What are the Expert search field codes?

Abstract

[Summary of the document contents]

"AB"

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Accession number

[A unique number assigned to each record]

"AN"

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Affiliation/Assignee

[The affiliation of the corresponding author or the person or organization that has been assigned a patent]

"AF"

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All fields

[All available fields]

"ALL"

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Annotation

[Contains comments or explanations regarding a document or part of a document]

"ANN"

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Astronomical indexing

[Standardized form of the nomenclature of astronomical objects]

"AI"

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Author/Inventor

[Author name or the inventor(s) names of patented item]

"AU"

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Availability

[Information about obtaining the document]

"AV"

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CAS registry number

[Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) registry numbers are unique numeric identifiers for chemical substances]

"CR"

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Category

[Subject category]

"CAT"

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Chemical acronyms

[Acronyms or abbreviations for chemicals]

"CE"

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Chemical Indexing

[Information about inorganic chemical substances and material systems]

"CI"

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Chemicals

[Chemical terms]

"CM"

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Classification code

[A numerical hierarchy of general subject categories]

"CL"

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CODEN

[A six-character representation of serial titles]

"CN"

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Collection title

[Title of a non-serial collection]

"VT"

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Companies

[Company names]

"CP"

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Conference code

[A number assigned to a conference proceedings record]

"CC"

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Conference information

[Includes the name, date, location, and sponsor of a conference as well as the conference code number]

"CF"

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Contract number

[Contract or grant number issued by the federal agency sponsoring the research]

"CT"

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Controlled term/Subject area

[A subject term used to describe the content of a document in the most specific and consistent way possible]

"CV"

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Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) code

[The classification scheme jointly developed by the European Patent Office and the United States Patent and Trademark Office]

"PEC"

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Country of application

[Author affiliation country]

"PU"

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Country of origin

[The country of the author affiliation]

"CO"

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Degree type

[Type of degree awarded for which the dissertation or thesis was presented]

"DE"

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Discipline

[The five main subject areas covered by Inspec]

"DI"

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Document type

[Describes the type of source publications from which indexed papers are taken]

"DT"

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DOI

[The registered DOI (Digital Object Identifier) for electronic documents]

"DOI"

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First author

[The first author of the document]

"FIRSTAU"

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Funding acronym

[Acronym of the grant funding sponsor]

"GFA"

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Funding information

[Contains content from the funding text, as well as the acronym, number, and sponsor fields]

"GFI"

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Funding number

[Number of the grant or award supporting the work]

"GFN"

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Funding sponsor

[Sponsor or agency that provides the grant or funding for the work]

"GAG"

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Geographic terms

[Terms describing a geographic region]

"RGI"

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Industrial sectors

[Companies that help other companies in shipping, manufacturing, or developing their products]

"GD"

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International Classification of Standards (ICS) code

[The International Classification of Standards code (ICS classification code) as developed by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) to classify Standards].

"ICS"

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International Patent Classification (IPC) code

[The International Patent Classification code as issued by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)]

"PID"

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ISBN

[A 13-character (or formerly 10-character) representation of book titles]

"BN"

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ISSN

[A nine-character alphanumeric representation of serial titles formatted as two sets of four numbers separated by a hyphen]

"SN"

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Issue

[The issue of the publication in which the document appears]

"SU"

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Language

[The language of the document is given at the end of the citation if it is other than English]

"LA"

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Main heading

[Represents the major subject aspect of the document]

"MH"

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Major term

"CVM"

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Map Scale

[The ratio between distance on a map and the corresponding distance on the ground]

"MS"

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Map Type

[Refers to the map type for fold-out maps, maps in pockets, and individually published maps]

"MP"

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Material identity number

[An internal Inspec code uniquely identifying the publication issue for serials or the entire publication for non-serials]

"MI"

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Monitoring agency

[The acronym of the sponsoring organization and may contain a report number as well]

"AG"

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Notes

[Notes fields that might include information about the title, a description of the document type, or format]

"NT"

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Numerical indexing

[This text based numerically indexed field (which is only available for the Inspec database) standardizes the manner specific numeric values are expressed by the authors. *Refer to note below this chart for information regarding the numeric search feature].

"NI"

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Open Access type

[Access type for document (e.g. Open Access)]

"ACT"

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Original classification code

[Includes the classification used to order and cross-reference the records in the Science Abstracts. This field will include a numeric code when available].

"OC"

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Patent application country

[The country in which the patent document was filed]

"PCO"

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Patent application date

[The date on which the application was filed]

"PA"

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Patent application number

[Identification number assigned to applications that have received a filing date]

"PAM"

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Patent attorney name

[The name of the legal representative of the patent applicant]

"PAN"

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Patent authority (office) code

[The patent preliminary examining authority (office)]

"PAC"

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Patent citation

[All patents that cited the searched patent number]

"PCI"

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Patent country

[The country in which the patent was published]

"PC"

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Patent examiner

[The person responsible for examining the patent application]

"PE"

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Patent filing date

[The date the patent was submitted to the patent office]

"PFD"

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Patent issue date

[The date the patent was issued]

"PI"

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Patent number

[The number assigned to a patent]

"PM"

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Patent priority information

[A unique value assigned to patent applications that may include the priority date, priority document number, and country where the priority was claimed]

"PRN"

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Priority country

[Patent priority country]

"PRC"

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Priority date

[Patent priority date]

"PRD"

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Publication date

[The date in which the patent application was first published]

"PD"

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Publication year

[The year in which the document was published]

"YR"

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Publisher

[Identifies publishers or the journals published by a particular publisher]

"PN"

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Report number

[A unique number assigned to reports]

"RN"

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SIC codes

[Standard Industrial Classification Codes]

"IC"

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Source

[Identifies the source of the document]

"SO"

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Source note

[Free-form text relating to the source of the document]

"SNO"

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Source title

[Identifies source titles, e.g., journals, books, or conference proceedings]

"ST"

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Standard ID

[The specific identification number for a Standard document]

"STDID"

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Subject/Title/Abstract

[Retrieves results from fields, including Abstract, Title, Translated title, Controlled terms, and Uncontrolled terms]

"KY"

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Title

[Terms within an article's title]

"TI"

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Treatment type

[Specifies the slant or approach taken in the document]

"TR"

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Uncontrolled term

[Free language terms; additional entry, or non-preferred, subject terms assigned by indexers. These terms are derived from the abstract and author keywords].

"FL"

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Volume

[The volume of the publication in which the article appears]

"VO"

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