PAIS International (1972- )

Database Description
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Fields in This Database: Authors · Titles (Journal Articles) · Titles and Publishing (Books and Documents) · Subjects and Notes · Issue Numbering · Codes

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Database Description: The PAIS International database covers the literature of public affairs – current issues and actions which affect world communities, countries, people, and governments. This database provides access to articles, books, and documents addressing important political, economic and social issues.

The database covers all subjects that bear on contemporary public issues and the making and evaluating of public policy, irrespective of source or traditional disciplinary boundaries. This includes the policy oriented literature of the academic social sciences such as economics, finance, law, education, the military, political science, public administration, international law and relations, the environment, demography, public health, science and technology, and reports and commentary on public affairs from the serious general press.

Indexed materials include journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies, microfiche, Internet material, and more. Journal list. The editors analyze materials from around the globe and published in any of six languages: English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish.

PRODUCED BY: CSA.
DATES COVERED: From 1972.
UPDATES: Monthly.

Web Links: For some records in this database, PAIS supplies the URL for the full text of the article or document at an external site, such as university, organization, or government agency. To restrict your search to citations that carry these URL's, check the box RECORDS WITH WEB LINKS.

Use the Web Links limit only if you are explicitly looking for free documents or reports on unrestricted websites (government, university, etc.). If you want all kinds of documents, including published journal articles, books, etc., do not prelimit your search to Web Links. Instead, get your search results first and then use either the PAIS-supplied URL, or the link Find It! to find electronic full text or print information. This procedure will find you both free internet resources and those that have already been paid for by OhioLINK or your library.

Fields in This Database

AUTHORS

AUTHORS (.AU.): Author, editor, or compiler of the article, document, or book. Also includes organization names given as author. Examples:

Flynn, Julia
Glassman, James K.
Duran Heras, Maria Angeles
Chang, T. T.
Ohio. Agric. Research and Development Center.

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

A maximum of two personal names is given per record. When more than two authors apply, only the first is named; remaining authors are represented by the phrase "and others".

In organization names, common words may be abbreviated.

TITLES (Journal Articles)

TITLES and PUBLISHING INFORMATION (Books and Documents)

ARTICLE OR BOOK TITLE (.TI.): Title of the book or document.

PUBLISHER NAME (.PUBN.): Publisher's name spelled out in full. Not all records have the full publisher's name; some have only the publisher abbreviation (PUBA). Omit stopwords when searching the publisher name.

PUBLISHER ABBREVIATION (.PUBA.): Publisher abbreviation as found in the PAIS authority list.

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

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

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

SUBJECTS and NOTES

SUBJECTS (.SU.): PAIS-assigned descriptors or subject headings. These terms are taken from the controlled list, PAIS International Subject Headings, containing some 7,000 indexing terms. This list contains terms describing concepts, people, places, and organizations.

NOTE OR ABSTRACT (.AB.): A note, supplied by PAIS, describing content of the item and relevant publishing information. Omit stopwords when searching AB.

SUBJECT THESAURUS (.SUT.): This field is defined for system use when retrieving subjects through the thesaurus. People are unlikely to use this field for searching.

ISSUE NUMBERING

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

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

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

ARTICLE PAGINATION (.PGAT.): If you remember the starting page of an article but not the full citation, searching with PGAT 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 one-character code describing the nature of the publication.

m – monograph (book or document)
p– periodical (journal article)

GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS NUMBER (.DOCS.): Government documents numbers classify documents by the issuing agency. These numbers consist of letters, numerals, and punctuation. When searching, include periods, hyphens and slashes, but replace a colon by a space. To search a partial number, you may truncate the phrase at any space or slash, or use $ to show truncation.

LEVEL OF GOVERNMENT (.GL.): The level of government agency that issued the document.

Local
State or regional
National
International

GOVERNMENT PUBLICATION (.GOV.): For publications issued by government agencies at any level, GOV contains "yes".

GOVERNMENT STOCK NUMBER (.GSN.): Stock number for a government document.

CONTAINS (.IL.): Illustrations or other special content within the article, book, or document.

bibl
chart
diag
il
index
map
plan
table

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

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

LANGUAGE (.LA.): A one-character code identifying the language of the article, book, or document.

e – English
f – French
g – German
i – Italian
p – Portuguese
s – Spanish

July 2005

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