Subjects Covered
Aeronautics, African-Americans, Aging, Astronomy, Automobiles,
Biography, Business, Canada, Children, Computers, Consumer Education,
Current Events, Education, Environment, Fashion, Film, Fine Arts, Food,
Foreign Affairs, Health, History, Hobbies, Home, Journalism, Leisure
Activities, Medicine, Music, News, Nutrition, Photography, Politics,
Religion, Science, Sports, Television
Readers' Guide Full Text, produced by The H. W. Wilson Company, is a
database containing comprehensive indexing and abstracting of the most
popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and
Canada, plus the full text of selected periodicals.
The abstracts average 125 words in length. Two types of abstracts are
included. Informative abstracts convey the content, scope, and complexity
of the source article, and are the predominant form used. Indicative
abstracts describe the subject of the source article and are reserved for
how-to articles, humorous essays, personal accounts, and recipes.
Full-text coverage begins in January 1994 for most titles.
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Fields
Document Types List
Physical Description List
Journal List
Using Limit Fields
Sample Searches
Stopwords
Fields
Highlighted fields are limit fields.
The Citation (CITN) consists of the TI, OT,
AU, SO, AB, and DE fields.
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AB Abstract
pollution in ab
The Abstract field contains a summary of the document. You can search
any word or phrase in the abstract.
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AN
Accession Number
(a limit field)
198900049900 in an
an=199804938700
The AN field contains a unique 12-digit number that identifies the
document.
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AU Personal Author
zwinger ann in au
zwinger in au
zwinger-a* in au
The AU field identifies the person(s) responsible for the intellectual
content of the document.
Author's names can be searched with or without hyphens. When searching
without hyphens, type last name followed by first name or first name
followed by last name. The order of the words does not matter.
When searching an author's name with hyphens, type the last name first
and hyphenate all names and initials. Use truncation (*) if your are not
sure about spelling.
You can search author names by last name, using the AUT Author Name
Index in Browse (Index).
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AUT Author Name
(a limit field)
The AUT field identifies the person(s) responsible for for the
intellectual content of the document. Use Browse to search for the author
by last name in this Author Name index. The AUT field is for searching
only; it does not display in the record.
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CA Corporate Author
international conference in ca
The CA field identifies the institution, association, conference,
corporation, or government agency that is the author of a book. You can
search any word or phrase in this field.
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DE Descriptors
energy in de
energy-conservation in de
The DE field lists the controlled vocabulary terms that describe the
document. This field can include personal names, uniform titles, topical
terms, organization names, and geographic names.
Use hyphens to focus your search. Use without hyphens to enlarge your
search. In the example above, energy in de retrieves records
containing any descriptor with the words energy, such as energy
conservation or nuclear energy. The search energy-conservation
in de retrieves just that specific descriptor.
You can search for Descriptors using the SU Subject index in Browse
(Index).
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DT Document Type
(a limit field)
feature-article in dt
dt=feature-article
The Document Type field describes the contents of the original
document. Use the DT field to limit your search to records of a particular
type of document, such as biography, interview, etc. Use hyphens to search
for multiword document types.
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IS ISSN
(a limit field)
0048 9239 in is
is=0048 9239
The IS field lists the International Standard Serial Number (ISSN).
Include hyphens when searching for an ISSN.
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JI Journal Issue
(a limit field)
The JI Journal Issue field lists the issues of journals included in the
database. You can search for a specific issue of a journal using the JI
Index in the Browse (Index).
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JN Journal Name
(a limit field)
The JN Journal Name field lists the names of the journals included in
the database. You can search for a specific journal using the JN Index in
the Browse (Index).
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LA Language of Document
(a limit field)
english in la
la=english
The Language of Document field lists the
language of the original document. When searching, use the full language
name. All articles in this database are in English.
For most records in this database, this
field contains the language of the original article. For Book Review
records, this field contains the word "undetermined" since this
database does not provide the language of the book being reviewed.
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OT Other Titles
college in ot
The OT field provides additional title
access. It may include descriptive words added by the indexer to augment
the title. You can search any word or phrase in this field.
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PD Physical Description
(a limit field)
charts in pd
pd=pors
The PD field indicates whether illustrative
or graphic material appears in the original document. The PD field
contains one or more codes that describe the accompanying material. The
following is a list of codes and the physical description each represents:
| Code |
Physical Description |
| bibl |
bibliography |
| bibl f |
bibliographic footnotes |
| il |
illustrations |
| map(s) |
map(s) |
| por(s) |
portrait(s) |
supp
(folded map) |
supplement
(folded map) |
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PEI Peer Reviewed Journal
(a limit field)
The PEI field indicates whether the
document is from a peer-reviewed journal. The field contains a y if
the journal is peer-reviewed.
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PY Publication Year
(a limit field)
1993 in py
py=1988-1990
The PY field lists the year in which the
original document was published. This field is range searchable.
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SO Source
atlantic monthly in so
road "and" track in so
The Source field indicates the
bibliographic source of the entry including the journal name, volume
number, publication date, and page numbers. You can search for any word or
phrase in this field.
If a search operator (OR, AND, NOT, IN,
WITH, or NEAR) appears in the title for which you are
searching, enclose it within quotes, as shown in the example.
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SU Subject
(a limit field)
The SU field lists the controlled
vocabulary terms that describe the document. The field can include
personal names, topical names, organization names, geographic names, and
uniform titles. This field is for browsing subject headings (descriptors)
using the SU Subject index in Browse (Index). The SU field does not
display in the record. Subject headings display in the DE Descriptor
field.
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TI Title
congress in ti
The TI field contains the full title of the
article. You can search for any word or phrase in the title.
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UD Update Code
(a limit field)
19980203 in ud
ud=19900101
The UD field indicates the year, month, and
day in which the record was added to the database in the format yyyymmdd.
You can search for a single date using in or =, as shown
above. In addition, you can search for a range of dates using the
following operators:
< less than,
such as ud<19940802
> greater than,
such as ud>19940802
<= less than or equal to,
such as ud<=19940802
>= greater than or equal to,
such as ud>=19940802
- within a range,
such as ud=19990801-19990901
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UR URLs
The UR field contains the Uniform Resource
Locator for the source document for a record. Use the URL to link
electronically to the source document. You cannot search in this field; it
is for display only.
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URI URL Indicator
(a limit field)
y in uri
uri=y
The URI field indicates whether the record
includes the URL link to the full text of the article. The field contains
a "y" if a full text link is present.
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URL2 Web Sites
The URL2 Web Sites field lists the URLs of
web sites chosen by the author of the article. These related internet
links provide additional information on subjects discussed in the
document.
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UT Uniform Title
bible in ut
The Uniform Title field contains the
standardized title for a work that has appeared under various titles or in
various versions. Uniform titles may appear in book review articles.
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Citation
The Citation (citn) consists of the
TI, OT, AU, SO, AB, and DE fields. These fields are the default display
for this database.
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Document Types List
The Document Type (DT) field contains
keywords that characterize the article contents. Use these words to limit
your search to a particular kind of article.
Autobiography
Ballet-Review
Bibliography
Biography
Book-Excerpt
Book-Review
Children's-Story
Christmas-Poem
Christmas-Story
Corporate-Profile
Dance-Review
Detective-or-Mystery-Story
Do-It-Yourself-Work
DVD-Review
Exhibit
Feature-Article
Fiction
Interview
Motion-Picture-Review
Musical-Comedy-Review
Obituary
Opera-Review
Operetta-Review
Oratorio-Review
Play-Review
Poem
Product-Evaluation
Radio-Program-Review
Recipe
Rock-Opera-Review
Science-Fiction
Short-Story
Sound-Recording-Review
Speech
Symposium
Television-Program-Review
Videodisc-Review
Videotape-Review
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Physical Description List
The Physical Description (PD) field
indicates whether illustrative or graphic material appears in the original
document. The PD field contains one or more codes that describe the
accompanying material. The following is a list of codes and the physical
description each represents:
| Code |
Physical Description |
| bibl |
bibliography |
| bibl f |
bibliographic footnotes |
| il |
illustrations |
| map(s) |
map(s) |
| por(s) |
portrait(s) |
supp
(folded map) |
supplement
(folded map) |
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Journal List
View the most current Journal
List.
View full-text
titles only.
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Using Limit Fields
Limit fields, when combined with other
search terms, are particularly useful for focusing or limiting a search.
To search a limit field, use the in or = operators with the
field abbreviation, such as bibl in pd or pd=bibl. Omitting
the field label retrieves information from free text (non limit) fields
only.
For limit fields containing numeric data,
you can also use other special operators:
< less
than,
such as py<1993
> greater
than,
such as py>1991
<= less
than or equal to,
such as py<=1990
>= greater
than or equal to,
such as py>=1988
indicates a range,
such as py=1988-1990
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Sample Searches
Below are several examples of the types of
searches you can use to retrieve information from this database.
Searching for an Author
Using the Browse (Index)
Authors' names appear in the Personal
Author (AU) or Corporate Author (CA) fields.
To see all personal authors with the same
last name or to see variations of an author's name, use the Browse
(Index). You can search for authors' names using the AUT Author Name index
in Browse (Index). For example, to look for articles by Mark Hulbert:
1. Go to Browse (Index).
2. Select the AUT Author Name index.
3.Type hulbert.
Searching Using Descriptors
pollution in de
air-pollution-control in de
pollution- in de
The Descriptors (DE) field lists the
controlled vocabulary terms that describe the document. This field can
include personal names, uniform titles, topical terms, organization names,
and geographic names.
You can search in the DE field with or
without hyphens. Searching a single term (for example, pollution in de)
retrieves records containing any descriptor with the word pollution,
such as indoor air pollution, marine pollution, or air pollution
history. The search air-pollution-control in de retrieves just
that specific descriptor.
With hyphens, the terms must be an exact
match in the Descriptor. Search for pollution- if you want only
those records indexed with the single descriptor pollution.
You can search for Descriptors using the SU
Subject index in Browse (Index).
Searching Using Truncation
Searching with truncation lets you retrieve
records containing variations of your term. For example, let's search for
records of product evaluations for digital cameras.
1. First conduct a search for dt=product-evaluation.
2. Next, search for and camera*.
Beginning a search statement with an operator (AND) automatically
combines the results with your previous search statement.The asterisk
(truncation symbol) searches for all terms beginning with the root camera,
such as camera and cameras.
3. Conduct a search for and digital.
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Stopwords
Certain words of little intrinsic meaning
appear too frequently to be useful in searching text. Information systems
call these "stopwords"; you will not be able to search for the
following words alone in the database. They can be included within a
phrase, but they will be ignored.
an
and
are
for
from
in
of
or
that
the
was
were
which
with
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