Development Studies

EIU Country Data [electronic resource].
Annual, quarterly and monthly economic indicators and forecasts from the Economist Intelligence Unit. Covers 117 countries, with 270 series starting from 1980 and forecasting to 2006.

IBSS [electronic resource].
Updated weekly, with data going back to 1951. IBSS Online (International Bibliography of the Social Sciences) contains references to over 2400 selected journals and 7000 books per year.

ASSIA [electronic resource].
ASSIA (Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts). Covers English language journals in applied social sciences. Includes health, economics, social issues & social policy, organisational behaviour and communication.

ISI Web of Knowledge (WOK), ISI Web of Science, ISI Proceedings, ISI HighlyCited, Journal Citation Reports, My Endnote Web [electronic resource].
Subject: science and technology, social science, arts and humanities. Coverage: ISI WoK includes two main products: Web of Science (Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Science Index and Arts & Humanities Index from 1981 to the present); ISI Proceedings and My Endnote Web. Abstracts, and citation index only, full text access to titles LSBU subscribes to. Includes: SOCIAL SCIENCE CITATION INDEX: Reference and some abstracts to all aspects of scholarly research in the social sciences from 1981.

ESDS International; Economic and Social Data Service International [electronic resource].
ESDS resource supplying access to international data.

ISI Web of Knowledge (WOK), Arts and Humanities Citation Index, BIDS-ISI [electronic resource].
References,citations, selected abstracts. Includes Science Citation Index expanded, Social Science Index and Arts & Humanities Index from 1981 to the present. Covers over 9000 scholarly research journals and is updated weekly. Includes:
SOCIAL SCIENCE CITATION INDEX:
Reference and some abstracts to all aspects of scholarly research in the social sciences from 1981.

ScienceDirect (Science Direct) [electronic resource].
Database containing over 1000 full text journals from Elsevier Science and the leading scientific, technical and medical publishers. Covers life, physical, technical and social sciences.

Academic Onefile [electronic resource].
Academic OneFile is the premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily.

ProQuest Newspapers, Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, Guardian, Independent, Times [electronic resource].
Updated daily. Database of the Daily Mail & Mail on Sunday; Daily Telegraph & Sunday Telegraph; Evening Standard; Financial Times; Guardian & Observer; Times and Sunday Times; Independent. Coverage is from at least January 1998 onwards for all titles.

IngentaConnect [electronic resource].
IngentaConnect offers access to article summaries of over 2500 publications, along with the full text of over 4500 publications from 150 publishers (including: Academic Press, Arnold, Blackwell Science, Blackwell Publishers,Elsevier, Gordon and Breach, Harwood Academic, Portland Press, Professional Engineering Publishing and White Horse Press).

ABYZ News Links
Portal to online news sources from around the world

Africa On-Line
Updated daily, has links to leading African newspapers, journals, major associations and organisations.

Amnesty International
News and reports. Includes some full text reports.

Anthropological Index Online (AIO)
Published by the Royal Anthropological Institute and based on the journal holdings of the library of the Dept of Ethnography of the British Museum (Museum of Mankind).

CIA World Factbook
Facts and statistics on more than 250 countries and entities

Department for International Development
The British government department responsible for promoting development and the reduction of poverty.

Developments
Full text on-line journal produced by the Department for International Development.

ELDIS: the Electronic Development & Environment Information System
Information gateway for development & environment information on the WWW.

Foreign & Commonwealth Office - Human Rights Includes details of human rights work across the world, highlighting projects and activities in different countries

Harvard Institute for International Development
HIID is a centre for the co-ordination of research in international development. Has some HIID publications in full text.

Human Development Report Office
Provides access to worldwide trends in Human Development Index, international development statistics and full text of selected papers.

Human Rights Watch
Worldwide news on human rights. Includes full text reports.

Interights
The international centre for the legal protection of human rights. Has a database to trace recent human rights tribunal reports.

Institute of Development Studies
Gives details of the work done at the Institute and access to the Devline databases.

International Arid Lands Consortium
Independent organisation which aims to help the people of arid lands improve the quality of their life. Has links to other related sites.

International Institute for Environment and Development
Promotes sustainable patterns of development through research and policy studies.

International Monetary Fund
Has information on individual countries, including press releases and some full text documents.

Linkages
Described as "a multimedia resource for environmental & development policy makers", it is provided by the International Institute for Sustainable Development. Has links to other relevant sites.

Oneworld
Combines the information resources of hundreds of development organisations from all over the world, including Oxfam, Save the Children and CAFOD.

Reliefweb
From the UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Has some full text information on natural disasters and emergencies.

Rrojasdatabank
Information about economic and development issues in Chile, People's Republic of China, Taiwan, Latin America, South East and East Asia.

SD Gateway
Links to a network of eight sustainable development organisations around the world.

United Nations Development Programme
Includes links to other UN web sites.

United Nations High Commission for Human Rights
Information about the Commission and its projects.

United States Agency for International Development
The US government agency for international development. Includes a link to their Gender Matters programme.

WHO Statistical Information System
Information source for international health care, especially in developing countries. Gives WHO policy documents and links to other sites.

World Bank
Has information on individual countries and policies. Includes the full text of the annual report.

World Health Organisationt
An information source for international health care, especially in developing countries. Gives WHO policy documents and links to other sites.

World Newspapers - provides links to newspapers from around the world.

World Resources Institute
Part of the World Resources web site. Gives full text of some tables.