KNOWLEDGE FOR LIFE

new for 2016 CAB Direct Platform

CAB Direct is CABI’s online database platform, providing a single point of access to all of your CABI database subscriptions.

CABI has worked with development partners from across academia and industry to develop the next generation of the CAB Direct platform. Designed around the way researchers work, CAB Direct has completely new features to help you get more out of the literature, a more intuitive user experience, and has a new look and feel.

CAB Direct is the only online platform built specifically to help you get the most out of CABI’s world class databases, CAB Abstracts and Global Health.

Designed around the way researchers work...

Features and benefits of the new CAB Direct Platform

IMPROVED – personalise your experience with My CABI

Within CAB Direct, the My CABI feature provides a user with a personalised work space. My CABI is free and it is simple to set up. Once you have a My CABI account you can:

• Create and work on projects

• Highlight and annotate records

• Save records and searches, and set up alerts

NEW – organise your work with My Projects

The new My Projects feature of CAB Direct is efficient and convenient. It allows you to create an unlimited number of projects to help you efficiently organise your searches and records.

• Create projects to manage your literature reviews

• Group and organise your records and searches quickly and efficiently

• Track and report your progress on a project with the activity log

• Output your project activity log to share via email

NEW – analyse the literature with visualisations

CAB Direct now includes visualisation tools for year of publication, and other key index fields, to help you spot trends and identify key topics.

• Instantly see peaks and troughs in research activity over time

• Use tree-maps to easily identify the key concepts in a set of results

• Interactive visualisations help you drill down quickly to find the most relevant results

NEW – add notes with Highlight and Annotate

CAB Direct’s highlighting and annotation tools enable you to add your own notes to capture new knowledge.

• The easy to use highlight feature helps you to bring out significant passages of text

• The annotation tools let you add your own notes to preserve context and meaning

• Keep your annotations and highlights in your projects area or export them

CAB Direct − your gateway to over 11 million abstracts (and full text) across the life sciences, incorporating the leading bibliographic databases, CAB Abstracts and Global Health

ENHANCED – search experience

In the new CAB Direct, the search is simple yet sophisticated.

• Develop a refined search strategy with ease by combining multiple facets simultaneously and search terms within facets with Boolean logic

• With the new Edit Search feature, you can perfect very long searches quickly and effectively

• Serendipitous discovery of new research in CAB Direct by finding similar records

NEW – navigate using Browse

CAB Direct’s new browse functionality opens up the literature. Using browse as a place to start:

• Find key authors

• Explore topics

• Identify new publications of interest

Take a trial

To request an institutional free trial of CAB Direct, or any of CABI’s online resource, please email sales@cabi.org

CAB Direct case studies We have created two case studies showing CAB Direct is use. To request a copy please contact sales@cabi.org

KNOWLEDGE FOR LIFE

CASE STUDY: CAB Abstracts on CAB Direct Panama disease of bananas

CAB Abstracts is the most complete applied life sciences literature database in the world. Its coverage includes agriculture, environment, veterinary sciences, applied economics, food science and nutrition.

CABI’s online database platform, CAB Direct, has been built specifically for researchers working in the applied life sciences to help them use CAB Abstracts to research complex problems quickly and with precision.

KNOWLEDGE FOR LIFE

CASE STUDY: Global Health on CAB Direct Aedes mosquitoes – carriers of Zika virus

The Global Health database is a uniquely rich online resource of public health scientific literature. It gives researchers and students unparalleled access to the world’s relevant public health research and practice – providing knowledge across borders and disciplines.

CABI’s online database platform, CAB Direct, has been built specifically for researchers working in the applied life sciences to help them use Global Health to research public health and emerging diseases quickly and with precision.

Product Training

We have created a set of CAB Direct user guides and training videos. We also run regular free training webinars. Details of these can be found on our Product Training webpage:

www.cabi.org/publishing-products/resources-for-database-users

CABI’s online resources

CAB Direct is your gateway to over 11 million abstracts (and full text) across the life sciences, incorporating the leading bibliographic databases, CAB Abstracts and Global Health, and over 30 Online Database Subsets.

Also available from CABI are Compendia (more information below) as well as our Internet Resources.

find out moreabout CAB Direct: www.cabi.org/cab-direct

about CABI’s publishing products: www.cabi.org/publishing-products

To request a free trial of CAB Direct, or any of CABI’s online resources, please contact sales@cabi.org

CABI Head Office, Nosworthy Way, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, OX10 8DE, UK, T: +44 (0) 1491 829313 PB-C

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CAB Abstracts is the most complete applied life sciences literature database in the world. Its coverage includes agriculture, environment, veterinary sciences, applied economics, food science and nutrition.

The Global Health database is a uniquely rich online resource of public health scientific literature that helps users research complex problems quickly and with precision.

Animal Health and Production Compendium – a wide range of different types of science-based information on animal diseases, their pathogens and vectors; animal husbandry, genetics and the nutrition of livestock and poultry species and breeds.

Aquaculture Compendium – aquatic animal and plant production, natural resources and environment, biodiversity, trade, food security and safety, poverty alleviation, livelihoods. An encyclopedic, mixed media resource covering all aspects of aquaculture.

Crop Protection Compendium – extensive global coverage of pests, diseases, weeds and their natural enemies, the crops that are their hosts, and the countries in which they occur.

Forestry Compendium – worldwide coverage of tropical, subtropical, temperate and boreal tree species of major economic importance and lesser-know species of local importance.

Invasive Species Compendium – an online, open access reference work covering recognition, biology, distribution, impact and management of the world’s invasive plants and animals.