United Nations Common Library

Find out what has been published currently or retrospectively in more than 17000 English language Journals, on your subjects of interest, by making free online searches in CARL UNCOVER Database of Periodicals Literature. This is a general periodicals contents database which provides an efficient way to remain aware of the current developments in any subject area. UnCover is a Document Delivery Service which offers a fax delivery of required articles, on payment.

ERIC Database

The Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) is a national information system designed to provide users with ready access to an extensive body of education-related literature. Established in 1966, ERIC is supported by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, and administered by the National Library of Education.

The ERIC database, the world's largest source of education information, contains nearly a million abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice.

Free MEDLINE on the WWW

MEDLINE (MEDlars onLINE) is the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) premier bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the pre-clinical sciences. It contains bibliographic citations (e.g., authors, title, and journal reference) and author abstracts from about 3,800 biomedical journals published in the United States and 70 foreign countries during the current four years. The database contains about 8.8 million records dating back to 1966.

On June 26, 1997, NLM announced that the MEDLINE database may be accessed free of charge on the World Wide Web. Two NLM Web-based products; Internet Grateful Med and PubMed, provide this access. PubMed has links to 30 full-text journals and NLM plans to add even more. In some cases you can see the full original article.

AIDSLINE

Bibliographic citations on subject: of Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and related topics
Coverage: All languages; publications from 1980 to the present. Updates: Weekly, with over 1,000 new citations added each month; the file contains over 186,000 records. Document Types: Journal articles, government reports, letters, technical reports, meeting abstracts/papers, monographs, special publications, theses, books and audiovisuals

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AIDSDRUGS

AIDSDRUGS is a dictionary of chemical and biological agents currently being evaluated in the AIDS clinical trials covered in the companion AIDSTRIALS database. Each record represents a single substance and provides information such as standard chemical names, synonyms and trade names, CAS Registry Numbers, protocol ID numbers, pharmacological action, adverse reactions and contraindications, physical/chemical properties, and manufacturers' names. Agents which were tested in closed or completed trials are included. A bibliography of relevant articles is also included.

AIDSTRIALS

AIDSLINE includes citations to literature covering research, clinical aspects and health policy issues. PubMed AIDS-related journal references may be found in MEDLINE® and retrieval may easily be limited by selecting AIDS in the Subsets option located under the Limits choice. Internet Grateful Med provides access to a version of AIDSLINE containing citations
derived from the MEDLINE, HealthSTAR, and BIOETHICSLINE files, and the meeting abstracts from the International Conferences on AIDS, and other AIDS-related meetings, conferences and symposia. Citations and abstracts from newsletters and special AIDS journals are also included. In order to provide access to additional reference sources,

POPLINE Database:

POPLINE provides worldwide coverage of population, family planning, and related health issues, including family planning technology and programs, fertility, and population law and policy. In addition, POPLINE focuses on particular developing-country issues including demography, AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, maternal and child health, primary health care communication, and population and environment.

Population Index:

Bibliographic database of references to global population literature. Also contains literature reviews on demographic topics. Population Index, published since 1935, is the primary reference tool to the world's population literature. It presents an annotated bibliography of recently published books, journal articles, working papers, and other materials on population topics. The Index is provided free of charge on the Web as a public service, thanks to financial support from NICHD.

The paper version of Population Index has been discontinued effective with the last issue for 1999 (Volume 65, Number 4). The Office of Population Research is exploring alternatives for continuing the electronic version of the Index. In the meantime, this website will continue to be maintained, so you can browse or search the entire collection of 46,035 abstracts of demographic literature published in Population Index in the period 1986-1999.

HAZLIT Database

The Hazards Center Library Database: A Library database covering literature on hazards and disasters.

United Nations: Bibliographic Reference Databases:

UNBIS Net Bibliographic Searches Catalogue

Bibliographic Search Catalogue of UN publications and documentation indexed by the UnitedNations Dag Hammarskjöd Library and the Library of the UN Office at Geneva. Also included are non-UN publications held in the collection of the Dag Hammarskjöld Library.

UNBIS Net Voting Records
The 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-).

UNBIS Net Index to Speeches
Citations to speeches made in the General Assembly beginning with its 38th session (1983-), the Security Council beginning with its 38th year (1983-), the Economic and Social Council beginning in 1983 and the Trusteeship Council beginning with its 15th special session (1982).

ILODOC:

More than 50,000 records created by staff of the ILO Library and specialized Documentation Centres in other ILO departments, describing books, reports, journal articles, ILO publications and selected publications of other international organizations.

Industrial Development Abstracts (IDA) Databases:

The IDA contains over 21,000 fully indexed abstracts of UNIDO documentation and includes descriptions of major studies and reports, reports resulting from UNIDO's technical assistance activities, reports and proceedings of expert working groups, workshops and seminars, and publications in series. The time frame is from 1965 to today. New entries are added each month.

A typical entry contains the title of the document, the master file number for use in ordering the full text, the author(s) and/or corporate author(s), date, bibliographic information, language, and an English-language abstract of approximately 60 words describing the work.

UNESBIB (UNESCO bibliographic database): A searchable catalog database of over 87,000 references to documents and publications issued by UNESCO, its Regional Offices and Affiliated Institutes since 1946, and acquisitions by the UNESCO Library from outside publishers for the different sectors.

Peace-keeping Operations: a bibliography, United Nations. A list of English language monographs and journal articles published between 1945 and 1996.