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Over 100 years of scientific research
The most comprehensive database of its kind, CAB Abstracts gives instant access to over 11 million research records across agriculture, the environment, and applied life sciences. It is one of the most trusted databases in the applied life sciences by researchers, librarians, faculties, students, and practitioners alike.
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Key features
- Global coverage – Research from over 120 countries in 50 languages
- Comprehensive – Articles from over 8,000 serials around the world
- Rigorous selection – Content vetted by subject experts
- Evidence-based research – To support practical application
- Daily content uploads – An ever-growing database of research
- Full-text access – Direct access to CABI-hosted full-texts, including exclusive 'grey' literature
- Powerful search – Subject coverage, rich metadata, advanced filtering
- Subject indexing – Precisely identify parameters with the CABI Thesaurus controlled-vocabulary tool
Search tips
Find out how to power-up your searches and refine your results to quickly and easily find the research records you need with our CABI Digital Library User Guides.
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CABI Thesaurus
Build complex searches with CABI Thesaurus. This controlled vocabulary tool includes millions of terms - helping you navigate, retrieve and index large amounts of data.
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Research Spotlights
Each Research Spotlight contains a wealth of curated information around a key topic to support further reading on subject areas ranging from agriculture to human health.
Help Guide
All your questions answered on how to do basic or more advanced searches. Our handy online guide contains common FAQs; each or all pages are printable for ease.
What we cover
CAB Abstracts includes a host of relevant content across multiple fields, as follows:
Testimonials
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"CAB Abstracts is the absolute go-to database for literature on agriculture, environmental and animal sciences. You’ll find references not only to journal articles but also to monographs, conferences, books, and annual reports from over 100 countries. You simply get better results if you search in CAB Abstracts."
Corrie Snijder, collection specialist at Wageningen University & Research – Library, The Netherlands
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"Searching CAB Abstracts using the new CABI Digital Library Platform is a powerful improvement. It shows that CABI listened to input from customers to both improve the search function and provide explanations about the defaults and options. It is intuitive for the general searcher. Advanced searchers will find the increased transparency helpful for refining searches and documenting methodology for evidence syntheses."
Heather K Moberly, Agricultural and Veterinary Librarian, The Pennsylvania State University Paterno Library, USA
"CAB Abstracts is the leading English-language bibliographic information service providing access to the world's agriculture literature. It has a longstanding reputation for comprehensive quality-abstracting and indexing, and integrity of its data. This should be the first stop for the serious researcher."
Luti Salisbury, Professor, Agriculture, Food and Life Sciences, University of Arkansas Libraries, USA
