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This guide is designed to help you start your Library research. Please feel free to email me if you get stuck, have additional research questions, would like to set up an appointment, or have other sources to include in the guide.

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International & General Policy Research Tools

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There are a number of quality resources to search for public policy information including articles, reports, white papers, and government documents.

Policy Commons (Global Think Tanks + North American City Reports)
One-stop access to more than 30 million pages of curated, high quality policy reports, briefs, analyses, working papers, and datasets from thousands of policy organizations worldwide including think tanks, IGOs, NGOs, and more than six hundred North American cities and urban agencies.
Faculty, staff, and students may also register direct Global Think Tanks personal accounts with UCSD domain email address for full remote access rights.
United Nations Digital Library
The online catalog of UN documents and publications. The Digital Library includes UN documents, voting data, speeches, maps, and open access publications. The platform provides access to UN-produced materials in digital format and bibliographic records for print UN documents starting in 1979. System features include linked data between related documentation such as resolutions, meeting records and voting, and refining of searches by UN body, agency or type of document. (Summary from Dag Hammarkskjold Library)
IMF eLibrary
Provides comprehensive access to International Financial Statistics (IFS), Balance of Payments Statistics (BOPS), Direction of Trade Statistics (DOTS), and Government Finance Statistics (GFS) databases. Also provides access to the International Monetary Fund's recent publications, including periodicals, books, analytical papers, and statistical tools.
OECD iLibrary
OECD iLibrary is the Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development's Online Library for Books, Papers and Statistics and the gateway to its analysis and data. Coverage includes development, economics, education, energy, environment, scitech, social issues, and more.
World Bank e-Library
The World Bank e-library is an online, fully cross-searchable portal of World Bank documents. The collection consists of World Bank publications and Policy Research Working Papers, plus each new book and paper as they are published.

In alignment with the World Bank’s initiatives on openness, on June 30, 2024, World Bank Group Publications will be discontinuing the World Bank eLibrary (at elibrary.worldbank.org), its value-added, subscription-based platform for libraries and institutions. World Bank eLibrary subscribers will continue to receive access through the end of their current subscription period, and no new sales or renewals will be accepted as of June 30, 2023.
The decision to discontinue the eLibrary supports the World Bank’s initiatives to become more open, transparent, and accessible to the public.These initiatives, including its Open Access, Open Data and Access to Information policies, allow anyone to freely access and build upon more than 75 years of World Bank knowledge and experience in poverty reduction and development projects across a wide variety of sectors in low- and middle-income countries.
All World Bank publications and data available on the World Bank eLibrary platform will continue to be freely available through the World Bank’s Documents and Reports website, Open Data portal, or the Open Knowledge Repository (OKR), which has undergone a major upgrade earlier this year.
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository
The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (OKR) is the World Bank’s official open access repository for its research outputs and knowledge products. It is built on a repository platform that meets open access standards for inter-operability with other repositories. The OKR not only collects, disseminates, and permanently preserves Bank’s intellectual output, it also serves as the portal for the general public to freely access recent World Bank research.
PAIS International (Public Affairs Information Service)
1972-present. Lists print and electronic articles, books, and government publications on issues of public policy, including politics, government, economy, marine policy, law.
CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online
Full text of working papers, conference proceedings, policy briefs, economic indicators, and other resources in international affairs.

UC Library Search - search all of the UC's library collections
UC Library Search allows you to search all of the University of California's library collections, including documents, reports, and other publications from IGOs, NGOs, and governments. It includes scholarly and peer-reviewed journals and articles, books and ebooks, course reserves, special formats (media, maps, newspapers, dissertations, etc.), and datasets and primary resources, archives, and special collections.

Search Engines

International Organization Directories

Open Yearbook of International Organizations
This information is part of the Open Yearbook, a free service of UIA's subscription-based Yearbook of International Organizations (YBIO). It includes profiles of non-profit organizations working worldwide in all fields of activity. The information contained in the profiles and search functionality of this free service are limited.

Europa World Plus
Economic, political, historical, and geographic profiles of countries and global regions. Contact info for political, business, media, and cultural agencies and officials. Search or browse by country, region, organization, or people. Includes a directory of international organizations.

Encyclopedia of Associations by Gale (Editor)
ISBN: 9781414477985
Encyclopedia of Associations: International Organizations
Encyclopedia of Associations: National Organizations of the U.S.
Encyclopedia of Associations: Regional, State and Local Organizations
National Directory of Nonprofit Organizations

IGOs

Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs)

World Association of Non-Governmental Organizations (WANGO) Directory
UN NGO Branch - Integrated Civil Society Organizations System
The integrated Civil Society Organizations (iCSO) System, developed by the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), facilitates interactions between civil society organizations and DESA. The system provides online registration of general profiles for civil society organizations, including address, contacts, activities and meeting participation.
UNESCO Database of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs)
Contains the profiles of non-governmental organizations that have official relations with UNESCO.

UC Library Search

UC Library Search, accessible from the search box on the library's homepage, helps you locate books, film, music, maps, and various other materials at the UC San Diego Library and beyond. It also contains a limited number of online journals and newspaper articles. You may search by keyword, title, and author, and filter your search to what is available online. You can also place an interlibrary loan request through UC Library Search for materials at other UC campuses or libraries worldwide using your Single Sign-On credentials.

Search Tips

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Click Digitalization to request scans of print book chapters or print articles.

UC Library Search is one part of your complete search.

UC Library Search does not include all the content to which the Library subscribes. To extend your search, try a database. The database you use depends on the topic or subject you have chosen and the type of information you need to access. You may choose among broad subject areas (e.g., biology, art, political science, etc.), as well as interdisciplinary databases or ones that search across multiple disciplines.

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