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Core Resources

Provides full text of United Nations central agency parliamentary and working documents. Includes all of the six official UN languages in which a document was published.
United Nations Bibliographic Information Service  (1985+ (Select back to 1979))
Index created in the UN Headquarters library, using much UN terminology. UNBISnet covers United Nations parliamentary and working documents, and monographic and serial titles.
Comprehensive commercial index to United Nations parliamentary & working documents, monographic publications, & serial titles.
Note: 1968-1971 of the foreign language component is only available in print. (SSRC) Z7164.A2P8
Citations to articles, books, reports, and select government documents on U.S. and international public policy issue. Generally considered to be a comprehensive index to policy literature.

Important Resources

Access UNDP  (1972-1998)  
Indexes project reports from the United Nations Development Program in Readex microfiche set
Figures and summary narratives on both international and internal armed conflicts in the world, whether dormant or active, since about 1960. Focus is on wars, terrorism, refugees and returnees, Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), fatalities, specific weapons used and their flows, and economic costs. Covers non state parties.
FAO Stat    
International statistics on production, trade, food balances, forestry, land use, irrigation, fertilizer, pesticides, agriculture, food aid, and fisheries.
MyiLibrary    
Full text of select publications from the International Atomic Energy Agency, International Labour Organization, International Organization for Migration, UNAIDS, United Nations, and the World Health Organization.
Refworld    
Access: Firestone Library, Social Science Reference Center, A Floor
Note: Web version is a subset of the CD Version.
Full-text searchable documents covering national legislation on issues pertaining to asylum and statelessness, international and national jurisprudence, maps of countries of origin and of transit. Also contains UNHCR's library catalogue, which contains references to books, refugee magazines, articles and conference reports.
The United Nations Statistical Office provides this smooth interface to some key statistics from the broad range of statistical offices found throughout the UN system. Coverage varies by measure, but can go back to 1950.
Project reports from the United Nations Development Programme.
Note: 1990/91+ is available in the Social Science Reference Center of Firestone Library on CD-ROM. For volumes back to 1948 in paper, see Firestone Oversize HA41.U59q.
Index and full text database for some 50,000 bilateral and multilateral treaties and subsequent treaty actions in their authentic language(s), along with a translation into English and French.
Principal reference work of the United Nations. Provides a detailed overview of the Organization's activities. Includes all major General Assembly, Security Council and Economic & Social Council resolutions.
Includes annual economic, social, educational, environmental and health data from many of the World Bank's major statistical publications.
World Population Prospects  (1950-2050.)  
Demographic indicators including measures of fertility, life expectancy, migration, and measures of the impact of HIV/AIDS.
Fully cross-searchable portal of World Tourism Organization publications in their respective languages.

Related Resources

EBRARY    
Note: Ebrary may not work with Google Chrome.
Extensive collection of books (over 19,000 titles) on the following subjects: business & economics, computers, technology & engineering, humanities, life & physical sciences and social & behavioral sciences. It also includes over 9,000 sheet music titles for bands, orchestras, instrumentalists and vocalists of all levels.
Compiled by the British Library of Political & Economic Science of the London School of Economics & Political Science. Provides bibliographic information from an international selection of publications in economics, political science, sociology, and anthropology.
INIS Collection Search  (1970+)  
World's leading information system on peaceful uses of nuclear science and technology, operated by IAEA, contains 2.8 million records. Also covers grey literature.
Abstracts in English or French to articles selected from over 1,000 international journals. Topics covered include political science method and theory, political thinkers and ideas, governmental and administrative institutions, political process, international relations, and national and area studies
Current international market analysis, country and regional intelligence, risk, and economic forecasting.
Comprehensive database of legal materials, including cases, statutes, and regulations of the U.S. government and the various state governments; case law from 1789 to present; current and historical statutes and regulations from 1980 forward. Provides full text of many major global, national, and regional newspapers. For comparisons between Lexis-Nexis Academic and Factiva see http://firestone.princeton.edu/econlib/universe.html.
Provides citations and abstracts of the international literature in political science, including journal articles, books and book chapters, dissertations, and reviews. It also covers such areas as international relations, law, sociology, economics, and public policy. Provides references to reliable websites.

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