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| AB |
Abstract [Word Indexed]
racial.ab. |
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The Abstract (AB) field contains a summary of the document. You can search any word or phrase in the abstract. Most of the abstracts contained in the Abstract (AB) field are prepared by Wilson abstracters. |
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| AN |
Accession Number [Phrase Indexed]
art00000284.an. |
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The Accession Number (AN) field contains a number assigned to each document to uniquely identify a particular record. The Accession Number for the Wilson databases consists of three letters which identify the file followed by an 8-digit number which identifies the record. |
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| AR |
Artist [Phrase Indexed]
alexander ernest.ar. |
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The Artist (AR) field contains the artist of a reproduction of a work of art. The artist names are entered into the index in the format of last name followed by first and middle names or initials and honorifics.
Enter the last name, or if it is a common name, enter the last name, a space and first initial. If you are unsure of the spelling of the last name, enter one version and you will be able to scroll through the list of names to find the version used.
The Artist field is also word indexed in the Heading Word (HW) index. |
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| AU |
Author [Phrase Indexed]
50 cent.au. |
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The Author (AU) field contains the authors of an article. The author names are entered into the index in the format of last name followed by first and middle names or initials and honorifics.
Enter the last name, or if it is a common name, enter the last name, a space and first initial. If you are unsure of the spelling of the last name, enter one version and you will be able to scroll through the list of names to find the version used.
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| CA |
Corporate Author [Phrase Indexed]
solomon frank.ca. |
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The Corporate Author (CA) field identifies the institution, association, conference, corporation, or government agency that authored the book. |
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| CP |
Country of Publication [Phrase Indexed]
australia.cp. |
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The Country of Publication (CP) field contains the full name of the country of publication for a journal. The country names are entered into the index as phrases or codes. |
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| CS |
Corporate Subject [Phrase Indexed]
h j heinz co securities.cs. |
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The Corporate Subject (CS) field contains subject headings which specifically describe a corporate body and are thus a way to find articles about a particular company or organization. Corporate subjects are as diverse as "Texaco, Inc.", "New York Shakespeare Festival" or "National Park Service.".
Corporate Subjects are entered into the index as phrases; enter the beginning of the corporate name to view the index, or enter a full name to search the field. The Corporate Subject field is also word indexed in the Heading Word (HW) index. |
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| DM |
Date of Modification [Phrase Indexed]
198901.dm.
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The Date of Modification (DM) field contains the 6-digit year and month (YYYYMM) in which an article was modified. |
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| DP |
Date of Publication [Word Indexed]
1998.dp.
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| DZ |
Document [Phrase Indexed]
docz.dz.
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| EM |
Entry Month [Phrase Indexed]
198801.em. |
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The Entry Month (EM) field contains the 6-digit year and month (YYYYMM) in which an article was added to the database. |
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| HR |
HTML Full Text [Word Indexed]
00765.hr. |
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The HTML Full Text (HR) field provides a link to the HTML full text of the article. This internet link provides additional information on subjects discussed in the record. |
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| HW |
Subject Heading Word [Word Indexed]
1040com.hw. |
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Sometimes you may wish to retrieve every subject heading that includes a particular word; this is done by searching the single word in the Subject Heading Word (HW) field. This index also includes all subject type fields, Artist (AR), Personal Name as Subject (PS) and Corporate Subject (CS). |
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| IB |
ISBN [Phrase Indexed]
0002556081.ib. |
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The ISBN (IB) field lists the International Standard Book Number, search by entering the ISBN without hyphens. |
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| IL |
Illustration Note [Word Indexed]
adam.il. |
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The Illustration Note (IL) field contains notes about an illustration of the work of art which appeared with an article. |
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| IP |
Issue Part [Word Indexed]
“6”.ip. |
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The Issue Part (IP) field contains the issue and/or part for a particular volume of a journal. The IP field displays as part of the Source (SO) field. |
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| IS |
ISSN [Phrase Indexed]
0002 4341.is. |
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The ISSN (IS) field contains the International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) for the journal in which the article was published, it appears as a number separated by hyphens. |
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| JA |
Journal Abbreviation [Word Indexed]
bibliotekarz.ja. |
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The Journal Abbreviation (JA) field contains the abbreviated name of the journal in which the article was published. |
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| JN |
Journal Name [Phrase Indexed]
20th century british history.jn. |
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The Journal Name (JN) field contains the full name of the journal in which an article was published.
Journal names are indexed as phrases -- to view journal titles in the index enter as many of the words or letters in a journal name as are needed to distinguish it from other journals: "People We" for "People Weekly". |
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| JX |
Journal Word [Word Indexed]
administrative.jx.
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The Journal Word (JX) index is a word index of the Journal Name (JN) field. |
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| LG |
Language [Phrase Indexed]
russian.lg.
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The Language (LG) field contains the language(s) of publication of an article. The language is indicated by a 3-letter code (such as fre for French). You may also search by typing the whole name of the language (example: French). |
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| LH |
Locally Held [Display Only]
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The Locally Held (LH) field indicates (with a "Y" or an "N") if a journal is held locally. |
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| LM |
Local Message[Display Only] |
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The Local Messages (LM) field contains messages created by the System Administrator to indicate information about journals held in your local library system. |
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| NC |
Court Case [Word Indexed]
1003.nc. |
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The Court Case (NC) field contains the plaintiff, defendant, and case citation in legal cases. |
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| NT |
General Note [Word Indexed]
00.nt. |
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The General Note (NT) field contains general information pertaining to this record. |
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| OT |
Other Title [Word Indexed]
1l.ot. |
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The Other Title (OT) field provides additional title information. 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 [Word Indexed]
2008.pb. |
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| PD |
Physical Description [Word Indexed]
"148".pd. |
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The Physical Description (PD) field contains a notation that describes the illustrative or graphic material that appears in an article. A notation can include any combination of description codes which can be searched individually. For display, these notations have been expanded to their full form and both the full form and the notation are indexed. |
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| PG |
Pagination [Word Indexed]
100.pg. |
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The Pagination (PG) Field contains the first page on which an article was published in the source journal.
The Page (PG) displays as part of the Source (SO) field. |
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| PI |
Publisher Information [Word Indexed]
12005.pi. |
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The Publisher Information (PI) field contains publisher's information for monograph publications. |
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| PR |
Peer Review Journal [Word Indexed]
r.pr.
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| PS |
Personal Name as Subject [Phrase Indexed]
adams john.ps.
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The Personal Name as Subject (PS) field contains subject headings which specifically describe a person, and are thus a way to find articles about, rather than by, a particular person. The PS field does not include authors of reviewed books.
Personal Subjects are entered into the index as phrases. The Personal Name as Subject field is also word indexed in the Heading Word (HW) index. |
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| PT |
Publication Type [Phrase Indexed]
biography.pt. |
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In addition to indexing documents with subject headings, Wilson indexers assign terms to describe the document type. Publication Types include indicators for many types of reviews, articles and literary forms. |
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| SC |
Serials Code [Phrase Indexed]
.sc. |
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| SD |
Source Description [Phrase Indexed]
10014.sd. |
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| SH |
Subject Headings [Phrase Indexed]
1997.sh. |
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The Subject Headings (SH) field contains the subject headings used by H.W. Wilson indexers to describe the content of an article. These subject headings are similar to Library of Congress subject headings and may indicate aspects of a topic such as "Los Angeles Calif Social Life and Customs". |
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| SO |
Source [Phrase Indexed] |
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The Source (SO) field includes a display of all the basic information needed to locate a citation, including the Journal Name (JN), Volume (VO), Page Number (PG) and Date of Publication (DP). |
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| ST |
Series Title [Phrase Indexed]
manuals.st. |
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If a document is part of a series, the Series Title (ST) field indicates the title of that series. You can search for any word or phrase in this field. |
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| SV |
Series Volume [Word Indexed]
67.sv. |
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If a document is part of a series, the Series Volume (SV) field indicates the volume of that series. You can search for any word or phrase in this field. The Series Volume is displayed in the Series Title (ST) field. |
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| TI |
Title [Word Indexed]
100th.ti.
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The Title (TI) field contains the title of a periodical article. If the document is a review of a book, movie, etc., the title field contains the title of the work being reviewed.
If the title refers to a reviewed work, information such as publisher, editor, and date may also appear in the title field. For a statute or case note the title contains the statute title or case name. The title field also contains phrases added by Wilson indexers to clarify the meaning. |
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| TW |
Textword [Word Indexed]
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The Textword (TW) field is an alias for all of the fields in a database which contain text words and which are appropriate for a free text subject search. The Textword field in the Wilson files includes Title (TI), Series Title (ST), Other Title (OT) and Abstract (AB). |
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| UR |
PDF Full Text [Word Indexed]
01990.ur. |
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The PDF Full Text (UR) field provides a link to the PDF full text of the article. This internet links provide additional information on subjects discussed in the document. |
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| VO |
Volume [Word Indexed]
116.vo. |
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The Volume (VO) displays as part of the Source (SO) field following the journal and preceded by v. Volume 5 appears as: v. 5. |
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| YR |
Year of Publication [Phrase Indexed]
1987.yr. |
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The Year of Publication (YR) index contains the year in which an article or monograph was published. The year can be searched as 2 or 4 digits. To search a range of years use the limit feature. |
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| You can use special search syntax to combine search terms or strategically develop a search. |
| Operator |
Syntax |
Search Example |
Sample Results |
| OR |
x or y |
transexual or berdache |
"Making the American berdache: choice or constraint?" |
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The OR operator retrieves records that contain any or all of the search terms. For example, the search heart attack or myocardial infarction retrieves results that contain the terms heart attack, myocardial infarction or both terms; results are all inclusive. You can use the OR operator in both unqualified searches and searches applied to a specific field. |
| AND |
x and y |
spirituality and atheism |
"Spiritual Atheism Part One: Reading Kafka for Breakfast, Swallowed Up for Lunch." |
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The AND operator retrieves only those records that include all of the search terms. For example, the search blood pressure and stroke retrieves results that contain the term blood pressure and the term stroke together in the same record; results are exclusive of records that do not contain both of these terms.
You can use the AND operator in both unqualified searches and searches applied to a specific field. |
| NOT |
x not y |
wicca not female |
"Something Wiccan comes this way." |
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The NOT operator retrieves records that contain the first search term and excludes the second search term. For example, the search health reform not health maintenance organizations retrieves only those records that contain the term health reform but excludes the term health maintenance organizations. In this way, you can use the NOT operator to restrict results to a specific topic.
You can use the NOT operator in both unqualified searches and searches applied to a specific field. |
| Adjacency (ADJ) |
x y |
witch hunts |
"March-April 2003: Witch Hunts in America." |
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The Adjacent operator (ADJ) retrieves records with search terms next to each other. You do not need to separate search terms manually by inserting ADJ between them, because when you separate terms with a space on the command line, Ovid automatically searches for the terms adjacent to one another. For example, the search blood pressure is identical to the search blood adj pressure. |
| Defined Adjacency (ADJn) |
x ADJn y |
women adj4 martyrdom |
"God's self-confident daughters" |
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The defined adjacency operator (ADJn) retrieves records that contain search terms within a specified number (n) of words from each other in any order. To use the adjacency operator, separate your search terms with ADJ and a number from 1 to 99. For example, the search physician adj5 relationship retrieves records that contain the words physician and relationship within five words of each other in either direction. This particular search retrieves records containing such phrases as physician patient relationship, patient physician relationship, or relationship of the physician to the patient. |
| Frequency (FREQ) |
x.ab./FREQ=n |
gender.ab. /freq=5 |
"Differences in Physical Fitness of Male and Female Recruits in Gender-Integrated Army Basic Training." |
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The frequency operator (FREQ) lets you specify a threshold of occurrence of a term in the records retrieved from your search. Records containing your search term are retrieved only if the term occurs at least the specified (n) number of times. In general, records that contain many instances of your search term are more relevant than records that contain fewer instances. The frequency operator is particularly useful when searching a text field, such as Abstract or Full Text, for a common word or phrase. |
| Unlimited Truncation ($) |
x$ |
rat$ |
"Rats." |
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Unlimited truncation retrieves all possible suffix variations of the root word indicated. To apply unlimited truncation to a term, type the root word or phrase followed by either of the truncation characters: $ (dollar sign) or : (colon). For example, in the truncated search disease$, Ovid retrieves the word disease as well as the words diseases, diseased, and more. |
| Limited Truncation ($) |
x$n |
dog$1 |
"Blue Dogs On the Prowl." |
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Limited truncation specifies a maximum number of characters that may follow the root word or phrase. For example, the truncated search dog$1 retrieves results with the words dog and dogs; but it does not retrieve results with the word dogma. |
| Mandated Wildcard (#) |
xx#y |
wom#n |
"Women in Print." |
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Searching with a mandated wildcard retrieves all possible variations of a word in which the wildcard is present in the specified place. You can use it at the end of a term to limit results to only those that contain the word plus the mandated character. For example, the search dog# retrieves results that contain the word dogs, but not those that contain the word dog, effectively limiting results to only those that contain the plural form of the word. The mandated wild card character (#) is also useful for retrieving specialized plural forms of a word. For example, the search wom#n retrieves results that contain both woman and women. You can use multiple wild cards in a single query word. |
| Optional Wildcard (?) |
xx?y |
colo?r |
"Breaking the Color Barrier: Regina Andrews and the New York Public Library." |
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The optional wild card character (?) can be used within or at the end of a search term to substitute for one or no cFharacters. This wild card is useful for retrieving documents with British and American word variants since it specifies that you want retrieval whether or not the extra character is present. For example, the optional wild card search colo?r retrieves results that contain the words color or colour. You can use multiple wild cards in a single query word. |
| Literal String ("") |
"x / y" |
"Hot/Cold" |
"Hot, Cold And Just Right. " |
| "n" |
"3".vo |
"Journal of Academic Ethics. v. 3 no1 (March 2005) p. 55-73. " |
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Quotation marks can be used to retrieve records that contain literal strings,
when the string includes special characters, such as a forward slash (/).
Quotation marks can also be used to retrieve records that contain numbers
that may otherwise be confused for earlier searches. In the example, a
search for 3.vo would limit the string from your third search in your search
history to the volume field. By including the number in quotation marks,
the search will retrieve documents with a 3 in the volume number. |
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