Life sciences publisher CABI, UK, has announced various enhancements to its flagship delivery platform, CAB Direct. These include search functionalities, improved facilities for record-marking and manipulation, one-click export compatibility for citations, an XML gateway for federated search connections and compliance with Shibboleth 2.0.
Working with technology partner Semantico, CABI has issued this latest release to CAB Direct following its complete relaunch in June 2009. Containing over 8.8 million bibliographic records and more than 85,000 full-text articles, CAB Direct claims to be the most thorough and extensive source of reference in the applied life sciences.
Many of the enhancements have been developed in response to customer feedback. Records now remain permanently marked throughout a user's entire search session, remaining visible as a user moves from one search and set of search results to a new search and set of search results. Users can select up to 1,000 records from their search results for further manipulation, to print, export or e-mail, and can save up to 500 records permanently. Titles can be located and linked to on Amazon for purchase by the user. Also, users can now export citations or full abstracts from CAB Direct as a result of the one-click direct export compatibility with the web-based citation management and collaboration tools, RefWorks and EndNote Web.
An XML gateway for federated search connections, CABDirect MXG, will support simple and complex boolean queries for any search fields in CAB Direct, including author, title, subject, abstract, keyword and publication year. This enables CAB Direct to be searched alongside other databases, sources and platforms. This release also includes an upgrade to the latest version of SOLR (1.4.1) - the search engine which is claimed to enable CAB Direct to return search results across 8.8 million records in a tenth of a second.
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