Life-sciences publisher Centre for Agricultural Bioscience International (CABI), UK, and online publishing services provider Semantico Ltd., UK, have announced the completion of a project to open a large number of CAB Direct's life sciences abstracts to the Google search engine. With this move, CABI seeks to vastly increase the visibility of the essential information the platform provides. Its immediate effect has been to more than double the usage of the CAB Direct platform.
Google can now fully search and index the abstracts, making them findable for millions of readers worldwide. The platform recognises when a user has accessed the site via Google and will allow them to view a defined amount of content for free before prompting them to log in, if their institution already has a subscription to the site, or suggesting that they register as an individual user for access to the full content.
CAB Direct claims to be the most thorough and extensive source of reference in the applied life sciences, incorporating the leading bibliographic databases CAB Abstracts and Global Health. The platform provides a single point of access to all of the CABI database subscriptions. Users can search from over 9 million bibliographic records, over 97,000 full text articles, plus authoritative reviews, news articles and reports.
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