Library Liaison
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Many organizations provide portals, sometimes free and other times not, for accessing their reports, studies, working papers, etc.
Organizational Portals
- OECD iLibrary This link opens in a new window1998+ The OECD iLibrary contains books, articles, and statistics on international economics. In addition to the data, it contains analysis. Users can browse by theme or country. One can perfom searches across all the content or restrict searches to specific content - e.g. just statistical data. The resource also provides a number of tools to allow users to reformat the data and create charts.
- World Bank Open Knowledge RepositoryThe OKN contains World Bank published books from 2009-2012, all World Development Reports (WDRs) since 1978, Policy Research Working Papers (PRWP) from 2009-2012, Economic and Sector Work (ESW) studies from 2009-2012, journal articles from 2007-2010 published in World Bank Economic Review (WBER) and World Bank Research Observer (WBRO) (two journals published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank), content in languages other than English, and World Bank Group Annual Reports and Independent Evaluation Studies.
- NBER (National Bureau of Economic Research)NBER is a well-respected private, non-profit research organiztion founded in 1920. The full text of all NBER papers issued since June 1973 is available online. For help with papers published earlier, check with a reference librarian.
- UNEP Knowledge RepositoryProvides access to reports and other publications of the UN Environmental Programme.
- AASHE PublicationsProvides access to reports and publications of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education.