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Field Name

Label

Search Examples & Explanation

Abstract

 AB

AB(child welfare worker)

We use the journal-provided abstract with little or no modification, or have members from our editorial team write an abstract from scratch, 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.

Abstracts are available from 1987.

Accession Number

AN

AN(356894)

Search the unique database ID for articles and documents.

Anywhere

N/A

(Libor OR Euribor)

Enter keyword(s) without a field code label to search the entire record.

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)

Use to find documents written by a particular author. Try searching on both the full first name and initials in order to retrieve all publications by a specific author.

Cited Author

CAU

AU(Greenspan)

Use to search for an author that is part of the Cited References section of a record.

Cited Document Title

CTI

CTI(Mortgages)

Use to search for document titles that are part of the Cited References section of a record.

Cited Publication Date

CYR

CYR(October 1987)

Use to search for publication dates that are part of the Cited References section of a record.

Cited Publication Title

CPUB

CPUB(economist)

Use to search for a publication title that is part of the Cited References section of a record.

Classification Codes

CC

CC(1120)

 

Use Classification Codes when searching business topics. Classification Codes are a fast way to precisely target a search by topic, industry or market, geographical area, or article type.

Company/Organization

ORG

 

ORG(Ford) 

   

Search for a company or other organizations featured prominently in an article.

Digital Object Identifiers

DOI

DOI(10.1007/s00180-010-0212-6)

Search for documents with DOIs using the DOI search.

Document Feature

DF

DF(Chart)

Use to search for features in an article such as charts, diagrams, illustrations, and photographs.

Document Number

AN

AN(1713554)

Searches both the ProQuest document ID (applied to all documents) and the 3rd party document ID (applied to some    databases, such as PsycINFO).

Document Text

FT

FT(Mortgage backed securities)

Search 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)

Use this to find specific document types such as article, business case, company profile, market research...

International Standard Book Number

ISBN

ISBN(9780549687191)

This search field looks for the 12 and 13 digit International Standard Book Number (ISBN), where available. Hyphens are optional.

International Standard Serials Number

ISSN

 

ISSN(00014788)

This search field looks for the eight digit International Standard      Serials Number (ISSN), where available. Hyphens are optional.

Issue

ISS

ISS(8368)

Use to search the issue number of a resource.

Language

LA

LA(Spanish)

Use to locate the original language of the document.

Location

LOC

LOC(Austin)

Search for a specific geographic area or location.

NAICS

NAICS

NAICS(334111)

The NAICS code defines the economic activity of a business as defined by the US Census Bureau.

Person

PER

PER(Christine Lagarde)

Use to find articles about a person.

Product Name

NP

NP(Kindle)

Use to find articles about a specific product.

Publication date

PD

PD(19871020)

Use to find a specific publication date.

Publication Title

PUB

 

PUB(financial times)

Use to search by a specific publication or publications.

References

REF

REF(Barnett-Hart, Anna Katherine)

Use the reference search field to look 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)

Use to find a specific source type such as books, newspapers, and scholarly journals.

Subject Heading(All)

SU

SU(Accounts)

Use the subject search field to 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)

Tags

TAG

TAG(CDS)

Use to search for Tags attached to articles. This field is user generated and only searches Tags that were made public by ProQuest users.

Volume

VO

VO(100)

Use to search for the volume of a resource.