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OCLC PapersFirst

Revised 3/6/2002

Database Name: PapersFirst
Short Database Name: PPF1
SiteSearch Database Number: 10194
FirstSearch Menu Name: PapersFirst
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?

Subjects included

The wide variety of subjects discussed at the covered meetings.

Coverage/update frequency

Covers 1993 to the present.
New records are added 24 times a year.

Record display information

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

Field Name MARC field(s)
Year and Lang Code 008
ISSN 022/a
ISBN 020/a
Database No 069/a
Author(s) 100/a
Title 245/a
BL Location 500/a
Material Type 500/a
Contents 500/a
Notes 500/a
Conference 773/a
Conference Name/Date 773/d
Sponsor 773/g
Source Ed 773/g
Source 773/s
Journal 773/t
ISSN 773/x
ISBN 773/z

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
Keyword (kw) Any 1016 word
Author (au) Personal Name
Name
Author
Author-Name Personal
Author-Name Conference 		1
1002
1003
1004
1006 		word, phrase
word, phrase
word, phrase
word, phrase
word, phrase
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
Journal Name (jo) Host-item 1033 word, phrase
Publication Date (pd) Date of Publication 31 word, phrase
Publisher (pb) Publisher 1018 word
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
Title (ti) Title
Title Series
Title Abbreviated 		4
5
43 		word, phrase
word, phrase
word, phrase

BL Location (bl) not mappable to Z39.50 bib-1 attribute set (26)
Years not mappable to Z39.50 bib-1 attribute set (20)

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.

Copyright

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