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Index labels and examples of an expert search in WorldCat.org and WorldCat Local

  • You may type an index label with your search terms rather than a selection from the list of indexes to search on any search screen. The information you type overrides all default menu selections.
  • Use a colon after an index label (as in au:wang) when you are not certain of your search terms.

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The following are sample rather than actual searches.

Indexes Labels Examples
Palabra clave kw: coffee or tea and house+
(keyword searches, publication year, ISBN, geographic codes, map data, and all the information found in the Author, Title, Notes and Subject indexes)
Método de acceso am: www oclc org (or) oclc
(omit http://, and use spaces instead of any punctuation or special characters)
Número de ingreso no: 37993343
(OCLC)
Autor au: saint-arroman
(use single quotes around 'le' and other words that are operators;
operators supported in FirstSearch: Boolean search operators, parentheses, proximity operators, wildcards; operators included are le, ge, it, gt, n, near, w, with, and, or, not)
Año BC bc: bc:500
Character Sets Present vp: vp:hbr
(three-letter language code)
Nombre de la empresa y la conferencia cd: canadian
Descriptor de: voice disorders
Número de clasificación de Dewey dd: 998.900
(index deletes and collapses spaces and punctuation, except periods)
Forma ge: novel
Número de doc. guber. gn: y4p9610w292
(omit spaces and punctuation)
Frase de la signatura topográfica general de los registros de la institución
(for libraries that have enabled searching Institition Records)
nu: E185.61.B79141988
E185.61*
(omit all spaces and additional text except periods for each subfield of data provided; sometimes the data displayed actually comes from more then one subfield; truncating the search can make sure all types of data entry are retrieved; this index does not support browsing)
ISBN isbn: 3196311821 or 31-9631-182-1
9780763625894 or 978-0-763625-89-4
(search with or without hyphens)
ISSN issn: 0000-0019
(use hyphens)
Fuente de revista so:

Time
(finds title of host item from various fields, depending on database)

Language of Cataloging Description ll: chi
Language of Work ln: kw:coffeehouse* and ln:japanese
(browse the index for a complete list of languages)
Número de ubicación de la National Library & Archives of Canada rvm: sf209.5
(index deletes and collapses spaces and punctuation, except periods)
Número de ubicación de la LC lc:

hd9000.6
(index deletes and collapses all spaces and punctuation, except periods)

Tipo de material mt: DVD
Número de música mu: has19832
(concatenates all punctuation and spaces up to a dash or double hyphen)
Composición musical mc: jazz
Corporación y Conferencia nombradas nc: world conference on women
Número de ubicación de la Natl Ag Lib ag: sf223.w47
(index deletes and collapses spaces and punctuation, except periods)
Número de ubicación de la NLM lm: hv4915
(index deletes and collapses spaces and punctuation, except periods)
Notas/Comentarios nt: translation-adaptation
Nombre personal pn: lemaire
Editorial pb: Ballantine
Número de informe rn: epa 000275057
(omit punctuation and retain spaces)
Título de la serie se: emb report
Número estándar sn: 1097461x or 1097-461x
1550463160 or 155-0463-160
9780763625894 or 978-0-763625-89-4
64002560
(for all searches, hyphens can be included in the search or removed; for the LCCN number, only the number used for storage, with the year and then six digits with leading zeros for unused digits, is indexed; many other standard numbers are included in this index)
Materia su: coffee and tea house+
Encabezamientos de materia, LC hl: biography
(only subject headings noted as US Library of Congress)
Encabezamientos de materia, LC Children's Lit hc: parties
(only subject headings noted as US Library of Congress Children's Literature)
Encabezamientos de materia, MESH hm: optometry
(only subject headings noted as MESH/US National Library of Medicine)
Encabezamientos de materia, NAL ha: fruit
(only subject headings noted as US National Library of Agriculture)
Encabezamientos de materia, canadienses he: photography
(only subject headings noted as Canadian National Library in English)
Encabezamientos de materia, RVM hr: indiens
(only subject headings noted as Repertoire des vedettes-matiere [Canadian National Library in French])
Encabezamientos de materia, Sears hs: legends
(only subject headings noted as Sears)
Encabezamientos de materia, Otra ho: fiction
gsafd
(includes the MARC codes for the classification type indexed)
Título ti: music w3 british w3 enlightenment
Título uniforme ut: bible
Título de publicación seriada única tk: renew annual report
No. de la Clas. Decimal Universal ud: 101-051
(use periods and hyphens)
Fecha de actualización up: 20080101
Year of Publication yr: 2010
Año 2 yy: 2010
(all unknown digits are searched as 9s; however, if all four digits are unknown, they are searched as 0000)

See also: Index values and MARC fields in WorldCat.org and WorldCat Local.