An accessible version of the Searchable Fields table is available below.
| Field Name | Label | Search Examples & Explanation |
| Anywhere except full text | NOFT | NOFT("Market value") This field searches in all indexing fields except the full text |
| Abstract | AB | AB(Burnout) AB searches for keywords in the abstract only. |
| Accession number | AN | AN(4189374245) AN searches ProQuest unique record identifier. |
| All subjects and indexing | SU | SU(International trade) SU searches for records indexed with a particular subject term. |
| Author | AU | AU(Ben Bernanke) AU(Duflo, Esther) AU searches for documents written by a particular author. Author names may be entered as: Last Name, First Name First Name Last Name First name Last Name |
| Business subject | MAINSUBJECT | MAINSUBJECT(“Safe harbour”) MAINSUBJECT searches for specific business subject terms from the ProQuest Business Thesaurus. |
| Country or Location | LOC | LOC(Germany) LOC retrieves documents/reports that are from a specific location or country |
| Corporation | CORP | CORP(Adidas) CORP is the new business corporation indexing, CORP searches for records indexed with a specific corporation. |
| Document title | TI | TI(“artificial intelligence”) TI searches for keywords in the title of the record. |
| Document type | DTYPE or AT | DTYPE(Business Case) or AT(Industry Report) DTYPE retrieves specified document types. For example, Annual Report, Working paper, or Audio/Video Clip. |
| Industry term | INDUSTRY | INDUSTRY(Adhesive Manufacturing) INDUSTRY searches for records with a specific NAICS industry description |
| ISBN | ISBN | ISBN(9780691128122) ISBN(978-0-691-12812-2) (hyphens optional) ISBN searches for an International standard book number. |
| ISSN | ISSN | ISSN(01674544) ISSN(0167-4544) (hyphens optional) ISSN searches for a serial series number, this could be electronic or print |
| NAICS code | NAICS | NAICS(Audio and video equipment manufacturing) NAICS(33431) NAICS(334*) NAICS searches for records with documents indexed with specific Industry term or industry numeric code. ProQuest indexes up to 6 digits in the hierarchical NAICS schema. You can use a wildcard to broaden your search within a category The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) is the standard used by Federal statistical agencies in classifying business establishments for the purpose of collecting, analyzing, and publishing statistical data related to the U.S. business economy. More information about NAICS |
| Premium report containing or Report containing | RPTFEATURE | RPTFEATURE("Industry financials") RPTFEATURE searches for reports containing special features like ‘Industry financials’, ‘Company SWOT’ etc. |
| Premium report provided by | PB | PB(Mergent) PB searches for records or reports published by a specific publisher. |
| Publication Date | PD | PD(Nov 1996) PD(Dec) PD searches for items published on a particular date/date range. |
| Publication title | PUB | PUB(“The Economist”) PUB searches for documents from a specific publication title. |
| Report type | REPORTTYPE | REPORTTYPE(""Company"") REPORTTYPE(""Industry"") REPORTTYPE(""Country"") REPORTTYPE searches for a specific report type –company, industry or country reports - from a major market researcher provider. You can also use the Document or Article type field to find broader coverage of these sources (see above). |