CABI International

CAB Thesaurus is an essential tool for academic, corporate and government librarians who need to navigate, retrieve and index vast amounts of data. It can also be used for cataloging and organizing in-house databases, as well as managing your intranet.

Providing a controlled vocabulary resource of over 48,000 descriptive terms, the CAB Thesaurus is THE thesaurus for the applied life sciences.

Key Strengths:
Agriculture
Forestry
Horticulture
Soil science
Entomology
Mycology
Parasitology
Veterinary medicine
Nutrition
Rural studies

Index Using the CAB Thesaurus
License the Electronic CAB Thesaurus for use as the controlled vocabulary of your institution.

The CAB Thesaurus can be used to index digital or physical text, objects and collections. In an electronic environment, this means that different types of content within a subject area can be efficiently retrieved using a simple search strategy. Indexing with the CAB Thesaurus can enable highly effective searching and retrieval of your information.

The Electronic CAB Thesaurus is currently available in a tagged field format suitable for reading into database management and similar systems. An XML format will be available shortly. In its electronic form the thesaurus has been used for a variety of applications, including:

- Selection of subject headings for library catalogues 
- Indexing in-house bibliographic databases 
- Indexing and searching of open-access databases of online resources 
- Indexing and retrieval of databases of collections and of multimedia objects 
- Selection of keywords for indexing primary journal articles 
- Spelling and terminology reference aids

The CAB Thesaurus is available for licensing. It is available free-of-charge for not-for-profit use in the public domain, such as by academic and research institutions. Organizations wishing to use the CAB Thesaurus for commercial purposes should contact CABI Publishing for details of license fees.