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Essay and General Literature Index

Revised 7/2/2008

Database name: EssayGenLit
Short database name:  EGLI
Available on: FirstSearch Test Server and Production Server

Why select this database?

  • Cites essays and articles in contained in collections of essays and other works published in the United States, Great Britain and Canada.
  • Includes information from the indexes of more than 300 volumes and 20 annual or serial publications.
  • Includes full bibliographic information for the titles in which the collected works are found.
  • Focuses on humanities and social sciences literature.
  • It is produced by The H.W. Wilson Company.

Subjects included

Archaeology Architecture Art Children’s Literature
Classical Studies Drama Economics Fiction
Film Folklore History Linguistics
Music Poetry Political Science Religion
Women’s Studies      

Coverage/update frequency

Covers 1985 to Present
New records are added annually.

Record display information

List of FirstSearch fields for Essay and General Literature and the MARC fields to which they correspond:

Field Name

MARC field(s)

Dates

008/<date>

LC Control Number

010/a

National Bibliographic Number

015/a (rare)

ISBN

020/a

Availability/price

020/c
ISSN 022/a

Standard SICI Code

024/a

Accession Number

035/a

Cataloging Source

040/a,c,d

LC Call Number

050/a,b

Dewey Number

082/a (rare)

Author

100/a-e,q,t

Corporate Author

110/a-d,n,t

Uniform Title, M.E.

130/a,t (rare)

Uniform Title

240/a (rare)

Title Statement

245/a,b,c,h,n,p

Augmented Title

246/a (rare)

Edition Statement

250/a,b

Imprint

260/b,c (rare)

Physical Description

300/a

Physical Details

300/b

Title Series Note

440/a,x,v

General Note

500/a

Dissertation Note

502/a (rare)

Bibliography Note

504/a

Formatted Contents Note

505/a
Target Audience Note 521/a

Language Text

546/a
Awards Note 586/a

Subject Added Entry, Personal Name

600/a,b,c,d,q,t,x,y,z

Subject Added Entry, Corporate Name

610/a,b,c,d,n,p,t,x,y,z

Subject Added Entry, Uniform Title

630/a,d,x,y,z

Subject Added Entry, Topical

650/a,x,y,z,2

Subject Added Entry, Geographic

651/a,s,x,y,z

Added Entry, Personal Name

700/a-e,n,q,t

Added Entry, Corporate Name

710/a-d,g,n,t

Title Cross Reference

740/a (rare)

Host Item Entry

799/a,d,t

Monograph Record Number

799/4

LC Control Number - Displayable Form

947/g

Marketing Defined Date

949/g

OCLC Record Display Type

949/x

Document Type Description

949/i

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:

Note
Source (phrase)
Subject
Title

Keyword All

(new index beginning 12/16/2001)

Any

1016

2

Includes fields in the following indexes:

Author
Note
Source (phrase)
Standard Number
Subject
Title
Year

Accession Number (no)

Control number-local

12

2

035/a

Author (au, au=)

Author-name

1003

1, 2, 101

100/a,b,c,d,e,q
110/a,b,c,d,n
700/a,b,c,d,e,q
710/a,b,c,d,n
799/a

Corporate Author (co=)

Author-name-corporate

1005

1

110/a,b,c,d
710/a,b,c,d,n
799/a

Descriptors (de, de=)

OCLC Defined

5650

1, 2

650/a,x,y,z
Document Type Phrase (dt=) Document Type 1001 1 949/i

Geographic Coverage (gc=)

Name-geographic

58

1

600/z
610/z
630/z
650/z
651/a,z

Monograph Record No. (mr)

OCLC Defined

5044

2

799/4
035/a

Named Person (na=)

Subject-name-personal

1009

1

600/a,b,c,d,e,q

Named Company (nc=)

OCLC Defined

5610

1

610/a,b,c,d

Notes (nt)

Note

63

2

500/a
502/a
504/a
505/a
530/a
586/a

Publisher (pb)

Name-publisher

1018

2

260/b
799/d

Publication Date (pd)

Date

30

2

008

Source (so, so=)

Title-host-item

1033

1, 2

799/t

Standard Number (sn)

Identifier-standard

1007

2

010/a
015/a
020/a
022/a
050/ab
082/a 
440/x
947/g

Subject (su, su=)

Subject

21

1, 2

600/a,b,c,d,q,t,x,y,z
610/a,b,c,d,n,t,x,y,z
630/a,d,x,y,z
650/a,x,y,z
651/a,x,y,z

Table of Contents (tc)

OCLC Defined

5677

2

505/a
Target Audience (ta) Target Audience 5050 2 521/a

Title (ti, ti=)

Title

4

1 2

130/a
240/a
245/a,b,n,p
246/a
440/a
740/a

Year (yr)*

Date-publication

31

4,5

008/<date>

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 receive results:

Restrictor

Type

Input

Use Attribute

Structure Attribute

Year *

All years
Single year
Range of years

--
19xx, 20xx
19xx - 20xx

31

4,5

Document Type Phrase*

No Limit
Book
Chapter

—
book
chapter

1001

1

* Year and Document Type Phrase are both an index and a restrictor in this database.

Sorting

Search results in the EssayGenLit 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,b,c,d,e,q; 110/a,b,c,d,n; 700/a,b,c,d,e,q; 710/a,b,c,d,g,n; 799/a); note (500/a, 502/a, 504/a, 505/a, 530/a, 586/a); source (799/a); standard number (010/a, 015/a, 020/a, 022/a, 050/ab, 082/a , 440/x, 947/g); subject (600/a,b,c,d,q,t,x,y,z; 610/a,b,c,d,n,t,x,y,z; 630/a,d,x,y,z; 650/a,x,y,z; 651/a,x,y,z); title (130/a, 240/a, 245/a,b,n,p, 246/a, 740/a); year (008).

Using limiters: You can limit searches by Year (31) and Document Type (1001).

Copyright

Essay and General Literature Index, copyright © the H.W. Wilson Company.   All rights reserved.