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IAU/UNESCO Information
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IAU/UNESCO
Information Centre on Higher Education collects, reviews and updates
information on policies, national systems of higher education,
institutions,
programmes of study, qualifications and student mobility. It also
houses data
on issues related to the IAU priority themes and supports the IAU staff
research work. In fact, it plays a role of clearinghouse and an
international
resource for information and reference for all aspects of university
life.
Documentary Collections
The collection
today consists of some 40,000 volumes on higher education worldwide and
includes: books and reference works, specialized periodicals
(rtf, 112 kb), a vast stock of unpublished literature
(conference and congress proceedings, reports, occasional papers,
etc.),
university catalogues and CD-ROMs. The Documentation Centre
was computerized in 1989. All
materials since then have been catalogued in the Centre's own
bibliographical
database (IAUDOC). References include descriptors and abstracts. All
references can be found in the international
bibliographic database on higher education (HEDBIB) produced by IAU and
available on the UNESCO WEB site. Link to HEDBIB is provided in the IAU
Online
Databases section (for direct link to the database, you may also click here).
The Centre also
acts as a gateway to other information resources and data available on
Internet
or within the network of UNESCO's Documentation Centres and Information
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