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| Search indexes |
Labels |
Examples |
| Keyword |
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, Publisher, Publisher location, and Subject indexes] |
| Access Method |
am: |
www oclc org [or] oclc
(omit http:, and use spaces instead of punctuation or special characters) |
| Accession Number |
no: |
4620335
(OCLC) |
| Author |
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) |
| Author Phrase |
au= |
saint-arroman auguste
(use double quotes around exact phrases; omit single quote from 'le' operator when the double quote is used to search for an exact phrase)
|
| Corporate and Conference Name |
cn: |
canadian |
| Corporate and Conference Name Phrase |
cn= |
canadian acoustics week |
| Descriptor |
de: |
voice disorders |
| Descriptor Phrase |
de= |
voice disorders in children |
| Genre/Form |
ge: |
solo piano |
| Genre/Form Phrase |
ge= |
screenplays |
| Geographic Coverage |
gc: |
cape |
| Geographic Coverage Phrase |
gc= |
capetown |
| ISBN |
nb: |
3196311821 or 31-9631-182-1
9783540287070 or 978-3-540287-07-0
(search with or without hyphens) |
| ISSN |
ns: |
0000-0019
(use hyphens) |
| Language Phrase |
ln= |
kw:coffeehouse* and ln= japanese
(See the drop-down list under Limit to: Language for the complete list of languages.) |
| Library of Congress Call No. |
lc: |
hd9000.6
(index deletes and collapses all spaces and punctuation, except periods) |
| LC Control Number |
nl: |
ne64-2560 or ne64002560 or ne642560 or
64-2560 or 64002560 or 642560
(prefixes can be immediately connected to the number or removed; hyphens can be included or removed; the
number is searchable as it is stored, with the year and then six digits with leading zeros for unused digits,
or as it is often displayed, without zeros) |
| Material Type |
mt: |
vhs |
| Material Type Phrase |
mt= |
vhs tape |
| Musical Composition |
mc: |
jazz |
| Musical Composition Phrase |
mc= |
folk music |
| Named Corporation and Conference |
nc: |
world conference on women |
| Named Corporation and Conference Phrase |
nc= |
intel corporation |
| Named Person |
na: |
mandela |
| Named Person Phrase |
na= |
mandela, nelson
(last name first with first comma retained) |
| Notes/Comments (includes degree-granting institution) |
nt: |
erasmus universiteit rotterdam |
| Personal Name |
pn: |
lemaire |
| Personal Name Phrase |
pn= |
weijer, kees
(use last name first with or without the first comma retained) |
| Publisher |
pb: |
media |
| Publisher Phrase |
pb= |
new star media inc |
| Publisher Location |
pl: |
china |
| Series Title |
se: |
emb report |
| Series Title Phrase |
se= |
emb evaluation report |
| Standard Number |
sn: |
1097461x or 1097-461x
9783540287070 or 978-3-540287-07-0
1550463160 or 155-0463-160
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) |
| Subject |
su: |
coffee and tea house+ |
| Subject Phrase |
su= |
coffeehouses in art |
| Subject All |
sa= |
medical fees canada
(phrase search of complete subject heading with all parts, so "medical fees--canada" is searched as a single phrase)
|
| Title |
ti: |
music w3 british w3 enlightenment |
| Title Phrase |
ti= |
music theory in the british isles during the enlightenment |
| Uniform title |
ut: |
bible |
| Uniform Title Phrase |
ut= |
selected poems 1930-1972 |
| Update Date |
up: |
20060101 |
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