Database field missing from this list of main database document metadata fields: Abstract, Document title, Document Source, Publication Year, Subject headings
What is the author field.
100
A symbol used to replace any single character, either within or at the right end of the word.
What is a wildcard.
100
Shorthand for field names used in Command Line searching.
What are field codes.
100
A feature of database infrastructure involving a procedure that takes an original article and describes it in prescribed way to help make relevant content easier to find.
What is indexing.
100
Over-abundant everyday words such as "are", "if", "but", "some" that most databases don't support using as search terms or filter out as being irrelevant.
What are stop words.
200
Field that holds a unique, sequential number assigned to each record as it is added to a database.
What is the AN Accession Number field
200
These are ignored when searched as part of search words or syntax strings in most databases.
What are punctuation characters.
200
Typically can be used in any search window that does not target a specific field.
What is Command line search syntax.
200
A feature of database infrastructure that lets you retrieve records indexed by a term, and any narrower "children" terms that the term includes, as indented under it in the database thesaurus.
What is explode.
200
A searcher's device where information on a complex concept represented by combinations of thesaurus headings, key words, subheadings and synonyms are pulled together and stored for frequent use.
What is a subject hedge.
300
Boolean operator that finds records with the first word or search syntax entered, excluding the second.
What is Not
300
A symbol used to replace multiple characters at the right end (suffix end) of a word.
What is truncation.
300
A search feature that uses quotation marks to retrieve records containing words in the exact same order rather than a set of keywords in random order.
What is "phrase searching".
300
A database feature that supports precise, specific searches by making the subject heading the main topic of records retrieved.
What is major descriptor.
300
A feature of database infrastructure where different grammatical forms of a word - eg mouse, mice - are mapped to the same keyword or subject heading.
What is Lemmatization.
400
A feature of database infrastructure that allows a searcher to send records of interest to a clipboard to be printed, exported or saved when the search has ended.
What is the marked list.
400
Symbols reserved for searching numeric fields in most databases, for example, to retrieve publications before or after a certain date.
What are greater than > and less than < symbols.
400
A database search feature that retrieves search terms within a certain number of words of each other.
What is a proximetry operator.
400
A feature of database infrastructure that supports recall with sensitive searches where the search term is not the main concept in a paper.
What is minor descriptor.
400
A feature of database infrastructure where UK and US and other spellings are mapped to the same keyword or subject heading.
What is spelling variant mapping.
500
Boolean operator used to narrow a search by finding all of the concepts it combines.
What is AND
500
Search syntax strings appearing within these are processed before any other search syntax strings are considered.
What are parenthesis.
500
A database search feature that retrieves search terms beside each other.
What is adjacency operator.
500
A feature of database indexing where frequently used generic indexing terms are attached to subject headings to more completely describe publication content.
What is a subheading.
500
A search approach often provided by an academic database that targets publications by study design and research methods used, for example, randomized controlled trials or systematic reviews.