CAB Abstracts

  • Subject Humanities, Outdoor and Forestry
  • On-campus access
  • Off-campus access
  • Brief description Literature in the fields of agriculture, forestry, animal health & nutrition, natural resources & outdoor education
  • Resource type References and abstracts, Reports and conference proceedings, Theses
  • Walk-in access Walk-in access available

Full Details

Mainly a bibliographic database, but with full text for over 32,000 articles compiled by CAB International. It covers significant research and development literature in the fields of agriculture, forestry, aspects of human health, animal health and nutrition, outdoor education, and management and conservation of natural resources. 

Date Range

1973 onwards. 

Access

Direct on campus.
Off campus access is via your University of Cumbria login details - a pop-up box will ask you to enter your username and password.

Features

Basic search to find a phrase or keyword.
Advanced search to combine searches using Boolean operators.
Visual searches produces a visual map of results organised by topic. 

Search Tips

Searches can be refined to just full text articles, or by date, by publication, by publication type, or to articles which contain images.

Other information

Updated quarterly.

Guides and leaflets

An online guide is available.