Frequently Asked Questions

CABI Digital Library is currently home to Journals, Books, Case Studies, and CABI Compendium.

The following resources will join in 2023:

• CAB Abstracts
• Global Health
• Database Subsets
• Animal Science
• Environmental Impact
• Forest Science
• Leisure Tourism
• Nutrition and Food Sciences
• VetMed Resource
• Global Agricultural Research Archive
• AIRCA
• CABI Scientific Outputs

Whilst our Research Databases are accessed via CAB Direct. All of CABI's resources are listed on CABI Digital Library - just click on the resource you need and you will be directed straight to the resource.

We will update this page as we continue our migration journey and as more resources become available on our new platform.

There are many additional tools available with your personal account on CABI Digital Library:

• Set up and manage alerts (eg. TOC-alerts, new issue alerts)
• Save search results and get notified on new results
• Save and tag content pages for future use
• Create projects

A personal account is also needed to make a purchase on the platform.

• Go to the 'Login' button in the top right of your screen and select 'Login/Register'
• Enter your details.
• You will receive an email with a link to activate your account.
• After you have clicked that link, your account will be ready to use.

Once you have access a green full access icon will be displayed. To access your purchased book chapter, journal article or case study go to the table of contents and click on the chapter/article/case. All of our digital content is available as PDF, and most also as Full Text XML. To download content, click on the ‘Download PDF’ button.

Your organisation may have access to some content on CABI Digital Library; please contact your librarian if in doubt about what content your organisation has access to.
Depending on what configuration your organisation has provided to us the access methods may vary. We always recommend contacting your librarian first to check the preferred access method for your organisation.   

Access via IP recognition
If your organisation has enabled access through IP recognition and you are accessing at the correct location then the content your organization has access to will be available.

• Browse to the content you want by searching or using a previously saved bookmark
• You can verify if you are authenticated by checking the ‘Authenticated via’ message in the header
• You can verify if you have access by checking the access icon on the content pages

Institutional Access  (Shibboleth/OpenAthens)
Institutional Access allows you to log in using your organisation's account. If your organisation has not requested their account to be configured to use Institutional Access then this log in method will result in an error.   

• Click on the 'Login' button in the top right menu and select 'Institutional Access'
• Search for your institution or select one if you have used this option before
• You will be taken to your organisation login page. Log in with your username and password as provided by your organisation
• Once you log in you will be returned to CABI Digital Library
• You can verify if you are authenticated by checking the ‘Authenticated via’ message in the header
• You can verify if you have access by checking the access icon on the content pages

CABI’s open access content is free to use without a subscription. You can find out more about our open access resources here.

If you would like to access our paid content you must have a subscription, either as an individual or via your institution. 

Check with your University Librarian as you may be able to access CABI’s resources through your Library Portal already.

Speak to your Library and/or faculty and recommend CABI’s resources to your librarian if they currently do not subscribe

If you are an individual you can find out more information about subscribing by going to our plans and pricing pages on our databases, collections and resources or by purchasing a single chapter, book or case study within your search.

If you would like to discuss a subscription please contact [email protected]

Orange ‘open’ padlock – Open gratis access to all

Green ‘open’ padlock – Subscriber (have access)

Red ‘closed’ padlock – Non-subscriber (do not have access)

Permissions are now being processed by PLS Permissions at the following link: https://plsclear.com/. Please use this service to clear permissions in the first instance.
Please note that while CABI is a signatory of the STM Permissions Guidelines, co-signatories still need to clear permissions with CABI, and this can be done via PLSclear.
 
For permission to reuse images from our compendia, please email [email protected]. Please check the copyright status of these images before emailing, which is shown against each image in the Pictures section in each datasheet, as we are unable to give permission for the reuse of images for which we are not the rightsholder.
 
Please also note that if you are requesting content that you have located via bibliographic records on CABI Digital Library or any of our online products, you should check the records carefully for publisher details and only seek a permission from CABI where CABI is clearly identified as the publisher.
 
If you are unable to fulfil your permissions request through PLSclear, please email [email protected] giving clear information about what CABI content you would like to request, including, where applicable, figure or table number, page number, chapter, book title, authors/editors, year of publication, datasheet or factsheet title, number and URL, distribution map title, number and URL. Please state how you would like to reuse the content, including attaching copies of proposed modified content and publication details such as publisher, type of publication, name of publication, estimated date of publication and circulation, languages and territories. While CABI undertakes to process permissions requests in a timely manner, failure to provide all the relevant information could result in lengthy delays in processing such requests.

CABI hosts more than 780,000 full text articles. If you are unable to find a full text option available this means we only index the article within our abstracting and indexing databases, such as CAB Abstracts or Global Health. In this case you will need to contact the publisher directly to request access to the full article.

We are pleased to work with CABI authors, editorial board members and partners to guest blog or collaborate on articles. Please contact [email protected] to discuss your idea.

Please contact our culture team via [email protected] for more information about CABI’s fungal/bacterial strains.

For any queries for our laboratory team please email [email protected]

You can use the Boolean Operators AND, OR, and NOT within search fields. By default, an AND relationship is assumed between search terms unless another operator is specified.

Boolean operators should be capitalized. If not capitalized they are parsed as search terms and not as Boolean operators.

For more hints and tips why not take a look at our user guides here.

Creating and saving searches is really simple on CABI Digital Library. Take a look at our user guides here.

Users can save items into projects, and create a PDF from their project which can be downloaded and saved locally. They can also export the citations of the saved records (txt, ris, bibTex, endNote, medlars)

Yes, record citations can be output in a variety of formats required by various citation management systems: .ris, bibTex, endNote, and medlars

For more information on searches, take a look at our CABI Digital Library user guides.

If you require further information relating to training and use of searchRxiv please email [email protected]

We have created a handy guide to walk you through the process which you can view here.

CABI Digital Library has been designed with the principles and methods of user-centred design in mind, and offers a great experience for users. To learn more about the features and functionality of CABI Digital Library click here.

Our customers and their feedback are vital to the future development of our CABI Digital Library platform.

If you have any comments or feedback on specific functionalities, you can discuss these with your CABI account manager, or alternatively contact us.

Registered users of CABI Digital Library can make use of the 'My Projects' feature. This allows you to gather together content from various places for easy access later on. A project can contain articles, datasheets, cases, book chapters and more – basically any content that you have access to. 

How to use My Projects

1. Email CABI’s support team to initiate your institution’s account creation

2. Verify your email

3. Create a password

4. Log into your account

5. Access your profile by clicking on your name and then clicking on ‘My Account’

 

We’ve also created a resource area exclusively for librarians to help you, and your faculty and students, get the most out of CABI Digital Library.

If access to content is provided by an institutional subscription, your institution's name will appear in the navigation bar at the top of all pages on CABI Digital Library. You can also add a logo via your Account Details tab in the AMS. The uploaded image type should be JPEG or PNG and the size should be the maximum size of 200px wide x 100px high. Please contact [email protected] if you need help with this.

You can easily manage your institutions IP range on https://app.theipregistry.org/

Please contact theIPregistry.org to register and manage any changes to your account ([email protected]).

Once you have created your account you can action any IP address updates by logging in to your account and adding (or deleting) the relevant IP address(es). The registry is provided free for libraries and is very easy to use. Therefore, making IP changes quicker and easier. 

In need of some support? Contact us and we can help.

Please email [email protected] who will issue a voucher token for access

Our customer service team can support your set-up of Shibboleth or OpenAthens authentication. Please send your institution’s entity ID and scope to:  [email protected]

Please email [email protected] for further guidance on Wayfless URLs. 


Example URL below;

https://cabidigitallibrary.org/action/ssostart?idp=%20insertentityIDHERE%20&redirectUri=%20https://www.cabidigitallibrary.org/journal/abwcs

MARC records and KBART files can be accessed from your institutional administration area under the 'Holdings' section.

Customers can obtain COUNTER5 usage reports for all products delivered on the CABI Digital Library platform via their institutional admin account. Further information will be provided shortly.

Note that our database products (CAB Abstracts and Global Health) have not migrated yet, for further information on COUNTER reports for those products please see our COUNTER5 FAQ sheet

 

If you wish to harvest your usage via SUSHI, log into your institutional account and access the usage reports section. You will find your requestor and your customer reference identifications at the top of the page.

We are compliant with COUNTER release 5. To access the COUNTER 5 reports follow these steps:

• Go to your institutional admin account
• Navigate to the Usage Reports tab and access Atypon Insights to download the reports

We offer the following COUNTER 5 reports:

• Item Master Report (IR)
• Journal Article Requests (IR_A1)
• Platform Master Report (PR)
• Platform Usage (PR_P1)
• Title Master Report
• TR_B1 (Book Requests, Excluding OA_Gold)
• TR_B2 (Book Access Denied)
• TR_B3 (Book Usage by Access Type)
• TR_J1 (Journal Requests, Excluding OA_Gold)
• TR_J2 (Journal Access Denied
• TR_J3 (Journal Usage by Access Type)
• TR_J4 (Journal Requests by YOP, Excluding OA_Gold)

You can access your historic usage on https://c5live.mpsinsight.com/

Please email [email protected] to set up an institutional administrator account on MPSInsight

To order your institutional products on CABI Digital Library either contact your Regional Sales Representative or contact us at [email protected]

We also have a variety of resources available here.

If you have further questions please contact [email protected] or your Regional Sales Representative for further support.

This can be found in your institutional administration area (click your name in the top right) under the Access Entitlements section.

More information about the migration of our products to CABI Digital Library can be found here. 

We have also created this handy checklist for admins and librarians that has information about access methods (EZproxy, Shibboleht, IP), redirects, accounts, etc.

Please email [email protected] and include;

• A full screen screenshot of the page(s) you cannot access. (The screenshot must include the log in credentials).
• The error message (if applicable)
• Are you working on/off-campus?
• Are multiple users affected?
• Please provide any screenshots or examples of content that cannot be accessed
• Full screen screenshot from https://www.cabidigitallibrary.org/action/showIdentities
• Full screen screenshot from https://www.cabidigitallibrary.org/snoop
• Full list of institutional IP ranges

This will help us to resolve the issue quicker.

We are currently working on displaying all subscribed content, including database subscriptions, under Access Entitlements in user and admin profiles in CABI Digital Library 

(https://www.cabidigitallibrary.org/action/showPreferences?menuTab=AccountInfo)

We aim to have this in place by the end of 2023.

Yes. We encourage you to update bookmarks, but we will still put the redirects in place so that you can access CDL.

CABI Digital Library doesn’t have an integration with LibKey. We will shortly have an integration with GetFTR that allows users of CABI Databases to quickly tell which full text articles are available via their institution. GetFTR indicators will be displayed in search results and on abstract record pages, and users can follow the smart links to rapidly get access. This doesn’t require any work from institutions, GetFTR uses licensing information it gets directly from publishers.

More information can be found here: https://www.getfulltextresearch.com/librarians

Purchasing an item on CABI Digital Library is simple. When you land on CABI Digital Library if you do not have access to content you wish to purchase as an individual you will see a Purchase button which gives you instructions to purchase.

Article purchases are available on CABI Digital Library, however we do not offer content rental at this time.

eBooks are avilable in both ePDF and ePUB formats.

Downloaded PDFs are provided with a soft DRM. The digital watermark contains the user account from which the chapter/article/book was downloaded, as well as the date and time of the download.

For orders placed via CDL shipping rates will be calculated and shown during the checkout process.

For more detailed information on trade print book orders, please see our Books FAQs page - trade customers.

We currently accept payments via Visa and Mastercard.

If you have any questions regarding the status of your order you can contact us on [email protected] where a member of our support team will be able to update you on your order status.

Once you have made your purchase you will be sent an email and within the body of the email is a link to your digital product, click onto this and you will be able to access the purchased content.

Since the 1^st January 2021, the rules for exporting from the UK to the EU have changed.

CABI books are distributed via our warehouse and printers in the UK. Customers ordering books to European Union countries may be liable for additional customs charges imposed by the government of the destination country.

There are many ways in which you can share your research with the world via CABI.

Click here for more information on publishing a:

• book
• journal article
• preprint
• search strategy

CABI publishes a number of open access titles. For more information on publish open access with us, click here.

If you would like your research journal indexed in CABI’s databases please email [email protected] and our team will review your request.

Any issues accessing the CABI Digital Library platform should be reported to [email protected]

For a general over view of all access methods for CABI Digital Library's online resources, visit this page.

Yes, CABI Digital Library works on the main browsers including Chrome, Firefox and Safari.

CABI Digital Library can be accessed on mobile devices and smart phones. 

We constantly enhance CABI Digital Library based on customer feedback and will share relevant updates via the about page.