Subjects Covered
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
Education Full Text, produced by The H.W.
Wilson Company, is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts
articles of at least one column in length from English-language
periodicals and yearbooks published in the United States and elsewhere.
English-language books relating to education published in 1995 or later
are also indexed. Abstracting coverage begins with January 1994. Abstracts
range from 50 to 300 words and describe the content and scope of the
source documents. Full-text coverage begins in January 1996.
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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, CA, SO, PB, IB, AB, and DE fields.
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AB Abstract
respiratory in ab
The AB 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)
199301392600 in an
an=199301392600
The AN field contains a unique 12-digit
code that identifies the document.
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AU Author(s)
kerr patricia in au
kerr in au
kerr-p* 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. 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.
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CA Corporate Author
international conference on research
library cooperation 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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CN Call Numbers
cn=lb2331
The CN field lists the Dewey Decimal
classification number for books and the Library of Congress classification
number for books.
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DE Descriptors
college in de
college-presidents in de
education- 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.
You can search terms in the DE field with
or without hyphens. In the example above, college in de retrieves
records containing any descriptor with the word college, such as attitudes-college-students
as well as college-presidents. The search college-presidents in
de retrieves just that specific descriptor.
With hyphens, the terms must be an exact
match in the Descriptor. Search for education- if you want only
those records indexed with the single descriptor education.
You can search for Descriptors using the SU
Subject index in Browse (Index).
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DT Document Type
(a limit field)
product-evaluation in dt
dt=biography
The Document Type field describes the
contents of the original document. Use the DT field to limit your search
to records of a particular document, such as biography or interview. Use
hyphens to search for multi-word document types.
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IB ISBN
0395752930 in ib
ib=0395752930
The IB field lists the International
Standard Book Number. Enter an ISBN without hyphens.
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IS ISSN
(a limit field)
0022-0892 in is
is=0022-0892
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 Work
(a limit field)
english in la
la=english
The LA field lists the language of the
document. When searching, use the full language name. Most works in this
database are written in English, but some non-English language documents
are indexed. The following is a list of languages.
Dutch
English
French
German
Italian
Polish
Portuguese
Spanish
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NT Notes
2nd ed in nt
The Notes field contains additional
information not provided in other fields in the database.
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OT Other Titles
cleaning contracts 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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PB Publisher
teachers college press in pb
The Publisher field contains the name of
the publisher or distributor of the document, the publication date, and
pagination.
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PD Physical Description
(a limit field)
il in pd
pd=il
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 |
| il |
illustrations |
| map(s) |
map(s) |
| por(s) |
portrait(s) |
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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=1993
The PY field lists the year in which the
original document was published. This field is range searchable.
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SE Series Title
bilingualism in se
curriculum history in se
If a document is part of a series, the
Series Title field indicates the title of that series. You can search for
any word or phrase in this field.
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SO Source
principal in so
research "in" education in so
The SO 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
remedial mathematics in ti
The Title field contains the title of the
original document. You can search for any word or phrase in a 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
pharmacological basis of therapeutics
in ut
The Uniform Title field contains the
distinctive title for a work that has appeared under varying titles or in
various versions. Uniform titles include items such as legislative acts
and treaties and names of periodicals.
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ZA All Authors
holmes in za
The All Authors field includes the Author(s)
(AU) and Corporate Author (CA) fields.
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ZS Sources
canadian in zs
The Sources field includes the Source (SO)
and Publisher (PB) fields.
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ZT All Titles
media in zt
The All Titles field includes the Title
(TI) and Other Titles (OT) fields.
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Citation
The Citation (CITN) consists of the
TI, OT, AU, CA, SO, PB, IB, 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 contents of the original document. Use
these words to limit your search to a particular kind of document.
Hyphenate multiple-word document types. The following is a list of
document types:
Autobiography
Bibliography
Biography
Book-Excerpt
Book-Review
Books
Cases
Feature-Article
Interview
Motion-Picture-Review
Obituary
Product-Evaluation
Speech
Symposium
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 |
| il |
illustrations |
| map(s) |
map(s) |
| por(s) |
portrait(s) |
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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.
You can search limit fields using
field-specific indexes in Browse (Index).
For limit fields containing numeric data,
you can also use other special operators:
= equal
to,
such as py=1990
< less
than,
such as py<1991
> greater
than,
such as py>1990
<= less
than or equal to,
such as py<=1990
>= greater
than or equal to,
such as py>=1992
- indicates
a range,
such as py=1991-1993
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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 Authors (AU)
field.
To see all 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 Mary Follain:
1. Go to Browse (Index).
2. Select the AUT Author Name index.
3.Type follain.
Searching Using Descriptors
education in de
education- in de
education-in-literature 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, education in de)
retrieves records containing any descriptor with the word education,
such as education history, music education , or state aid to
education. The search education-in-literature in de retrieves
just that specific descriptor.
With hyphens, the terms must be an exact
match in the Descriptor. Search for education- if you want only
those records indexed with the single descriptor education.
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
information on a symposium about sports.
1. First conduct a search for the term dt=symposium.
2. Next, search for and sport*.
Beginning a search statement with the AND operator automatically
combines the results with your previous search statement.
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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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