An accessible version of the Searchable Fields table is available below.
| Field Name | Label | Search Examples & Explanation |
| Abstract | AB | AB(bipolar) The abstract provided by the journal is reproduced with little or no modifications. If no abstract is provided, one is created by the ProQues editorial team, drawing on the article’s text and concepts. Abstracts are available from 1987. |
| Accession Number | AN | AN(3049079440) Search the unique database ID for articles and documents. |
| Anywhere except full text | ALL | ALL(gender ideals) 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(Buck, Benjamin) Finds documents written by a particular author. Use the Look Up list to verify the various formats of the same name. |
| Cited Author | CAU | CAU(Maslow) Searches for an author that is part of the Cited References section of a record. |
| Cited Document Title | CTI | CTI(holocaust AND identity) Search for document titles that are part of the Cited References section of a record. |
| Cited Publication Date | CYR | CYR(October 1987) Searches for publication dates that are part of the Cited References section of a record. |
| Cited Publication Title | CPUB | CPUB(american psychiatry) Searches for a publication title that is part of the Cited References section of a record. |
| Company/Organization | ORG | ORG(Ford) Searches for a company or other organizations featured prominently in an article. |
| Document Feature | DF | DF(Chart) Searches for features in an article such as charts, diagrams, illustrations or photographs. |
| Document Text | FT | FT(aging myth) Searches for keywords in the body of the article. |
| Document Title | TI | TI(art AND early childhood) Locates the occurrence of search words in the title of the article. |
| Image Caption | CAP | CAP(Freud) Search the brief description usually accompanying an illustration or photograph |
| International Standard Serials Number | ISSN | ISSN(00014788) Looks for the eight digit International Standard Serials Number (ISSN), where available. Hyphens are optional. |
| Location | LOC | LOC(Austin) Specific geographic area or location. |
| Person | PER | PER(A Alzheimer) Finds articles mentioning a person. |
| Publication date | PD | PD(19871020) Specific publication date. |
| Publication Title | PUB | PUB(financial times) Specific publication or publications. |
| References | REF | REF(Barnett-Hart, Anna Katherine) 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). |
| Section | SEC | SEC (Editorial) Search for documents in a specific section of a publication. |
| Subject Heading(All) | SU | SU(Accounts) 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) |