An accessible version of the Searchable Fields table is available below.
| Field Name | Label | Search Examples & Explanation |
| Abstract | AB | AB(child welfare worker) 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. Abstracts are available from 1987. |
| Accession Number | AN | AN(356894) Search the unique database ID for articles and documents. |
| Anywhere except full text | ALL | ALL(credit default swaps) 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(Mossberg Walt) Finds documents written by a particular author. Use the Look Up list to verify the various formats of the same name. |
| Author Affiliation | AF | AF(Michigan) Use to search on additional author information such as institutional affiliation, location of institution, and if provided, the email address of the author can sometimes appear in this field. |
| 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(Mortgages) Search for document titles that are part of the Cited References section of a record. |
| Cited Publication Date | CYR | CYR(October 1987) 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. |
| Classification Codes | CC | CC(1120) Classification Codes define business topics. They are a fast way to precisely target a search by topic, industry or market, geographical area, or article type. |
| Company/Organization | ORG | ORG(Ford) Searches for a company or other organizations featured prominently in an article. |
| Digital Object Identifiers | DOI | DOI(10.1007/s00180-010-0212-6) Searches for documents with DOIs using the DOI search. |
| Document Feature | DF | DF(Chart) Searches for features in an article such as charts, diagrams, illustrations or photographs. |
| 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(Market Research) Finds specific document types such as article, business case, company profile, market research… |
| International Standard Serials Number | ISSN | ISSN(00014788) Looks for the eight digit International Standard Serials Number (ISSN), where available. Hyphens are optional. |
| Issue | ISS | ISS(8368) Searches the issue number of a resource. |
| Language | LA | LA(Spanish) Original language of the document. |
| Location | LOC | LOC(Austin) Specific geographic area or location. |
| Person | PER | PER(Christine Lagarde) Finds articles mentioning a person. |
| Place of Publication | CP | CP(Cambridge) Use to locate articles published in a specific place. This will search for the city and county of publication. |
| Product Name | NP | NP(Kindle) Finds articles mentioning a specific product. |
| Publication date | PD | PD(19871020) Specific publication date. |
| Publication Title | PUB | PUB(financial times) Specific publication or publications. |
| Publisher | PB | PB(BioMed Central Ltd.) Use to search for the publisher of the source such as the journal publisher. |
| References | REF | REF(Barnett-Hart, Anna Katherine) 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). |
| Source type | SType | STYPE(newspapers) Finds pecific source types such as books, newspapers or scholarly journals. |
| Subject Heading(All) | SU | SU(Accounts) Look for articles about a specific subject. A search for the subject heading “accounts,” will find articles with the subject accounts, health savings accounts or checking accounts. To run an exact subject search where only “accounts” is retrieved and not subject terms that contain additional terms, search using EXACT. SU.EXACT(accounts) |
| Volume | VO | VO(100) Volume of a resource. |