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Advanced Search Field Tags

AD=Address

Searches for institution and/or place names in the Author Address and the Editor Address field within a record.

AO=Astronomical Object

Searches the Astronomical Object Indexing field within a record.

AU=Author

Searches for names in the following fields within a record.

  • Author(s)
  • Editor(s)
  • Translator
  • Patent Assignee

CH=Chemical Index

Searches the Chemical Indexing field within a record.

CI=Controlled Index

Searches the Controlled Indexing field within a record.

CL=Classification

Searches the Classification Code(s) field within a record.

IC=Identifying Codes

Searches for codes in the following fields within a record.

  • Accession Number
  • CODEN
  • CODEN of Translation
  • ISSN
  • ISSN of Translation
  • Standard Book Number
  • Report Number
  • Contract Number
  • Patent Number
  • Original Patent Number
  • SICI
  • SICI of Translation

MI=Meeting Information

Searches the following fields within a record.

  • Title of Conference
  • Conference Location
  • Sponsoring Organization
  • Conference Dates

PY=Year Published

Searches the Source Published field within a record. You must combine this field tag with another field tag using the AND or NOT Boolean operator.

Example: TS=cell AND PY=2007

Note When entering a range of years, restrict your search to five years or less; otherwise, processing slows down and the product will return too many unproductive results.

SO=Source Title

Searches for publication names in the Source field within a record. The product retrieves book titles, book series, and journal titles.

TI=Title

Searches the Title field within a record.

TS=Topic

Searches for topic terms in following fields within a record.

  • Title
  • Abstract
  • Controlled Indexing
  • Uncontrolled Indexing
  • Original Indexing
  • Classification Code(s)

UI=Uncontrolled Index

Searches the Uncontrolled Indexing field within a record.

Field Tags

  • AD=Address
  • AO=Astronomical Index
  • AU=Author
  • CH=Chemical Index
  • CI=Controlled Index
  • CL=Classification
  • IC=Identifying Codes
  • MI=Meeting Information
  • PY=Year Published
  • SO=Source Title
  • TI=Title (article title)
  • TS=Topic
  • UI=Uncontrolled Index

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