CABI product trainingGlobal Health

Tom Corser

Global HealthAgenda

● CABI publishing and product overview

● Live product demo of CAB Direct including

● Platform navigation & search functionality

● Basic exporting tools

● MyCABDirect● Advanced searching page● CABI’s metadata fields● Additional CABI fields and manual field searching● Questions and answers

Global HealthCABI publishing

● Over 100 years of publishing expertise – 1910 Bulletin of Entomological research launched

● Not-for-profit development led organization –supported by publishing division and scientific research base

● Open yet selective editorial policy –no fixed journal lists with selections approved by subject experts

● Regular content updates across all products -weekly updates

● Expert indexing for accurate searching – Controlled vocabulary and database codes

●Over 2.2 million Records from 1983 – present

●169k records added in 2012

●c. 7,000 serials indexed, from over 100 countries – 96% include an English abstract

●Over 35k Full Text Records (8816 records added in 2011 vs. 8,496 in 2011 )

●Contains 475 unique full text serials

Global HealthUpdates

Community health Nosocomial diseases Occupational health Environmental health

including pollution Refugee and migrant health Travel medicine Traditional medicine, including medicinal

plants/ethnobotany Toxicology Public health practice and policy Health education , promotion and information

systems Health policy & planning Health services including research and

management, access to care, monitoring Health economics including indigenous

populations Social medicine Maternal and child health Women's health Social and behavioral aspects of public health Disasters and their health consequences

including natural and manmade: war, food production

International health: infectious and tropical diseases including parasitology, mycology and vectors

Zoonotic disease and veterinary public health Epidemiology: infectious diseases

including tropical, non-communicable diseases, ageing, molecular epidemiology

Biomedical life sciences: clinical aspects of microbiology, immunology, biochemistry, molecular biology

Bioterrorism Biostatistics Sexual and reproductive health including

sexually transmitted diseases Disease prevention, surveillance and control:

vaccination, education, exercise, lifestyle Demography, population studies, ageing Non-communicable diseases Public health nutrition: all aspects Food safety and hygiene Rural health: all aspects including

zoonoses

Global HealthSubject coverage

65,375 records (over 1,000 FT) relating to WHO’s 17 recognized neglected tropical diseases

Global HealthNeglected tropical diseases

1871

12 458

3031Medline

314

Embase

2251

Global Health

3684

Global HealthSerials cited

Global HealthGeographic coverage

Global HealthProduct features

● User-friendly design allowing for simple database searching for novices

● MyCABDirect for saving records and searches and creating new content alerts

● Facets for refining search results

● Advanced search capabilities to conduct independent field searches

Global HealthTechnical Updates

● Evidence Based filter added to CAB Direct

● Document type added to refine results

● Mobile skin functionality added to include; Search, view search results, refine search results; view abstracts, view full text; email records, select records, view search history

● Roaming Passport available to users in subscribing institutions with IP authentication and remains active for 6 months

What is a bibliographic database?

A bibliographic database can be compared to a printed journal

It contains:•Record articles with bibliographic data•Indexes

Homepage

www.cabdirect.org

Free-text index fields

Simple searching

•Free-text index•Word stemming•Automatic Boolean operations for white-space

Boolean searching

ANDe.g. epidemiology AND disease

Retrieves only records that contain all the terms chosen

ORe.g. disease OR infection

Retrieves only records that contain any of the terms chosen

NOTe.g. treatment NOT diagnosis

Retrieves only records that include keyword terms and exclude certain terms

Resultspage

•Bibliographic information•Document metadata•Full text linkage

Record page

•Bibliographic information•Document metadata•Full text linkage

Marking records

•Temporary marking of records for same session reference

Exporting records

•Various exporting options by:• Print• Email• MARC files

MyCABDirect

•Features include:• Save records• Save searches• Create alerts

● Conducting simple site searches and navigate your way through the site

● Refine searches using facets

● Creating email and RSS alerts for new content

● Permanently save searches and records

Global HealthWe have covered…

Thank you

Any Questions?

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