WRS -- CABDirect

Sorry it's late this week, folks.

This week's resource spotlight is on CABDirect. CABDirect is the premier database in applied life sciences, covering primarily agriculture, animal science, plant science, and forestry, but also including human health and nutrition, aquaculture, soil science, environmental topics, and biotechnology. CABDirect indexes over 9000 journals with records as far back as 1973.

CABDirect has a unique interface that allows you to search any combination of the general subjects of Animal Sciences, Plant Sciences, Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Agricultural Economics and Rural Studies, and Human Sciences. Each general category can be subdivided into specific subject abstracts.

The advanced search allows you to search up to 3 terms in almost 30 fields combinable by AND, OR, or NOT. You can also limit your search by publication date range, document type, and language. The full record for each result gives a link to the full text if available, and searches are combinable through the search history screen.