Help With Search

Beginning November 2011, IRA's journals will not be available on our website. Instead, you can search each of IRA's journals at Wiley Online Library.

Subscriber? Please login to your IRA account first, then use the links on the My Account page to visit your journals on Wiley Online Library.

Not a subscriber? You can browse the journal's table of contents and article abstracts. To read full articles, you will need to be a subscriber or you may purchase individual article access through Wiley Online Library.

• The Reading Teacher
• Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy
• Reading Research Quarterly

Each checkbox on the advanced search pages acts as a filter for your search. Select a checkbox to limit your search to particular types of information (the “Information Type” category), a particular set of topics (the “Topic” category) or particular types of learners (the “Learner” category).

We have tagged every page on our site with the particular categories to which it applies, so you can use the Advanced Search checkboxes to dramatically limit a search. Feel free, of course, to select multiple checkboxes.

A search result of zero (0) hits means that either your search term cannot be found on the site, or you have selected too many checkbox filters for the search term. Try the following:

• Are any words in your search term misspelled? Correct any misspellings and consider alternate spellings if you know of any.
• Are you searching for a phrase using quotation marks? Try using a simpler phrase.
• Are you using the Boolean “AND” and/or “NOT” operators? Try the search without them.
• Have you limited your search to just a few categories of information? Try selecting additional, related, category checkboxes.
• Are you inadvertantly limiting your search to a subtopic selection? See if any of the topics display the icon. If so, consider unchecking those subtopics.

To search for a phrase instead of specific words, enclose the phrase in quotation marks. For example, the search term

will find all the pages that contain either word. In contrast, the value

will find pages that only contain that exact phrase (case insensitive).

The words “AND”, “OR”, and “NOT”, always in uppercase, are Boolean operators that can be used to create complex searches.

For example, to create a search that finds pages that contain the words “annual” and “convention” but not necessarily together, enter the value

To create a search that finds pages that contain the words “annual” or “convention” or both, enter the value

Note that a list of words without quotation marks or Boolean operators is considered an “OR” search. The value

is the same as

Finally, to create a search that finds pages that contain the word “annual” but not “convention”, enter the value

Boolean operators can be combined together and used with individual words and phrases, if necessary.

No. All searches encompass the Publications section of www.reading.org.

Use the Publications Only search form only if you want to limit your search to the specific publications listed on that form.

If you want to find all pages for a general topic, such as “Assessment” or “Comprehension” click the checkbox for that topic.

However, if you want to limit your search to specific subtopics, such as the “Outcomes” and “Portfolios” of “Assessment,” you can click the icon to open a popup box of subtopics. Select the ones you want and press the icon to close the popup box. Make sure the general topic is not selected, as it will take precedence over the subtopic selections.

The icon indicates that subtopics have been selected.