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- Access UN
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.Index to the Official Records of the United Nations.
- Access UN is an index to the Official Records of the United Nations. It includes citations to the draft resolutions, meeting records, and the UN Treaty Series. Several thousand full-text UN documents are also included in the database. The index supports access to the microfiche and paper collections of United Nations documents held by the Library.
- Coverage Dates: 1944-
- Updated: Monthly
- Database Provider: readex/newsbank
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=xaun-uga1
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- SourceOECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development)
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.
Internet Explorer Users: cookies must be set to low for this database to function properly.Full text access to OECD publications, 1998-present.
- SourceOECD provides access to the full text of publications from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, a group of major developed countries. Covers all OECD books and periodicals published 1998-present. Contains extensive statistical data which can be downloaded into spreadsheets. The database is especially rich in annual economic surveys of member countries, industry reports, and statistical reports.
- Coverage Dates: Varies
- Updated: Weekly
- Languages: English
- Database Provider: OECD
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=xoec-uga1
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Conference Papers/Proceedings
- United Nations Bibliographic Information System (UNBISNET)
Online Access: On/Off Campus- Catalogue of United Nations(UN) documents and publications indexed by the UN Dag Hammarskjöld Library and the Library of the UN Office at Geneva with full text links where available. Coverage is greatest starting 1979 but older materials are being added. Also provides voting records for all resolutions which were adopted - either without a vote or by roll-call or recorded vote - by the General Assembly beginning with its 38th session (1983-) and the Security Council beginning with its 1st year (1946-). Links to the full text of resolutions are provided. An index to speeches (1983-) with full text links is also provided. Full text links access the Official Document System of the United Nations (ODS). UNBISNET supports the six official languages of the UN - Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.
- URL: http://unbisnet.un.org
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Dictionaries/Encyclopedias
- Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential
Call Number: Main Ref AS2.5 .Y4- This three-volume set documents how the network of international organizations is focused on world problems and whether or not the organizations are focusing on the same problems.
- Location: Main Library Reference Collection
- Historical Dictionary of International Organizations
Call Number: Main Ref JZ4838 .S34 1998- A historical dictionary with an excellent introductory essay that provides a broad context to the specifics that the dictionary details.
- Location: Main Library Reference Collection
- International Organizations: A Dictionary
Call Number: Main Ref JZ4838 .S344 1997- Lengthy entries in this dictionary include information on the origin and development, objectives, structure, and activities of international organizations.
- Location: Main Library Reference Collection
Directories
- Congressional Quarterly's International Information Directory
Call Number: Main Ref JZ4838 .I58- This directory includes information on 4,500 organizations and is arranged by topic and individual country.
- Location: Main Library Reference Collection
- Directory of International Organizations
Call Number: Main Ref JX1995 .S36313 1996- As the preface states, this directory "presents essential and useful facts about international organizations in an easily accessible fact-sheet style format."
- Location: Main Library Reference Collection
- International Governmental Organizations
Online Access: On/Off Campus- Northwestern University Library's Government Publications Department has created this incredibly informative alphabetical list of international government organizations websites.
- URL: http://www.library.northwestern.edu/govpub/resource/internat/igo.html
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- International Organizations and Related Information
Online Access: On/Off Campus- An excellent site to start research on international organizations, created by the University of Michigan Documents Center.
- URL: http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/intl.html
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- Worldwide Government Directory, with International Organizations
Call Number: Main Ref JF37 .W67- Location: Main Library Reference Collection
Human Rights
- Amnesty International: Annual Report (online)
Online Access: On/Off Campus- Click on annual report, then regional index for the region you are interested in, then on the country name.
- URL: http://www.amnesty.org
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- Doctors Without Borders
Online Access: On/Off Campus- Doctors Without Borders, also known as Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), is the world's largest independent international medical relief agency aiding victims of armed conflict, epidemics, and natural and man-made disasters, and others who lack health care due to geographic remoteness or ethnic marginalization. The organization operates independently of all governments, institutions, political, economic, or religious influences. It depends on volunteer health professionals in fulfilling its mission.
- URL: http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org
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- European Court of Human Rights
Online Access: On/Off Campus- Works for the collective enforcement of rights stated in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948.
- URL: http://www.echr.coe.int/
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- Freedom in the World (online)
Online Access: On/Off Campus- Click on publications, then Freedom in the World.
- URL: http://www.freedomhouse.org
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- Office of the UN High Commissioner on Human Rights
Online Access: On/Off Campus- The site has information on UN human rights documents, resources and links on human rights issues.
- URL: http://www.unhchr.ch/
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Locating International Organization Publicati
- Official Document System of the United Nations (ODS)
Online Access: On/Off Campus- ODS covers all types of official United Nations documentation, beginning in 1993. Older UN documents are, however, added to the system on a daily basis. ODS also provides access to the resolutions of the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council and the Trusteeship Council from 1946 onwards. The system does not contain press releases, UN sales publications, the United Nations Treaty Series or information brochures issued by the Department of Public Information. ODS supports the six official languages of the UN - Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish. After selecting the language you want to use just click "Access ODS without logging in".
- URL: http://www.ods.un.org/
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- United Nations Bibliographic Information System (UNBISNET)
Online Access: On/Off Campus- Catalogue of United Nations(UN) documents and publications indexed by the UN Dag Hammarskjöld Library and the Library of the UN Office at Geneva with full text links where available. Coverage is greatest starting 1979 but older materials are being added. Also provides voting records for all resolutions which were adopted - either without a vote or by roll-call or recorded vote - by the General Assembly beginning with its 38th session (1983-) and the Security Council beginning with its 1st year (1946-). Links to the full text of resolutions are provided. An index to speeches (1983-) with full text links is also provided. Full text links access the Official Document System of the United Nations (ODS). UNBISNET supports the six official languages of the UN - Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.
- URL: http://unbisnet.un.org
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- United Nations Documentation Research Guide
Online Access: On/Off Campus- This guide is designed for researchers and information professionals with an interest in United Nations documentation. It presents an overview of the various types of documents and publications issued by the Organization (e.g, reports, resolutions, meeting records, sales publications, press releases) and gives guidance on how to work with them. Also includes selected links to full text UN publications.
- URL: http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/resguide/index.html
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- United Nations Documents at UGA Libraries
Online Access: On/Off Campus- This web site provides information about locating publications that the University of Georgia Libraries owns from both the United Nations and UN-related organizations such as FAO, UNESCO and the World Bank.
- URL: http://www.libs.uga.edu/govdocs/collections/un.html
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Manuscripts/Documents
- Official Document System of the United Nations (ODS)
Online Access: On/Off Campus- ODS covers all types of official United Nations documentation, beginning in 1993. Older UN documents are, however, added to the system on a daily basis. ODS also provides access to the resolutions of the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council and the Trusteeship Council from 1946 onwards. The system does not contain press releases, UN sales publications, the United Nations Treaty Series or information brochures issued by the Department of Public Information. ODS supports the six official languages of the UN - Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish. After selecting the language you want to use just click "Access ODS without logging in".
- URL: http://www.ods.un.org/
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- United Nations Bibliographic Information System (UNBISNET)
Online Access: On/Off Campus- Catalogue of United Nations(UN) documents and publications indexed by the UN Dag Hammarskjöld Library and the Library of the UN Office at Geneva with full text links where available. Coverage is greatest starting 1979 but older materials are being added. Also provides voting records for all resolutions which were adopted - either without a vote or by roll-call or recorded vote - by the General Assembly beginning with its 38th session (1983-) and the Security Council beginning with its 1st year (1946-). Links to the full text of resolutions are provided. An index to speeches (1983-) with full text links is also provided. Full text links access the Official Document System of the United Nations (ODS). UNBISNET supports the six official languages of the UN - Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.
- URL: http://unbisnet.un.org
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- United Nations Documents at UGA Libraries
Online Access: On/Off Campus- This web site provides information about locating publications that the University of Georgia Libraries owns from both the United Nations and UN-related organizations such as FAO, UNESCO and the World Bank.
- URL: http://www.libs.uga.edu/govdocs/collections/un.html
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Organizations/Associations
- European Union
Online Access: On/Off Campus- This site which is called "Europa" is the European Union's server.
- URL: http://europa.eu/index_en.htm
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Online Access: On/Off Campus- The Food and Agriculture Organization was founded in October 1945 with a mandate to raise levels of nutrition and standards of living, to improve agricultural productivity, and to better the condition of rural populations. FAO is the largest autonomous agency within the United Nations system with 180 Member Nations plus the EC (Member Organization).
- URL: http://www.fao.org
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- International Government Information (UC Berkeley)
Online Access: On/Off Campus- A well organized site for finding information resources covering U.S. Federal government and international organizations. Some resources are restricted.
- URL: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/doemoff/gov_info.html
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- International Governmental Organizations
Online Access: On/Off Campus- Northwestern University Library's Government Publications Department has created this incredibly informative alphabetical list of international government organizations websites.
- URL: http://www.library.northwestern.edu/govpub/resource/internat/igo.html
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- International Organizations and Related Information
Online Access: On/Off Campus- An excellent site to start research on international organizations, created by the University of Michigan Documents Center.
- URL: http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/intl.html
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- League of Nations
Online Access: On/Off Campus- This site contains the full text of the Covenant with amendments through 1924.
- URL: http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/leagcov.htm
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- North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Online Access: On/Off Campus- The official site of NATO offers current news, text of speeches and conferences sponsored by the organization and policy statements.
- URL: http://www.nato.int/
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- United Nations
Online Access: On/Off Campus- The UN website contains basic information on the United Nations, press releases, some documents online, highlights of the General Assembly and Security Council publications and resolutions.
- URL: http://www.un.org
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- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Online Access: On/Off Campus- The main objective of UNESCO is to contribute to peace and security in the world by promoting collaboration among nations through education, science, culture and communication in order to further universal respect for justice, for the rule of law and for the human rights and fundamental freedoms which are affirmed for the peoples of the world, without distinction of race, sex, language or religion, by the Charter of the United Nations.
- URL: http://www.unesco.org
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- World Bank
Online Access: On/Off Campus- This site describes programs and publications of the World Bank. It also has extensive summaries of selected publications and a list of development indicators.
- URL: http://www.worldbank.org
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- World Health Organization
Online Access: On/Off Campus- The objective of WHO is the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health. Health, as defined in the WHO Constitution, is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease of infirmity.
- URL: http://www.who.int
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- World Trade Organization
Online Access: On/Off Campus- This site includes Trade Policy Reviews, information on regulation and policy on goods, services, and copyright and a description of the organization and its programs, press releases, newsletters and a bibliography of publications.
- URL: http://www.wto.org
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Statistics
- Eurostat
Online Access: On/Off Campus- Their mission is to provide the European Union with a high-quality statistical information service.
- URL: http://europa.eu.int/comm/eurostat/
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- FAO Statistical Databases
Online Access: On/Off Campus- FAOSTAT is an on-line and multilingual databases currently containing over 1 million time-series records covering international statistics in the following areas: Production, Trade, Food Balance Sheets, Fertilizer and pesticides, Land Use and Irrigation, Forest Products, Fishery Products, Population, Agricultural Machinery, and Food Aid Shipments.
- URL: http://faostat.fao.org/
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- LexisNexis Statistical
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.Statistics published by the U.S. government and other agencies
- LexisNexis Statistical consists of:
- Search Tables Base Edition: selected statistical tables drawn mainly from sources published by the U.S. government since about 1998.
- Search Abstracts:
- American Statistics Index (ASI) abstracts (1970-) and full text (ca 2004-) of Federal government sources
- Statistical Reference Index (SRI) abstracts (1980-) of state and private sources
- Index to International Statistics (IIS) abstracts (1983-) of international and inter-governmental sources
Coverage ranges across many topics including income, production, retail and wholesale trade, interest rates, economic indicators, demographics, energy, environmental protection, agriculture and fisheries, crime, medicine, and education.
- Coverage Dates: 1970s-
- Updated: Biannually
- Database Provider: cis
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=xstu-uga1
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- LexisNexis Statistical consists of:
- National and International Data Sources and Links
Online Access: On/Off Campus- Unannotated links to the major statistical agencies of each country and links to international agencies, including UN bodies, which publish statistics.
- URL: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/inter-natlinks/sd_natstat.htm
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