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Additional Indexes (continued)

Below we see the Additional Indexes from File 9. In the Additional Indexes, we can see Prefixes, two-digit codes followed by an equal sign. To narrow a search or to find one specific piece of information, we can type the command:

ADDITIONAL INDEXES

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PREFIX
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CODE
FIELD NAME
INDEXING
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AA= AA RDS Accession Number Phrase S AA=01462461
CO= CO Company Name Phrase S CO=SOUTHERN TELEPHONES?
CT= CT Concept Term 3 Phrase S CT=MARKET SHARE
DT= DT Document Type Phrase S DT=JOURNAL
GC= GC Geographic Code Phrase S GC=WOR
GN= GN Geographic Name Phrase S GN=WORLD
IN= IN Industry Name Phrase S IN=PHARMACEUTICAL
JN= JN Journal Name Phrase S JN=ELECTRONIC BUYERS NEWS
LA= LA Language Phrase S LA=ENGLISH
MT= MT Marketing Term 3 Phrase S MT=GENERAL RESEARCH
PC= PC Product Code Phrase S PC=382000
PD= PD Publication Date Phrase S PD=960408
PN= PN Product Name Phrase S PN="MEASURING AND CONTROLLING DEVICES
PY= PY Publication Year Phrase S PY=1996
RT= RT Record Type Phrase S RT=FULLTEXT
SF= SF Special Feature Phrase S SF=TABLE
SL= SL Slogan Phrase S SL=ALL ABOARD AMERICA
SN= SN International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) Phrase S SN=0164-6362
None SO Source Information 4    
SP= SP Spokesperson or Named Character Phrase S SP=JAMES EARL JONES
TN= TN Brand Name Phrase S TN=PRESCRIPTIVES
UD= None Update Phrase S UD=9999
UN= CO Ultimate Company Name Phrase S UN=ASTRA
WD= WD Word Count Numeric S WD>2000

3 /DE includes Concept Terms, Marketing Terms, and Industry Names.
4 Includes Journal Name, Volume, Issue, Pagination, and Publication Date.

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The database Bluesheet indicates whether a field is phrase-indexed (e.g., the complete phrase is indexed following the prefix code) or word-indexed (e.g., individual words are indexed and searchable with logical and proximity operators), or both.

When word-indexed terms are searched using a prefix code, the terms must be enclosed in parentheses (e.g., CS=(frontier(w)communications) for corporate source)