PERSONAL NAMES AND CORPORATE NAMES All personal names and names of departments, agencies, businesses, and institutions are capitalised, e.g., "de la Parte Institute" or "Aging and Mental Health". All other terms in the descriptors field are lower case. This is important to remember because the database is case sensitive. We also use acronyms for agencies and departments, e.g., Aging and Mental Health can also be searched using AMH.

AND, OR, NOT There are several ways to search this database more effectively. Key words should be searched across the NOTES field, the ABSTRACT field, and the DESCRIPTOR field. At this time you can only search across two fields simultaneously using an OR operator. If you, for example want to find materials on violence or abuse, you should search the two of the three fields (NOTES, ABSTRACT), and then go back and search using the same key words in the third field (DESCRIPTOR). There may be some overlap but you will pull up exclusive items as well.