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

The approximately 5,000 documents in the Library in New York include primarily books, government reports, non-governmental organization reports,and articles concerned with illegal drugs and their use and abuse, plus drug policy and drug history. The Drug Policy Alliance Library, while it does not lend its materials, is open to the public and welcomes visitors. The address is 400 West 59th Street, 3rd floor, just West of Ninth Avenue; 212-548-0181 or 212-548-0396.

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. You can link directly from this catalog to all the Web documents listed here.

More instructions for using this database are available immediately below the search screen.

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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 Lindesmith Center and the Library of Congress, if available. The LONG format adds ISBN and call numbers from both the Lindesmith Center and the Library of Congress, if available. The citations in the reports all sort by date in reverse chronological order.

Some hints regarding searching:

The AND buttons next to each searchable field can be switched to OR or NOT. Within a field such as SUBJECT, use & for "and" (e.g., cancer & palliative care), / for "or" (e.g., grief / bereavement), and ! for "not" (e.g., terminally ill ! cancer).
For truncation, use * (e.g., mourn* will pick up mourn, mourning, mourned, mourner, and mourners).
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.

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 Leigh Hallingby (Ms.), librarian, at lhallingby@sorosny.org.

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