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Name of Database/Service
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Password
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Brief Description
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| Annual
Review of Environment and Resources |
None |
Online
version of "Annual Review of Environment and Resources", one of the
most frequently cited sources. Accessible
only within UNU HQ building and UNU-IAS.
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| Chronicle of Higher Education |
Contact
|
Online
version of "Chronicle of Higher Education". Print version is available
in the newspaper rack in the Library. ID & PW required.
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| CIAO Net |
None |
Columbia
International Affairs Online published by the Columbia University Press. |
CiNii
|
None
|
NII
Scholarly and Academic Information Navigator is a database service that
enables retrieval of academic articles published in academic society
journals, university research bulletins, or articles included in the
National Diet Library's Japanese Periodicals Index Database. Accessible
only within Japan.
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EconLit
|
None |
EconLit
is a comprehensive, indexed bibliography with selected abstracts of the
world's economic literature, produced by the American Economic
Association. It includes coverage of over 400 major journals as well as
articles in collective volumes (essays, proceedings, etc.), books, book
reviews, dissertations, and working papers licensed from the Cambridge
University Press Abstracts of Working Papers in Economics. New
platform via ProQuest is available from April 2011.
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| EIU.com |
None
|
Online services by Economist
Intelligence Unit. The site contains
global research and advisory services, analysis and
forecasts on over 200 countries, nine strategic
industries, and a full range of
management
functions.
Key titles
include: Country report; Country Risk Service; Country Forecast. |
| eJournals
A-to-Z: UNU Library Journal Holdings |
None |
This is the
portal of all subscribed electronic periodicals by the UNU Centre
Library operated on EBSCO A-to-Z application system. Full text articles
in all the listed periodicals are accessible. |
| Encyclopaedia
Britannica |
None
|
Online
version of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. |
ERIC
|
None |
Education Resources Information Center
(ERIC) is is an online
digital library of education research and information. ERIC is sponsored by
the Institute of Education Sciences of the US Department of
Education. New platform via ProQuest is available
from April 2011.
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Global Development Finance Online
|
None
|
Global
Development Finance is the sole repository for statistics on the
external debt of developing countries derived from loan-by-loan
records. This edition of GDF presents reported or estimated data on the
total external debt of 128 individual countries that report to the
World Bank's Debtor reporting System (DRS). This database is freely accessible as
from 1 July 2010. |
IMF Balance
of Payment Statistics
|
None |
The
BOPS yearbook includes
annual aggregate and detailed time series for balance of payments and
international investment position for countries; provides world and
regional tables of balance of payments components and aggregates; and
descriptions of methodologies, compilation practices and data sources
used by individual countries. |
| IMF
Direction
of Trade Statistics |
None |
Provides
data on the country and area distribution of countries' exports and
imports by their partners. |
| IMF
International Financial Statistics |
None |
Approximately
32,000 time series covering more than 200 countries starting in 1948.
Includes exchange rates, Fund accounts and the main global and country
economic indicators. |
| IngentaConnect |
None
|
Free
access to citations of some 4.5 million articles from 13,500
publications. Online
version of subscribed
journals published by participating publishers in
IngentaConnect are accessible in full texts within UNU buildings.
|
| International
Bibliography of the Social Sciences |
None
|
Indexed
journals and books held at the Library of London School of Economics
& Political Science, also known as the British Library of Political
& Economic Science. New platform via ProQuest is available
from April 2011. |
Handbooks in Economics
|
None
|
The
Handbooks in Economics
series in 27 titles are accessible via ScienceDirect, which enables
easy retrieval by title, author and keywords. The various branches of
economics with handbooks which make useful reference sources, suitable
for use by professionals, advanced graduate students and capacity
development course organizers/lectureres.
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| JSTOR |
None
|
JSTOR
provides the complete archives of over 600 core scholarly
journals. They have been digitized, starting with the very first
issues, many of which date from the 1800s.
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| Lexis |
Contact
|
An online legal research
system launched in
1973, a resourceful and huge legal database system that caters for
legal profession and academics. Accessible
only within Japan. ID and PW
required. UNU staff, fellows and postgraduate students in Japan can
request for the access information to the Library.
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| Nature
Online |
None
|
Nature Online provides access to full text
articles from January 1997 to the current issue. Abstracts and
citations can also be searched in PubMed.
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| Nikkei
Telecom 21 |
Contact |
Nikkei
Telecom 21 contains news and database services, which covers full text
of over 50 Japanese newspapers. Accessible only in
the Library. |
OECDiLibrary
|
None
|
The
replacement of the SourceOECD,
OECDiLibrary includes statistical databases, full text books and
periodicals published by OECD since 1997. |
| OUP
Journals |
None |
Online
version of subscribed
journals published by the Oxford University Press. Full texts
accessible
only within Japan. |
| Oxford English Dictionary |
None |
OED
Online covers the second edition of the 20-volume print edition.
Updated quarterly with at least 1000 new and revised entries. |
Population & Vital Statistics
|
None
|
Each issue of the quarterly Population and
Vital Statistics Report presents estimates of current world and
continental population for 234 countries or areas of the world. This report is freely accessible.
|
| ProQuest
Direct |
None
|
ProQuest
online information service provides access to thousands of
current periodicals and newspapers, many of them are updated daily and
containing full text articles from 1986 or much earlier. ID
and PW required for the UNU
staff/researchers away from the RTCs. Go to Login
|
| ScienceDirect |
None |
ScienceDirect
provides access to full text articles of existing Elsevier
journals currently subscribed titles as well as 5 subject collections;
Computer Science; Environmental Science; Business, Management and
Accounting; Economics, Econometrics and Finance; Social Sciences. From
1995 issues to the current issues.
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| SpringerLink Journals
New |
None
|
Scholarly journals published by Springer
have been newly subscribed. All subject collections are; Behavioral
Science; Biomedical and Life Science; Business and Economics; Chemistry and
Materials Science; Computer
Science; Earth and
Environmental Science; Engineering;
Humanities,
Social Science & Law; Mathematics
and Statistics; Medicine; Physics and Astronomy. New
from April 2012 |
| UN Common
Database |
None
|
This database service has been
upgraded to "UN data" accessible freely
at http://data.un.org/ |
| UN Monthly
Bulletin of Statistics |
None
|
Monthly
economic statistics for most of the countries and areas of the world
provided by the Statistics Division of the UN. This database services is freely
accessible.
|
| UN
Official Document System (ODS) |
None
|
The
electronic repository for official documents published by the United
Nations. The full text of documents is accessible in PDF format in all
official languages of the United Nations. Documents are stored in two
databases: United Nations documentation, with comprehensive coverage
beginning in 1993 and selected earlier coverage, and United Nations
resolutions, which includes the official records version of resolutions
of the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council
and Trusteeship Council since 1946.
|
| UN Treaty Series Database |
None
|
Prepared
and updated regularly by the Treaty Section of the Office of Legal
Affairs of the UN, this online service provides access to over 40,000
treaties and international agreements. This database services
is freely accessible. |
WITS
|
Contact
|
World Integrated Trade Solution (WITS)
provides COMTRADE maintained by UN Statistics Division, TRAINS
maintained by UNCTAD, IDB and CTS databases maintained by WTO. View WITS documentation. ID and PW required.
|
World
Bank e-Library
|
None
|
Fully
cross-searchable portal of over 5,000 World Bank publications. The
collection consists of over 2,000 World Bank publications and over
3,200 Policy Research Working Papers, plus each new book and paper as
they are published. |
World Development Indicators Online
|
None
|
WDI Online ontains statistical data for
over 550 development indicators and time series data from 1960 for over
200 countries and 18 country groups. Data includes social, economic,
financial, natural resources, and environmental indicators. This
database is freely accessible as from 1 July 2010. |
Yearbook
of
International Organizations
|
None |
The
online version contains descriptions of over 62,900 organizations
including governmental, international and non-governmental
organizations worldwide. The organizations database is extensively
hyperlinked between organization profiles to organization websites.
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