CAB Abstracts
Archive makes over 1.8 million records available
electronically and places them at researchers' fingertips for
the very first time. Covering the literature from 1910 to 1973
CAB Abstracts Archive covers the early science in agriculture,
veterinary medicine, nutrition and natural
resources.
Over two dozen institutions have
already purchased access to the Archive, in a move that
signals just how important this early research is, and how
having electronic access is the key factor in this research
being fully utilized by today's scientists. The Archive is a
fully searchable modern database to enable all information to
be retrieved with ease.
The Archive contains abstracts of
the leading scientific papers of the day, such as Watson and
Crick's and Alexander Fleming's Nobel Prize winning works. CAB
International collected this research as it was produced, and
was also involved in the science itself, at the time. A live
culture of Fleming's Penicillin producing fungus can still be
bought today from CABI's Genetic Resource Collection where he
deposited it after first having it identified by CABI
scientists.
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In addition to such famous records,
the Archive contains information on hundreds of thousands of
lesser known but important research papers from the early part
of the twentieth century. Much of this research is on topics
that are central to researchers today. Topics like
biodiversity, pest control (early locust plagues, first use of
DDT), environmental pollution, animal diseases (such as foot
and mouth and tuberculosis) nutrition and food production.
CAB Abstracts Archive is available
now on CAB Direct. It will be available shortly on Ovid and
SilverPlatter and on other platforms later in the year.
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