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Selected Useful
Web Resources

UN System

Alphabetical List of UN System	http://www.unsystem.org/
Electronic Documents at UN System	http://archive.unu.edu/hq/library/resource/unsystem-docs.htm
Libraries & Databases at UN System	http://archive.unu.edu/hq/library/resource/unsystem-libraries.htm
UN Scholars' Workstation	http://www.library.yale.edu/un/index.html
World Map of UN Web Site	http://www.un.org/aroundworld/map/

Libraries & Information Services

BUBL Information Service	http://bubl.ac.uk/
Gateway to Europe's National Libraries	http://www.lib.helsinki.fi/gabriel/en/countries.html
Internet Public Library	http://www.ipl.org/div/books/
Libraries in Japan	http://archive.unu.edu/hq/resource/libjp.htm
Library of Congress Online Catalog	http://catalog.loc.gov/
PubMed by National Library of Medicine	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/
UNESCO Libraries Portal	http://www.unesco.org/webworld/portal_bib/index.shtml

Electronic Libraries

Berkeley's Digital Library Project	http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/R+D/
IFLA Electronic Collections	http://www.ifla.org/II/index.htm
UKOLN Electronic Libraries Programme	http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/elib/

International Law

Environmental Leagal Instruments	http://www.unep.org/unep/convention/sec.htm
International Human Rights Instruments	http://www.unhchr.ch/html/intlinst.htm
Treaties and International Law by the Internet Law Library	http://www.lectlaw.com/inll/89.htm
Treaties and Contracting Parties by WIPO	http://www.wipo.org/treaties/

Books

Amazon Com	http://www.amazon.com
Blackwell's Online Bookshop	http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk

Journals

HighWire Press	http://highwire.stanford.edu/
IngentaJournals	http://www.ingenta.com/
OCLC PAIS International Journals List	http://www.pais.org/journalslist/index.stm

Directories

Academic Societies in Japan	http://wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/index-nf3.html
Colleges & Universities Worldwide	http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/cdemello/univ-full.html
Japan Directory	http://jin.jcic.or.jp/jd/
Scholarly Societies Worldwide	http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/society/webpages.html

Social Sciences

Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC)	http://searcheric.org/
Social Science Information Gateway (SOSIG)	http://sosig.ac.uk/welcome.html
Social Sciences Virtual Library	http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/gthursby/socsci/

Developmant

BLDS - British Library for Development Studies at IDS	http://www.ids.ac.uk/blds/index.html
Development Gateway	http://www.developmentgateway.org/
Regions & Countries by the World Bank Group	http://www.worldbank.org/html/extdr/regions.htm
Least Developed Countries (LDCs)	http://www.unctad.org/conference/
USAID Development Experience Clearinghouse	http://www.dec.org/

Environment & Sustainable Developmant

Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)	http://www.cgiar.org/
ELDIS - Electronic Development & Environment Information System	http://www.ids.ac.uk/eldis/
Sustainable Development Dimensions by FAO	http://www.fao.org/waicent/faoinfo/sustdev/welcome_.htm
Television Trust for the Environment	http://info.tve.org/index.cfm

What's new at Japanese Ministries

Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries	http://www.maff.go.jp/maffud.html
Ministry of Foreign Affairs	http://www.mofa.go.jp/whats/index.html
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry	http://www.meti.go.jp/english/index.html

World News

BBC Online

Search Engines

Google

Infoseek

MSN.co.jp

Updated 20 January 2003 by UNU Library