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E-Journals/Books

Abstracts/Bibliographies

Library Catalogues

International Relations

UNU eJournals A-Z - A new portal for all subscribed electronic journals.

World Bank e-Library  - All current and recent World Bank publications, documents and working papers are accessible.

Nature Online
Access to "Nature" full text articles from January 1987.

  Annual Review of Energy and the Environment - Online version of AREE from 1996 to the current.

JSTOR - Scholarly Journal Archive. Arts & Sciences, Business, Ecology & Botany, General Science Collections.

SourceOECD - Unlimited access to publications and databases produced by OECD.

Science Direct - Full text access to the subscribed Elsevier journals by UN Consortium; 1995 to the current issues only. Handbooks in Economics are also included as from Jan. 2009.

ProQuest Direct - Access to thousands of periodicals and newspapers, covers business & finance, humanities and social sciences.

Ingenta Connect - Free access to citations and abstracts of over 17 million articles from over 6,100 titles offered by Ingenta. Full text access to subscribed journals.

CiNii - Retrieving academic articles published in academic society journals, university research bulletins, or articles included in the National Diet Library's Japanese Periodical Index Database. New in June 2009

EconLit 1969-: Journal of Economic Literature; Index of Economic Articles in Journals & Collective Volumes; CUP Abstracts of Working Papers in Economics.

International Bibliography of the Social Sciences 1981- Compiled by British Library of Political and Economic Science at The London School of Economics and Political Science.

PubMed by National Library of Medicine, USA.

ERIC Bibliographic records of literature on education sponsored by the US Dept. of Education. Access via OvidSP.

AGRICOLA by National Agricultural Library, USA.

Environmental History of Latin America

Resources for the Anthropological Study of Food Habits

JiBooks - Japanese Info on Books by National Institute for Japanese Language.



UNU Library Collection - UNU Centre Library, Tokyo, Japan.

INTECH Library - UNU/INTECH Library, Maastricht, Netherlands.

UNBIS Net - United Nations Dag Hammarskjd Library, New York, USA.

UNESBIB - UNESCO Library, Paris, France.

ILO Library catalogues - ILO Library, Geneva, Switzerland.

JOLIS - World Bank/IMF Library, Washington DC, USA.

WHO Library - WHO Library, Geneva, Switzerland.

FAO Catalogue Online - FAO, Rome, Italy

Integrated Catalogue - British Library.

Library of Congress

NACSIS - Japanese Aademic Libraries Collection.

NDL-OPAC - National Diet Library, Tokyo, Japan.



  CIAO Net - Colombia International Affairs Online includes working papers, occasional papers series, foundation-funded research projects, conference proceedings, books, journals and policy briefs from universities, research institutions and NGOs.

EIU.com - Online services by Economist Intelligence Unit. The site contains global research and advisory services,
analysis and forecasts on over 200 countries, nine strategic industries, and a full range of
management functions.

IRIN Humanitarian news and analysis - UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

  International Relations and Security Network
by Center for Security Studies.

Development Experience Clearing House by USAID

World Legal Information Institute: free, independent and non-profit access to worldwide law.

Foreign Affairs published by the Council on Foreign Relations.








Dictionaries / Thesauri

Encyclopedia/Directories

United Nations System

Statistics /  Reference

Oxford English Dictionary
The Second Edition of the OED is currently available as a 20-volume print edition. Updated quarterly.

OECD Macrothesaurus
for information processing in the field of economic and social development.Subscribers to the SourceOECD can access the complete edition published in 1998.


UNBIS Thesaurus
developed by United Nations Dag Hammarskjold Library. Available in six UN official languages.

UNESCO Thesaurus
developed by UNESCO for use in the indexing and retrieval of information in the UNESCO Integrated Documentation Network.

AGROVOC Multilingual Agricultural Thesaurus by FAO

Acronym Finder

English-Japanese, Japanese-English Dictionaries - Sanseido Dictionaries by Goo.

UNTERM United Nations Multilingual Terminology Database by Terminology & Reference Section, Documentation Division, UN.



Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS) 
A virtual reference tool contains over 8,000 contributions from scholars over 100 countries. A project coordinated by UNESCO EOLSS Joint Committee.

Europa World Plus
Online version of the Europa World Year Book and the nine-volume Regional Surveys of the World series. Search, retrieve and browse regions, countries and organizations.

Britannica - Encyclopaedia Britannica Online.

Yearbook of International Organizations

Encyclopedia of Law and Economics

Directory of Economic, Commodity and Development Organizations by IMF.

Directory of Development Organizations by Bert Wesselink.

NGO Directory by UN Department of Public Information.

Thesaurus of Geographic Names by Getty Research Institute.

UN Official Document System (ODS) UN official documents issued since 1993 and resolutions from 1946.

UN Treaty Collection Databases Renewed treaty series databases 

GALAXY, eStaffing System - United Nations Human Resources. Employment Opportunities at the United Nations System.

General Maps by the United Nations.

UNESDOC - UNSECO Documents

FAO Document Repository

WTO Official Documents

UN News Centre - Secretary-General's latest statements, UN daily briefing and other news.

UN Cartographic Section Maps and geographic information resources by the United Nations.

Official WEB Site Locator for the UN System. Available in six UN official languages.



IMF International Financial Statistics (IFS) 

IMF Direction of Trade Statistics (DOT) 

IMF Balance of Payment Statistics (BOP) 

WDI Online World Development Indicators by World Bank.

GDF Online Global Development Finance by World Bank.

UN Population & Vital Statistics Report. ID & Password required (Contact)

UN Monthly Bulletin of Statistics On-line

UN Data - a data access system to UN databases
Renewed UN statistical databases

Statistics by Disease or Condition by WHO.

Perry Castañeda Library Map Collection by University of Texas.

Information and documentation - ISO 690-2.


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