PapersFirst

Why select this database?

Covers every published congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received by The British Library Document Supply Centre

Subjects included

The wide variety of subjects discussed at the covered meetings.

Database details

Database name	PapersFirst
Short database name	PPF1
Available on	FirstSearch, WorldCat Discovery, and WorldCat.org
Sources	Included in each record.
Number of records	Over 9.4 million
Coverage	1993 to present
Update frequency	Weekly
Producer	OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.

Indexes

Index labels and search examples

Use a colon after an index label (for example, au:) when you are not certain of your search terms. Use an equal sign after an index label (au=) for an exact match search. You can search with an index label from any search screen. The information you type overrides any default menu selections. The following examples show sample rather than actual searches.

Search indexes	Labels	Examples
Keyword	kw:	pesticide+
Accession number	no:	cn008437117
Author	au:	messier
Author phrase	au=	chipperfield, m p
BL location	bl:	0729.836310
Conference location	cl:	manchester
Conference name	cn:	european
Conference name phrase	cn=	European conference 9th
Conference sponsor	sp:	society
Conference sponsor phrase	sp=	american society of mechanical engineers
Date of conference	dk:	apr 1994
Editor	ed:	marletta
Editor phrase	ed=	marletta giovanni
Identifier	id:	astronomy
Language phrase	ln=	german
Notes	nt:	mountain
Publication date	pd:	1994
Publisher	pb:	cambridge
Series title	se:	oncology
Series title phrase	se=	international journal of photoenergy
Source	so:	cardiology
Source phrase	so=	american ethnic rhetorics
Standard number	sn:	ISBN = 0080440711 ISSN = 0730-3564
Subject	su:	brain
Subject phrase	su=	neural networks robotics
Title	ti:	fire
Title phrase	ti=	Fighting fire with fire brain stimulation for the treatment of epilepsy
Year	yr:	1998

Index use and structure

What follows is a list of FirstSearch indexes and the combination of USE and STRUCTURE attributes that can be used to access them.

For any FirstSearch label where multiple USE attributes are listed all the attributes will provide the exact same search result sets.
Any USE attribute that is not marked as a restrictor is available via the SCAN service.
Limiters are specially implemented indexes and are not available for scanning. Terms for these must be ANDed with other terms to limit the size of the result set. See the table provided for each limiter to determine valid terms and their associated meaning.

FirstSearch Indexes and USE and STRUCTURE attributes used to access them:

Index	Description	Use Attribute	Structure Attribute	Indexed Fields and Subfields
Keyword (kw)	Any	5110	2	245/a 246/a 500/a 653/a 799/s,t
Keyword All (ka)	Any	1016	2	100/a 245/a 246/a 500/a 653/a 700/a 799/a,s,t
Accession Number (no)	Control number local	12	2	035/a
Author (au, au=)	Author Name	1003	1,2,101	100/a 700/a 799/a
BL Location	OCLC Defined	5663	2	980/x,y
Conference Location (cl)	Name-Geographic	5119	2	711/c
Conference Name (cn, cn=)	Author-name-conference	1006	1,2	711/a
Date of Conference (dk)	OCLC Defined	5066	2	711/d
Editor (ed, ed=)	OCLC Defined	1020	1,2	799/a
Identifier	OCLC Defined	29	2	653/a
Language Phrase* (ln=)	Code-language	54	1	546/a 917/j
Notes (nt)	Note	63	2	500/a
Publication Date (pd)	Date	30	2	008
Publisher (pb)	Name-Publisher	1018	2	799/d
Series Title (se, se=)	Title-series	5	1,2	799/k
Source (so, so=)	Title-host-item	1033	1,2	799/s,t
Standard Number (sn, sn=)	Identifier-standard	1007	1,2	799/x,z
Sponsor (sp, sp=)	OCLC Defined	5710	1,2	970/w
Subject (su, su=)	Subject	21	1,2	653/a
Title (ti, ti=)	Title	4	1,2	245/a 246/a
Year* (yr)	Date-publication	31	2,4,5	008 711/d

* Language and Year also serve as restrictors when they are not the first term in a search.

Record display information

List of FirstSearch fields for PapersFirst and the MARC fields to which they correspond:

Field Name	MARC field(s)
Year	008
Accession Number	035/a
Language Code of Text	041/a
Author	100/a 700/a
Title	245/a
Alternate Title	246/a
General Note	500/a
Language Note	546/a
Material Type	598/b
Identifier	653/a
Conference Author	711/a,c,d
Parent Book Information	799/a,s,t
Parent Book Publisher Information	799/d
Chapter pagination	799/g
Parent Book Series Title	799/k,2
Parent Book ISSN	799/x
Parent Book ISBN	799/z
Non-English (language)	917/j
Language of Text Code Expanded	936/0
OCLC Record Display Type	949/x
Conference Sponsor	970/w
British Library Serial Shelfmark	980/x
British Library Book Location	980/y

Restrictors

The following restrictors can be used only in conjunction with an index search. They must be added to an index search with the Boolean AND to receive results:

Limiter	Type	Input	Use Attribute	Structure Attribute
Language*	No limit English Non-English	— english non-English	54	1
Year*	All years Single year range of years	— 19xx, 20xx 19xx-20xx	31	4,5