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. |
| Anywhere | drone Enter keyword(s) without a field code label to search the entire record. |
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| Anywhere except full text | NOFT | ALL(seed oil) 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(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). |
| Cited Author | CAU | CAU(Luo) Searches for cited author. |
| 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 | 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 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. |
| Language | LA | LA(Spanish) Original language of the document. |
| Location as Subject | LOC | LOC(London) Specific geographic area or location. |
| MeSH Subjects | MESH | MESH(intervention studies) MeSH stands for Medical Subject Heading and is the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus. Any record with MeSH subjects means that the record is indexed in MEDLINE/PubMed. When a record has MeSH subjects assigned to it, you will often see ProQuest Subjects assigned to it as well. The ProQuest subjects appear in the Subject Heading (All) field. |
| Monograph Title | MT | MT(Farming with grass) Finds articles mentioning a specific product. |
| Original Title | OTI | OTI(Charakterisierung thermisch behandelter Milchproteine) This is where a foreign-language title might be displayed, if the article included both an English and a foreign-language title. |
| 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. |
| Product Name | NP | NP(ScanControl) Use to find articles about a specific product. |
| 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). |
| Report | RP | RP(aiaa paper 2005-6919) Finds report numbers. |
| 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. |