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UNBISnet:
UN Bibliographic Information System
Primary
database of the United Nations, offering access to UN documents and
publications acquired by the Dag Hammarskjöld Library in New York and
the UN Library in Geneva. Also included are: commercial publications and other non-UN sources held in the
collection of the Dag Hammarskjöld Library. 1979 – present with older documents added regularly; Voting
Records for resolutions which were adopted by the General Assembly (38 th session, 1983 - present) and the
Security Council (1946 – present); Citations to speeches made in the General Assembly, the Security Council,
the Economic and Social Council and the Trusteeship Council (1983 – present). Many ODS documents can be found in UNBISnet.
NOTE: Firewalls may cause problems in accessing full-text documents.
UN Official Document System (ODS)
Comprehensive, though not complete, coverage of all types of
publicly-available UN documentation starting in the early to mid-1990s. Categories of documents included are:
Resolutions going back to 1946 (Security Council, General Assembly, Economic and Social Council and Trusteeship
Council); Selected Security Council and General Assembly documents going back to 1985; Meeting Records;
Daily Journals; and Bulletins.NOT INCLUDED IN ODS: UN sales publications;
UN public information materials; UN press releases and briefings; UN Treaty Series; Documents that
are not publicly released.
United
Nations Infoquest (UN-I-QUE) Database designed by the
Dag Hammerskjold Libraryin New York to provide quick access to document
symbols/sales numbers for UN materials, from 1946 onwards.
United
Nations Documentation: Research Guide Excellent guide
to conducting United Nations research. Includes explanations of documents
symbols, indexes, resolutions and decisions, speeches, parliamentary
documents, and more.
UN News Centre
Search for UN news by region, topic of focus (Iraq, Middle East, terrorism etc.), or by UN body.
Includes press releases, factsheets, maps and other resources.
UN
System Pathfinder Subject guide to key United Nations
publications covering a wide range of topics, including international
law, human rights, economic development, peacekeeping, and more.
AccessUN
Index to United Nations documents and publications, designed to enhance
access to the Readex United Nations' microfiche collection (last two years
only).
UN
Scholars' Workstation United Nations research mega-site,
organized along a variety of topical approaches, formats, and research
strategies. Supports the United Nations Studies Program at Yale University.
United
Nations Research: A Guide Excellent guide for conducting
United Nations research, organized by UN structure and activities, country
information, voting, speeches, debates, and more. By Helen Sheehy, Penn
State University.
European
Union Resources
The European
Union in the U.S. Delegation of the European Commission
to the U.S. Washington, D.C. Contains excellent links and research
tools.
Europa
Homepage European Union's main homepage. Contains news
and basic information on the European Union, and links to European institutions
and policy.
SCADPLus
Glossary of Terms An A-Z glossary of EU terms, nicely
cross-referenced.
A
Glossary of the European Communities and European Union
Comprehensive list of acronyms, initiatives, institutions, policies, and
programmes. Via the University of Aberdeen.
European
Integration Online Papers Published by the European Communities
Studies Association-Austria.
Full-text
Intergovernmental Organization Information
REFWORLD
Collection of databases of full-text documents on refugees, from
the the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
Source
OECD Full-text of books, journals and statistical data from
the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, on a wide range
of topics in economics, political science, environmental studies, and
more.
UNDP
Programme Documentation Library United Nations Development Programme
(UNDP) database of project documents, evaluation reports, and other full-text
working documents.
UNESDOC
Full-text database of documents from the United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organization, including resolutions and decisions
since 1946.
World
Development Sources Online image and text archive of World
Bank reports, working papers, and project documents. Now includes PDF
versions of most documents.
World
Trade Organization Online Documents
Full-text database containing selected documents distributed by the
World Trade Organization since. Documents are browseable for the past
30 days, and searchable and downloadable from 1994.
Statistics
and Numeric Data
FAOSTAT
On-line statistical databases covering international statistics in agriculture,
food production, trade, forest products, fisheries and more. From the
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
InterAmerican
Development Bank Economic and Social Database Statistical database
for Latin American countries, offering annual data (from 1990) on a wide
range of variables, including national accounts, balance of payments,
prices, labor staistics, and more.
International
Financial Statistics [UCSD only] International financial data
from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Available only on InfoStations
in UCSD libraries.
LABORSTA
International Labour Organization (ILO) Database on International
Labor Statistics, offering annual data from 1979 to the present for a
wide range of variables, including employment and unemployment, earnings,
wages, strikes and more.
SourceOECD
[UCSD only] (1998 - ). Full-text of books and journals from the Organization
for Economic Cooperation and Development, as well as statistical data
on a wide range of topics in economics, political science, environmental
studies, and more.
UNESCO
Institute for Statistics United Nations Education, Scientific
and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) statistical institute website. Includes
statistical data sets of world education and literacy indicators, and
selected data from the UNESCO Statistical Yearbook.
WHOSIS
Statistical and epidemiological data from the World Health Organization
(WHO). Includes links to statistical information found in the chief WHO
statistical volume, the World Health Report.
World
Development Indicators [UCSD only] Macroeconomic, social, and
environmental data from the World Bank, available as annual time series
from 1960 onwards. Available only on InfoStations in UCSD libraries.
Area
Studies
North America
Canada
Internet Resources Via UC Berkeley.
Statistics
Canada Canada's national statistical agency.
Includes data on the Canadian economy, population, labour force, education,
health and much more.
Latin America
Latin
American Network Information Center (Lanic)
Premier site for reviewing and organizing thousands of links from
and about Latin America, by country and by subject.
Latin
American Government Documents Project Via Cornell
University.
Western Europe
Records
of the British Parliament Overview of the structure and
organization of historical publications of the British Parliament.
Via the University of Florida.
WESSWEBWestern
European Specialists Section of the Association of College and Research
Libraries.
WWW
Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources--Western Europe
Via the University of Pittsburgh.
Eastern Europe
REESWeb
Comprehensive index of electronic resources on the Balkans, the Baltic
states, the Caucusus, Central Asia, Central Europe, the CIS, Eastern
Europe, the NIS, the Russian Federation, and the former Soviet Union.
Asia
South
Asian Studies Via UC Berkeley.
Southeast
Asia Electronic Resources By region and country,
via UC Berkeley.
Africa
African
Studies on the Internet Via the African Studies
Center, University of Pennsylvania.
Africa
South of the Sahara: Selected Internet Resources Via
Stanford University.
Australia
OzSource:
Major Sources of Information for Australian StudiesVia
Griffith University.
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