Searching the Responses to Information Request (RIR) Database

Full-text:

enter keywords here to search the full-text of RIRs, including title and bibliographical information
enter keywords in as many fields as you like
- All Words: will retrieve records that contain every word entered in the search field (works like the AND connector)
- Any Words: will retrieve records that contain at least one of the words entered in the search field (works like the OR connector)
- Exact Phrase: will retrieve records that contain the string of keywords as you typed it (works like quotation marks)
do not enter Boolean connectors (AND, OR) or quotation marks (") in the search fields, only keywords
French characters are allowed; will look for words spelled with or without accents

works the same as the Full Text searching, except the search engine will search the title field of RIRs only

listed in alphabetical order
to select more than one country, hold the CTRL-key and select multiple countries with your mouse
selecting more than one country will retrieve records that contain any of the selected countries (works like the OR command)
to deselect, hold the CTRL-key and click on a previously selected country

select either English, French or Any (to retrieve articles in both languages)

to view RIRs from a specific date range, select the desired years in the From: and To: boxes
to view articles from a particular year, select the same year in both From: and To:
a seven (7) year archive of RIRs is kept in the database

select the number of results per page you wish to view (5, 10, 20, 50 or 100); the default is set at 20 results per page
select the number of maximum results you wish to view (10, 50, 100 or 500); the default is set at 100 results
note that searches will take longer if you choose higher numbers

in the Search Results page, click on the number to view the full-text of each RIR
to find keywords within a RIR, use your web browser's Find feature
to perform a new search, click the New Search link at the top of the page, which clears the current query
search terms are not case sensitive