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Sociological Abstracts

Revised 2/19/2003

Database name: SocAbs
Short database name:  SABS
Available on: FirstSearch Test Server and Production Server

Why select this database?

  • Provides access to the latest research in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences
  • Includes citations (and abstracts since 1974) for articles in over 1,500 journals
  • Draws information from an international selection of journals, serials, conference papers, books, and dissertations
Subjects included
community development culture and social structure demography and human biology environmental interactions family and social welfare
health and medicine and law religion and science social psychology and group interactions welfare services women's studies

Coverage/update frequency

  • Covers 1963 to present, abstracts since 1974.
  • New records are added six times per year.

Record display information

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

Field Name MARC field(s)
Year of Publication 008/<date>
LC Catalog Number 010/a
ISBN 020/a
Standard SICI 024/a
Accession Number 035/a
Author 100/a
Affiliation of First Author 100/u
Title 245/a,b
Book Imprint 260/a
Year of Publication 260/c
Book Imprint 300/a
ISSN 490/x
General Notes 500/a
Abstract 520/a
Language of Publication 546/a
Subject Term (Major) 650/a
Subject Index Codes (Major) 650/6
Identifier 653/a
Subject Term (Minor) 695/a
Subject Index Codes (Minor) 695/6
Classification Codes 698/c
Other Contributors 700/a
Association Name 711/a
Year of Publication 711/d
Country of Publication 773/c
Journal Description 773/g
Source 773/t
ISSN 773/x
Journal CODEN 773/y
Document Author 779/a
Language of Document Reviewed 779/l
Chapter's Book Title 799/t
Chapter's Book Author(s) 799/a
Chapter's Book Author Role 799/e
Chapter's Book Publisher 799/d
ISBN 799/z
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
Publication Name Code 914/a
Year of Publication 914/b
Volume Number 914/c
Issue Number 914/d
Publication Code 914/e
Document Type 914/f
Country of Publication 914/h
Journal ID Code 914/i
Association Abbreviation 914/j
Conference Accession Number 914/k
Edition Date 914/l
Original Edition Date 914/m
Availability 914/n
Review Evaluation 914/p,u
Language of Document Reviewed 914/q
Classification Codes 914/r
Language of Publication 914/o
Edition Date 914/2
Original Edition Date 914/3
Chapter's Book Title 914/4
Book Imprint 914/5
Book Price and Binding 914/7
Library Holdings 948
Detailed holdings information is available in FirstSearch Z39.50 Configuration Guide - Element Set Names.
Volume 949/a
Issue 949/b
Pages 949/c
Parts/Supplement 949/d
Date 949/e
First Page Number 949/f
Marketing Defined Date 949/g
Document Type 949/i
OCLC Record Display Type 949/x

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 1016 2 245/a,b
500/a
520/a
650/a
653/a
695/a
698/c
773/t
Keyword All Any 1016 2 008 <Date>
010/a
020/a
100/a
245/a,b
490/x
500/a
520/a
650/a
653/a
695/a
698/c
700/a
779/a
773/t,x,y
799/z
914/i
949/e,g
Abstract (ab) Abstract 62 2 520/a
Accession Number (no) Control number-local 12 2 035/a
Author (au, au=) Author-name 1003 1, 2 100/a
700/a
779/a
Author Affiliation (aa) OCLC Defined 5100 2 100/u
Chapter's Book Author (ha) OCLC Defined 5799 2 799/a,e
Chapter's Book Title (cb, cb=) OCLC Defined 5030 1, 2 799/t
Classification Descriptor (cd) OCLC Defined 5699 2 698/c
914/r
Classification Descriptor (cd=) OCLC Defined 5699 1 698/c
Conference Name (cn, cn=) Author-name-conference 1006 1, 2 711/a
914/j
Descriptor (de) OCLC Defined 5650 2 650/a,6
653/a
695/a,6
Descriptor (de=) OCLC Defined 5650 1 650/a
695/a
Document Author (da, da=) OCLC Defined 5085 1, 2 779/a
Document Type (dt=) Code-record-type 1001 1 914/f
949/i
Edition Date (ed) OCLC Defined 5084 2 914/l,m

First Page (pg)

 OCLC Defined 5006 2 949/f
Identifier (id) Subject-local 29 2 653/a
Issue (is) OCLC Defined 5004 2 949/b
Journal Source (so, so=) Title-host-item 1033 1, 2 773/t
Language (ln=) Code-language 54 1 546/a
Language of Document Reviewed (dl=) OCLC Defined 5083 1 779/L
Major Descriptor (mj) OCLC Defined 5065 2 650/a,6
Major Descriptor Phrase (mj=) OCLC Defined 5065 1 650/a
Minor Descriptor (mn) OCLC Defined 5069 2 695/a,6
Minor Descriptor Phrase (mn=) OCLC Defined 5069 1 695/a
Notes (nt) Note 63 2 500/a
Place of Publication (pl) Name-geographic-place-publication 59 2 260/a
773/c
Publication Date (pd) Date 30 2 949/e,g
Publisher (pb) Name-publisher 1018 2 260/a
300/a
799/a,d,e
914/4,5,6
Review Evaluation (ev) OCLC Defined 5085 2 914/u
Standard Numbers (sn) Identifier-standard 1007 1, 2 010/a
020/a
490/x
773/x,y
799/z
914/i
Subject (su) Subject 21 2 650/a,6
653/a
695/a,6
Subject Phrase (su=) Subject 21 1 650/a
695/a
Title (ti, ti=) Title 4 1, 2 245/a,b
Volume (vo) OCLC Defined 5013 2 949/a
Year (yr) Date-publication 31 2, 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
Document Type*

Abstract of Journal Article
Association Paper
Book Chapter Abstract
Book Abstract
Book Review
Dissertation
Film Review
Software Review

 aja
asp
bca
bka
brv
dis
frv
swr		 1001 1
Language* No Limit
English
Non-English		 --
eng
non-english		 54 1
Limit to Full Text Limit to full text --
full text		 6002 2
Limit to Holdings OCLC Institution Symbol Enter symbol for OCLC institution1 56 2
Year* All years
Single year
Range of years		 --
19xx, 20xx
19xx - 20xx		 31 2,4,5

* Also used as an index.

1To find the OCLC symbol for an institution, please see the online version of Find an OCLC Library.

Sorting

Search results in the Sociological Abstracts database can be sorted by Author (1003), Title (4), Source (1033), Subject (21), 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 search finds information in these fields: Abstract (520/a , Author (100/a, 700/a,779/a), Classification Descriptor (698/c), Journal Source (773/t), Notes (500/a), Publication Date ( 949/eg), Standard Number (010/a, 020/a, 490/x, 773/x,y, 799/z, 914/i ), Subject (650/a, 653/a, 695/a), Title (245/a,b) and Year (<008>).

Using limiters: You can limit searches by Year (31), Document Type (1001), Library Holdings (56), and Language (54). Limit to Full text (6002) is used to limit to full text from other databases. Full text availability is dependent upon your institution's access arrangements.

Copyright

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