Transcript Global Health

CABI product training
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Tom Corser
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Agenda
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CABI publishing and product overview
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Live product demo of CAB Direct including
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Platform navigation & search functionality
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Basic exporting tools
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MyCABDirect
Advanced searching page
CABI’s metadata fields
Additional CABI fields and manual field searching
Questions and answers
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CABI publishing
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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
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Updates
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Over 2.2 million Records from 1983 – present
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169k records added in 2012
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c. 7,000 serials indexed, from over 100 countries – 96% include
an English abstract
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Over 35k Full Text Records (8816 records added in 2011 vs.
8,496 in 2011 )
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Contains 475 unique full text serials
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Subject coverage
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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
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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
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Neglected tropical diseases
65,375 records (over 1,000 FT) relating to WHO’s 17 recognized neglected
tropical diseases
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Buruli Ulcer 500
Chagas disease 8,180
Dengue fever 10,631 (205 FT)
Dracunculiasis 664
Echinococcosis 5,661
Human African trypanosomiasis 814
Leishmaniasis Leprosy 115
Lymphatic filariasis 2,113
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Onchocerciasis 4,142
Rabies 9,684 (318 FT)
Schistosomiasis 19,749 (159 FT)
Soil transmitted helminthiases 80
Taeniasis 1,619
Cysticercosis 3,760
Trachoma 1,015
Yaws 185
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Serials cited
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3684
12
458
1871
Medline
314
3031
Embase
2251
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Geographic coverage
Australasia
3%
Russia
1%
Africa South East Asia
2%
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Middle East
3%
Central and
South America
7%
Indian Sub
Continent
8%
Far East Asia
8%
Europe
47%
North America
20%
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Product features
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User-friendly design allowing for simple
database searching for novices
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MyCABDirect for saving records and
searches and creating new content alerts
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Facets for refining search results
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Advanced search capabilities to conduct
independent field searches
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Technical Updates
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Evidence Based filter added to CAB Direct
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Document type added to refine results
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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
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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
Simple
searching
Free-text index fields
•Free-text index
•Word stemming
•Automatic Boolean operations for white-space
Boolean searching
AND
e.g. epidemiology AND disease
OR
e.g. disease OR infection
NOT
e.g. treatment NOT diagnosis
Retrieves only records
that contain all the
terms chosen
Retrieves only records
that contain any of the
terms chosen
Retrieves only records
that include keyword
terms and exclude
certain terms
Results
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•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
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We have covered…
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Conducting simple site searches and navigate your way through
the site
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Refine searches using facets
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Creating email and RSS alerts for new content
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Permanently save searches and records
Thank you
Any Questions?
For more information on CABI training
and to access training materials visit
www.cabi.org/training
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