German Commission for UNESCO, Bonn

United Nations Information Centre, Brussels

UNESCO Institutes and Centres, worldwide

Educational Statistics

ALADIN - Reports-Statistics-Indicators
Collection of links to reports and statistics of international organizations such as OECD, UNDP, UNESCO, World Bank.
UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Wide range of policy-relevant statistics in the fields of education, science and technology, culture and communication.

Literacy Links

Bundesverband Alphabetisierung e.V.
The Federal Literacy Association of Germany - organization for the promotion of literacy and the prevention of illiteracy in Germany

Weiterbildung Hamburg e.V.
A union of nearly 200 educational facilities in Hamburg which promote continuing education. Weiterbildung Hamburg e.V. informs and advises consumers free of charge in all questions around lifelong learning in Hamburg.

ALADIN - Literacy Materials
Collection of links to international websites on literacy as part of a collection of 200 links on adult learning.

Literacy Exchange - World Resources on Literacy
Collection of links to worldwide resources on literacy. Literacy Exchange provides comparative country-by-country studies on literacy activities, including large samples of teaching materials used.

International Literacy Explorer
Basic education statistics as well as country and UNESCO region statistics comparisons. Provides general information about literacy.

International Reading Association
Collection of Literacy and Education Links where you find resources for parents, teachers, and researchers, specialists and nonspecialists alike.

Directory of open access journals
The aim of the Directory of Open Access Journals is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals thereby promoting their increased usage and impact.
The Directory aims to be comprehensive and cover all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use a quality control system to guarantee the content.

Bibliographical References / Catalogues

KVK - Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog
The Karlsruhe Virtual Catalogue is a meta search interface which allows you to access library catalogues via WWW all over the world.

Best of the web, New York Public Library
General link-collection including dictionaries, encyclopedias, search engines and news.

Fachbibliographien und Online-Datenbanken (FabiO)
Links to specialized information databases, subject bibliographies and specialized search engines, sorted by fields of knowledge (German site)

UNESCO Libraries Portal : Reference/Bibliographies
Bibliographical links presented by the UNESCO Libraries Portal

IFLA Directory of National Union Catalogues
Directory of all known current national union catalogues in the world, including monograph, serial and general union catalogues

Deutscher Bildungsserver
The Deutscher Bildungsserver is the focal internet guide to education related information on the internet. It provides fundamental and high quality information on internet resources to all those concerned - thus offering quick, up-to-date, concise and free access to information.

National Literacy Trust
The National Literacy Trust, founded in 1993, is an independent charity dedicated to building a literate nation.
The website pulls the best ideas and information together to help everyone share good practice

Bibliothek für Bildungsgeschichtliche Forschung
The main tasks of the library is to put together as comprehensive a collection as possible of history of education sources and publications in German-speaking areas, together with a selection of foreign titles, mainly in English, and to archive them permanently.