Answering Customer Needs: CABI Full Text Products

ICSTI Unity seminar Moscow, 24th Nov. 2011

What is CABI?

● CABI is an international, development-led organization supported by:

• World class publishing products

• A solid research base

KNOWLEDGE FOR LIFE

Our mission

CABI improves people’s lives worldwide by providing information and applying scientific expertise to solve problems in agriculture andthe environment

KNOWLEDGE FOR LIFE

CABI – a potted history

● Have been around for 100 years● Founded by Winston Churchill who supported a Civil

Service ‘Entomological Committee’ to work overseas● Now two divisions: International Development and

Publishing● Have been abstracting since 1910 and publishing

books since the 1990s● CAB eBooks released in June 2008● Publish about 60 print books per year, of which 45-50

are released electronically

CABI Publishing Products

● CAB Abstracts (with Full Text Select Database integrated since Sept. 2008)

● Global Health (with Full Text Select Database integrated since Jan. 2009)

● 7 Internet Resources (Environmental Impact, VetMed Resource, Forestry Sci, AgBiotechNet, Animal Sci, Leisure &Tourism, Nutrition and Food Sci)

● 48 Abstract Journals (print + online as subset databases)

● CABI Full Text Databases package● CABI Books● CAB eBooks● 5 Compendia (interactive multimedia scientific

encyclopaedia)

CABI's full text repository

● integrated into all our databases including CAB Abstracts, Global Health, our Internet Resources and Abstract Journals.

● over 150,000 full text articles, made possible by agreement with third party publishers

● specially digitised by us ● 80% of the content is not available as open access

electronically anywhere else. 

The benefits of full text integrated into CABI Databases

• allows these documents to be found with a click of a button from a CAB Direct search

• helps meeting user expectations to find the full text of material they see indexed

• places valuable, but more obscure, documents alongside mainstream literature, ensuring that your users have access to all relevant information, not just that which is easiest to find

• ensures researchers have access to the very latest research, through conference papers and reports

Types of literature

Journals: 82%

Conferences: 9%

Grey literature: 5%

Books: 2%

Others: 2%

Full Text

● Full Text for over 150,000 records● 56% Journal articles, 42% Conference papers● Small, but growing number of reports● 80% English● Over 500 journals from 74 countries● Over 70% of journals not Open Access

Subject Coverage of Full Text

Plant Science21%

Animal Science (including Zo-ology)20%

Human Health and Hygiene5%

Pathogen, Pest & Parasite & Weed Management

8%

Natural Resources & Ecology8%

Forestry, Forest Products and Agroforestry

3%

Soil Science5%

Food Science and Food Products

6%

Agricultural Economics5%

Biotechnology1%

Agricultural Engineering2%

Leisure, Recreation and Tourism0%

Other16%

Geographic origin of Full Text Journals

Europe 38%Indian sub-continent 21%Central and South America 13%Asia 9%Middle East 8%Africa 5%North America 3%Australasia 2%Russia <1%

Headline Numbers

CAB Direct (+ GH, Archives) 9,5 million

CAB Abstracts 6.5 million

329,723 records added in 2010

CAB Abstracts Full Text 120,691

34,034 records added in 2010

CAB Abstracts in 2010

● providing a gateway to full text content● Direct links to your own full text holdings,

providing instant access to the journals to which you subscribe

● using the full potential of your collection● your users can find papers from journals they may

not usually search ensuring they make full use of all the resources in the library

Global Health in 2010

• Number of records as of 1 Jan 2011 >1.85 million (2,64 million with Archive)

• Total full text = 30,876• Full text added in 2010 = 7,778• Unique full text serials*(number) = 396

• Number of serials screened >6000• % unique > 60%*

66% unique vs Medline58% unique vs Pubmed83% unique vs Embase

Global Health Coverage

● Infectious diseases

● Human nutrition

● Parasitic diseases

● Toxicology and poisoning

● Non-communicable diseases

● Sociology and economics

● Community and public health issues

● Medicinal and poisonous plants

Full Text in CABI Internet Resources

• Environmental Impact• Leisure and Tourism

Database• VetMed Resource• Nutrition and Food

Science Database• Animal Science

Database• Forest Science

Database

• Full text articles• Reports• Reviews• News articles• eBook

chapters/books

Nutrition & Food Sciences Fulltext

Full Text Reviews

Environmental Sciences

Environmental Impact – headline figures

Vital statistics October2011

Added in last year

Database records 1,453,788 103,621

Full text records 27,082 7,085

eBooks 189 (4,227) 114

CAB Reviews 124 17

Reports (organizations) 1793 (238) 632 (47)

News articles 547 157

New for 2011

Addition of full environmental CAB eBooks archive (from 2000) with an increase from 77 to 189 books available

Leisure Tourism key figures

• 117,577 Abstracts records as of 1st Oct 2011• 7995 records added in 2010

• 2102 full text records (+ 1824 eBooks and chapters)• 588 full text records added in 2010

• Records taken from 2844 serials in 2010• Includes records from 233 different full text serials

and conferences

New for 2011

Leisure and Tourism eBook content (2000 to current) added in January 2011. This includes about 100 books and over 1820 book chapters, more than doubling the amount of full text content available.

eBook subset customers given free access

First conferences just acquired for Full Text

Improved Site Search functionality in development.

VetMed Resource: Product headline figures

• 1,511,119 records as of 1 Oct 2011

• Total full text on VMR is 50,981• 11,823 Full text added in 2010

• Number of serials screened• Over 3000

CAB eBooksEssential titles in the applied life sciences

E-Books – Current and Future

CAB eBooks: five key facts

● No Digital Rights Management● Unlimited access● Perpetual rights● MARC records available● PDF-based so no plug-ins needed

CAB eBooks

● Available in 3 ‘time slices’● 2000 – 2004: 248 books● 2005 – 2007: 158 books● 2008 – present: more than 170 books

● Perpetual access rights for all slices● Newly published titles added at no additional

cost

● Winner of the 2009 Outstanding Academic Title award from Choice!

Addressing librarians’ needs

CAB eBooks

● Content indexed and presented as whole books or individual chapters

● Fully indexed and linked from CAB Abstracts● Abstracts written for each chapter –

invaluable for edited volumes● Browse, simple search and advance search

modes available● Download the whole book or just the chapter

you’re interested in

Choice and flexibility

CAB eBooks lease purchase model

● Customers pay an annual lease fee to access the front file.● Every three years, a new archive is created, e.g. in 2013, all books

from 2008-2010 will go into an archive and the front file will be reduced to titles from 2011 onwards.

● Long-term subscribers will be given perpetual access to the 2008-2010 archive at no extra cost.

● Customers who have subscribed for less than 3 years will have to pay a ‘top-up’ fee for access to 2008-2010 titles.

What we offer – via OVID

To match CAB eBooks:● 2000-2004 entire collection (archive for purchase)● 2005-2007 entire collection (archive for purchase)● 2008-date entire collection (front file for lease purchase)

Additional products:● Six subject subset collections (2008-date subscription)● Reference works collection - 16 titles● Individual reference works

E-books in 2011 Some forthcoming titles

Agriculture

Farm Business Management: Analysis of Farming Systems

Agricultural Seed Production

Plant Sciences

Plant Evolution and the Origin of Crop Species 3rd Edition

Peppers: Botany Production and Usage

Environmental Sciences

Agrobiodiversity Management for Food Security

Soil Hydrology, Land Use and Management

Animal and Veterinary Sciences

Deafness in Dogs and Cats

External Parasites of Small Ruminants

Leisure and Tourism

Medical Tourism

Controversies in Tourism

E-books in 2011Library research monograph series

Advances in Molecular and Cellular Microbiology

Stress Response in Pathogenic Bacteria

Lyme Disease: An Evidence-based Approach

Tuberculosis

CABI Climate Change Series

Crop Stress Management and Global Climate Change

Temperature Adaptation in a Changing Climate

New in 2011: CABI Invasives Series

Potential Invasive Pests of Agricultural Crops

CABI Compendia

What are CABI Compendia?● Bring a vast selection of information into one place. ● Combine indexed information of all scientific research,

detailed datasheets, images, diagnostic tools and much more.

● Is a time-saving, encyclopedic, mixed-media tool that draws together scientific information on all aspects of:

● Crop protection● Animal health and production● Aquaculture● Forestry● Invasive species.

What’s in the Compendium?

● Datasheets● Demographic, economic and statistical data● Library● Bibliography● Glossary● Pictures● Maps● Diagnostic tools● Decision support tools● Navigation tools

Global Development Consortium

•CABI Compendia Programme - initiative of over 40 partners:

● technical institutions● development-assistance agencies● private-sector companies.

CABI Compendia Users

● Extension officers● Lecturers and students● Researchers● Policy makers● Practitioners (both public and private sector –

veterinarians, farmers)● Industry, etc. specialists.

New enhanced Compendia platform offers our customers extensive and unique features

NEW Crop Protection Compendium www.cabi.org/cpc

A simple term in the search box will return results in relevance order

Often including Full Text articles that are not found anywhere else

Images…

Links to external, high quality material have been built in. In the case of images…

Tabs and drop-down menus then allow easy access to key information

Opening a pest datasheet shows summary information, again with easy-access tabs for more information on…

Distribution…

Habitat, hosts, etc.

Selected information can be included for tailored reports

Full details of references are retrieved via access to CAB Direct

The browse bar at the left allows just those datasheets on, for example, fungi to be returned

Integrated training aids and videos

Use in complex workflows

● What is reliably known about a pest – preparation of summary for onward distribution/inclusion in other material

● What is the pest attacking my crop – and what do I do about it● What are the possible pests associated with this imported material

that I need to worry about – do I have sufficient information to reject/accept

● How can I build capacity in developing countries and use the Compendia in teaching and extension material

CPC Updates

● Over 3,500 updated and new datasheets (continuing) inc EPPO data

● Over 150,000 extra bibliographic records from most recent literature (more added each week)

● Over 9,900 Full Text crop protection articles from journals and conferences (more added each week)

● Over 8,600 images to allow easy identification and teaching

● Updated glossary content to include new data on pesticides (more than 21,000 terms, multilingual)

The update link on the left allows users to find out about the latest content added

Simple searches will return new abstract literature that might supplement datasheet information

For experts who want an even more powerful search of bibliographic records, access is provided to CAB Direct

To round things off, a library…

And glossary are provided.

Datasheets are best queried using the diagnostic search

where terms can be simple added...

To get specific results

Prepared Professional Searches

AHPC – Food Safety & Quality

commissioned texts:

AHPC – Food Safety and Quality

Datasheets: Livestock Species - to - Food Products

Invasive Species Compendium - Beta version, going live in mid-2011

Compendia abstracts sub-sets, full text and library documents

AC AHPC CPC FC

No. records on 01/01/11

78,265 144,548 172,790 213,923

No. new records in 2010

21,167 33,417 24,496 27,533

Total full text 3401 15,847 9139 9101

Total Library docs

1089 213 88 39

No. serials cited

3251 3995 3051 -

Pleased to answer your questions and to set up a free trial!

Krassimira Anguelova

k.anguelova@cabi.org