Zoological Records Advanced Search Field Tags
Use these two-character field tags to return more relevant results when building advanced search queries.
Field Tag |
Description |
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AD=Address |
Searches for institution and/or place names in the Address field. |
AI=Author Identifiers |
Searches for Web of Science ResearcherID numbers and ORCID identifiers in the Author Identifiers table within a record. Enter a unique Web of Science ResearcherID number or ORCID identifier with the AI field tag. |
AU=Author |
Searches for author names of journal articles and books in the Author(s) field and the Corporate Author(s) field. Last names containing a space should be searched with and without the space to ensure that all relevant records are returned. For example: AU=(De Marco* OR DeMarco*) AU=(Van Hecke T* OR Vanhecke T*) See also Guidelines for Searching Names. |
BN=Biblio Note |
Searches the Notes field within a record for miscellaneous bibliographic information relating to the source document. The Notes field may also contain information concerning the Language(s) or Summary Language(s) in which the source document was written |
BT=Broad Terms |
Searches for broader terms in the Broad Terms field within a record; generally from the hierarchical subject thesaurus. See our description of this field in the Full Record. |
DE=Descriptors |
Searches the Descriptors Data table within a record. See our description of this field in the Full Record. |
ED=Editor |
Searches for editor names in the Editor(s) field within a record. For example: See also Guidelines for Searching Names |
GP=Group Author |
Searches the Group Author(s) and Book Group Author(s) fields within of a record. |
IC=Identifying Codes |
Searches for codes in the following fields within a record. Accession Number ISSN ISBN |
IS=ISSN |
Searches the ISSN field within a record. The ISSN (International Standard Serial Number) searches for periodical publications such as journals and electronic publications. If a journal has both a print ISSN and an electronic ISSN, then both display in the Full Record. The format is four numbers, a hyphen (-), three numbers, and then a check character that may be a number or X. |
IS=ISBN |
Searches the ISBN field within a record. The ISBN (International Standard Book Number) searches for books. It is a unique machine-readable identifier that marks a book unmistakably. The format is a 10-digit number that contains 3 hyphens (-). The last digit is a check character, which may be a number or an X. The position of the hyphens can vary for each ISBN identifier. |
PMID=PubMed ID |
Searches the PubMed ID field within a record. |
PU=Publisher |
Searches for the publisher name and publisher address in the Publisher field within a record. |
PY=Year Published |
Searches the Source Published field within a record. You must combine this field tag with another field tag using the AND or NOT Boolean operator. Example: TS=cell growth AND PY=2007 When entering a range of years, restrict your search to five years or less; otherwise, processing slows down and the product returns too many unproductive results. Example: TS=cell growth AND PY=(2008-2010) |
SD=Subject Descriptors |
Searches the following fields and tables within a record.
Searching by Subject Descriptors (SD) will retrieve everything that a search by Descriptors (DE) will retrieve. However, the converse is not true. Subject Descriptors is a more inclusive field. See our description of these fields and tables in the Full Record. |
SO=Publication Name |
Searches for publication names in the Source field within a record. The product retrieves books titles and journal titles. |
ST=Super Taxa |
Searches the Super Taxa field within a record. See our description of this field in the Full Record. |
SU=Research Area |
Searches the Research Areas field. |
SY=Systematics / Organism |
Searches the Systematics Data table within a record. Search includes the following categories within the table.
See our description of these fields and tables in the Full Record. |
TA=Taxa Notes |
Searches the Taxa Notes field within a record. See our description of this field in the Full Record. |
TI=Title |
Searches the Title field within a record. |
TS=Topic |
Searches for topic terms within the following fields and tables within a record.
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UT=Accession Number |
Searches the Accession Number field within a record. The accession number is a unique identifying number associated with each record in the product. It consists of a product identification code, a product year, and an item number. |