Message-ID: <m0x45QO-0002wGC@solx1.central.susx.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 15:19:52 +0100 From: Peter Ferguson <mailto:P.Ferguson@SUSSEX.AC.UK> Subject: New information sources on development/environment [Eldis] To: mailto:INTDEV-L@URIACC.URI.EDU
WHAT'S NEW ON THE ELDIS GATEWAY TO INFORMATION SOURCES ON ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT?SEPTEMBER 1997
The conversion of our Eldis gateway into a faster, interactive database is now well under way. The new design allows better searching, improved access to full text materials, easier browsing, and an extra bibliographical search feature. These new features are demonstrated at:
http://nt1.ids.ac.uk/eldis/idemo.htm
or simply start from our new home page:
http://nt1.ids.ac.uk/eldis/eldis.htm
We are starting to add extra databases to the service: currently you can access recent additions to the British Library for Development Studies and the IDS PRA abstracts database. You can access these from:
http://nt1.ids.ac.uk/data/bibliog.htm
The Eldis database now covers some 5200 items. Here is our selection of a Top Twenty new additions during August:
* The State in a changing world: World Development Report 1997 * Indigenous forest use: food sources * China Dimensions * Latest meeting of Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) * Overall progress achieved since UNCED: UNCSD report * Development-Gender E-Mail Network * Footprints of Nations report * Future of Tropical Rainforest Peoples / Avenir des peuples des forets tropicales (FTRP / APFT) * Human Development Report/Index 1997 (UNDP) * Micro Enterprise Innovation Project (MIP), USAID * Sustainable Banking with the Poor (SBP), World Bank * VSO working papers in development * Acacia Initiative, IDRC: Internet access in Africa * Africa Bureau Information Center (ABIC), USAID * Bank for International Settlements (BIS) * Current Agricultural Research Information Service (CARIS), FAO * Indian Economy Monitor, CMIE * WomenWatch, UN * APEC Study Center * DAC Creditor Reporting System Online
Full URL information on these and all other additions is available on the Eldis What's New page:
http://nt1.ids.ac.uk/eldis/wnew.htm
OTHER PROJECT NEWS
We have also added entries and abstracts for two series of full text materials, mixing data from the IDS library catalogue and the World Bank/IMF WWW sites. (Again these are linked to from the What's New? page):
* IMF working papers available online: recent additions to Eldis directory * World Bank Policy Research Working Papers available online: recent additions to Eldis directory
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