The Lindesmith Library · 70 West 36th Street · 16th Floor · New York, NY 10018


This is the catalog of the holdings of the Lindesmith Library in New York and the Drug Policy Alliance Online Library of full-text electronic documents, based on this Web site.

The approximately 10,000 documents in the Library in New York include primarily books, government reports, non-governmental organization reports, articles, and videos concerned with illegal drugs and their use and abuse, plus drug policy and drug history. The Lindesmith Library, while it does not lend its materials, is open to the public Monday - Friday and welcomes visitors. The address is 70 W. 36th St. 16th Floor, New York, NY 10018 (212-613-8033). There is a 10-cent charge per page for photocopying.

If you want to limit your search to full-text documents available on the Web, add the term Electronic Document on Web to your search by selecting this term from the pull-down menu in the Doc Type field. For a list of all the full-text electronic documents in this catalog, search this term by itself.

 
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There are three report formats available. The SHORT format includes bibliographic information, plus document type and language. The MEDIUM format adds subject headings both from the Drug Policy Alliance and the Library of Congress, if available. The LONG format adds the ISBN and the Library of Congress call number, if available.

Some hints regarding searching:

  • The AND button next to each searchable field can be switched to OR or NOT. Within a field such as SUBJECT, use & for "and" (e.g., cocaine & heroin), / for "or" (e.g., cocaine / crack), and ! for "not" (e.g., marijuana ! medical).

  • For truncation, use * (e.g., addict* will pick up addict, addicts, addicted, addiction).

  • For date ranges, use : (a colon) for "through" (e.g., 1995:1998), < for "less than," > for "greater than," <= for "less than or equal to," >= for "greater than or equal to."

  • For more detailed information and help screens on library database searching, Boolean operators, and use of this search engine, please visit the ETOH database of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), which uses the same Inmagic search engine.

Please send any questions or feedback regarding the online catalog to Ed Kirtz, librarian, at ekirtz@drugpolicy.org.
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