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Search Terms:
How: Output:
Use the form above to search for items in the IPL Ready Reference Collection. Words entered as Search Terms will be searched in the title, acronym, description, subject headings and keywords. All results are returned in alphabetical order.
Stemming
Search Terms are automatically stemmed. That is, if you enter the word 'math', it will also look for 'mathematics', 'mathematical', etc.

Stopwords
Do not include any of the following words in your Search Terms:
a be is that an and by it the as for of this at on to in with

and vs or
If you choose and, it will look for items that have all of your Search Terms. If you choose or, it will look for items that have any of your search terms.

short vs long
If you choose short, you will get back the title and link to each item only, 20 at a time. If you choose long, you will get back the complete description of each item, 10 at a time.

Hint: Try thinking broadly about your topic. For example, instead of searching for "Lyndon Johnson", search for "president".

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Please note that this search engine does not search the entire Web, only the titles and descriptions of the items in the IPL Ready Reference Collection. If you want to search the Web, try one of the Web Search Engines.

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Last Updated Apr 25, 2002