The following searchable fields are available for American Periodicals.
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Field Name |
Label |
Search Examples & Explanation |
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Abstract |
AB
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AB(presidential election) Search for your terms in the abstracts of documents. In American Periodicals, the first paragraph of an article is considered the abstract. Only substantial articles will have an abstract. |
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All fields (no full text) |
ALL |
ALL("Brooklyn Bridge") Search for your terms in all fields, but not the full text. |
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Author |
AU
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AU(Benjamin Franklin) Search for documents written by a particular author. Try searching on both the full first name and initials in order to retrieve all articles by a specific author. |
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Document text |
FT |
FT(Mount Rainier) Search for your terms in the body of the document. |
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Document title |
TI
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TI(railroad construction) Search for your terms in the title of the document. |
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Document type |
DTYPE |
DTYPE(feature)
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Issue |
ISS |
ISS(11) Search by issue number. |
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Language |
LA |
LA(German) Search by language of publication. |
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Page |
PAGE |
PAGE(47) Search for specific page numbers or start pages. |
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Publication date |
PD |
Year, month, day: PD(19111225) Search by publication date. The publication date can be searched by year, year and month, or year, month and day. |
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Publication title |
PUB |
PUB(American Architect) Search for terms in the title of the publication. |
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Publication year |
YR |
YR(1849) Search for documents published in a specific year. |
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Publisher |
PB |
PB(American Periodicals Series II) Search for content from a specific publisher. In many cases, the publisher field in American Periodicals will refer to the collection in which the document was included prior to American Periodicals (e.g., American Periodicals III, Center for Research Libraries). |
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Publisher location |
PBLOC |
PBLOC(Boston) Search by publisher location. |
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Source type |
STYPE |
STYPE(magazines) Search by source type. |
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Tag |
TAG |
TAG(World War I) Search for Tags attached to articles. This field is user generated and only searches Tags that were made public by ProQuest users. |
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Volume |
VO |
VO(8) Search by volume number. |
The Document type limiter available in the Advanced Search enables you to restrict your search to only search and retrieve records that are identified as certain document types in American Periodicals.
Note: Not all Document types are applicable to all publications in American Periodicals.
