Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts

 

Welcome to the Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts Database Information Screen! Browse the topics listed below to find what you are looking for:


About the Database

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) indexes more than 560 core journals, nearly 50 priority journals, and 125 selective journals; plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s. It is EBSCO Publishing’s intention to provide access to LISTA on a continual basis at www.libraryresearch.com. Customers currently subscribing to other EBSCOhost databases may elect to have LISTA added to their EBSCOhost profile.

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Searching Tips

There are a number of helpful tips and hints you can use to improve your search results. For example, you can use Boolean operators to link search terms together; and/or limit the search to a specific title.

Boolean Operators

Sometimes a search can be overly general (results equal too many hits) or overly specific (results equal too few hits). To fine-tune your search, you can use AND, OR, and NOT operators to link your search words together. These operators will help you narrow or broaden your search to better express the terms you are looking for and to retrieve the exact information you need quickly.

USING THE "AND" OPERATOR: If you have a search term that is too general, you can append several terms together using "AND". By stringing key terms together, you can further define your search and reduce the number of results. Note: Unless you define a specific search field, the result list will contain references where all your search terms are located in either the citation,or full display.

  • For example, type Technology AND Information to find results that refer to both Technology and Information.

USING THE "OR" OPERATOR: In order to broaden a search, you can link terms together by using the "OR" operator. By using "OR" to link your terms together you can find documents on many topics. Linked by this operator, your words are searched simultaneously and independently of each other.

  • As an example, search Technology AND Information OR Computers to find results that reference the terms "Technology" and "Information", or the term "Computers".

USING THE "NOT" OPERATOR: In order to narrow a search, you can link words together by using the "NOT" operator. This operator will help you to filter out specific topics you do not wish included as part of your search.

  • Type: Technology OR Information NOT Computers to find results that contain the terms "Technology" or "Information" but not the term "Computers".
  • To further define your results, type: Technology AND Information AND Computers to constrict the search to include all terms linked by the "AND" operator.

Grouping Terms Together Using Parentheses

Parentheses also may be used to control a search query. Without parentheses, a search is executed from left to right. Words that you enclose in parentheses are searched first. Why is this important? Parentheses allow you to control and define the way the search will be executed. The left phrase in parentheses is searched first; then, based upon those results, the second phrase in parentheses is searched.

    Generalized Search:
    Technology or Information and Computers or Science

    Focused Search:
    (Technology or Information) and (Computers or Science)

In the first example, the search will retrieve everything on Technology or Information Computers AS WELL AS everything on Science, whether or not the articles refer to Technology or Information.

In the second example, we have used the parentheses to control our query to only find articles about Computers or Science that reference Technology or Information.

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Searchable Fields

The default fields for unqualified searches consist of the following: all authors, all subjects, all keywords, all title info (including source title) and all abstracts.

The following list will help you locate detailed information referenced in this database as a field.

Searchable TagDescriptionExample
AB Abstract or Author-Supplied Abstract
[Word Indexed]

Performs a keyword search of the abstract summaries.

AB Information Science
AD Author Affiliation
[Phrase Indexed]

Performs an exact search for companies or organizations an author is affiliated with; may also include correspondence address.

AD University of London
AF Author Affiliation
[Word Indexed]

Performs a keyword search for companies or organizations an author is affiliated with; may also include correspondence address.

AF London
AN Accession Number
[Phrase Indexed]

Performs an exact search for an article's unique identification number.

AN ISTA2100022
AR Author Phrase
[Phrase Indexed]

Performs an exact search for an article's author in the inverted format, and the uninverted format for newswire articles.

AR Roberts, Gary
AS Author-Supplied Abstract
[Phrase Indexed]

Performs an exact search for the value Y or N. Y indicates that the articles have an author-supplied abstract.

AS Y
AU Author
[Word Indexed]

Performs a keyword search for any authors of an article.

AU Roberts
CO Company Entity
[Word Indexed]

Performs a keyword search of company subject headings, Company entity and associated fields.

Note: Company entities are also searchable via the SU search tag.

CO AMAZON.COM INC
CS Cover Story
[Phrase Indexed]

Performs an exact search for the value Y or N. Y indicates that the articles will be a cover story.

CS Y
CY Country ID
[Phrase Indexed]

Performs an exact search for a country's ISO identification code, indicating an article's country of publication.

CY US
DE Heading or Keyword
[Phrase Indexed]

Performs an exact search of the subject headings, companies, people, and author-supplied keywords for terms describing a document's contents.

DE SCHOLARLY publishing
DN DUNS Number
[Phrase Indexed]

Performs an exact search for the Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS Number) assigned to a record.

Note: Further information on DUNS numbers can be found on the Dun & Bradstreet website.

DN 102096559
DT Date of Publication
[Date Indexed]

Performs an exact search for articles published on a specific date, in the format of CCYYMMDD.

DT 20040901
ED Entry Date
[Date Indexed]

Performs an exact search for the date of entry of an article into the database in YYYYMMDD format.

ED 20031201
FR References Available
[Phrase Indexed]

Performs an exact search for the value Y or N. Y indicates that the articles contain references.

FR Y
FT Full Text Available
[Phrase Indexed]

Performs an exact search for the value Y or N. N indicates that the records don't have full text available.

FT N
GE Geographic Terms
[Word Indexed]

Performs a keyword search of geographic locations pertaining to an article's content.

Note: Geographic terms are also searchable via the SU search tag.

GE France
IB ISBN
[Phrase Indexed]

Performs an exact search (with or without dashes) for a record's International Standard Book Number.

IB 1556530706
IC NAICS Code or Description
[Word Indexed]

Performs a keyword search for the North American Industry Classification Standard Number (NAICS) and text associated with an article.

IC 451211

IC Book Stores
IL Illustrations
[Word Indexed]

Performs an exact search for the value Y or N. Y indicates that the articles contain illustrations (e.g. graphs, charts, diagrams, etc.).

Note: Type of illustration is also searchable via this search tag.

IL Y

IL graphs
IP Issue
[Phrase Indexed]

Performs an exact search for a publication's issue number.

IP 3
IS ISSN (No Dashes)
[Phrase Indexed]

Performs an exact search for a publication's International Standard Serial Number.

IS 87556286
JN Journal Name
[Phrase Indexed]

Performs am exact search for the journal title in which an article was published.

JN Acquisitions Librarian
KL Language of Keywords
[Word Indexed]

Performs a keyword search of the language of author-supplied terms describing the article.

KL German
KW Author-Supplied Keywords
[Word Indexed]

Performs a keyword search for author-supplied terms describing the article.

Note: Author-Supplied keywords are also searchable via the SU search tag.

KW information retrieval
LA Language
[Word Indexed]

Performs a keyword search for the language in which an article was originally published.

LA German
NR Number of References
[Numerically Indexed]

Performs an exact numeric search of the records for the specified amount of references.

NR 10
PE People
[Word Indexed]

Performs a keyword search for people's names referenced in articles.

Note: People terms are also searchable via the SU search tag.

PE BERNERS-LEE, Tim
PG Number of Pages
[Number Indexed]

Performs an exact numeric search for an article's page length.

PG 4
PS Reviews & Products
[Word Indexed]

Performs a keyword search for products referenced in articles.

Note: Reviews & products terms are also searchable via the SU search tag.

PS "INFORMATION Seeking in Electronic Environments (Book)"
PT Publication Type
[Phrase Indexed]

Performs an exact search for the publication type.

PT Book
PZ Document Type
[Phrase Indexed]

Performs an exact search of the document type.

PZ Article
RV Peer-Reviewed
[Phrase Indexed]

Performs an exact search for the value Y or N. Y indicates that the articles are peer-reviewed.

RV Y
SD Articles with Several Reviews & Products
[Phrase Indexed]

Performs an exact search for the value Y or N. Y indicates that the articles refer to several reviews and products terms.

SD Y
SG Articles with Several Companies
[Phrase Indexed]

Performs an exact search for the value Y or N. Y indicates that the articles refer to several company entity terms.

SG Y
SJ Articles with Several People
[PHrase Indexed]

Performs an exact search for the value Y or N. Y indicates that the articles refer to several people terms.

SJ Y
SK Articles with Several Industries
[Phrase Indexed]

Performs an exact search for the value Y or N. Y indicates that the articles refer to several NAICS codes.

SK Y
SO Publication Name
[Word Indexed]

Performs a keyword search for the journal title in which an article was published.

SO Library Trends
SP Start Pag
[Phrase Indexed]

Performs an exact search for an article's start page.

SP 25
SU Subject Terms
[Word Indexed]

Performs a keyword search of subject headings, companies, people, and author-supplied keywords for terms describing a document's contents.

SU SCHOLARLY
TI Title
[Word Indexed]

Performs a keyword search for the title of a document.

TI Computer Application
TK Ticker Symbol
[Phrase Indexed]

Performs an exact search for a company's stock ticker number.

TK IBM
TX All Text
[Word Indexed]

Performs a keyword search of all the database's searchable fields. Using the TX field code will cause the search to look for the keyword in the full text as well as the citation record.

TX Information Science
UI Unique Identifier
[Phrase Indexed]

Performs an exact search for an article's accession number.

UI ISTA2100022
VI Volume
[Phrase Indexed]

Performs an exact search for a publication's volume number.

VI 3

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Definition of Fields

The following table explains the contents of each field in a Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts record's detailed display.

Field NameDescription
Title Title of the article, and indicator as to whether or not the article is a cover story.
Language Language in which the article was published.
Authors Author's names in both inverted and uninverted format, as well as author affiliation and e-mail when available.
Source The source in which the article was published, its volume number, issue number, part number, the number of pages in the article, and a description and number of illustrations found in the article.
Document Type Indicates a record's document type, such as article, book, abstract, company report, industry overview, and more.
Abstract A brief summary taken from the article, or supplied by the author or publisher.
Subject Terms The subjects describing the record, which may include document type, personal names, place, style or describing terms.
Geographic Terms Geographic terms pertaining to the article's content.
Author-Supplied Keywords Subjects describing the record that are supplied by the author.
Company/Entity The company or organization, DUNS number, and Ticker number referenced in the document.
People People referenced in the article.
Author Affiliations The author's correspondence address of the organization or institution
ISSN International Standard Serial Number.
ISBN International Standard Book Number.
URL Link to site where user can purchase Harvard case studies or books.
Accession Number Unique number to identify the record.

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Publications Authority File

The Publications authority file is a list of the publications from the Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts database. The Publications authority file is drawn from the publications listed in each record; therefore, all terms will provide links to pertinent records. User is able to browse publications by using one of three modes: "Alphabetical", "By Subject & Description" or "Match Any Words".

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Author Profiles Authority File

The Author Profiles authority file is a controlled list of authors that assists in more effectively searching the database. You can browse the keywords search list "Alphabetically" or as "Relevancy Ranked".

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Index Browse

Index browsing allows the user to view all values that occur in specified fields in a database, along with corresponding hit counts. Access the index browse feature by clicking the green "Indexes" button on the upper portion of the "Advanced" search screen. Use the drop-down menu to choose an index to browse. Indexes can also be searched using tags. Since browsable indexes are phrase indexed, the exact form and spelling of terms as they appear in the database must be used in conjunction with the tags when entering a search manually. Indexes available for browsing in the Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts database are listed below. Tags for all fields included in the index browse feature begin with "Z" (e.g. "ZA" for Author).

Author ZA
Author-Supplied Keywords ZW
Company Entity ZO
Document Type ZT
DUNS Number ZZ
Entry Date ZD
Geographic Terms ZG
ISBN ZH
ISSN ZI
Language ZL
NAICS Code or Description ZC
People ZP
Publication Name ZJ
Subject Terms ZU
Ticker Symbol ZN
Year of Publication ZR

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Cited References

The Cited References search screen allows the user to extend a search beyond the initial result list to records that are cited by an article. These citation records can be accessed through an article's "Cited References" link. If a cited reference is cited again in the database a "Times Cited in this Database" link will appear. Search Tags for all fields included in the Cited Reference feature begin with "W" (e.g. "WA" for Cited Author).

Cited Author WA
Cited Title WB
Cited Source WC
Cited Year WD
All Citation Fields WZ

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Copyright and Restrictions of Use

The Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts database is made up of indexing, abstracts, and full text. The copyright of the abstracts and indexing is owned by EBSCO Publishing. This database is intended solely for the use of the individual patron of the licensing party.

Copyright of the full text is the property of the publisher of the original publication. Text may not be copied without express written permission except for the print or download capabilities of the retrieval software used to access it. This text is intended solely for the use of the individual user.

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