Forest Science Database

Overview

Forest Science Database is the world's leading bibliographic database for forest, wood science and agroforestry research. At its core is our abstracting and indexing database. Updated weekly, the database supplies bibliographic information and abstracts for all aspects of agroforestry, forestry, tree biology, land use and wood science. Climate change effects, deforestation, forest logging and urban forestry are also key areas we cover.

Forest Science Database (a subset of CAB Abstracts) contains:
 

• Over 810,000 scientific abstracts covering the last 70 years of global forestry research
   
• Over 3,500 full text records
   
• Weekly updates with over 40,000 records added per year

Who uses it?

An essential resource for foresters, scientists, environmental consultants, policy makers and others actively involved in research or decision-making in agroforestry, forestry, wood science, and the forest and timber industries.

Why use it?

• You don’t have to scan the ever-increasing world scientific literature – we’ve done it for you
   
• You’ll find it easy to track down research that matters to you, because we’ve tagged all the important concepts
   
• You can access the best-known journals; we cover publications that other databases do not include

Subscribe to Forest Science Database and benefit from:
 

• Up-to-the-minute access to research developments in forest science

Take advantage of:
 

• Flexible searching and browsing options to help you carry out the search most suited to your users' needs and levels of expertise, including “Quick”, “Advanced” and “Expert” searches and a browse function for when they don’t have a specific search in mind
   
• Enhanced search management functions, so your users can improve search results using "Refine” and “Related records”. Additionally, they can mark specific records to refine, export to disc, email, print or export to bibliographic software such as EndNote, ProCite and Reference Manager
   
• CAB Thesaurus, the essential tool for indexing and retrieving information, which allows users to search the database in a far more systematic and specific way than simply searching free text
   
• Extensive and improved linking facilities – from abstract to full text in just three clicks. Users can link to full text journal articles though CrossRef, and PubMedCentral, link to articles via PubMed and Google or link to document delivery suppliers such as the British Library, CISTI and Infotrieve
   
• OpenURL compliance and support to serve libraries who wish to select and customize the links of most value to their users
   

   

Delivery Platforms

Coverage

• Silviculture and forest management
  • Silviculture
  • Management and policy
  • Mensuration and inventories
  • Economics
• Forest trees
  • Biology of forest trees
  • Taxonomy
  • Genetics and breeding
• Forest environment
  • Climate and soil
  • Forest ecology
  • Forest health
  • Wildlife
  • Biodiversity
  • Land use
  • Environmental and service aspects
  • Fire
• Agroforestry
  • Agroforestry systems and other types of land use
  • Trees and shrubs for agroforestry
  • Horticultural and plantation crops for agroforestry
  • Pasture and field crops for agroforestry
  • Animals for agroforestry
  • Agroforestry products
• Arboriculture and urban forestry
• Forest products
  • Forest products industry and trade
  • Wood anatomy, wood chemistry and wood properties
  • Timber extraction, conversion and measurement
  • Biodeterioration, damage to timber and wood preservation
  • Wood utilization
  • Panels, composite boards, modified wood, wood adhesives
  • Pulp and paper and chemical utilization of wood
  • Non-wood forest products
  • Fuel and energy
• Dendrochronology
• Sociological, cultural and economic aspects
• Human ecology
• Research and development
• Techniques and methodology
• Information and training

Updates to this list are produced monthly. Designation of Open Access publications are currently available in the downloadable version.

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