Searchable Fields
An accessible version of the Searchable Fields table is available below.
| Field Name | Label | Search Examples & Explanation |
| Abstract | AB | AB(community policing) 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. |
| Anywhere | (default) | drug busts OR "drug busts" Enter keyword(s) without a field code label to search the entire record--including the text of FT articles. Quotation marks will immediately help narrow results to those exact two terms. |
| Anywhere except full text | ALL | ALL(dogs) Searches for keywords in the citation and abstract. Will reveal results on service dogs, hero dogs, etc. |
| Author | AU | AU(Hoover, John) or using the Author Lookup AU("Hoover, John H.") 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. There is a Look up feature for this field. |
| Caption | CAP | CAP(photo) to reveal photos in the collection or CAP(shotgun) to reveal any time the word "shotgun" is used in a caption. |
| Cited Author | CAU | AU(Liederbach) Use to search for an author that is part of the Cited References section of a record. |
| Cited Document Title | CTI | CTI("dating violence") Use to search for document titles that are part of the Cited References section of a record. Use quotation marks to immediately narrow. |
| 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(Journal of Interpersonal Violence) Use to search for a publication title that is part of the Cited References section of a record. |
| Company/Organization | ORG | ORG(ACLU) Search for a company or other organizations featured prominently in an article. There is also a Look up feature for this field. |
| Document Title | TI | TI(black lives matter) Locates the occurrence of search words in the title of the article. |
| International Standard Serials Number | ISSN | ISSN(01419870) Looks for the eight digit International Standard Serials Number (ISSN), where available. Hyphens are optional. |
| Location | LOC | LOC(Michigan) Specific geographic area or location. |
| Person | PER | PER(Simpson OJ) Finds articles mentioning a person. |
| Publication Title | PUB | PUB(Department of Justice Documents) Specific publication or publications. |
| References | REF | REF(couriers) 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). |
| Subject Heading(All) | SU | SU(prison) 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) |