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CAB Abstracts, Medline & Zoological Record
Searching CAB Abstracts, Medline & Zoological Record
• Cab Abstracts– Agriculture, Animal and crop husbandry – Animal and plant breeding – Veterinary medicine
• Medline– Human medicine and health care
• Zoological Record– Extensive zoological research information
How to construct a search Plan your search strategy before you start your
search
Keep your search simple.
Remember your Boolean operators (and, or, not).
Boolean operators are not case sensitive
Truncation can be used to indicate variants of a word e.g. enzym* matches: enzyme, enzymes, enzymatic, enzymic
Two (or more) terms that are always used together, in the same order, can be used as a term. (e.g. “babesia canis” and treatment)
Boolean operators• AND• Use AND to retrieve records containing both search terms: all terms must be
included in the record.Use AND to narrow your search and retrieve fewer records.
• Example: elephants AND lions retrieve records containing both the keywords.
• OR• Use OR to retrieve records containing either or both search terms.
Use OR to broaden your search and retrieve a greater number of records.Use OR for synonyms or spelling variations.
• Remember always to put your terms in brackets when using "or" e.g. (dog or dogs or canine)
• Example 1: milk OR dairy retrieves records containing either milk or dairy, or both the keywords.Example 2: behavior OR behaviour (American/ English spelling)
• NOT• Use NOT to exclude certain items from your search.
Caution: It is easy to exclude relevant terms; use the NOT operator with care! • Example 1: “dog” not “tick” (will retrieve all articles containing the word dog,
but will exclude all articles containing the word tick)
From the Jotello F Soga Library’s homepage (
http://www.library.up.ac.za/vet
) click on Veterinary Databases
Scroll down and select CAB Abstracts
Supply your student/personnel
number and PIN
Starting page of CAB Abstracts.
Click on Establish a new session
The search can be done across “All
Databases” or by using the dropdown
arrow individual databases can be
selected
Type your search terms in the
displayed window/s – remember about Boolean search
operators
Select a field to search.
More search windows may
be added
Customise the
publication years
The results of your search
Repeat a search with a second search
term
The results of the second
search
To combine the searches click on Search History
Select the sets you wish to
combine and choose and / or
The results of the combining process. Click on the number of results to view the
complete list
The results of the combined sets
are now displayed
Scroll down to the bottom of the page and change the number of
results / page
To view the full record click on the title of the article
The full record
Full text access
Article title
Authors
Journal information
Abstract
Author information
Language of the article
The full record (cont.)
Try the various full text options
The Full text article
Results can be refined with the
help of Research Areas, Document types, Publication
years, Source titles, Authors,
etc.
Selected results can be e-mailed
and /or printed.
Decide on the output format
Click “Print” to print the
selected results
Complete this page to send results by e-
Selected results can be exported to Refworks/
Endnote
Decide on the output format
Login to Refworks to export your
results into your Refworks folders
Select “View last imported folder”
to view the references and
add it to a folder
The exported references
Not sure about the author or journal title?
Click on “Select from index”
Use this screen to find the
Author
Scroll though the list until
you reach the Author’s name
Click on Add next to the
Author’s nameand then on OK
The Author will be added to the
Author field
Follow the same steps to find
Publication names (Journal/book
titles)
Looking for more search terms ?
Select the Descriptors field
and click on “Select from Thesaurus”
Click on Select a Database and
select CABI. Make sure that you see
CABI:….
The Find or Browse function
may be used
To find more terms type a keyword
and click on Find
Click on Add to transfer the
keyword to your search page or
click on T to see more detail
To use the Browse function click on Applied Science and Technology
Depending on your topic expand some of the sub-topics. If there is a + you can continue
expanding for more specific terms.
To add a term click on Add