Business Organizations
Revised 2/15/02
Database name: BusinessOrgs
Short database name: BUSO
Available on: FirstSearch Test Server and Production Server
Why select this database?
- Includes abstracts in most records describing the organization's products
and services and giving other information about the organization, such as founding
date, membership size, and publications.
- Lets you use the section headings assigned to each organization to search
by broad subject area.
Subjects included
| business organizations |
trade associations |
Coverage/update frequency
Covers the current year.
Updated annually.
Record display information
List of FirstSearch fields for Business Organizations and the MARC fields to
which they correspond:
| Field Name |
MARC field(s) |
| Book Entry |
069/a |
| Organization |
245/a,b |
| Contact |
500/a |
| Abstract |
520/a |
| Section Headings |
650/a |
Indexes
What follows is a list of FirstSearch indexes and the combination of USE and STRUCTURE
attributes that can be used to access them.
- For any FirstSearch label where multiple USE attributes are listed all the attributes will provide the exact same search result sets.
- Any USE attribute that is not marked as a restrictor is available via the
SCAN service.
- 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 |
| Keyword (kw) |
|
|
|
| Abstracts (ab) |
Abstract |
62 |
2 |
| Accession No. (an, an=) |
Local Number |
12 |
1,2 |
| City (cy, cy=) |
Place Publication |
59 |
1,2 |
| Contact Name (ct, ct=) |
Personal Name |
1 |
1, 2 |
| Country (cn, cn=) |
Name Geographic |
58 |
1,2 |
| Org. Name (on, on=) |
Corporate Name |
2 |
1,2 |
| Section Hdgs (sh, sh=) |
Subject Heading |
21 |
1,2 |
| Subject |
Body of Text
Any
Server-Choice |
1010
1016
1017 |
2 |
Zip Code (zp): not mappable to Z39.50 bib-1 attribute set (15)
Gale Number (no): not mappable to Z39.50 bib-1 attribute set (20)
Area code (ac): not mappable to Z39.50 bib-1 attribute set (3)
State (st): not mappable to Z39.50 bib-1 attribute set (0,14)
division: not mappable to Z39.50 bib-1 attribute set (14)
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 |
& |
|
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 |
Copyright
Copyright © Gale Group Inc.
2008
. All Rights Reserved.
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