An accessible version of the Searchable Fields table is available below.
Field Name | Label | Search Examples & Explanation |
Abstract | AB | AB("international relations") The abstract provided by the journal is reproduced with little or no modifications. If no abstract is provided, one is created by the ProQues editorial team, drawing on the article’s text and concepts. Our team’s goal is to make the article’s point as clearly and succinctly as possible |
Anywhere | N/A | (Political socialization) Enter keyword(s) without a field code label to search the entire record. |
Anywhere except full text | ALL | ALL(voluntary workers) Searches for keywords in the citation and abstract. It is a full record search, but does not include a search on the full text. |
Author | AU | AU(O'Donnell, Guillermo) Finds documents written by a particular author. Use the Look Up list to verify the various formats of the same name. |
Cited Author | CAU | CAU(Greenspan) Searches for an author that is part of the Cited References section of a record. |
Cited Document Title | CTI | CTI(capitalism) Search for document titles that are part of the Cited References section of a record. |
Cited Publication Date | CYR | CYR(October 2004) Searches for publication dates that are part of the Cited References section of a record. |
Cited Publication Title | CPUB | CPUB(economist) Searches for a publication title that is part of the Cited References section of a record. |
Company/Organization | ORG | ORG(Environmental Protection Agency) Searches for a company or other organizations featured prominently in an article. |
Document Text | FT | FT(Mortgage backed securities) Searches for keywords in the body of the article. |
Document Title | TI | TI(BRIC) Locates the occurrence of search words in the title of the article. |
Document Type | DType | DType(Article) Finds specific document types such as article, business case, company profile, market research… |
International Standard Serials Number | ISSN | ISSN(1944-267x) Looks for the eight digit International Standard Serials Number (ISSN), where available. Hyphens are optional. |
Location | LOC | LOC(Austin) Specific geographic area or location. |
Person | PER | PER(Mandela, Nelson) Finds articles mentioning a person. |
Publication Title | PUB | PUB(Journal of Democracy ) Used to search by a specific publication or publications. |
References | REF | REF(political consultants) Looks for the data in a cited reference. It will search all of the main components of a cited reference (cited author, cited document title, cited publication date, and cited publication title). |
Section | SEC | SEC(democracy) Search for documents in a specific section of a publication. |
Subject Heading(All) | SU | SU(campaigns) Use the subject search field to look for articles about a specific subject. A search for the subject heading “cognitive grammar,” will find articles with the subject cognitive grammar, construction grammar or cognitive style. To run an exact subject search where only “cognitive grammar” is retrieved and not subject terms that contain additional terms, search using EXACT. SU.EXACT(campaigns) |