CAB Abstracts Now Back to 1910

Massey Library's coverage of the Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux database has been extended back in time to 1910 with the addition of extensive backfile to the records which had previously covered the period from 1972 to the present only. While it is generally true that researchers' prime need is for the latest work, the availability of classic articles is exceptionally valuable in the field of agriculture to track the development of a particular technique or to compare different conditions over time. It is now possible for example to locate the early work of New Zealand grasslands pioneer A.H. Cockayne with a CAB search, or to track publishing on leptospirosis in New Zealand from the 1950s to the present.