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Agriculture
Agricultural Drainage Water Management in Arid and Semi-Arid Areas, FAO, Irrigation and Drainage Paper (61)
Five pdf and Word formats papers are discussed in this CD-ROM: Drainage water management in the Aral sea basin, Drainage water re-use and disposal: a case study on the western side of the San Joaquin Vally, California, the United States of America, Drainage Water re-use and disposal: a case study from the Nile Delta, Egypt, Drainage water re-use and disposal in Northwest India, and drainage water re-use and disposal: a case study on Pakistan. The website includes many useful informations in databases, electronic journals, and websites.

IRRISTAT 4.3: International Rice Research Institue, FAO
IRRISTAT is a computer program for the analysis of data from aggricultural field trials.

Management of Agricultural Research: A Training Manual, FAO 1999
This training manual has been prepared by FAO's Research, Extension and Training Division as basic reference material to help national research trainers structure and conduct training courses on research management at the institute level. It is intended primarily for managers of agricultural research institutes in developing countries and for institutions of higher education interested in presenting in-service training courses on research management.

Aids
UNAIDS Library 2003
The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, UNAIDS, is the main advocate for global action on the epidemic. It leads, strengthens and supports an expanded response aimed at preventing transmission of HIV, providing care and support, reducing the vulnerability of individuals and communities to HIV/AIDS, and alleviating the impact of the epidemic.This UNAIDS Library 2.0 contains 900 publications, totalling 26000 pages. UNAIDS publications in the Best Practice collection (Key Materials, Case Studies, Technical Update and Points of view) form a uniquely useful library for all those working both in planning and practice. Documents are in html format for easy search ability. PDF versions may be found on the UNAIDS web site.

Atomic Energy
BIDEVAL-3, IAEA 2000
The IAEA computer program package for economic bid evaluation (Bideval-3) is a set of computer programs designed to assist the user in the economic evaluation of bids for nuclear power plants. The program follows the recommended method of determining the present value of all costs for capital investment, nuclear fuel cycle and O&M in order to obtain the levelized discounted electricity generation costs as described in the accompanying IAEA technical report. The Documents Directory on this CD-ROM contains more information about the Bideval-3 program package, i.e. a User’s Manual and Annex II of the IAEA technical report.

IAEA Safeguard 2001
This CD-ROM reflects advances in the strengthening of the International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards system. It aims at facilitating the understanding of the specialized safeguards approaches within the international community.

Nuclear Fusion, IAEA 1997
This CD-ROM produced by the International Atomic Energy Agency provides world survey of activities in controlled fusion research.

Ocupational Radiation Protection Giude:
IAEA Saftey Standards Series, IAEA 2000
This CD-ROM provides guidance on Occupational Radiation Protection (ORP) and comprises the following IAEA publications: Safety Series No. 120, Radiation Protection and the Safety of Radiation Sources: A Safety Fundamental (1996); Safety Series No. 115, International Basic Safety Standards for Protection Against Ionizing Radiation and for the Safety of Radiation Sources: A Safety Standard (1996); Safety Standards Series No. RS-G-1.1: Occupational Radiation Protection: Safety Guide (1999); Safety Standards Series No. RS-G-1.2: Assessment of Occupational Exposure Due to Intakes of Radionuclides: Safety Guide (1999); and Safety Standards Series No. RS-G-1.3: Assessment of Occupational Exposure Due to External Sources of Radiation: Safety Guide (1999). These documents, jointly sponsored by the IAEA and ILO, provide the user with a comprehensive set of safety standards on occupational radiation protection.

Publications Catalogue 1986-1999: An IAEA CD-ROM
All publications by IAEA can be explored in this CD-ROM, as well as Internet access to these publications.

Quality Assurance for Safety in Nuclear Power Plants and other Nuclear Installations Code and Safety Guides Q1-Q14: A PUBLICATION WITHIN THE NUSS PROGRAMME
Safety Series, IAEA 2001
This Code is part of the IAEA Nuclear Safety Standards (NUSS) programme. It provides the basic requirements to be adopted for establishing and implementing quality assurance programmes related to the safety of nuclear power plants. These basic requirements apply to the overall quality assurance programme of the responsible organization, i.e. the organization having overall responsibility for the nuclear power plant, as well as to any other separate quality assurance programmes in each stage of the life of a nuclear power plant.

Topical Issues in Nuclear, Radiation and Radioactive Waste Saftey: An IAEA CD-ROM 1999
Six topics represented in a pdf format: Safety Management, Standards in Occupational Radiological Protection: Trends and Developments, Backfitting, Upgrading and Modernization of NPPs, Radiological Protection Principles for Situations of Chronic Exposure to Residual Radioactive Materials, Radiation Safety in the Distant Future: The Issue of the Disposal of Long Lived Waste, and Regulatory Strategies.

Topical Issues in Nuclear Safety:
International conference Vienna, 3–6 September 2001, IAEA
Highlighted in this CD-ROM are five topical issues about nuclear safety: Risk-informed decision making, Influence of external factors on safety, Safety of fuel cycle facilities, Safety of research reactors, and Safety of performance indicators. Moreover, related IAEA priced publications are available, including sales order form.

Climate
Climate Change 2001 (IPCC 3rd Assessment Report)
This report is based primarily on the contributions of the three Working Groups of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). However, it also uses information from earlier IPCC assessments, special reports and technical papers. This report is especially useful for policy makers and researchers, as well as for students of environmental studies, meteorology, climatology, biology, ecology and atmospheric chemistry.

Country Profile
United Nations Common Database (UNCDB)
UNCDB provides selected series from 30 specialized international data sources for all available countries and areas. A researcher can select single data series for up to 10 countries and up to 20 years, navigate through twelve subject profiles for any country or area, browse data series by topics, use advanced data selection and downloading tools, and more.

Documents
UNBIS Plus on CD 1995-2000
United Nations Bibliographic Information System. It is a catalog of United Nations documents and publications indexed by the UN Dag Hammarskjöld Library and the Library of the UN Office at Geneva. Also included are commercial publications and other non-UN sources held in the collection of the Dag Hammarskjöld Library. UNBISnet -the online version- provides instant access to a growing number of full text resources in the six official languages of the UN (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish), including resolutions adopted by the General Assembly, the Economic and Social Council and the Security Council from 1946 onward.

Index to United Nations Documents 1990-1994(issue 45)
A comprehensive index to the publications and documents of the United Nations, with full-text of resolutions and decisions from 1990 to 1994.

Economics
The Economic Survey, CEPAL, 1998-2001
The Economic Survey of Europe, ECE’s semi-annual flagship publication, provides comprehensive analyses and a short-term outlook of macroeconomic and structural developments in the ECE region and in its member countries. Also available in the Internet in a pdf format.

The Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean, ECLAC 1998-1999: Statistical Annex
This CD-ROM in a DOS-based environment provides statistical tables on economical issues of Latin American countries.

ECLAC bibliographic databases
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean databases, comprising some 140 000 records, can be accessed either directly in the Library or through the ECLAC website on the Internet.

Latin America and the Caribbean in the World Economy, 2000-2001
The tables included in this appendix provide data on the imports and exports of most of the countries in the region for the period 1965-2000.

National Accounts Main Aggregates Database
This National Accounts Statistics database contains a complete and consistent set of time series from 1970 onwards of main national accounts aggregates for all UN Members States and all other countries and areas in the world. It is maintained and updated on the basis of annual collections of the official annual national accounts statistics supplemented by estimates of national accounts statistics for those years and countries for which the official statistics has incomplete or inconsistent information. In addition, to the values of national accounts statistics, it contains analytical indicators and ratios derived from the main national accounts aggregates related to economic structure and development.

The World Bank
The World Bank offers multiple databases online, some free of charge and some on an annual subscription basis. FREE access to Data Query offers a 5-year, 54-indicators segment of the World Development Indicators (WDI) database. Paid subscription offers 2 databases: World Development Indicators Online provides direct access to more than 600 development indicators, with time series for 208 countries and 18 country groups from 1960 to 2004, where data are available, and Global Development Finance Online, which provides direct access to more than 200 debt and financial flows indicators for the 136 countries that report public and publicly-guaranteed debt to the World Bank Debtor Reporting System. These data run from 1970 to 2013, where available.

UN Commodity Trade Statistics Database (UN Comtrade)
A database that consists of an annual international trade statistics, detailed by commodity and partner country of 130 countries. For many countries the data coverage starts as far back as 1962 and goes up to the most recent completed year.

Environment
Ukraine: National Report on the State of Environment, UNEP 1998
National report on the environmental conditions in Ukraine for 1998 prepared by the Ministry for Environment Protection and Nuclear Safety of Ukraine.

The Environment in Armenia 2000
This CD-ROM highlights environmental issues produced to complement the UN/ECE's Environmental Performance Reviews for the Republic of Armenia.

The Environment in Kyrgyzstan 2000
Environmental issues are produced to complement the UN/ECE's Environmental Performance Reviews for Kyrgyzstan.

The Environment in Estonia 2001
This CD-ROM includes the UNECE's 2001 Environmental Performance Reviews Estonia Second Review.

The Environment in Romania 2001
Included in this CD are the UNECE's 2001 Environmental Performance Reviews for Romania.

The Environment in Uzbekistan 2001
This CD includes the UNECE's 2001 Environmental Performance Reviews for Uzbekistan.

Environment in Print 2000:UNEP Publications Catalogue
This CD-ROM provides information about all UNEP publications for the year 2000.

FAO
FAO Publications Titles in Print 2001
All FAO publication titles for the year 2001 can be explored in the CD-ROM.

FAO Publications Titles in Print 2003
All FAO publication titles for the year 2003 can be explored in the CD-ROM.

FAO Publications Titles in Print 2003 Revised
A revised edition of the FAO Publications Titles in Print 2003.

FAO Statistical Databases
FAOSTAT is an on-line and multilingual database currently containing over 3 million time-series records covering international statistics in the following areas: production, trade, food balance sheets, producer prices, forestry trade flow, land use and irrigation, fishery products, population, fertilizers and pesticides, agricultural machinery, food aid shipments, Codex Alimentarius food quality control, and exports by destination.

Fisheries
Virtual Population Analysis. A practical manual for stock assessment, FAO Fisheries Technical Paper no.400, FAO 2001
Virtual population analysis (VPA) is a widely used model for the analysis of fished populations. While there are many VPA techniques, they vary in the way they use data and fit the model rather than in the form of the model itself. This manual describes the common VPA model and the assumptions on which it is based, together with descriptions of associated diagnostic procedures and common reference points. More important, the manual describes the numerical techniques that can be used to fit the model based on weighted least-squares, which is the basis for the ADAPT approach. The techniques are described so that they are readily implemented in a spreadsheet. General methods and specific examples are given to enable readers to develop an approach suitable for their own data and fisheries.

World fisheries and aquaculture Atlas CD ROM - 2nd edition, FAO 2003
The "World fisheries and aquaculture Atlas CD-ROM" presents a comprehensive and global view of both capture and aquaculture fisheries. It covers all aspects of fisheries - with information on development, ecosystems, governance, research, resources, statistics, technology, trade and utilization; identifies the broad range of policy and other strategic issues affecting fisheries, describing actions required or already taken and the outlook for the future; contains links to other documents and Web sites, providing a network of easily accessible and updated material. The "World fisheries and aquaculture Atlas CD-ROM" will be updated and published every two years for distribution as a companion to "The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture". Future editions will include other language versions.

Food
Time Series for SOFA: State of Food and Agriculture 2001 Electronic Product, FAO 2001, 2002
The SOFA01 electronic product is a data and software package. The data is extracted from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization FAOSTAT database. FAOSTAT data is printed in several UN FAO publications, and a large set is available in the FAOSTAT-PC electronic product (previously known as AGROSTAT-PC). Data series in SOFA01 are selected to supplement the SOFA hardcopy publication. SOFA01 includes software to display and export the data. This software operates only on MS-DOS or fully compatible personal computers. The software and data labels are multi-lingual (English, French, Spanish).

Forestries
unasylva: An International Journal of Forestry and Forest Industries, FAO 2000
A tri-lingual web-based interface CD-ROM which has browsing and searching capabilities, and a link to the latest issue ,as well as back issues, from the website. Some of the themes covered in this CD are Forests, food security and sustainable livelihoods, Teak, and Trees outside forests.

Health
Bulletin of the World Health Organization v.77-79 (1999-2001) in a CD-ROM, WHO 2002
Explore the diverse health issues prepared by the World Health Organization for volumes 77 through 79. Full text of the bulletin can be accessed freely from the website.

Health Opportunities in Development: Part 3, WHO 2003
A Course Manual on Developing Intersectoral Decision-making Skills in Support of Health Impact Assessment. Health impact assessment is an essential decision-making tool in the planning of water resources and other development projects. It can only be applied to its full potential, however, if mid-level managers of all relevant ministries master the skills of intersectoral negotiation and dialogue. The course manual on this CD-ROM addresses the need to develop these skills in a problem-based learning approach. The CD-ROM includes electronic versions of all materials contained in the course manual as well as background textbooks and visual aids.

Survival of cancer patients in Europe: the European UnionROCARE-2 Study, WHO 1999
The most recent available population-based survival data, with complete five-year follow-up of patients diagnosed between 1985 and 1989 in 47 populations covered by cancer registration in 17 European countries. Overall there appears to be a close association between cancer survival and general socioeconomic conditions, particularly in terms of resources available for health care.

Water, Sanitation and Health electronic library, WHO 2001
The CD-ROM includes different information material, in HTML format, such as books and reports, training documents and teaching material, water related disease fact sheets, slide collections. The purpose of this compilation is to make information more readily accessible especially in countries with limited internet access. It should be useful to scientists, policy makers, practionners, students and other, whether they belong to government, operationala agencies, consultancies, academia, NGOs or other institutions.

WHO Bulletin 2002
Volume 80 presents twelve issues of the bulletin of the World Health Organization on a wide range of health topics.

WHO Medicines Bookshelf CD-ROM 3.0, WHO 2002
containing over 350 medicines-related publications, in English, French and Spanish, taken primarily from materials published by the World Health Organization's Department of Essential Drugs and Medicines Policy (EDM). The Bookshelf covers: access to essential medicines, rational use of medicines, national drug policy, quality and safety issues, and traditional medicine.

WHO Vaccine-Preventable diseases: monitoring system, 2002 global summary, WHO 2002
This pdf document was produced by the Vaccine Assessment and Monitoring team of the Department of Vaccines and Biologicals. This document is available on the Internet at:www.who.int/vaccines-documents/. It has a Global and regional summaries, Reference section.

Human Rights
Human rights bibliography Data 1980-1993
Bibliographical database. Includes full text of 95 international human rights instruments.

Labor
ILOLEX, ILO 2000
A trilingual database on international labour standards containing over 75,000 full-text ILO documents. ILOLEX contains ILO Conventions and Recommendations, ratification information, comments of the Committee of Experts and the Committee on Freedom of Association, representations, complaints, interpretations, General Surveys, and numerous related documents.Also available online.

Social Summit Digital Library, ILO 2000
This (audio) disk contains the story of social development in the last five years of the 20th century. In 1995, world leaders have met to set ambitious goals to eradicate poverty, create productive employment and promote social integration. Resources are also included in this CD-ROM.

Land & Water Resources
AEZWIN An interactive multiple-criteria analysis tool for land resources appraisal, World Soil Resources Report no.87, FAO 1999
AEZWIN stands for AEZ for Windows. This report presents the recently developed Windows-based software package for agro-ecological zoning analysis at the national and subnational levels, including models for land suitability and land productivity assessment and a user interface to multi-objective land use optimization. The software package allows models to be generated interactively corresponding to various scenarios of land use and then to be analysed using modular multiple-criteria model analysis tools. The package is illustrated by the example of a detailed Kenya AEZ study.

Land and Water Resources Information Systems, FAO, Land and Water Bulletin no.7 1998
Eleven pdf format papers are presented in the Proceedings of a Technical Consultation held in Rome, Italy 15-17 December 1997.

Water Reports no.16: Remote Sensing and Water Resources, FAO 2000
A three-session workshop in French in a pdf format: remote sensing and hydrologic modelling, water management, and hydrological modelling and determination of parameters.

Land-Water Linkages in Rural Watersheds, FAO, Land and Water Bulletin no.9 2000
This CD-ROM provides access to the documentation of the FAO Electronic Workshop on 18 September - 27 October 2000. It contains the followings in a pdf format:

Proceedings:
* Conclusions and recommendations
* Synthesis report

Discussion archive:
* Verbatim records * Summary

Background documentation:
* Introductory paper
* Discussion and background papers
* Case studies
Workshop programme.

Evaluation (Results from the final questionnaire)

List of registered participants

Credits

Water Reports No. 21: Water quality management and control of water pollution, FAO 2000
The problem of future management of water quality in Asia is a complex one, and requires re-examination of a number of key areas - including technical, institutional, legal and governance issues. Within this context, FAO organized a Regional Workshop on Water Quality Management and Control of Water Pollution, which took place in Bangkok, Thailand from 26 to 30 October 1999. This publication contains the report and recommendations of the Workshop; the edited versions of 18 papers presented and discussed during the meeting are contained in the CD-ROM.

Non-Government Organizations
DPI-NGO (Department of Public Information- Non-Governmental Organizations)
A research tool on non-government organizations of all the regions of the world.

Population
UNFPA Project Publications 2000
UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, is the world's largest international source of funding for population and reproductive health programs. Full-text publications are also available online: http://www.unfpa.org/about/index.htm

Virtual Population Analysis. A practical manual for stock assessment, FAO Fisheries Technical Paper no.400, FAO 2001
Virtual population analysis (VPA) is a widely used model for the analysis of fished populations. While there are many VPA techniques, they vary in the way they use data and fit the model rather than in the form of the model itself. This manual describes the common VPA model and the assumptions on which it is based, together with descriptions of associated diagnostic procedures and common reference points. More important, the manual describes the numerical techniques that can be used to fit the model based on weighted least-squares, which is the basis for the ADAPT approach. The techniques are described so that they are readily implemented in a spreadsheet. General methods and specific examples are given to enable readers to develop an approach suitable for their own data and fisheries.

World Population Prospects: The 2004 Revision Population Database
Official UN estimates (1950-2004) and projections (2004-2050) for every country in the world, including estimates and projections of 28 demographic indicators, including birth rates, deaths rates, infant mortality rates and life expectancy.

Refugees
Refworld 2004
Refworld allows easy access to reliable and up-to-date information related to refugees and human rights. It has been referred to as a "refugee encyclopedia", as it contains documents ranging from background country reports to legal position papers, guidelines and statistics.

Relief
ReliefWeb
ReliefWeb is the global hub for time-critical humanitarian information on Complex Emergencies and Natural Disasters. An independent vehicle of information, designed specifically to assist the international humanitarian community in effective delivery of emergency assistance, it provides timely, reliable and relevant information as events unfold, while emphasizing the coverage of "forgotten emergencies" at the same time.

Resources
World Development Resources(1996-1998 CD-ROMs & Web)
The World Bank's Web-based text search and retrieval system, which contains a collection of World Bank reports, which you can access via a Web browser and search through a multi-field search engine. Also included is the ASCII text of the reports. WDS contains citations to over 6,000 reports. These reports include Project appraisal reports, Economic and Sector Works, Evaluation reports and Studies, and working papers.

Statistics
Demographic and Social Statistics
Produced by the UN Statistics Division, 6 databases are available for researchers: Demographic Yearbook System, Population and Vital Statistics Report: Series A, Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants, Social Indicators, Statistics and indicators on women and men, United Nations Disability Statistics Database (DISTAT).

FAO Statistical Databases
FAOSTAT is an on-line and multilingual database currently containing over 3 million time-series records covering international statistics in the following areas: production, trade, food balance sheets, producer prices, forestry trade flow, land use and irrigation, fishery products, population, fertilizers and pesticides, agricultural machinery, food aid shipments, Codex Alimentarius food quality control, and exports by destination.

Millennium Indicators Database
The Millennium Indicators Database shows the latest available data. It presents a framework of 8 goals, 18 targets and 48 indicators to measure progress towards the Millennium Development goals and was adopted by a consensus of experts from the United Nations Secretariat and IMF, OECD and the World Bank.

Monthly Bulletin of Statistics (MBS) Online
Obtained by the Statistics Division of the United Nations from official sources in the various countries, this database presents current monthly economic statistics for most of the countries and areas of the world.

National Accounts Main Aggregates Database
This National Accounts Statistics database contains a complete and consistent set of time series from 1970 onwards of main national accounts aggregates for all UN Members States and all other countries and areas in the world. It is maintained and updated on the basis of annual collections of the official annual national accounts statistics supplemented by estimates of national accounts statistics for those years and countries for which the official statistics has incomplete or inconsistent information. In addition, to the values of national accounts statistics, it contains analytical indicators and ratios derived from the main national accounts aggregates related to economic structure and development. UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics 2001
This CD-ROM is largely based on the printed version of the UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics and it provides a comprehensive collection of statistical data relevant to the analysis of world trade, investment and development.

Social indicators
This database covers a wide range of subject-matter fields are compiled by the Statistics Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat, from many national and international sources.

Women
Women Go Global 1945-2000
An easy-to-use, interactive, multimedia CD-ROM on the events that have been shaping the international agenda for women's equality. It offers extensive coverage of the four United Nations women's conferences held in Mexico City, Copenhagen, Nairobi and Beijing, the parallel non-governmental forums, and the 23rd special session of the General Assembly. The CD-ROM discusses the important role of the UN Commission on the Status of Women, and includes important documents from the United Nations and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Also included is a bibliography, links to key websites, as well as archives on women's history and the profiles of more than 200 key persons participating in the global effort. This is a great resource for women's groups, NGOs, educators, researchers, journalists and governments.

Yearbooks
United Nations Yearbook 2003
The Yearbook of the United Nations has been the primary reference work on the Organization. It details the many activities of the Organization and its organs, programs and bodies, as they are carried out in all corners of the globe. The Yearbook is an indispensable reference tool for the research community, diplomats, government officials and anyone seeking information on the UN system and its related organizations.