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CABI launches enhanced life sciences delivery platform |
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9 June 2009 |
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CABI has launched a new and improved version of its database platform CAB Direct, incorporating CAB Abstracts and Global Health. The content on CAB Direct has not changed, but the new design should improve its discoverability.
"Researcher behaviours and expectations are evolving, and the new CAB Direct has been created to ensure we are evolving with them," said Cristina Ashby, Product Development Manager at CABI. "New technologies have offered an excellent opportunity to create a better, more intuitive and effective product."
Enhancements include:
- MyCABDirect: a personalised area where users can set-up email alerts and RSS feeds based on their search results, share information and save important searches
- Faceted searching: users can finely filter information to fit their research needs, based on CABI's indexing terms and metadata
- The capability to view full text at the search results level
- Improved user experience through a more intuitive interface
- Suggestions for spelling variations
The new and improved CAB Direct will also abstract snippet views at search results level; save searches to social book marking sites and provide COUNTER compliant usage statistics.
The number of full text articles available on CAB Direct has reached 50,000 with a further 10,000 to be added by the end of the year.
A visual demonstration on how to use the new CAB Direct is available.
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