Not-for-profit life sciences publisher CABI has announced that more than 9 million records on CAB Direct have been re-indexed to bring them into line with the controlled vocabulary of the updated 2011 CAB Thesaurus. This has standardised indexing and searching across all database records from 1910 to the present day, enabling the retrieval of all records for an organism or concept using the current up-to-date name, despite the fact that over time it may have been indexed using older names or terminology.
CABI also added more than 415,000 new Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) to older database records, which allows a direct click through to the original publisher record and often to the full text article.
According to Janet Halsall, Head of Publishing Operations, CABI, this re-indexing has improved the database products by adding extra searchability and more links out to newly digitised source material. This includes DOIs for journal articles indexed by CABI back through time to 1910. Customers can now click through to the original journal article which has since been digitised by the publisher.
