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Humanities Index

Revised 3/10/2005

Database name: HumanitiesIndex
Short database name: WHUN
Available on: FirstSearch Test Server and Production Server

Why select this database?

  • The Humanities Index database contains abstracts for more than 300 humanities publications.
  • It indexes feature articles, book reviews, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction (including dramas and poems), and reviews of plays and television and radio programs.
  • It excludes editorials, letters to the editor, news, ephemeral announcements, cartoons, and advertising.
  • Each record contains a bibliographic citation for an article, book review, or other item in a journal and library holdings for the journal title.
  • It is produced by The H.W. Wilson Company.
Subjects included
archaeology art classics
film folklore food
journalism linguistics music
performing arts philosophy religion
space world history world literature

Coverage/update frequency

Covers January 1984 to the present.
New records are added weekly.

Record display information

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

Field Name MARC field(s)
Dates 008/<date>
LC Card Control Number 010/a
National Bibliographic Number 015/a
ISBN 020/a,c
SICI 024/a
Technical Report Number 027/a
Accession Number 035/a
Cataloging Source 040/a,c
Text of Summary Language Code 041/b
Text of Original Language Code 041/h
LC Call Number 050/a,b
GPO Number 074/a
Dewey Number 082/a,2
Government Document Classification Number 086/a
Report Number 088/a
Author 100/a-e,q,t
Corporate Author 110/a-d,n,t
Uniform Title, M.E. 130/a,t
Uniform Title 240/a
Translated Title 242/a
Title Statement 245/a-c,h,n,p
Augmented Title 246/a
Label "Augmented Title:" 246/i
Edition Statement 250/a,b
Imprint 260/a-c
Physical Description 300/b
Title Series Note 440/a,v
General Note 500/a
Dissertation Note 502/a
Bibliographic Note 504/a
Formatted Contents Note 505/a
Version Note 534/n,p
Funding Information Note 536/a-d
Language 546/a
Continuation Text 580/a
Subject Added Entry, Personal Name 600/a-d,q,t,x-z
Subject Added Entry, Corporate Name 610/a-d,n,t,x-z
Subject Added Entry, Uniform Title 630/a,d,t,x-z
Subject Added Entry, Topical 650/a,x-z
Subject Added Entry, Geographic 651/a,x-z
Index Term, Uncontrolled 653/a
Genre Heading 655/a,2
Author 700/a-e,q,t
Added Entry, Corporate Name 710/a-d,g,n,t
Added Entry, Uniform Title 730/a,g
Title Cross Reference 740/a
Host Item Entry (analytic information) 773/a,b,d,s,w,z
Country of Publication 773/c
Host Item Entry 773/g
Peer-reviewed Journal 773/m
Abbreviated Title of Journal 773/p
Journal Title 773/t
Jounal ISSN 773/x
Publisher/Distributor of Reviewed Item 779/d
Availability/Price of Reviewed Item 779/f
Publication Date of Reviewed Item 779/g
Language of Text of Book Being Reviewed 779/l
ISBN for Item Being Reviewed 779/z
Authors of Books Being Reviewed 790/a-e,q,t
Instructions To Get Full Text 856/i
Full Text Format (e.g., ASCII, PDF) 856/q
URL to External Website or Link to Full Text Article (Direct Article Access) 856/u
OCLC DAA (Direct Article Access) 856/x
Database from which Full Text Article Is Accessed 856/8
Library Holdings 948
Detailed holdings information is available in FirstSearch Z39.50 Configuration Guide - Element Set Names.
Volume Number 949/a
Issue Number 949/b
Page Numbers 949/c
Supplement 949/d
Date 949/e
First Page Number 949/f
Marketing Defined Date 949/g
Julian Day 949/j
Article Contents 949/l
OCLC Record Display Format 949/x
SIC Code 960/d
Record Type 960/g

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:

Index Description Use Attribute Structure Attribute Indexed Fields and Subfields
Keyword (kw) Any 5110 2 Includes fields in the following indexes:

Source Phrase
Subject
Title

Keyword All

(new index beginning 12/16/2001)
Any

1016

2 Includes fields in the following indexes:

Author
Source Phrase
Subject
Title

Author (au, au=) Author-name 1003 1, 2, 101 100/a-e,q
110/a-d,n
700/a-e,q
710/a-d,g,n
773/a
790/a-e,q
Article Type (at=) Content-type 1034 1 949/L
Corporate Author (co=) Author-name-corporate 1005 1 110/a-d
710/a-d,n
Descriptors (de, de=) OCLC Defined 5650 1, 2 650/a,x,y,z
First Page (pg) OCLC Defined 5006 2 949/f
Geographic Coverage (gc=) Name-geographic 58 1 600/z
610/z
630/z
650/z
651/a,z
Issue (is) OCLC Defined 5004 2 949/b,d
Language (ln=)* Code-language 54 1 041/b,h
546/a
779/L
Named Person (na=) Subject-name-personal 1009 1 600/a-e,q
Named Corporation (nc=) OCLC Defined 5610 1 610/a-d
Accession Number (no) Control number-local 12 2 035/a
Publisher (pb) Name-publisher 1018 2 779/d
Publication Date (pd) Date 30 2 949/e,g
Place of Publication (pl) Name-geographic-place-publication 59 2 773/c
Record Type (rt)* Material-type 1031 1 960/g
Reviewed Journal (rj=) OCLC Defined 5949 1 773/m
Standard Number (sn) Identifier-standard 1007 2 010/a
015/a
020/a
027/a
050/a,b
074/a
082/a
086/a
088/a
440/x.
773/x,z
779/z
Source (so) Title-host-item 1033 2 773/p,t
Source (so=) Title-host-item 1033 1 773/t
Subject (su, su=) Subject 21 1, 2 600/a-d,q,t,x-z
610/a-d,n,t,x-z
630/a,d,x-z
650/a,x-z
651/a,x-z
655/a
Title (ti) Title 4 2 100/t
110/t
130/a,t
240/a
242/a
245/a-c,h,n,p
246/a
440/a
700/t
710/t
730/a,g
740/a
790/t
Title (ti=) Title 4 1 130/a,t
245/a
246/a
Volume (vo) OCLC Defined 5013 2 949/a
Year (yr)* Date-publication 31 4, 5 008/<date>

* Also a restrictor.

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 retreive results:

Restrictor Type Input Use Attribute Structure Attribute
Year * All years
Single year
Range of years
--
19xx, 20xx
19xx - 20xx
31 5
Language * No Limit
English
Non-English
--
english
nonenglish
54 1
Record Type* No Limit
Article
Book review
Form review
Literature
--
art
brv
frv
lit
1031 1
Limit to Holdings OCLC Institution Symbol Enter symbol for OCLC institution 2 56

* Both an index and a restrictor.

Note: To find the OCLC symbol for an institution, please see the online version of OCLC Participating Institutions.

Sorting

Search results in the Humanities Index database can be sorted by Author (1003), Title (4), Source (1033), and  Publication Date (30).

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

Keyword ALL searches (1016): The Keyword All search finds information in these fields: author (100/a-e,q, 110/a-d,n, 700/a-e,q, 710/a-d,g,n, 773/a, 790/a-e,q); source (773/t); subject (600/a-d,q,t,x-z, 610/a-d,n,t,x-z, 630/a,d,x-z, 650/a,x-z, 651/a,x-z, 655/a); and title (100/t, 110/t, 130/a,t, 240/a, 242/a, 245/a-c,h,n,p, 246/a, 440/a, 700/t, 710/t, 730/a,g, 740/a, 790/t).

Using limiters: You can limit searches by Year (31), Language (54), Record Type (1031), and Library Holdings (56).

Copyright

Humanities Index, copyright the H.W. Wilson Company. All rights reserved.