An accessible version of the Searchable Fields table is available below.
Field Name | Label | Search Examples & Explanation |
Abstract | AB | AB(child welfare worker) The abstract provided by the journal is reproduced with little or no modifications. If no abstract is provided, one is created by the editorial team. Abstracts are available from 1987. |
Accession Number | AN | AN(356894) Search the unique database ID for articles and documents. |
Author | AU | AU(Mossberg Walt) Finds documents written by a particular author. Use the Look Up list to verify the various formats of the same name. |
First author | FAU | FAU(Hearn) Searches for the first author listed on a document. |
Classification | CC | CC(Attention) Classifications define psychology topics. They are a fast way to precisely target a search by known topic. |
Conference | CF | CF(Clinical) Searches the conference title field. |
Contact individual | CX | CX(Smith) Searches the appropriate contact for the document. |
Digital Object Identifiers | DOI | CA(Merck) Searches for a corporate author. |
Dissertation Number | DISPUB | DISPUB(AAI28078447) Searches for a dissertation by number. |
Document Title | TI | TI(BRIC) Locates the occurrence of search words in the title of the article. |
Document Type | DType | DType(Journal) Finds specific document types such as article, journal, book, etc. |
Email address | EA | EA(l.magrassi@smattea.pv.it) Searches the author email address |
International Standard Book Number | ISBN | ISBN(9780549687191) Looks for the 12 and 13 digit International Standard Book Number (ISBN), where available. Hyphens are optional. |
International Standard Serials Number | ISSN | ISSN(00014788) Looks for the eight digit International Standard Serials Number (ISSN), where available. Hyphens are optional. |
Language | LA | LA(Spanish) Original language of the document. |
Last revision date | LR | LR(20190520) Searches for the last revision. Format is YYYYMMDD |
Location | LOC | LOC(Austin) Specific geographic area or location. |
Major subjects | MJSUB | MJSUB("kindergarten students") Searches major subject headings |
Methodology | ME | ME("field study") Searches the methodology of the study or experiment |
Monograph titles | MTI | MTI(diversity) Searches the monograph title field. |
Notes | NT | NT(inclusion) Searches important date and additional information fields |
Other journal title | OJ | OJ(Psychology)) Looks for other publication titles |
Population | POP | POP(Outpatient) Searches a specific population covered in the document |
Publication Title | PUB | PUB(brain & development) Specific publication or publications. |
Publication year | YR | YR(2019) Specific publication year |
Publisher | PB | PB(American Psychological Association) Searches for a specific publisher |
Record type | RTYPE | RTYPE(Conference proceedings) Searches for a specific type of record/document |
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). |
Series title | SR | SR(sociology) Searches the series title |
Subject | SU | SU(Race) Look for articles about a specific subject. To run an exact subject search where only “race” is retrieved and not subject terms that contain additional terms, search using EXACT. SU.EXACT(race) |
Supplemental data | SD | SD(Data sets) Searches for supplemental data included by data type |
Table of contents | TOC | TOC(mental health) Searches the table of contents field |
Target audience | TA | TA(general public) Searches the target audience for the work. |
Tests and measures | TM | TM(Symptom inventory) Searches for specific tests used in the document |