When the farmer wants some fresh corn for supper, she knows that she will find it in the corn field. When you are doing a search in a database, the database can find your information faster when you specify by field. Each database puts each piece of information in the same location. To find items more quickly, use the information you know to locate them. Look for authors in the author field Look for titles in the title field etc.
SAGE then lists all of the titles alphabetically.
If you are missing words near the beginning of the title or are missing or using different punctuation than the title in SAGE, you might not find the item you seek. For example, All Quiet on the Western Front does not appear alphabetically near All is Quiet on the Western Front . Thus, if you are doing a title search, make sure you know the exact title. One example, Fossil Vertebrates from Western North America and Mexico jumps out as being off topic. The record appears because the Carnegie Institution published the research and E.R. Hall wrote a chapter in the item.