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AB=Abstract

Searches the Abstract field within a record.

AD=Address

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

AU=Author

Searches for author names in the following fields within a record: Author(s) (both book and journal) and Editor(s).

BN=Biblio Note

Searches the Notes field within a record.

BT=Broad Terms

Searches the Broad Terms field within a record.

CA=Corporate Author

Searches the Corporate Author and Book Author fields within the Author field of a record.

DE=Descriptors

Searches the Descriptors Data table within a record.

IC=Identifying Codes

Searches for codes in the following fields within a record.

  • Accession Number
  • ISSN
  • ISBN

PU=Publisher

Searches the Publisher field within a record.

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.

SD=Subject Descriptors

Searches the following fields and tables within a record.

  • Broad Terms
  • Descriptors Data
  • Super Taxa
  • Systematics
  • Taxa Notes

Note Searching by Subject Descriptors (SD) will retrieve everything that a search by Descriptors (DE) will retrieve. However, the converse is not true. Subject Descriptors is a more inclusive field.

SO=Publication Name

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

ST=Super Taxa

Searches the Super Taxa field within a record.

SY=Systematics/Organism

Searches the Systematics table within a record.

TA=Taxa Notes

Searches the Taxa Notes field within a record.

TI=Title

Searches the Title field within a record.

TS=Topic

Searches for topic terms within the following fields and tables within a record.

  • Title
  • Book Title
  • Abstract
  • Broad Terms
  • Descriptors Data
  • Super Taxa
  • Systematics
  • Taxa Notes

Field Tags

  • AB=Abstract
  • AD=Address
  • AU=Author/Editor
  • BN=Biblio Note
  • BT=Broad Terms
  • CA=Corporate Author
  • DE=Descriptors
  • IC=Identifying Codes
  • PU=Publisher
  • PY=Year Published
  • SD=Subject Descriptors
  • SO=Publication Name
  • ST=Super Taxa
  • SY=Systematics/Organism
  • TA=Taxa Notes
  • TI=Title
  • TS=Topic

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