Education Full Text (1983- )

Database Description
Fields in This Database: Authors · Titles (journal articles) · Titles and Publishing Information (books) · Subjects · Abstract · Issue Numbering · Codes

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Database Description: Education Full Text provides abstracting, indexing, and full-text articles for education publications. Education Full Text covers core international periodicals, monographs, and yearbooks. Topics include a wide range of contemporary education issues, including government funding, instructional media, multicultural education, religious education, student counseling, competency-based, and information technology.

Education Full Text cites every article of at least one column in length in English-language periodicals and yearbooks published in the United States and elsewhere. English-language books related to education published in 1995 or later are also indexed. Journal list.

PRODUCED BY: H.W. Wilson Company.
DATES COVERED: Indexing from June 1983; abstracting from August 1994; full text from 1996.
UPDATES: Monthly.

Fields in This Database

AUTHORS

AUTHORS (.AU.) includes names of the authors of articles and books. Author names are given with surname first. Names are standardized in this database, so that the same form of name is always used for a particular person or organization. Examples:

Omizo, Michael M.
Ruzicka, M. Therese
Price, J. J.
Harrington-Lueker, Donna
Van Den Berg, Willem H.
American Association of Community Colleges

All words are indexed. If you are unsure how the name is given, begin searching by surname only.

CORPORATE AUTHOR (.CO.): Name of organization (association, institution, conference, corporation, or government agency) that is the author of a book.

TITLES (Journal Articles)

TITLES AND PUBLISHING INFORMATION (Books)

BOOK PUBLICATION YEAR (.PUBY.): Publication year for the book. Searching with PUBY is a way to limit your results to books published within a given year.

EDITION (.ED.): Edition statement of the book.

SERIES (.SE.): Series in which the book was published.

SUBJECTS

SUBJECTS (.SU.) encompasses all kinds of subjects:

• Topical description of the content of the article or book, from the thesaurus used by the professional indexers of this database.
• Names of people discussed in the article or book.
• Names of places discussed in the article or book.
• Names of organizations discussed in the article or book.

For more precise results, you may search by one of the specialized subject types listed below. However, to search these specialized fields effectively, you need to understand how records are constructed by the indexers.

PERSONAL NAME AS SUBJECT (.PS.): Name of person discussed in the article or book.

CORPORATE NAME AS SUBJECT (.SUBC.): Name of association, institution, conference, corporation, or government agency discussed in the article or book.

GEOGRAPHIC NAME AS SUBJECT (.SUBG.): Name of place discussed in the article or book.

TOPICAL SUBJECT (.SUBJ.): Topical description of the content of the article or book, from the thesaurus used by the professional indexers of this database.

ABSTRACT, NOTE

These fields include notes supplied by the indexers who create this database. You will find words from these fields when you search ALL FIELDS without qualification. It is unusual to search these fields directly, because you cannot generally predict their content. However, if you are searching one of these fields, omit stopwords.

ABSTRACT (.AB.): Abstracts appear only in citations for journal articles.

CONTENTS NOTE (.CON.): Titles of chapters within a book.

ISSUE NUMBERING

YEAR (.YR.): Year of publication of the article or book.

MONTH (.MO.): Month of the issue in which the article appeared. Months may be given as 3- or 4-letter abbreviations, or spelled out.

VOLUME (.VO.): Volume of the journal in which the article appeared.

NUMBER (.NO.): Number of the issue in which the article appeared.

PAGINATION (.PG.): If you remember the starting page of an article but not the full citation, searching with PG might be useful. Enter the starting page and the truncation symbol $.

CODES

ACCESSION NUMBER (.AN.): Record control number assigned by database producer; unique to each record in the database. Searching by AN is a method for returning directly to a record that you have retrieved previously.

ARTICLE TYPE (.AT.): A code or a spelled-out word describing the nature of the article.

autob$ – Autobiography
bibli$ – Bibliography
biogr$ – Biography
bkexp or excerpt – Book excerpt
case$– Law case
featu$ – Feature article
intrv or interview – Interview
mpicr or film – Movie review
obitu$ – Obituary
prodr or product – Product evaluation
spech or speech – Speech
sympo$ – Symposium
video – Video recording review

BIOGRAPHY CODE (.BIO.): A code representing the biographical content of the article or book.

b – Individual biography
c – Collective biography
d – Non-biographical book with biographical material

COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION (.CP.): A 2- or 3-character code representing the place of publication of the journal or book. For a complete list of codes, see MARC Code List for Countries at the Library of Congress. Examples:

at – Australia
fr – France
gw – Germany
ii – India
xxc – Canada
xxk – Great Britain
xxu – United States

CONTAINS (.IL.): Abbreviations for illustrations or other special content within the article or book.

bibl – Bibliography
col – Colored
il – Illustrated
map or maps – Map(s)
pl – Plates
por or pors – Portrait(s)

ISSN (.IS.): The International Standard Serial Number of the journal.

ISBN (.ISBN.): The International Standard Book Number of the book.

LANGUAGE (.LA.): A 3-character code representing the language of the article or book. For a complete list of codes, see MARC Code List for Languages at the Library of Congress. Common codes:

eng – English
fre – French
ger – German
por – Portuguese
spa – Spanish

February 2007

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