Reference tools - websites selection

Dictionaries, Encyclopedias

• The American heritage dictionary of the English language
• Babelfish translation
• A glossary of terms UN Office for Drug Control & Crime Prevention
• Dictionary of philosophical terms and names
• DICORAMA annuaire des dictionnaires
• Encyclopedia of world history
• Le Grand dictionnaire terminologique
• Lexicool online dictionaries and language resources
• TermSciences portail terminologique multidisciplinaire
• Wikipedia

• BUBL LINK resources covering all academic subject areas
• INTUTE Social Sciences gateway
• UNESCO/ IFLA Directory of Digitized Collections
• IMF Directory of Economic, Commodity and Development Organizations
• Open Science Directory search tool for open access journals
• DOAJ Directory of open access journals
• UNEP Island Directory
• UN Directory of Populations Institutions
• UN Statistical Databases
• UN Economic commission for Europe Statistics

Guides

• Flags of the world
• Country Studies Library of Congress
• Portals to the world
• PAIR Portal to Asian Internet Resources
• UN Atlas of the Oceans
• UN Maps and Geographic Information Resources
• UNEP World Atlas of Biodiversity

Legal instruments

• Audiovisual Library of International Law
• Annual Review of Population Law
• Charter of the United Nations
• ECOLEX environmental law
• International Freshwater Treaties Database
• Legifrance
• Jurist World Law
• UN Legal Publications
• UN Organs Repertory of practice
• UN Security Council Repertoire of the Practice
• UN Statistics Division
• UN OCHR Human Rights databases Treaty Bodies | Charter-based bodies
• Claiming Human Rights in Africa
• Right to Education human rights resource
• Rights of migrants portail
• TRIBLEX ILO Administrative Tribunal case law

Thematic databases

• Culturelink Network
• Dates and Figures of the Worldwide Leadership since 1945
• FORA.tv - video's covering today's top social, political and technical issues
• RISALC Instituciones Sociales en América Latina y el Caribe
• EarthTrends the environmental information portal
• EDOA European Database on AIDS and HIV Infection
• EUROPE: Key facts and figures
• League of Nations Photo Archive
• UN Peacekeeping Best Practices
• Sacred Text Archive
• Science and Development Network
• *N E W Violence against women database

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