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CABI Thesaurus

Build complex searches in the new, improved CABI Thesaurus.

CABI Thesaurus is the essential search tool for users of CAB Abstracts and Global Health databases and related products. Now with over 3 million descriptive terms, for the applied life sciences.

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CABI Thesaurus is the essential search tool for all users of CAB Abstracts and Global Health databases and related products. It provides a controlled vocabulary that has been in use since 1983, and includes:

  • Controlled vocabulary that has been in constant use since 1983
  • Over 3 million terms
  • Regularly updated
  • Broad coverage of pure and applied life sciences, technology and social sciences.
  • Approximately 283,800 concepts including 182,060 distinct concepts (preferred terms) and 126,400 synonyms
  • Specific terminology for all subjects covered
  • Includes about 229,800 plant, animal and microorganism names
  • Broad, narrow and related terms to help users find relevant terminology
  • Cross-references from non-preferred synonyms to preferred terms
  • Multi-lingual, with Dutch, Portuguese and Spanish equivalents for most English terms, plus lesser content in Danish, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian and Swedish
  • American and British spelling variants
  • Commission notation for enzymes

The CABI Thesaurus features terms across:

  • agriculture
  • forestry
  • horticulture
  • soil science
  • entomology
  • mycology
  • parasitology
  • veterinary medicine
  • nutrition
  • rural studies

CABI Thesaurus is an essential tool for academic, corporate and government librarians, who need to navigate, retrieve and index large amounts of data. It can also be used for cataloguing and organizing in-house databases, as well as managing your intranet. This tool can help you build complex searches, helping you identify search terms and build a search profile using narrower terms. The search query can then be sent to CAB Direct, at the click of a button. The CABI Thesaurus is currently available via the web site, or can be provided in SKOS/RDF format, suitable for reading into database management and similar systems. The CABI Thesaurus is also available for licensing, please contact sales@cabi.org for more details.