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.

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.

The Corporate Author (CA) field identifies the institution, association, conference, corporation, or government agency that authored the book.

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.

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 (CS) field is also word indexed in the Heading Word (HW) index.

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, Personal Name as Subject (PS) and Corporate Subject (CS).

The Illustration Note (IL) field contains notes about an illustration of the work of art which appeared with an article.

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. The IP field is word indexed.

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.

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".

The Journal Word (JX) index is a word index of the Journal Name (JN) field.

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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 The Locally Held (LH) field indicates (with a "Y" or an "N") if a journal is held locally.

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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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The Court Case (NC) field contains the plaintiff, defendant, and case citation in legal cases.

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The General Note (NT) field contains general information pertaining to this record.

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.

The Pagination (PG) field contains the first page on which an article was published in the source journal.

The Pagination (PG) displays as part of the Source (SO) field.

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 Subject Heading Word (HW) index.

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.

The Source (SO) field includes a display of all the basic information needed to locate a citation, including the Journal Name, the volume, pagination and date of publication.

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.

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).

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.