Message-ID: <E0zJZk7-0007V8-00@sunx1> Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 09:48:47 +0100 From: Peter Ferguson <mailto:P.Ferguson@SUSSEX.AC.UK> Subject: New To: mailto:INTDEV-L@uriacc.uri.edu
A selection of new items added to the Eldis directory of information sources on development/environment in August/September 1998:* Civil society: an ELDIS Hot Topic Guide to recent research
* Human Development Report 1998: Consumption for Human Development (UNDP) 1998
* Social funds in developing countries: recent experiences and lessons (Reddy, S; UNICEF) 1998
* State of the World Population Report 1998: the new generations (UNFPA) 1998
* The economics of biosafety: implications for biotechnology in developing countries (Michigan State University, 1998)
* Grain Market Research Project, Ethiopia (MSU, 1998)
* Handbook of research impact assessment (Kostoff, R.N.; DTIC) 1997
* Policy Research Capacity Initiative (PRCI), WRI
* North Kivu: Into The Quamire?: An Overview of the Current Crisis in North Kivu [Zaire / Congo] (International Crisis Group, 1998)
* DFID and the United Nations: International Development Draft Strategy (DFID, 1998)
* Distilling the Lessons from the ESAF Reviews [IMF Enhanced Structural Adjustment Facility] (IMF, 1998)
* A Review of Case Studies Related to Distance Education in Developing Countries (UNDP, 1997)
* Environmental changes and human health: World Resources Report 1988-89 (World Resources Institute, 1998)
* Knowledge for development: World Development Report 1998 (outline) (World Bank, 1997)
* Africa Confidential (journal)
* Land Reform Research in South Africa
The full-text documents listed here can be downloaded free from the WWW. The full URLs for these documents and organisations (plus 400 other new items) are all listed on the Eldis What's New page: http://www.ids.ac.uk/eldis/wnew.html
Other News this month:
** CHECK YOUR ORGANISATION'S RECORD! Eldis records can now be edited online. Existing records can be edited from search results and new records created by filling in a WWW form.
** ELDIS NOW INCLUDES SPIDER COLLECTED DATA! The search option now includes a search of spider collected data from some 80 major WWW sites. Eldis's qualitatively selected data appears first in your search results, followed by hits on the spidered data. We have also grouped this data so that you can make searches of similar sites. The first searches are of: * UK research sites * EADI research sites (European Association of Research and Training Institutes) * National aid agencies
Contact: Tracy Zussman Eldis at the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex Brighton BN1 9RE UK mailto:eldis@ids.ac.uk Tel: 01273 877330 Fax: 01273 621202