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Z39.50 Target Information

Connection Details

Supported Services

Supported Attributes and Query Types

Record Syntaxes


Connection Details

Hostname: z.edina.ac.uk
Port: 2100
Database Name: cababstracts
Authentication String: Please contact your site rep for access information. You can find your site rep here. If you are a site rep then please contact the EDINA helpdesk.

Supported Services

Init, Search (and Piggy-Back-Present), Scan, Present, Names Result Sets, Sort, Close.

Supported Attributes

Bib-1 Attribute set.

Search
CAB Abstracts Index Name Bib-1 Name Use
(Attribute 1)
Structure
(Attribute 4)
Author Personal name 1 1,2
Conference Data Conference name 3 2
Title Title 4 2
ISBN ISBN 7 1,2
ISSN ISSN 8 1,2
Accession Number Local number 12 2
Subject Headings Subject heading 21 1,2
Year of Publication Date-publication 31 1,2
Title/Subjects Title expanded 44 2
Language of Text Code--language 54 1
Geographic Location Name geographic 58 1,2
Abstract Abstract 62 2
Author Author 1003 1,2
Corporate Name Author-name corporate 1005 1
Date of Extraction Date/time added to database 1011 1,2
Keywords Any 1016 2
Publisher Publisher 1018 2
Source Host item 1033 1,2
Document Type Content type 1034 1
Organism Descriptors - 5009 1,2
Bulletin/Issue/Part - 5019 1,2
Identifiers - 5020 1,2
Up-posted Descriptors - 5021 1,2
Descriptors - 5022 1,2
Page Numbers - 5023 1,2
CABICODES - 5024 1,2
Language of Summary - 5054 1
Author Address - 5100 2
CAS Registry Numbers - 5975 1,2
Notes:

Truncation (Attribute 5) -- right truncation (value 1) is available on all indexes.

Non Bib-1 use values -- indexes which do not uniquely map to a Bib-1 use value have been given a value over 5000. These may change in the future.

Sort
CAB Abstracts Index Name Bib-1 Name Use
(Attribute 1)
Article Title Title 4
Year of Publication Date of publication 31
Author Author 1003
Journal Title Host item 1033

Supported Query Types

Query Types 1, and 100 are supported, and Query Type 101 with proximity operators near and within.

Record Syntaxes

Format ElementSetNames
SUTRS F,B