Biological Sciences for more information.
Click the Help link on any CAB Abstracts page to get context-specific help, along with search tips and examples (opens in a new window or tab).
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