Sociology Collection

Field Name

Label

Search Examples & Explanation

Abstract

AB

AB(child welfare worker)

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. 

Author

AU

AU(Wolf, David)

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. Can be searched as (last name, first name) or (first name last name).

Cited Author

CAU

CAU(Greenspan)

Use to search for an author that is part of the Cited References section of a record.

Cited Document Title

CTI

CTI(Mortgages)

Use to search for document titles that are part of the Cited References section of a record.

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(economist)

Use to search for a publication title that is part of the Cited References section of a record.

Company/Organization

ORG

ORG(Ford) 

Search for a company or other organizations featured prominently in an article.

Document Text

FT

FT(Mortgage backed securities)

Search for keywords in the body of the article.

Document Title

TI

TI(Joplin)

Locates the occurrence of search words in the title of the article.

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

ISSN

ISSN(1077-5595)

This search field looks for the eight digit International Standard Serial Number (ISSN), where available. Hyphens are optional.

Location

LOC

LOC(Austin)

Search for a specific geographic area or location.

Person

PER

PER(Nightingale, Florence)

Use to find articles about a person.

Publication Title

PUB

PUB(Journal of Learning Disabilities)

Use to search for a specific publication such as the journal or book title.

References

REF

REF(Greenspan)

Use the reference search field to look 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(democracy)

Search for documents in a specific section of a publication.

Subject Heading(All)

SU

SU(Health Policy)

Use the subject search field to look for articles about a specific subject. A search for the subject heading “Health Policy” will find articles with the subject accounts, "Health Planning", "Health Care" or "Health Education. To run an exact subject search where only “Health Policy” is retrieved and not subject terms that contain additional terms, search using EXACT.

SU.EXACT(Health Policy)