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• You can search in English, French or Spanish (Russian, Arabic and Chinese for documents published from 2003). Searching in English will be more exhaustive.
  
  
• Words like "a, the, for" are not searchable. See the list of stopwords
  
  
• It is possible to truncate a word or a phrase; you can truncate on the left and/or on the right using the asterisk *:
  

  *computer* will retrieve:

  computer microcomputer computers, etc.

  in the keywords field:
  

  peace* will retrieve:	peace education peace research peaceful coexistence peacekeeping etc.
  while *peace will retrieve:	culture of peace right to live in peace etc.

• Implicit field connectors : Fields are implicitly connected with AND.
  
  
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UNESCO documents

UNESCO publications

Published and commercialized by UNESCO. Publications are available in full text via UNESDOC.
Contact library@unesco.org for titles that are not on open access (restricted) or "no full text".

Periodicals

Journals, both regular and irregular in the Library collection

Non UNESCO publications

Monographs, reference materials and periodicals published externally; available for consultation in the UNESCO Library Reading Room.

Non UNESCO online resources

A selection of exclusively online resources published externally: encyclopaedias, atlases, directories, databases, portals, etc.

Words from text

Searches for words or groups of words in the body of the document itself (pdf files).

Words from title

Searches for words or groups of words in the title (of documents, publications, as well as titles of chapters of a publication, or titles of periodical articles).

Words from record

Searches for words or groups of words in most of the fields present in a bibliographic record.

Author

Searches for one author at a time.

If you are unsure of the spelling, truncate with asterisk, right or left:
eg.: Hal*
eg.: *Allak

Corporate author

Searches for one corporate author at a time.

eg.:OECD

Language

Allows you to limit search to one of the official languages of the UN System.

Publication year

Allows you to limit search to one year:

eg.: 1996

or a period of time:

eg.: 1996 to 2000

Words or groups of words selected to express the subject matter of a work
see UNESCO Thesaurus.
How to search

Series title (analytics)

Searches for words or groups of words in the title of a periodical (in English only) or the main title of a publication consisting of individually indexed chapters.

eg.: International social science journal

eg.: World science report

Meeting

Searches for words or groups of words in the name of a meeting/conference

eg.: World Conference on Higher Education in the Twenty-first Century (mainly in English)

Document code

Searches for the unique code assigned to a UNESCO document

eg.: ED.2002/CONF.802/1 or ED 2003 CONF 802 1 or ED2003CONF8021

Microfiche n°

Searches for the unique number assigned to a document on microfiche (mainly for internal use).

Country of publication

Country where the monograph or periodical was published.

Publisher

Name of publisher of a monograph or a periodical.

ISBN/ISSN

Searches for ISBN (International Standard Book Number) or ISSN (International Standard Serial Number)
Enter:
- ISBN: 9197369179
- ISSN: 0304-3037

Call No [Lib.]

UDC (Universal Decimal Classification): shelf number of UNESCO Library holdings (internal use)

Archive shelf no

Shelf number of Archive holdings (internal use)

Call No [Doc. Centers]

Shelf number of the various UNESCO documentation centres holdings (internal use)

Record number

Sequential number assigned automatically to bibliographic records

Bibliographic record

Bibliographic description of a document/publication (title, author, language, descriptors, etc.)

All words in the same phrase

Searches for one or several words in the same phrase

Similar phrase

Searches for a similar expression

Exact phrase

Searches for an exact phrase 

All words in the same document

Searches for one or several words in the same document

Any word in document

Searches for any word in document

More (Bibliographic record)

Display the bibliographic description of a document/publication (title, author, language, descriptors, etc.)

Select, display and send your search result.
You can select and display up to 300 bibliographic records at a time. Over that number you have to select them one by one.

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OCR: Optical Character Recognition
(1) O.C.R. technology was applied to the original paper document and the result was verified in detail. As spelling errors might subsist,  the image of the original paper document can be accessed by clicking the buttonon page 1.
(2) Only the image of the original paper document is shown. This O.C.R copy is used only to provide random free text searches.