An accessible version of the Searchable Fields table is available below.
| Field Name | Label | Search Examples & Explanation |
| Abstract | AB | AB(habitat destruction) Search terms in the abstract. |
| Accession 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). |
| Author | AU | AU(Olabarria, Celia) 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(Oxford) The authors institution (university, company, organization). |
| Caption | CAP | CAP(flow) |
| Conference | CF | CR(infectious diseases) |
| Corporate Author | CA | CA(oceans and human health) |
| Classification | CL | CL(viral genetics) |
| Company/Organization | ORG | ORG(American Farm Bureau Federation) Searches for a company or other organizations featured prominently in an article. |
| Conference | CF | CF(nutrition society) This field provides the name of the conference and where and when it occurred. All these words are searchable, but for faster retrieval, ignore the common words such as "annual" or "annu" or "meeting" and search for the distinctive elements only. |
| Digital Object Identifiers |
DOI
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DOI(10.1007/s00180-010-0212-6) Searches for documents with DOIs using the DOI search. It is a unique identifier assigned to a document that is registered through the International DOI Foundation." |
| Document text | FT | FT(food) |
| Document Number | AN | AN(8362482) Searches both the ProQuest document ID (applied to all documents) and the 3rd party document ID (applied to some databases). |
| Document Text | FT | FT("toxic waste") Searches for keywords in the body of the article. Use quotation marks around multi-word phrases to ensure the most accurate results. |
| Document Title | TI | TI(chlorella vulgaris production enhancement) Locates the occurrence of search words in the title of the article. |
| Document Type | DType | DType(article) Finds specific document types such as article, news, conference, report, etc. |
| Editor | ED | ED(Brian, J) Used to search Scientific coordinator. |
| Identifier (keyword) | IF | IF(sedimentology) To search keywords, or identifiers, or vernacular terms of species. |
| 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(11) Searches the issue number of a resource. |
| Location as Subject | LOC | LOC(London) Specific geographic area or location. |
| Person as Subject | PER | PER(Carter, Jimmy) Use to find articles about a person. |
| Place of Publication | CP | CP(New York) Use to locate articles published in a specific place. This will search for the city and county of publication. |
| Publication Date | PD | PD(20071020) Specific publication date. |
| Publication Title | PUB | PUB(cell biology) Specific publication or publications. |
| References | REF | REF(Wiegelmann, Thomas) 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(report) Finds pecific source types such as books, newspapers or scholarly journals. |
| 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 (OTX or TXTERM). |
| Taxonomic Term | TXTERM | TXTERM(Peregrinus maidis) Search for a field of science that encompasses description, identification, nomenclature, and classification. |
| Volume | VO | VO(100) Volume of a resource. |