OCLC Keyword Searching
Complete and current document at Search WorldCat Indexes
Example: Fin au shostakovich and ti symphony and pb sikorski/sco
Keyword Labels
| Bib Information |
Index Label |
| Access method
(new) |
am |
| Author |
au |
| Citation/References
(new) |
cr |
| Conference name
(new) |
cn |
| Corporate name
(new) |
co |
| Dewey® Decimal class number
(new) |
dd |
| Extended author
(new) |
ea |
| Extended title
(new) |
et |
| Internet resource
(new) |
ir |
| Language |
la |
| Library of Congress class number
(new) |
lc |
| National Agricultural Library class
number
(new) |
ag |
| National Library of Canada class
number (new) |
ca |
| National Library of Medicine class
number
(new) |
lm |
| Notes |
nt |
| Personal name (new) |
pn |
| Publication location |
pl |
| Publisher |
pb |
| Report number |
rn |
| Series |
se |
| Standard number
(new) |
nn |
| Subject |
su |
| Subject/Title/Contents |
st |
| Title |
ti |
| Uniform title |
ut |
| Universal Decimal class number
(new) |
ud |
| Vendor information |
vn |
Qualifiers
| Qualifier Type |
Label |
Qualification By
|
Example
|
| Type of material (format) |
ft |
Books
Computer files
Maps
Mixed materials
Scores
Serials
Sound recordings
Visual materials
|
bks
com
map
mix
sco
ser
rec
vis
|
| Years of publication |
yr |
m=millennium, c=century,
d=decade, y=year
Single year
[mcdy]
Decade
[mcd?]
Century
[mc??]
Single year and all later years
[mcdy-]
Single year and all earlier years
[-mcdy]
Range of years
[mcdy-y]
[mcdy-dy]
[mcdy-cdy]
[mcdy-mcdy]
|
1994
199?
19??
1995-
-1995
1880–3
1880–91
1880–920
1880–1920
|
| Microform or Not microform (new) |
mi |
Microform
Not microform
|
mf
nm |
| Cataloging source (new) |
so |
Library of Congress
|
dlc
|
Stopword list
| a |
but |
her |
on |
which |
| an |
by |
his |
or |
with |
| and |
for |
in |
that |
you |
| are |
from |
is |
the |
|
| as |
had |
it |
this |
|
| at |
have |
not |
to |
|
| be |
he |
of |
was |
|
Access method
-
Each punctuation mark is treated as a word division. Thus,
www.oclc.org
is treated as 3 separate words: www, oclc, and org.
- Stopwords are not applied to the Access method index.
Include stopwords
when searching this index.
- Example
To search for www.poets.org (am), type:
fin am poets
Class numbers
- Dewey Decimal, Library of Congress, National Agricultural Library,
National
Library of Canada, National Library of Medicine, and
Universal
Decimal class number.
- Include periods in search. Delete all other
punctuation.
Delete spaces.
- Example
To search for National Agricultural Library class number (ag)
A280.29, type:
fin ag a280.29
Hyphenated words
- In the Extended title (et), Notes (nt), Subject
(su),
Subject/Title/Contents (st), and Title (ti) indexes,
hyphenated
words are indexed 2 ways: with the hyphen, as one word, and
without
the hyphen, as separate words.
- Example
To search for title (ti) al-Jukir, type:
fin ti al-jukir
Or
fin ti al
Or
fin ti jukir
LCCNs in Standard number index
- Include only the numeric portion of the LCCN when searching the
Standard number
(nn) index. Include the hyphen.
- Example
To search for standard number (nn) map32-14, type:
fin nn 32-14
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