About CAB Direct  

Why use this resource? CAB Direct is an international database that includes CAB Abstracts, which covers the broad area of life sciences and the environment, and Global Health, which covers public health topics. The information includes journal articles, books, book chapters, conference proceedings, newsletters, reports and grey literature.

What's in this resource? CAB Direct includes citations, abstracts and links to full-text.

Subject(s)

Agriculture     Agronomy    Alternative Medicine     Animal Sciences     Applied Economics     

Biology    Biomedicine     Biotechnology     Botany     Chemistry     Conservation   Ecology    

Entomology     Environment    Food Safety     Food Science     Forestry     Genetics   

Health Policy     Health Sciences     International Development    Life Sciences    Medicine    

Microbiology     Nutrition     Physiology     Pharmacology     Plant Science     Public Health    

Recreation    Rural Development    Soil Science    Tourism   Toxicology    Veterinary Medicine

* substitutes for one or several characters at the end of a word or root word

All words are automatically stemmed by default to include plurals and various endings; for instance, cat breeds will also include cat breeding.

Note: Presently, neither of these fuctions work consistently.