Another way to refine a search is to limit your search to a field. A field is an record element containing a specific type of information about a journal article. Some examples of fields are:
title
author
subject or descriptor
journal or source
publication date
abstract
full-text indicator
When to Use Field Specific Searching
When you want articles from a particular journal (JN psychology today.......SO journal of abnormal psychology)
When you want information from a specific year or range of years (PY 2000-2007)
When terms specified as subject headings or descriptors would be better than keywords (SU education)
When you want to see all the works of a particular author in the database (AU decaprio)
When you want to only retrieve items that appear in the title of the article ( TI text comprehension)
To find out how to do a field-specific search in a particular database, check the database's Help screens or ask a reference librarian.
