The Thesauri are used to index ASFA: subject terms and taxonomic terms. Both term types appear in the Subject field, but the taxonomic terms also appear in the Taxonomic terms field. When you click on the Thesaurus link from Advanced search, you are given the option to search either thesauri. The thesaurus allows you to find subject terms to narrow or broaden your search. Subjects are also commonly known as descriptors, controlled vocabulary, and sometimes classification terms. The thesauri for ASFA are called:
An accessible version of the Searchable Fields table is available below.
| Field Name | Label | Search Examples & Explanation |
| Abstract | AB | AB(habitat destruction) 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 articles text and concepts. Our team's goal is to make the article's point as clearly and succinctly as possible. To search for the exact phrase, put search terms in quotes, like AB("habitat destruction") |
| Accession Number | AN | AN(1765993945), AN(PQ0002637155) Searches the unique ProQuest Document ID (example 1) or the ASFA accession number (example 2) for articles and documents. |
| All Fields (Anywhere) | ALL | ALL(habitat) Search in all fields in the citation and abstract. |
| Alternate Title | OTI | OTI(Les Eaux Modales du gyre subpolaire de l'Atlantique Nord) Before, it was called “Original Title” : to search non-English Titles. |
| Author | AU | AU(Fivelstad, Sveinung) Use to find documents written by a particular author. |
| Author Affiliation | AF | AF(Brest) Use this field to retrieve documents associated with a particular institution. |
| Classification | CC | CC(D 04030: Models, Methods, Remote Sensing) The classification codes and descriptions are broad subject headings that are specific to various databases. Classification Codes are a fast way to precisely target a search by topic, geographical area, or article type |
| Conference | CF | CF(chlorinated dioxins and japan) This field provides the name of the conference and where and when it occurred. |
| Corporate Author | CA | CA(université Bretagne occidentale) Used to search the Corporate/Institutional author. |
| Digital Object Identifiers | DOI | DOI("10.1186/s40068-016-0057-2") Search for documents with DOIs using the DOI search. Always put the DOI in quotes to find the relevant document. |
| Document Title | TI | TI(chlorella vulgaris production enhancement) Locates the occurrence of search words in the title of the article. |
| Editor | ED | ED(Brian, J) Used to search Scientific coordinator. |
| Environmental Regime | ER | ER(marine) Used to search for the Environmental Regime. |
| Input Center, ASFA | TR | TR(if*) Search the records produced by an input center : Enter the code and * (ie: CS* is used for Proquest) (IF* is used for Ifremer). |
| International Standard Book Number | ISBN | ISBN(9608792614) 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(0960-3115) This search field looks for the eight digit International Standard Serial Number (ISSN), where available. Hyphens are optional. |
| Keyword/Identifiers | IF | IF(“axenic rhizoids”) To search the researchers’ keywords, or identifiers, or vernacular terms of species. |
| Language | LA | LA(Spanish) Used to search the Language of Publication and the Summary Language |
| Location | LOC | LOC(UK) Search for a specific geographic area or location. |
| Notes | NT | NT(docelec) Use to find the resource location before Feb 2011. After Feb 2011 the resource location is within the URL (see also field “Supplemental Data – SD”). |
| “Other numbers” Called “Identifier/keywords” in the reference |
NU | NU(ifremer) Used to search the reports (report, number, document number, patent number). Note that all reports don't necessarily have a number. |
| Publication Date | PD | PD(20160501) PD(YYYYMMDD) or PD(YYYYMM) or PD(YYYY) |
| Publication Title | PUB | PUB(ecological modelling) Used to search for a specific publication. |
| Publication Year | PY | PY(2000) Use to find a specific publication year |
| Publisher | PB | PB(Elsevier Science) Used to retrieve documents from a specific publisher. |
| Subfile | SFL | SFL(ASFA 2: Ocean Technology Policy & Non-Living Resources) ASFA is actually one big database that is a collection of five subfile databases. |
| Subject Heading(All) | SU | SU(Habitat) Use the subject search field to look for articles about a specific subject. It will retrieve anything to do with the subject keyword being searched. For example, doing a search for the subject heading of “habitat”, it would find articles if the subject was habitat, habitat selection, habitat factors or habitat improvement. Searching the SU field will also include a search in the single fields Keyword/identifier (IF) and Taxonomic term (TXTERM). |
| Summary Language | SL | SL(German) Used to search the summary language in a specific language. |
| Supplemental Data (see also NU) | SD | SD(Incl. bibliogr: 12 ref.) Before February 2011, this field was called NOTES (see also field “Notes – NT”) |
| Taxonomic Term | TXTERM | TXTERM(Thunnus thynnus) Search for a field of science that encompasses description, identification, nomenclature, and classification. |
| Update | UD | UD(2016), UD(201505) Used to retrieve all records added during a specific database update. The structure of the field is YYYYMM. Searches also in the field “Last updated”. |
| URL | RL | RL(ifremer) Used to search for the URL of an institutional repository. |
| Volume | VO | VO(100) Volume of a resource. |