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AN Accession Number
(a limit field)

The AN field contains a unique 12-digit number that identifies the document.

The AU field lists the personal name author(s) or the review author(s). A personal name author is the person responsible for the intellectual content of the document. A review author is the person responsible for the content of a book review.

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).

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 association, institution, conference, corporation, or government agency that is the author of a document. You can search any word or phrase in this field.

The CC field contains the title of a legal proceeding, including civil, criminal, and administrative actions. The case citation and the date are also provided in this field.

child in de
child-abuse 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, child in de retrieves records containing any descriptor with the word child, such as child abuse or child custody oklahoma. The search child-abuse in de retrieves just that specific descriptor.

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

bibliography in dt
dt=case

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 book review, symposium, etc. The document type "Books" retrieves citations to law books. The document types "Case" and "Statute" retrieve citations to case notes or statute notes that appear in a periodical but that are not part of a feature article. All other document types retrieve citations to items appearing in periodicals.

Use hyphens to search for multiword document types.

The following is a list of the document types available in Index to Legal Periodicals & Books:

Bibliography
Biography
Book-Review
Books
Case
Feature-Article
Obituary
Statute
Symposium

IB ISBN
(a limit field)

1566620589 in ib
ib=1566620589

The IB field lists the International Standard Book Number (ISBN). Omit hyphens when searching for an ISBN.

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

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).

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LA Language of Work
(a limit field)

The LA field lists the language of the document. When searching, use the full language name. The most commonly used languages in Index to Legal Periodicals & Books are English, French, and Spanish.

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 Notes field contains contents notes and additional information not included in other fields in the database.

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.

PB Publisher

The PB field provides the name of the publisher of a book, the publication date and pagination.

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PD Physical Description
(a limit field)

The PD field contains details about illustrative or graphic material that appears in the document. It contains one or more codes that describe the illustrative material. The following is a list of codes and the physical description which each represents:

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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)

The Publication Year lists the year in which the document was published. This field is range searchable.

If a document is part of a series, the Series Title field provides information about the series. You can search for any word or phrase in this field.

SJ Statute Jurisdiction
(a limit field)

florida in sj
sj=florida

The SJ field provides the name of the country, state, or province responsible for enacting a statute.

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SO Source

antitrust law journal in so
law "and" philosophy 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.

The ST field contains the name of a federal, state, or foreign statute. The statute citation is also provided in this field.

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

The Title field contains the title of the original document. You can search for any word or phrase in a title.

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 are used for legislative acts, treaties, periodicals, etc.

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The ZA field combines the Author(s) and Corporate Author fields into one field for comprehensive retrieval.

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The ZS field combines the Source and Publisher fields into one field for comprehensive retrieval.

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The ZT field combines the Title and Other Titles and Uniform Title fields into one field for comprehensive retrieval.

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Citation

The Citation (CITN) in Index to Legal Periodicals & Books consists of the TI, OT, UT, AU, CA, SO, PB, SE, IB, CC, ST, and DE fields. This is the default display for this database.

The Document Type (DT) field describes the contents of the original document. Use this field to limit your search to records of a particular type of document, such as book review, symposium, etc. The document type "Books" retrieves citations to law books. The document types "Case" and "Statute" retrieve citations to case notes or statute notes that appear in a periodical but that are not part of a feature article. All other document types retrieve citations to items appearing in periodicals.

The following is a list of the document types available in Index to Legal Periodicals & Books:

Bibliography
Biography
Book-Review
Books
Case
Feature-Article
Obituary
Statute
Symposium

The Physical Description (PD) field contains details about illustrative or graphic material that appears in the document. It contains one or more codes that describe the illustrative material. The following is a list of codes and the physical description which each represents:

View the most current Journal List.

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,
as py>1989

<= 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 Author(s) 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 Duncan Miller:

1. Go to Browse (Index).

2. Select the AUT Author Name index.

3.Type miller.

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 air pollution, oil pollution, or pollution liability exclusion clauses. The search air-pollution in de retrieves just that specific descriptor.

With hyphens, the terms must be an exact match in the Descriptor. Search for conspiracy- if you want only those records indexed with the single descriptor conspiracy.

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 feature article records about child protection.

1. First conduct a search for the term child*. The asterisk (truncation symbol) searches for all variations of the root term child, such as child, children, and so on.

2. Next search for and protection. Beginning the search request with the AND operator automatically adds it to the previous search.

3. Conduct a search for and feature-article in dt. This request limits the search to records that are feature articles.

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