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Advertising Art, Antiques, Archaeology, Architecture and Architectural History, Art History, Computers in Art, Crafts, Decorative Arts, Fashion Design, Folk Art, Graphic Arts, Industrial Design, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, Motion Pictures, Museology, Non-Western Art, Painting, Photography, Pottery, Sculpture, Television, Textiles, Video

Agricultural Chemicals, Agricultural Economics, Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Biochemistry, Biology, Biotechnology, Botany, Cytology, Ecology, Entomology, Environmental Science, Fishery Sciences, Food Science, Forestry, Genetics, Horticulture, Immunology, Limnology, Microbiology, Neuroscience, Nutrition, Physiology, Plant Pathology, Soil Science, Veterinary Medicine, Zoology

Adult Education, Arts, Athletics, Comparative Education, Competency-based Education, Computers in Education, Continuing Education, Educational Technology, Elementary Education, Government Funding, Higher Education, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Library Science, Literacy Standards, Multicultural/Ethnic Education, Parent-Teacher Relations, Prayer in Public Schools, Preschool Education, Religious Education, School Administration, Science and Mathematics, Secondary Education, Special Education, Student Counseling, Teacher Education, Teacher Evaluation, Teaching Methods, Vocational Education

Astronomy, Atmospheric Science, Biology, Botany, Chemistry, Conservation, Earth Science, Environment, Food, Genetics, Health, Mathematics, Medicine, Microbiology, Nutrition, Oceanography, Physics, Physiology, Zoology

Archaeology, Area Studies, Art, Classical Studies, Communications, Dance, Film, Folklore, Gender Studies, History, Journalism, Linguistics, Literary & Social Criticism Literature, Music, Performing Arts, Philosophy, Religion and Theology

Administrative Law, Antitrust Legislation, Banking, Constitutional Law, Domestic Relations, Environmental Protection, Estate Planning, Food, Drug & Cosmetic Law, International Law, Labor Law, Landlord/Tenant Decisions, Malpractice Suits, Minorities, Multinational Corporations, Negligence, Non-Profit Corporations, Occupational Health & Safety, Politics, Probate, Products Liability, Public Law, Real Property, Securities, Tax Law, Trade Regulation

Automation, Cataloging, Censorship, Children's Literature, Circulation Procedures, Classification, Copyright Legislation, Education for Librarianship, Government Aid, Information Brokers, Internet software, Library Associations & Conferences, Library Equipment & Supplies, Personnel Administration, Preservation of Materials, Public Relations, Publishing, Web sites

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

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Document Types List
Physical Description List
Journal List
Using Limit Fields
Sample Searches
Stopwords

Highlighted fields are limit fields.

*The TX field is for display only; it is not searchable.
The Citation (citn) consists of the TI, OT, AU, SO, AB, and DE fields.

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)

The AN field contains a unique number that identifies the document.

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AU Personal Author

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. Do not type a comma.

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.

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.

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 word energy, such as energy conservation or nuclear energy. The search energy-conservation in de retrieves just that specific descriptor.

You can search Descriptors using the SU Subject index in Browse (Index).

DT Document Type
(a limit field)

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.

IS ISSN
(a limit field)

The IS field lists the International Standard Serial Number (ISSN). Include hyphens when searching for an ISSN.

IU Indexing Unit
(a limit field)

The IU Indexing Unit field identifies journal articles from the individual Wilson databases included in this OmniFile merged database. You can limit your search to a specific Indexing Unit subject area by using the IU index in Browse (Index).

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).

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).

LA Language of Article
(a limit field)

The Language of Article field lists the language of the original document. When searching, use the full language name. Most 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.

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.

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:

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.

PY Publication Year
(a limit field)

The PY field lists the year in which the original document was published. This field is range searchable.

SO Source  

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.

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.

The SZ field gives the size of the Full Text (TX) field in bytes. This field is range searchable.

The TI field contains the full title of the article. You can search for any word or phrase in the title.

The TX field contains the full text of the article cited in the record. Tables may be omitted from the text. The TX field is displayed in records but is not searchable.

TXI Full Text Indicator
(a limit field)

The TXI field indicates whether the record includes the full text of the article. The field contains a "y" if full text is present.

UD Update Code
(a limit field)

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

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.

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 reviews.

The Citation (citn) consists of the TI, OT, AU, SO, AB, and DE fields. These fields are the default display for this database.

The Document Type (DT) field describes the contents of the original documents. Use the DT field to limit your search to a particular kind of article. Use hyphens to search for multi-word document types.

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
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

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:

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View the most current Journal List.

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 spanish in la or la=spanish. 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

Below are several examples of the types of searches you can use to retrieve information from this database.

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 Jerald A. Jacobs:

1. Go to Browse (Index).

2. Select the AUT Author Name index.

3.Type jacobs.

Searching Using Descriptors

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 detection and monitoring. 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 scientists- if you want only those records indexed with the single descriptor scientists.

You can search for Descriptors using the SU Subject index in Browse (Index).

Searching with truncation lets you retrieve records containing variations of your term. For example, let's search for records about energy conservation.

1. First conduct a search for the term conserv*. The asterisk (truncation symbol) searches for all terms beginning with the root conserv, such as conserve, conservation, and so on.

2. Next, search for and energy. Beginning a search statement with an operator (AND) automatically combines the results with your previous search statement.

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