| 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 and Subject indexes) |
| Keyword search + full text |
kf: |
coffee or tea
(keyword search of all full text content plus the following keyword indexes: xb, ut, au, su, yr, bn,sn, no, x0, x44, ln, fc.
Note: Only available from databases where full text indexing is available.
This search index can be used on any search. If there are no full text databases being searched, then only the kw indexes will be applied. |
| Access Method |
am: |
www oclc org (or) oclc
(omit http://, and use spaces instead of any punctuation or special characters) |
| Accession Number |
no: |
37993343
(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) |
| BC year |
bc: |
bc:500 |
| Character Sets Present |
vp: |
vp:hbr
(three-letter language code) |
| Corporate and Conference Name |
cd: |
canadian |
| Descriptor |
de: |
voice disorders |
| Dewey Class Number |
dd: |
998.900
(index deletes and collapses spaces and punctuation, except periods) |
| Form/genre |
ge: |
novel |
| Full text only |
fc: |
butterfly migration
(searches full text content within indexed databases only) |
| Gov Doc Number |
gn: |
y4p9610w292
(omit spaces and punctuation) |
Institution Record Call Number
(for libraries that have enabled searching Institition Records) |
nu: |
E185.61.B79141988
E185.61*
(omit all spaces and additional text except periods for each subfield of data provided; sometimes the data displayed actually comes from more then one subfield; truncating the search can make sure all types of data entry are retrieved; this index does not support browsing) |
| ISBN |
isbn: |
3196311821 or 31-9631-182-1
9780763625894 or 978-0-763625-89-4
(search with or without hyphens) |
| ISSN |
issn: |
0000-0019
(use hyphens) |
| Journal Source |
so: |
Time
(finds title of host item from various fields, depending on database) |
| Language of Cataloging Description |
ll: |
chi |
| Language of Work |
ln: |
kw:coffeehouse* and ln:japanese
(browse the index for a complete list of languages) |
| Library and Archives Canada Class Number |
rvm: |
sf209.5
(index deletes and collapses spaces and punctuation, except periods) |
| Library of Congress Call No. |
lc: |
hd9000.6
(index deletes and collapses
all spaces and punctuation, except periods) |
| Material Type |
mt: |
DVD |
| Music Number |
mu: |
has19832
(concatenates all punctuation and spaces up to a dash or double hyphen) |
| Musical Composition |
mc: |
jazz |
| Named Corporation and Conference |
nc: |
world conference on women |
| Natl AG Lib Call No |
ag: |
sf223.w47
(index deletes and collapses spaces and punctuation, except periods) |
| NLM Call Number |
lm: |
hv4915
(index deletes and collapses spaces and punctuation, except periods) |
| Notes/Comments |
nt: |
translation-adaptation |
| Personal Name |
pn: |
lemaire |
| Publisher |
pb: |
Ballantine |
| Report Number |
rn: |
epa 000275057
(omit punctuation and retain spaces) |
| Series Title |
se: |
emb report |
| Standard Number |
sn: |
1097461x or 1097-461x
1550463160 or 155-0463-160
9780763625894 or 978-0-763625-89-4
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 Headings, LC |
hl: |
biography
(only subject headings noted as US Library of Congress) |
| Subject Headings, LC Children's Lit |
hc: |
parties
(only subject headings noted as US Library of Congress Children's Literature) |
| Subject Headings, MESH |
hm: |
optometry
(only subject headings noted as MESH/US National Library of Medicine) |
| Subject Headings, NAL |
ha: |
fruit
(only subject headings noted as US National Library of Agriculture) |
| Subject Headings, Canadian |
he: |
photography
(only subject headings noted as Canadian National Library in English) |
| Subject Headings, RVM |
hr: |
indiens
(only subject headings noted as Repertoire des vedettes-matiere [Canadian National Library in French]) |
| Subject Headings, Sears |
hs: |
legends
(only subject headings noted as Sears) |
| Subject Headings, Other |
ho: |
fiction
gsafd
(includes the MARC codes for the classification type indexed) |
| Title |
ti: |
music w3 british w3 enlightenment |
| Uniform Title |
ut: |
bible |
| Unique Serial Title |
tk: |
renew annual report |
| Univeral Decimal Class No. |
ud: |
101-051
(use periods and hyphens) |
| Update Date |
up: |
20080101 |
| Year of Publication |
yr: |
2010 |
| Year 2 |
yy: |
2010
(all unknown digits are searched as 9s; however, if all four digits are unknown, they are searched as 0000) |
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