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Unified Agenda: Search TipsSample Searches | Identification Codes Sample Searches (3)The following sample searches are provided as guides to general types of searches in the Unified Agenda databases. Unless otherwise indicated, the searches are performed in the 1998 Unified Agenda database. For the sake of space, only the top three or four hits in each results list are included with each example below.
Subject | Agency | CFR Part Number This type of search returns documents related to a specific subject. The word(s) that you enter as your search term(s) may appear anywhere within the document.
The above query returns documents that reference regulatory actions planned for farm products. Although both of these documents pertain to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, a subject search is not agency-specific; it returns documents related to a specific subject from all agencies. This type of search returns documents based on the name of the issuing agency. To make your search more specific, modify the query by also including a date or subject.
The above query returns documents from the Environmental Protection Agency that relate to endangered species that were published in the Unified Agenda in 1998, as well as a Unified Agenda subject index. In order to retrieve all documents from an agency, include only the name of the agency as your search terms. 3. Search by Code of Federal Regulations Part Number This type of search returns documents from the Unified Agenda based on the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) part that they affect.
The above query returns two documents that pertain to 21 CFR Part 107 (Infant Formula) and two that do not. As in any search that returns undesired documents, you may eliminate some documents from your results list by making your original query more specific. In this example, the query "21 cfr 107" AND "infant formula" would narrow your results sufficiently.
Identification CodesIn the list that displays your query results, the title of each Unified Agenda document is preceded by an identification code. The identification code contains two elements: a database abbreviation and the issue date. For example, in the identification code "ua09no98," "ua" stands for Unified Agenda, and "09no98" is the issue date (November 9, 1998). While identification codes are helpful for identifying certain attributes of a document in your results list, they are not useful as a query for searching. |