Web-based MELVYL: Searching the Periodical Database (PE)

Scope

• The Periodicals Database (PE) contains hundreds of thousands of periodical titles in the UC and other linked systems.
• Remember that these are Periodical Titles and NOT the article titles in any periodicals.
• You can search the Periodicals Database in several ways:
  • Periodical Title
  • Corporate Author - Click on the Author button.
  • Subject
  • Power search
• These Web pages enable you to:
  • Search for the periodical titles in the UC and other systems.
  • Limit the records to those from selected Libraries.

Title Search

• You search for the Title of the Periodical, NOT of any article..

Example Screen: Display: Title Search

Power Search

• The Power Search provides the opportunity to search by the below fields.
• Not all of the fields are relevant, though, to searching the Periodicals Database (PE).

  XPE Exact Periodical title XCP Complete Periodical title PA Personal author CA Corporate author XC Exact corporate author SU Subject XS Exact subject RPE Related periodical title RXPE Exact related periodical title SE Series XSE Exact series

  INDX Indexed by ISBN ISBN ISSN ISSN LCCN LCCN CODEN CODEN GD Gov. doc. number GIN GPO item number RN Report number (strn) SN Stock number PELN Local number DLA DLA ID number

Example Screen Display: Power Search

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