[4] CAB Abstracts is an applied life sciences bibliographic database emphasizing agricultural literature, which is international in scope.
Database covers international issues in agriculture, forestry, and allied disciplines in the life sciences.
Literature coverage includes journals, proceedings, books, and a large collection of agricultural serials.
It is created from 600 volumes of printed abstracts, which are the collected and published scientific research from 1910 to 1972, and then digitized to form the archive.
This archive database contains more than 1.8 million records which covers agriculture, veterinary science, nutrition and the environment.
Proceedings, patents, thesis papers, electronic publications and relevant but difficult-to-find literature sources are also part of this database.
It is created from 800,000 records, from six printed abstract journals, which are collected published scientific research from 1910 to 1972, digitized to form the archive.
[12][13] Records for this database are derived from the following journals throughout certain years:[12][13] Subject coverage includes Public health, Tropical and Communicable diseases, Nutrition, Parasitology, Entomology, and Mycology.
[14] Back-file coverage is from 1990 to present day, with an accessible base of 195,000 abstracts and the addition of 11,000 records per year.
[14] This indexing database focuses on scientific literature pertaining to all topics in organic farming, in both the temperate and tropical zones.
[17] The full text repository is made up of fifty percent journal articles, and equal percentage of conference (proceeding) papers, and other accessible literature is also included.
Also included in this database are relevant but hard to find materials which crosses disciplines consisting of agriculture, health and the life sciences.
[17] CABI full text repository is indexed in other databases, which also serve as access points, consisting of Web of Knowledge (Thomson Reuters), CAB Direct, OvidSP, Dialog, Dimdi, and EBSCOhost.