"The Global Database on Violence against Women provides easy access to comprehensive and up-to-date information on measures undertaken by United Nations Member States to address all forms of violence against women." UN Women serves as the secretariat for the database.
Compiles provisions related to gender contained in constitutions in countries around the world, available in the original language, along with English translations. Searchable by keywords, provisions, regions or countries.
Women in Science, a new interactive tool, presents the latest available data for countries at all stages of development. Produced by the UIS, the tool lets you explore and visualize gender gaps in the pipeline leading to a research career.
OECD iLibrary is the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development's online library for books, journals, working papers and statistics and serves as the gateway to OECD analysis and data.
The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (OKR) is The World Bank's official open access repository for its research outputs and knowledge products. OKR contains research from thousands of works including World Bank published books, World Development Reports, Policy Research Working Papers, Economic and Sector Work studies, journal articles, and World Bank Group annual reports and independent evaluation studies.
The World Bank e-Library is an online, fully cross-searchable portal of over 4,000 World Bank documents. The collection consists of over 1,600 World Bank publications and over 2,400 Policy Research Working Papers, plus each new book and paper as they are published.
This online directory of minorities and indigenous peoples grew out of Minority Rights Group’s encyclopaedic World Directory of Minorities, first published in 1990 and updated and expanded in 1997. This World Directory has been restructured into database format, updated and expanded, and the entire text is now available free of charge for the use of all those throughout the world with an interest in any aspect of minorities and indigenous peoples, their rights, their historical, political or geographical context.
The Yearbook is the principal reference work of the United Nations and provides a detailed overview of the Organization's activities. Each Yearbook is fully indexed and includes all major General Assembly, Security Council and Economic and Social Council resolutions. The complete collection (1946-2005) is available here.
Bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. The database abstracts and indexes over 1,300+ serials publications and includes abstracts of journal articles and dissertations, and citations to book reviews. Coverage : 1979+
allAfrica.com posts more than 1000 new stories daily, in English and French, and offers multi-lingual video streaming, along with a searchable archive of over 900,000 articles (This includes the archive of Africa News Service dating back to 1997.) The site presents content from 130 African news organizations.
French language database covering the humanities and social sciences. Allows searching and provides access to abstracts of 150 journals. Full-text access to 58 journals.
IngentaConnect can be used primarily to find abstracts and citations. Full-text access is available for journals to which UNOG Library subscribes, including African and Asian Studies, The Hague Journal of Diplomacy, IDS Bulletin, Journal of Transport Economics and Policy and Strategic Survey.
IngentaConnect can be used primarily to find abstracts and citations. Full-text access is available for journals to which UNOG Library subscribes, including African and Asian Studies, The Hague Journal of Diplomacy, IDS Bulletin, Journal of Transport Economics and Policy and Strategic Survey.
JSTOR gives access to a full-text searchable collection of leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. All titles begin with volume one.UNOG Library subscribes to collections I, II and IV.
Oxford Journals, a division of Oxford University Press, publishes academic and research journals covering a broad range of subject areas, such as economics, law, and refugee studies.
UN Library Geneva's Oxford Journal subscriptions include: African affairs, Cambridge Journal of Economics, European journal of international law, Human rights law review, International Journal of Refugee Law, Journal of Economic Geography, Journal of Refugee Studies, and Refugee Survey Quarterly.
Offers full-text access to 20 French-language journals covering the humanities and social sciences. Established by the Ministry of State Education, Higher Education and Research (France).
ProQuest Central is a web-based interface providing indexing, abstracting, and selected full-text access to records in 15 major databases. Altogether, it covers 8272 magazines, journals, newspapers and Newsletters.
Redalyc allows users to find full-text articles in social sciences, humanities, natural and exact sciences. Users can browse sources by topic, title and country; search for articles by keyword, author or title. This collection of periodicals in Spanish language is enlarged with some English titles.
Redalyc allows users to find full-text articles in social sciences, humanities, natural and exact sciences. Users can browse sources by topic, title and country; search for articles by keyword, author or title. This collection of periodicals in Spanish language is enlarged with some English titles.
Revues.org is a French portal of humanities and social sciences journals, focusing on history, political science, sociology, linguistics and literature. Access is free.
Revues.org is a French portal of humanities and social sciences journals, focusing on history, political science, sociology, linguistics and literature. Access is free. The majority of publications are in French, but journals published outside of France and in other languages are included as well. The titles are published by research institutions, university presses and private publishers and are selected by an academic council. Of special interest are Calenda (a French research calendar that includes close to 9?000 events related to humanities and social sciences) and In-extenso (French search engine that provides free access to research articles and Internet sites).
The eLibrary consists of two parts: an Abstract Database containing abstracts on over 220,200 scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers and an Electronic Paper Collection currently containing over 179,800 downloadable full text documents in pdf format.
Full-text access is given for journals to which the UNOG Library subscribes, including Adelphi Papers, Journal of Development Studies, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Survival and Third World Quarterly.
Wiley Online Library can be used primarily to find abstracts and citations. Full-text access is available for the select journals to which UNOG Library subscribes, including Development Policy Review, Disasters, Foreign Policy Analysis, The Political Quarterly and The World Economy.
Wiley Online Library can be used primarily to find abstracts and citations. Full-text access is available for the select journals to which UNOG Library subscribes, including Development Policy Review, Disasters, Foreign Policy Analysis, The Political Quarterly and The World Economy.
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