A search of the at alias will retrieve information from Book Title Word (BW), Heading Title (HD), Chapter Title (TC) and Division Title (TD).

Book Author Alternate Format (AO) contains the primary and contributing or secondary authors, as noted in the front matter of the book.

Book Author Alternate Format (AO) names appear in the format of first name followed by middle and last names.

Book Author names are phrase indexed and appear in the format of last name followed by first and middle names, or last name followed by up to two initials.

Author names are phrase indexed and appear in the format of last name followed by first and middle names, or last name followed by up to two initials. Chapter Authors can also be searched under the All Authors (AA) alias.

The Book Editor (ED) index includes the names of all individual(s) responsible for the editorial work in a book. Editors are typically listed in the front matter of a book.

Searching the Book Editor field also finds Secondary Editors, such as individual(s) responsible for the technical editorial work and management in a textbook. Secondary Editors are typically listed in the first pages of the textbook (usually on the same page as the copyright statement). Types of Secondary Editors include Managing Editors, Production Coordinators/Managers, Copy Editors, Designers, Illustration Planners, Project Editors/Managers, Acquisitions Editors, Sponsoring Editors, Developmental Editors, Assistants, Indexers, Compositors, Printers, and others.

Book Editor names are phrase indexed and appear in the format of last name followed by first and middle names, or last name followed by up to two initials.

The Book Editor Alternate Format (EF) index includes the names of all individual(s) responsible for the editorial work in a book. Editors are typically listed in the front matter of a book.

Book Editor Alternate Format names appear in the format of first name followed by middle and last names.

The Heading Title (HD) field contains all the table of contents titles included in the main body of the text below the level of the chapter title. Heading titles may include Editors, Chapter or Section Authors, Abbreviation, and other section headings typically found in textbooks, or may include book-specific headings.

For instance, a chapter on endocrinology might include a 1st level heading, 'Diabetes' to identify the diabetes section and second level headings such as Epidemiology, Etiology, Diagnosis, Treatment, and Follow-up. Information on the etiology of diabetes could be retrieved from such a book by searching "diabetes and etiology".hd.

Heading Titles display as part of the Full Text (TX) field.

Enter a descriptive word or phrase found in the institution name or address (e.g. "harvard," not "university"). Consider using both full spellings and standard abbreviations.

Available publication type are defined as follows.

• Atlas: Books in which figures comprise the primary or one of the primary content types and where the text tends to support the images.
• Clinical Manual/Handbook/Quick Reference: Books that provide concise and easily assimilated and generally practical information on subjects such as diseases, drugs, and clinical
  management and are organized for easy access using devices such as bullets, outlines and/or standard headings.
• Drug Reference: Books that are primarily focused on drugs, herbs (medications, etc.) and their usages, dosages, etc. These are typically but not always presented in a monographic format.
• Nursing Practice: Books that are primarily focused on nursing diagnosis, interventions, and/or evaluation, as related to direct care, consultation, and/or quality assurance for both general as well as
  specialty practice.
• Text/Reference: Books that serve as standard sources for a specialty, subspecialty, discipline or other broad topic. Such texts are often used as sources for academic, training and/or for
  continuing education courses.

The Subject Category (TS) field allows the user to browse through the list of subject categories. Depending on a book's subject matter, it will be assigned to one or more categories.

Since this field contains such a large quantity of diverse information, most searches for a specific subject will result in retrieval of higher relevance if conducted in the Chapter Title (TC) or Division Title (TD) fields. Note that metadata such as book title, editor, ISBN, and publisher must all be searched separately, as they are not included in TX. Additionally, front matter is not included in TX as it is indexed separately in the Front Matter (FM) field.

Searching TX will search the Byline Text (BT), Book Title Word (BW), Chapter Author (CH), Caption Text (CT), Heading Title (HD), Institution (IN), Pagination (PG), Question and Answer (QA), References (RF), Chapter Title (TC), and Division Title (TD) fields.

Stopwords, which include commonly occurring words such as "of" and "the" will display in the documents but do not appear in the Full Text index.

The Update Code (UP) field contains a 8-digit number representing the year, month and day (in YYYYMMDD format) in which documents were published in this database.

Enter the desired date in the format "YYYYMMDD" where "YYYY" corresponds to the 4-digit year, "MM" to the 2-digit month and "DD" to the day. Use truncation"199711$.up." or "1997$.up." to retrieve all the records added in a particular month or year.

The unlimited truncation symbol, $, retrieves records that contain the search term and all possible suffix variations of a root word. The example will retrieve records containing words such as rat, rats, rate, rationalize, ratify, etc.