OCLC PapersFirst

Revised 3/2/2009

Database Name: PapersFirst

Short Database Name: PPF1

Available On: FirstSearch Production Server and Test Server

Why select this database?

Covers every published congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received by The British Library Document Supply Centre

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	008
Accession Number	035/a
Language Code of Text	041/a
Author	100/a 700/a
Title	245/a
Alternate Title	246/a
General Note	500/a
Language Note	546/a
Material Type	598/b
Identifier	653/a
Conference Author	711/a,c,d
Parent Book Information	799/a,s,t
Parent Book Publisher Information	799/d
Chapter pagination	799/g
Parent Book Series Title	799/k,2
Parent Book ISSN	799/x
Parent Book ISBN	799/z
Non-English (language)	917/j
Language of Text Code Expanded	936/0
OCLC Record Display Type	949/x
Conference Sponsor	970/w
British Library Serial Shelfmark	980/x
British Library Book Location	980/y

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.
Limiters 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 limiter 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	245/a 246/a 500/a 653/a 799/s,t
Keyword All (ka)	Any	1016	2	100/a 245/a 246/a 500/a 653/a 700/a 799/a,s,t
Accession Number (no)	Control number local	12	2	035/a
Author (au, au=)	Author Name	1003	1,2,101	100/a 700/a 799/a
BL Location	OCLC Defined	5663	2	980/x,y
Conference Location (cl)	Name-Geographic	5119	2	711/c
Conference Name (cn, cn=)	Author-name-conference	1006	1,2	711/a
Date of Conference (dk)	OCLC Defined	5066	2	711/d
Editor (ed, ed=)	OCLC Defined	1020	1,2	799/a
Identifier	OCLC Defined	29	2	653/a
Language Phrase (ln=)	Code-language	54	1	546/a 917/j
Notes (nt)	Note	63	2	500/a
Publication Date (pd)	Date	30	2	008
Publisher (pb)	Name-Publisher	1018	2	799/d
Series Title (se, se=)	Title-series	5	1,2	799/k
Source (so, so=)	Title-host-item	1033	1,2	799/s,t
Standard Number (sn, sn=)	Identifier-standard	1007	1,2	799/x,z
Sponsor (sp, sp=)	OCLC Defined	5710	1,2	970/w
Subject (su, su=)	Subject	21	1,2	653/a
Title (ti, ti=)	Title	4	1,2	245/a 246/a
Year (yr)	Date-publication	31	2,4,5	008 711/d

*Both an index and a restrictor

Limiters

The following limiters 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:

Limiter	Type	Input	Use Attribute	Structure Attribute
Language*	No limit English Non-English	— english non-english	54	1
Year*	All years Single year range of years	— 19xx, 20xx 19xx-20xx	31	4,5

Sorting

Search results in the PapersFirst database can be sorted by Author (1003), Title (4), Publication Date (30) and Date of Conference (5066).

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, 700/a, 799/a); Source (799/st); Subject (653/a); Notes (500/a) and Title (245/a, 246/a).

Using Limiters: You can limit searches by Year (31), and Language (54).