| Index Name and
Description |
Field Code |
Search Examples |
| Keyword Anywhere -- Searches all catalog
records for specified words or phrases. |
gkey |
Search for: gkey motors
Finds: Items written about various kinds of motors, General Motors Corporation, etc. |
| Author/Creator -- Looks for items created,
written or performed by the author or creator you specify. |
nkey |
Search for:nkey wordsworth
Finds: Items written by authors with the last name of Wordsworth, such as Alfred Wordsworth, Lionel Wordsworth Hinxman, William Wordsworth, etc.
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Search for: nkey "wordsworth william"
Finds: Items written by the author William Wordsworth.
|
| Title -- Most comprehensive way to search
for words or phrases that appear in a title. |
tkey |
Search for: tkey "critical review"
Finds: Items with the phrase "critical review" in the title.
|
| Publisher/Place/Date -- Searches publication
information such as the publisher's name, place of publication, or original
date of publication.
NOTE: You may see in the top right column of your search results
a year different from the one you searched. This different year reflects
the edition owned by Cornell. For example, Cornell may own a 1990
edition of an item first published in 1823. The number 1990
would appear in the search results screen.
| kpub |
Search for: kpub "oxford university press"
Finds: Items published by the Oxford University Press.
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Search for: kpub calcutta AND kpub 1995
Finds: Items published in Calcutta in 1995.
|
| Subject -- Searches for words or phrases
that appear in subject headings. |
skey |
Search for: skey "civil war" AND skey "quaker"
Finds: Items written about Quakers and the Civil War. |
| Series -- Searches for words or phrases
(including series numbers) that appear in a series name. |
seri |
Search for: seri "acs symposium" AND seri 729
Finds: Volume 729 of the ACS symposium series.
|
| ISBN/ISSN -- Finds items by matching
a publication's unique, international standard book (ISBN) or serial
(ISSN) number.
NOTE: ISSN numbers MUST include hypens and be enclosed
in quotes as a phrase. Hypens and quotes are not required for ISBN
searches. (See examples.)
| kisn |
Search for: kisn "0017-789x"
Finds: Harper's magazine
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Search for: 1565927591
Finds: Jini in a nutshell : a desktop quick reference, by Scott Oaks and Henry Wong.
|
| Name (By or About) -- Searches for items
created, written, or performed by an individual or concerning
that person. |
knam |
Search for: knam "bourke-white"
Finds: Items by and about the photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White.
|
| Form/Genre Anywhere -- Looks for a particular
type of work, or items categorized according to artistic, musical, or
literary style. |
kfor |
Search for: kfor ill
Finds: Items that are illustrated.
|
| Notes -- Search for the edition, type
of publication, statements of responsibility, etc. for an item. |
knot |
Search for: knot references
Finds: Items that have references noted.
|
| Author/Creator: Uniform Title Display
-- Looks for items created, written or performed by the author or creator
of works in the original language but known through manifestations of
the work, collective works or selections created by one person. |
kaud |
Search for: kaud maugham
Finds: Items consisting of more than two works in different forms (selections) by Somerset Maugham.
|
| Title: Uniform Title Display -- Looks
for items that are published in variations of the title, published in
the original language of the work. |
ktud |
Search for: ktud petit prince
Finds: Items published in the original language and subsequent
translations, such as the Vietnamese version of Le Petit Prince,
Cau Hoang Con.
|
Cartographic Details -- Searches for
cartographic information such as scale, coordinates, altitude,projection,
etc.
NOTE: This index field does not search place names.
E.g., If you are looking for a map for Ithaca, search for "ithaca
map?" in the "Subject" field.
|
kmap |
Search for: kmap conic
Finds: Cartographic materials with a Lambert conformal conic projection, etc.
|
| Networked Resources Genre -- Searches
Library Gateway Resources genre: full text, indexes, numeric. |
knrg |
Search for: knrg "full text"
Finds: Items that are Networked Resources and that are full text. |
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