Introducing the CAB Abstracts database
The CAB Abstracts database covers the subject of agriculture in the broadest sense
The database contains over 4 million records from over 11,000 journals, books, conferences, reports, and other kinds of literature published internationally.
Subject coverage:
- Agriculture, including animal production and welfare, horticulture, crop science and protection, applied economics and rural studies
- Animal and Veterinary Sciences, including animal nutrition, entomology, aquaculture and equine science
- Environmental Sciences, including, ecology and climate change, forestry, soil science, and hydrology
- Human Health, Food and Nutrition, including food science and communicable diseases
- Leisure and Tourism
- Microbiology and parasitology, including mycology, bacteriology and virology
- Plant Sciences, including biotechnology, plant protection, and crop science
For a complete overview see: http://www.cabi.org/files/databasecoveragepages.pdf
Each record has been hand-selected by CABI's subject specialists. CAB Abstracts include information from more key, internationally recognized journals than any other database.
The main thing that sets CAB Abstracts apart from other databases is that the database also includes records from less well-known publications, including foreign language journals, independent publishers, and learned societies.
Coverage/Access for ITC is from 1989 to the present. The database is updated monthly and 180,000 records are added annually.
Conditions of use of the electronic journals and databases
The use of electronic journals and databases is subject to the following agreements between ITC and publishers:
- The use is limited to staff and students of the ITC and visitors to the ITC Library.
- Only personal use for study, research and education is allowed; commercial use is strictly prohibited.
- Downloading is restricted to reasonable amounts for your personal use.
- Downloaded materials cannot be distributed to third parties.
Once you are logged on, you are personally responsible for all on-line activities in that session, including library access.
If you have any questions about the license agreement, or if you need services that appear to fall outside the agreement, please contact the librarian, Marga Koelen, ext. 202.