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ProceedingsFirst

Revised 3/6/2002

Database Name: Proceedings
Short Database Name: PCF1
Available On: FirstSearch Production Server and Test Server

Note: This database is currently available on FirstSearch with no changes in specifications.

Why select this database?

  • Covers every published congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received by The British Library Document Supply Centre
  • Contains in each record a list of the papers presented at each conference.

Why select this database?

Subjects included
conference proceedings congresses exhibitions
meetings symposiums workshops

Coverage/update frequency

Covers 1993 to the present.
New records are added 2 times a week.

Record display information

List of FirstSearch fields for Proceedings and the MARC fields to which they correspond:

Field Name MARC field(s)
ISBN 020/a
ISSN 022/a
Database No. 069/a
Author 100/a
Title 245/a
Publisher 260/b
Conference 411/a
BL Location 500/a
Material Type 500/a
Notes 500/a
Contents 505/a
Main Lang. 546/a
Descriptors 650/a
Date+Stuff 773/d
Sponsor 773/g
Source Ed 773/g
Source 773/s
Journal 773/t

Indexes

What follows is a list of FirstSearch indexes and the combination of USE and STRUCTURE attributes that can be used to access them.

  1. For any FirstSearch label where multiple USE attributes are listed all the attributes will provide the exact same search result sets.
  2. Any USE attribute that is not marked as a restrictor is available via the SCAN service.
  3. Restrictors are specially implemented indexes and are not available for scanning. Terms for these must be ANDed with other terms to limit the size of the result set. See the table provided for each restrictor to determine valid terms and their associated meaning.

FirstSearch Indexes and USE and STRUCTURE attributes used to access them:

FirstSearch Index Label Use Value Structure Restrictor
Keyword (kw) Any 1016 word  
Conference Date (cd) Date 30 word, phrase  
Conference Location (cl) Name Geographic 58 word  
Conference Name (cn) Conference Name 3 word, phrase  
Conference Sponsor (sp) Code--institution 56 word, phrase  
Database Number (no) Local Number 12 word, phrase  
Descriptions (de) Subject Heading 21 word  
Journal Name (jo) Host-item 1033 word, phrase  
Language Code--language 54 phrase yes
Material Type (mi) Material-type 1031 word, phrase  
Note (nt) Note 63 word  
Publisher (pb) Publisher 1018 word  
Publishing Date (pd) Date Publication 31 word, phrase  
Source Editor (se) Editor 1020 word, phrase  
Source Name (so) Record--source 1019 word, phrase  
Standard Number (sn) ISBN
ISSN
CODEN
Identifier--standard

7
8
60
1007

word, phrase
word, phrase
word, phrase
word, phrase 		 
Subject (su) Any
Server--choice 		1016
1017 		word
word 		 

Restrictors

The following restrictors can be used only in conjunction with an index search.   They must be added to an index search with the Boolean AND in order to receive results:

Restrictor Limit Type Restrictor Terms
Language All Languages
English Language Only
Non-English Language Only		 --
english
nonenglish

Stopwords

Stopwords are a list of terms that will not be indexed because they occur frequently and do not add to the content of the indexes. Unless otherwise noted stopwords apply to all WORD indexes in a database. Searches including a stopword as a term will result in a search error being returned.

a an and are as at be but by for
from had have he her his in is it not
of on or that the this to was which with
you                  

Note: For the pb: index only, include VOL, ISSUE, NO, and NUMBER as stopwords.

General punctuation rules

(exceptions are made, but these are generally correct):

Punctuation Rule Punctuation Rule
" Delete and collapse $ Delete and collapse
' (apostrophe) Delete and collapse % Delete and collapse
. Delete and collapse * Delete and collapse
, (comma) Delete and collapse + Delete and collapse
; Delete and collapse > Delete and collapse
: Delete and collapse < Delete and collapse
() Delete and collapse @ Delete and collapse
<> Delete and collapse ? Delete and collapse
{} Delete and collapse -- Delete and collapse
[] Delete and collapse / Substitute a space
= Delete and collapse - Retain and index
! Delete and collapse & Retain and index
# Delete and collapse

Searching tips

Phrase indexes: Delete and collapse leading articles A, AN & THE.

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