The following alphabetical list provides the two letter label, the relevant alias, and at least one example for all searchable BIOETHICSLINE Fields:
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Label Name/Example
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AB Abstract [Word Indexed]
assisted suicide.ab.
values.ab.
BIOETHICSLINE articles include brief abstracts written by staff members
of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics. Abstracts are only written for
articles from selected journals, beginning with entry month 8211. These
abstracts appear in the Abstract (AB) field.
The abstract index contains all searchable words from the abstract.
Stopwords, such as "the" and "of" are not searchable.
AF All Searchable Fields
drug abuse.af.
All Fields (AF) is an alias for all of the fields which occur in the
source documents, including value-added fields such as Subject Headings.
The only things excluded from an All Fields search are fields such as
"heading word" which are created by the loading process and do not
actually appear in the record.
AU Authors [Phrase Indexed]
smith j c.au.
smith j david.au.
smith $.au.
The Author (AU) field contains up to six authors. The format for
authors is last name followed by first name or initials: Smith Marc D or
Smith J. Before the 8211 update, only three authors were included; if
there were more than three authors the first author was listed with the
designation "et al."
Enter the last name, or if it is a common name, enter the last name and
first initial. If you are unsure of the spelling of the last name
(macdonald or mcdonald), enter one version and then scroll through the
list of names to find the other.
BK Book Citation [Word Indexed]
cloning.bk.
The Book Citation (BK) field contains the citation for a book if the
title field contains a chapter title. This field normally displays as
part of the Source (SO) field.
CA Corporate Author [Word Indexed]
dna advisory.ca.
The Corporate Author (CA) field contains the names of organizations
responsible for the authorship of a document, or the report number from
the authoring agency. Enter the most significant words in a corporate
name to retrieve a corporate author.
CO Collation [Word Indexed]
beta.co.
vhs.co.
The Collation (CO) field contains supplementary information about
an item, including number of pages or form of material (beta, VHS, etc).
Collation information displays as part of the Source (SO) field.
EM, UP, IM, IR, ND Entry Month [Phrase Indexed]
199402.em.
The Entry Month (EM) field contains the issue (year and month) in
which a document appeared in Index Medicus. The EM field appears
in the format YYYYMM.
HW, ME Heading Word [Word Indexed]
ethics.hw.
Sometimes you may wish to retrieve every MeSH subject heading that
includes a particular word; this is done by searching the single word
in the Subject Heading Word (HW) field.
You can also view every MeSH Subject Heading which contains a
particular word by using the pull-down menu TOOLS/Permuted Index.
IB ISBN [Phrase Indexed]
0-02-361200-2.ib.
The ISBN (IB) field contains the International Standard Book Number
(ISBN) for the journal in which an article was published.
IN Institution [Word Indexed]
tufts.in.
case western.in.
The Institution (IN) field contains the primary author's affiliation,
which is usually the source for a reprint of the article.
IS ISSN [Phrase Indexed]
0028-4793.is.
The ISSN (IS) field contains the International Standard Serial Number
(ISSN) for the journal in which an article was published.
JC NLM Journal Code [Phrase Indexed]
now.jc.
The Journal Code (JC) is an alpha-numeric code established by NLM which
uniquely identifies every journal indexed in the NLM databases.
JN Journal Name [Phrase Indexed]
internist.jn.
new englan$.jn.
The Journal Name (JN) field contains the full name of the journal in
which an article was published. This field usually displays as part of
the Source (SO) field.
JW Journal Word [Word Indexed]
ethics.jw.
medical ethics.jw.
The Journal Word (JW) field contains individual words from every
journal name in BIOETHICSLINE.
Stopwords such as "the" or "of" are not included. This field is used to
retrieve every occurrence of a journal which includes a particular word.
KF Keyword Word [Word Indexed]
ethics.kf.
Sometimes you may wish to retrieve every keyword that includes a
particular word; this is done by searching the single word in the
Keyword Word (KF) field.
KW Keywords [Phrase Indexed]
ethics.kw.
ethics advisory board.kw.
"ethics advisory board*".kw.
clinical approach.kw.
hp.kw.
The Keywords (KW) field contains indexing terms from the BIOETHICSLINE
Thesaurus, and Subject Captions. Keywords are phrases which should be
searched as they appear in the BIOETHICSLINE Thesaurus. Keywords may
display with a trailing asterisk to indicate major focus.
Subject Captions are general terms which represent either broad subject
areas or general approaches to the study of bioethical issues. Subject
Captions are phrases and can be searched using the full spelling
(clinical approach) or the 2-letter code (cl). Subject Captions were
entered into BIOETHICSLINE with the 8211 entry month.
NT Notes [Word Indexed]
bibliography.nt.
The Notes (NT) field contains either a series name and number or general
supplementary information about an item.
The notes may include information on the availability of a
bibliography, ordering information for dissertations or hearings, or
general summaries of materials such as manuals or scripts. A series
title may appear for a book or for audiovisual materials.
PB Publisher [Word Indexed]
plenum.pb.
The Publisher (PB) field contains publisher information for books,
monographs or any non-journal publications. This information is taken
from the source document as it appears, so variant forms of a publisher
are possible. PB displays as part of the Source field.
The Publisher field was added to BIOETHICSLINE with the 8211 update.
PG Pagination [Word Indexed]
"22".pg.
The Page (PG) field consists of the inclusive pagination of a journal
article. This field is usually displayed as part of the Source (SO)
field.
PL Place of Publication [Word Indexed]
boston.pl.
The Place of Publication (PL) field consists of the City of publication.
If necessary, a country or state may appear as well to resolve an
ambiguity.
PT Publication Type [Phrase Indexed]
court decision.pt.
In addition to indexing documents with Medical Subject Headings and
keywords, indexers assign one of nine terms to describe the article
type. These terms appear in the Publication Type (PT) field.
To view the index, enter enough letters to distinguish a publication
type (ana for "analytic"); the entire index is quickly scrollable to
determine all possible publication types.
SH, DE, SW, CT MeSH Subject Headings [Phrase Indexed]
ethics.sh.
ethics committees/
ethics medical.sh.
The MeSH Heading (SH) field contains NLM Medical Subject Headings. In
BIOETHICSLINE, the BIOETHICSLINE Thesaurus is used to index specific
articles; these terms appear in the Keyword (KW) field. These thesaurus
terms are then mapped to MeSH terms to provide an alternative indexing
scheme.
NLM's MeSH terms are organized in a hierarchy, or "tree" structure. You
can look up any subject heading using the TOOLS/Tree pull-down menu.
MeSH headings are entered into the index as phrases and should be
searched as they appear in the NLM MeSH books or in our Tree display.
SO Source (JN, PB, VO, PG, CO, OS, PL, BK, YR)
"23".so.
The Source (SO) field includes a display of all the basic information
needed to locate a citation, including the Journal Name or Monograph
Publisher, Book Title, the Vol/Issue, pagination and year of
publication.
TI Title [Word Indexed]
cloning.ti.
assisted suicide.ti.
The Title (TI) field contains the title of a document. If the title is
a book chapter, the book title will display as part of the Source and
can be searched in the BK (Book Citation) field.
Stopwords such as "of" or "the" will display in documents but do not
appear in the Title index. However, the word "a", which is a stopword
in other fields CAN be searched in titles.
TW Textword (TI, AB)
ethical code.tw.
The Textword (TW) field is an alias for all of the fields in a database
which contain text words and which are appropriate for a subject search.
The Textword field in BIOETHICSLINE includes Title (TI) and Abstract
(AB).
UI, AN Unique Identifier [Phrase Indexed]
00039360.ui.
The Unique Identifier (UI) field contains a number which uniquely
identifies a particular record. The number always consists of 5
numerals preceded by 3 zeros, e.g.: 00039360.
VO Volume/Issue [Word Indexed]
"5".vo.
The Volume (VO) field consists of the volume and issue of a serial
publication. This field is usually displayed as part of the Source (SO)
field.
XM Exploded MeSH Headings [Phrase Indexed]
"domestic violence*".xm.
NLM Medical Subject Headings are hierarchical, with up to twelve levels
of narrower terms from the top of a hierarchy. In order to retrieve a
term and all of its narrower terms, a subject heading must be
"exploded", that is, the subject heading and all narrower terms are
"OR'd" together. OVID pre-explodes highly-posted broader terms with
their narrower terms during loading. These pre-exploded MeSH Headings
appear in the XM field.
YR Publication Year [Phrase Indexed]
1994.yr.
The Publication Year (YR) field contains the year in which an article or
monograph was published. The year can be searched only as four digits.
The following limits are available from the Limit menu on the Main Search Screen:
Popular Command and Sentence Syntax Limits:
Abstracts Command Syntax: ..l/ ab=y Sentence Syntax: limit 1 to abstracts Broad Subject Captions Sentence Syntax examples: limit 1 to "bioethics and professional ethics" limit 1 to bioethics limit 1 to "mental health therapies and behavior control" limit 1 to mental General Subject Captions Sentence Syntax: limit 1 to clinical approach Sentence Syntax: limit 1 to clinical Sentence Syntax: limit 1 to religious approach Sentence Syntax: limit 1 to religious Journal Articles Sentence Syntax: limit 1 to journal articles Latest Update Command Syntax: ..l/1 to up=y Sentence Syntax: limit 1 to update Publication Types Sentence Syntax: limit 1 to analytic Sentence Syntax: limit 1 to court decision Publication Year Command Syntax: ..l/1 yr=1998 Sentence Syntax: limit 1 to yr=1996
Sentence Syntax: use bioe Command Syntax: ..c/bioe
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