Searching Limit Fields

Limit fields are specially indexed fields that have relatively few possible values. They allow you to limit your searches to records of a particular characteristic, such as type of publication or language of text.

The Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals limit fields are as follows:

Accession Number (AN)

Country of Publication (CP)

Document type (DT)

Publication Year (PY)

You can search these fields with in or =. For example, to retrieve documents originally published in French, type:

                 french in la or la=french

In addition to in and =, you may use the following operators with the Publication Year (PY) field:

< less than, such as py<1990

> greater than, such as py>1991

<= less than or equal to, such as py<=1989

>= greater than or equal to, such as py>=1992

- within a range, such as py=1990-1992