CABI Digital Library is now home to more than 16 million research records across all its database content – proving itself an even greater resource for researchers, practitioners, libraries/institutions in need of evidence-based information and advice.

The new milestone has been reached across key databases including CAB Abstracts and Global Health – demonstrating enhanced value in its usage by leading research institutions as well as governments and organizations around the world.

Significantly, the CABI Digital Library which also hosts database subsets including ‘Abstracts on Hygiene & Communicable Diseases,’ ‘Africa Soil Health Consortium’ and ‘Horticultural Abstracts,’ indexes more than 9,000 periodical titles and extensive grey literature, much of which is not found in other databases.

Accelerated creation of records

Roger Tritton, Publisher – Research Databases at CABI, said, “We are delighted at hitting this important milestone, which reflects both the decades of investment in CABI databases and the accelerated creation of records we have delivered in recent years.”

CAB Abstracts and Global Health were integrated into CABI Digital Library in early 2024, joining CABI’s other publishing products which also includes Collections, Compendium, Books, Journals and Cases.

The CABI Digital Library and its databases are part of CABI’s mission to help improve people’s lives worldwide by providing information and applying scientific expertise to solve problems in agriculture and the environment.

Increase the reach, application and impact of science

This publishing resource, in turn, feeds into Goal 5 of CABI’s Medium-Term Strategy which seeks to ‘increase the reach, application and impact of science in agriculture and the environment.’

It also aligns with CABI’s core value which include a commitment to sharing knowledge so people can support themselves and improve their lives.

CABI Digital Library uses the Literatum search engine from Atypon with some adaptations for CABI’s database and full text content profile.

Find out more about what the CABI Digital Library and its databases offer here.

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