Searchable Fields
An accessible version of the Searchable Fields table is available below.
Field Name |
Label |
Search Examples & Explanation |
Abstract |
AB |
AB(election) 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. |
Anywhere |
N/A |
(democracy) Enter keyword(s) without a field code label to search the entire record. |
Author |
AU
|
AU(Flint, Colin) 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. |
Author affiliation |
AF |
AF(Oregon) Use this field to retrieve documents associated to a particular institution. |
Classification Codes |
CC |
CC(9161) Use Classification Codes when searching business topics. Classification Codes are a fast way to precisely target a search by topic, industry or market, geographical area, or article type. |
Company/Organization |
ORG
|
ORG(European Parliament) Search for a company or other organizations featured prominently in an article. |
Document Title |
TI
|
TI(BRIC) Locates the occurrence of search words in the title of the article. |
Identifier (keywords) |
IF |
IF(fuzzy set analysis) Use this to find documents relating to a particular keyword. Identifiers/keywords are automatically generated article keywords. |
International Standard Serials Number |
ISSN
|
ISSN(0419-4209) This search field looks for the eight digit International Standard Serials Number (ISSN), where available. Hyphens are optional. |
Location |
LOC |
LOC(Austin) Search for a specific geographic area or location. |
Other contributor |
OAU |
OAU(Berger) Search for an other contributor. |
Person |
PER |
PER(Obama, Barack) Use to find articles about a person. |
Publication Title |
PUB
|
PUB(European history quarterly) Use to search by a specific publication or publications. |
Publisher |
PB |
PB(Sage Publications) Use to search for the journal publisher. |
Publisher location |
PBLOC |
PBLOC(London) Use to retrieve publishers located in a specific country. This information will display in the publisher field in the full record. |
Subject Heading(All) |
SU |
SU(development) Use the subject search field to look for articles about a specific subject. A search for the subject heading “development,” will find articles with the subject development, development strategies or economic development. To run an exact subject search where only “development” is retrieved and not subject terms that contain additional terms, search using EXACT. SU.EXACT(development) |