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Center for Research Libraries
Also Known as: CRL CAMP LAMP MEMP SAMP
The Penn Library participates in CRL's area studies programs. A consortium of North American universities, colleges, and independent research libraries. The consortium acquires and preserves tradition...   [more]
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    CRL Catalog
    CRL Quick Search Page / General Overview
    CRL Area Studies Programs - CAMP, LAMP, MEMP, SAMP
    CRL Catalog: Newspapers search
    South Asia Microform Project - SAMP

Proquest Congressional U.S. Serial Set 1789-Present
Also Known as: LexisNexis Congressional Universe, U.S. Serial Set Digital Collection
Fulltext for House and Senate Documents and Reports, 1789-current, as well as other U.S. documents , such as Executive publications, often included in the Serial Set in earlier years. Still in progre...   [more]

Important History Government Information

A Century of Lawmaking: U.S Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875
The Library of Congress houses one of the most complete collections of U.S. Congressional documents in their original format. In order to make these records more easily accessible to students, scholar...   [more]
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A Vision of Britain Through Time
A vision of Britain between 1801 and 2001. Including maps, statistical trends, census data and historical descriptions....   [more]
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Abraham Lincoln Correspondence
Provides correspondence between Lincoln and friends and associates from Lincoln's Springfield days, well-known political figures and reformers, and local people and organizations writing to their pres...   [more]
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Afghanistan and the U.S. 1945-1963: Records of the U.S. State Department Classified Files
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Afghanistan: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1973-1990
Also Known as: DNSA
- from Digital National Security Archive
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American Diplomatic Code / Jonathan Elliott
Also Known as: HeinOnline Treaties and Agreements Library
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Early compilation of U.S. treaties and agreements, originally published in 1834....   [more]

American Friends Service Commitee: FBI Records
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American Indian Movement and Native American Radicalism
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1968-1979. From Archives Unbound. These FBI files provide detailed information on the evolution of AIM as an organization of social protest and the development of Native American radicalism....   [more]

American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940
These life histories were compiled and transcribed by the staff of the Folklore Project of the Federal Writers' Project for the U.S. Works Progress Administration from 1936-1940. The collection inclu...   [more]
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American National Election Studies
Also Known as: ANES National Election Studies NES
Time series data from surveys conducted during U.S. presidential and congressional election years, 1948-present....   [more]
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    ANES data sets and codebooks (via ICPSRdirect)
    SDA interface to ANES 2000 data (crosstabs, subsetting, extracts)
    NES Bibliography
    NES Guide to Public Opinion and Electoral Behavior
    ANES data sets and codebooks (alternative via ICPSRdirect)

American Presidency Project
Contains a number of resources relevant to studies on the American presidency: Public Papers of the Presidents, 1789-2007, State of the Union messages and addresses, inaugural addresses, radio address...   [more]
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Ancestry Library Edition
Genealogical collection covering the United States and the United Kingdom, including census, vital, church, court, and immigration records, as well as record collections from Canada and other areas. T...   [more]

Avalon Project at Yale Law School: Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy
Digital versions of documents relevant to the fields of law, history, economics, politics, diplomacy, and government....   [more]
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BDEEP - British Documents on the End of Empire
An annotated selection of official documents from the UK National Archives, charting British withdrawal from its colonial territories, with editorial apparatus....   [more]
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BOPCRIS
Indexing for selections among British parliamentary papers....   [more]
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British Government Publications - Research Guide
Also Known as: British Government Documents - Research Guide
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British History Online
A "digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles." Includes sources for parliamentary, ecclesiastical and ...   [more]
Holdings: Access to freely available content only.

Broadsides from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention
documents relating to the work of Congress and the drafting and ratification of the Constitution. Items include extracts of the journals of Congress, resolutions, proclamations, committee reports, tre...   [more]
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Catalogue of British parliamentary papers in the Irish University Press 1000-volume series
Website providing title lists for the Irish University Press 1000-volume collection of 19th-century British parliamentary papers. Search Franklin for individual subseries titles in this collection....   [more]
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    IUP 1000-volume set: Colonies: Africa

Chicago Anarchists on Trial: Evidence from the Haymarket Affair, 1886-1887
More than 3,800 images of original manuscripts, broadsides, photographs, prints and artifacts relating to the Haymarket Affair. These materials pertain to: the May 4, 1886 meeting and bombing; to the ...   [more]
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Collection of Neutrality Laws Regulations and Treaties of Various Countries (Deak and Jessup)
Also Known as: HeinOnline Treaties and Agreements Library
- from HeinOnline
Fulltext anthology of countries' neutrality laws and regulations and treaty provisions relating to neutral rights and duties for the nineteenth and and early twentieth centuries. Texts provided in ori...   [more]
Holdings: 1800-1938

Confidential Print: Latin America, 1833-1969
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Confidential Print: Middle East, 1839-1969
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Constitutional Sources Project
Also Known as: CONSOURCE
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Decennials - Census of Population and Housing
Also Known as: Historical census volumes
PDF-format versions of historic US decennial census volumes, 1790 to present. Topics covered include basic counts of population and housing, with race and gender, for the nation, states, counties, tow...   [more]
Holdings: 1790 to present (backfile in progress: 1790-1860, 1990-2000 available)
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Democracy in Turkey 1950-1959: Records of the U.S. State Department Classified Files
- from Archives Unbound
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Department of State Bulletin
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Holdings: 1939-1989

Digital National Security Archive
Also Known as: DNSA
- from Digital National Security Archive
The database includes more than 94,000 of the most important declassified documents regarding critical U.S. policy decisions.

DNSA contains forty collections as of December 2012, which are deta...   [more]

Election Statistics / Office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives
Also Known as: Statistics of the presidential and congressional election , Statistics of the congressional election
Fulltext (PDF and HTML) of biennial reports on results of U.S. congressional elections and quadrennial reports on U.S. presidential and congressional elections, 1920-present....   [more]
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Endangered Archives Programme - British Library
Digitized primary source materials collected and preserved worldwide....   [more]
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    Endangered Archives Programme - Africa projects

Enhanced British Parliamentary Papers on Ireland
"Enhanced Parliamentary Papers on Ireland 1801 - 1922 involves the cataloguing and full-text digitisation of a selection of British Parliamentary papers taken from the University of Southampton's uniq...   [more]
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Federal Register
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Holdings: 1936-1981 1996 1998 1999-

Federal Response to Radicalism in the 1960s
- from Archives Unbound
Fulltext searchable collection of more than 87,000 document pages from the FBI Library covering 1956-1971 on individuals and organizations engaged in civil rights and anti-war activities. Reproduces f...   [more]

Federal Surveillance of African Americans 1920-1984
- from Archives Unbound
Fulltext searchable collection of more than 87,000 document pages from the FBI Library covering 1920-1984 on African-American individuals and organizations. Reproduces documents from the FBI's Investi...   [more]

Foreign Relations of the United States
This is the U.S. State Department's own site for The Foreign Relations of the United States series, which presents the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and...   [more]
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Foreign Relations of the United States
The HeinOnline version of the complete and current FRUS....   [more]

Foreign Relations of the United States - Research Guide
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Foreign Relations of the United States facsimile
The digital facsimile of Foreign Relations of the United States is a project of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries in collaboration with the University of Illinois at Chicago Libraries. It ...   [more]
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French Government Documents
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Hansard 1803-2005 (UK Parliamentary Debates)
Searchable fulltext for the Official Report of debates in Parliament, including Lords sittings, Commons sittings, and Westminster Hall sittings....   [more]
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Highlander Folk School: FBI Records
Highlander has provided training and education for the labor movement in Appalachia and throughout the Southern United States. During the 1950s, it played a critical role in the American Civil Rights ...   [more]
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History of Bankruptcy: Taxation & economic reform in America, Part III
- from HeinOnline
Fulltext legislative histories, documents, treatises, and other materials relating to U.S. bankruptcy and related reforms....   [more]

Indian Affairs Laws and Treaties (Kappler)
Also Known as: HeinOnline Treaties and Agreements Library
- from HeinOnline
U.S. treaties (1778-1871), laws (1871 and later), executive orders, and other documents relating to Indian affairs up to 1971. Originally published in 7 chronological volumes....   [more]
Holdings: 1778-1971

Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees: The West's Response to Jewish Emigration
- from Archives Unbound
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International Legal Materials
Also Known as: HeinOnline Treaties and Agreements Library
- from HeinOnline
Reproduces selected recent treaties and agreements, judicial decisions, executive orders, and other government documents on international and legal issues from local, national, and international gover...   [more]
Holdings: 1962-present.

Kabinettsprotokolle der Bundesregierung
Digitized transcripts of the meetings of the German cabinet, eventually to cover the years 1949-1959. (Print edition: Van Pelt Library DD240 .K32 )...   [more]
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London Pulse: Medical Officer of Health Report 1848-1972
The reports provided statistical data about births, deaths and diseases, but they also allowed the authors to express the diversity of their local communities and their own personal interests. The rep...   [more]
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Mattachine Society: FBI Records
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OYEZ - U.S. Supreme Court Multimedia
Audio recordings in RealAudio format for all Supreme Court proceedings, 1995 to present, with individual cases prior to 1995 back to 1955 selectively covered....   [more]
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Parliament Rolls of Medieval England
Also Known as: Parliamentary Rolls
Eight million words of text, translation and introductions, recording all surviving records of English Parliaments from Edward I to Henry VII covering the years from 1272 to 1504. Includes scholarly ...   [more]

Paul Robeson: FBI Report
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Pennsylvania Election Statistics: 1789-2006
Also Known as: Wilkes University Election Statistics Project
County-level election returns for Pennsylvania covering U.S. presidential (1789-2000), U.S. senatorial (1912-2000), and Pennsylvania gubernatorial elections (1790-2002), with calculated percentages an...   [more]
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Political Relations and Conflict between Republican China and Imperial Japan 1930-1939
- from Archives Unbound
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Proquest Congressional Hearings (1824 - present)
Also Known as: LexisNexis Congressional Hearings Retrospective 1824-1979
Digital access to the fulltext of over 150 years of U.S. Congressional hearings. Searchable by committee name, geographical location, topic, witness name or affiliation, and more. Includes abstracts, ...   [more]

ProQuest Congressional Statutes at Large
Also Known as: LexisNexis Congressional Universe, Proquest Congressional
Searchable fulltext for U.S. laws, 1789-present (currently, 1997). Includes U.S. treaties and international agreements, 1778-1949, and treaties with Indian tribes, 1778-1874....   [more]
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    Search Statutes at Large by citation or Public Law number

Public Papers of the Presidents of the Presidents of the United States, 1896-2004
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Records of the Persian Gulf War
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SOLO: FBI Report
Operation SOLO was a long-running FBI program to infiltrate the Communist Party of the United States and gather intelligence about its relationship to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, China, a...   [more]
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The Hindu Conspiracy Cases: Activities of the Indian Independence Movement in the U.S., 1908-1933
Also Known as: Hindu Conspiracy Cases
- from Archives Unbound
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Treaties and Other International Act Series (TIAS)
Also Known as: HeinOnline Treaties and Agreements Library
- from HeinOnline
U.S. treaties and executive agreements in slip-form, considered the first authoritative publication of the document....   [more]
Holdings: early 1980s-present (currently mid-1990s)

Treaties and Other International Acts of the United States of America (Miller)
Also Known as: HeinOnline Treaties and Agreements Library
- from HeinOnline
An early predecessor to Bevans, containing U.S. treaties and agreements through 1863. Includes notes and citations. Originally published in 8 volumes....   [more]
Holdings: 1776-1863.

Treaties and Other International Agreements of the United States of America 1776-1949 (Bevans)
Also Known as: HeinOnline Treaties and Agreements Library
- from HeinOnline
The most complete collection of U.S. treaties and agreements up to 1950, originally published in 13 volumes. Multilateral treaties are grouped separately from bilateral treaties. Volume 13 is a subjec...   [more]
Holdings: 1776-1949.

Treaties in Force
Also Known as: HeinOnline Treaties and Agreements Library
- from HeinOnline
Annually published by the U.S. State Department, lists and abstracts all treaties and agreements considered to be in force for the U.S. as of 1 January for the respective year. TIF separately lists bi...   [more]
Holdings: 1955-present (currently one year delay) 1941 added 1932 added
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    Current year (via GPO permanent archive)

U.K. Parliamentary Papers (1689-present)
Also Known as: 18th Century House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, HCPP, 19th Century House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, 20th Century House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, UK Parliamentary Papers, House of Lords Parliamentary Papers
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U.S. Census - Research Guide
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U.S. Congressional Documents: HeinOnline
Also Known as: U.S. Congressional Documents: Hein Online
The Congressional Record and preceeding publications covering the period from 1789-1943 and 1971-present. Includes the Daily Record from 1994-2008. Also includes the American State Papers, U.S. Stat...   [more]

U.S. Declassified Documents Online - DDRS Online
Also Known as: Declassified Documents Reference System
Primary sources, fulltext and image for declassified United States government documents from the second half of the twentieth century to the present. The collection provides coverage for domestic an...   [more]
Holdings: Declassified documents issued from 1941 through the 1990s. Documents have been declassified since 1974.
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    Old URL, as DDRS

U.S. Government Documents - Research Guide
Also Known as: U.S. Government Publications - Research Guide
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U.S. Legislative Process - Research Guide
Information and links to government publications produced in the federal legislative process of the United States, from the proposal of a bill to the enactment of a public law....   [more]
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U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
Finding aids, catalogs, research guides, and digitized documents for curricular use from NARA....   [more]
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    ARC - Archival Research Catalog
    Microfilm Publications Catalog
    Guide to Federal Records in the National Archives of the United States
    Digital Classroom

U.S. Serial Set (via GPO)
Fulltext of U.S. Congressional reports and documents, 104th Congress (1995-1996) to present....   [more]
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UNISPAL
Also Known as: United Nations Information System on the Question of Palestine
Texts of current and historical United Nations material concerning the question of Palestine and other issues related to the Middle East situation and the search for peace, 1915-present....   [more]
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United States Treaties and Other International Agreements (UST)
Also Known as: HeinOnline Treaties and Agreements Library
- from HeinOnline
U.S. treaties and executive agreements published in chronological order....   [more]
Holdings: 1950-present (currently 1984)

Weekly Compilation of Presidential Papers
1977-2003...   [more]

Related History Government Information

American Slave: A Composite Autobiography
Also Known as: American Slavery
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Amtsdruckschriften
A guide to online government resources. A project of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin....   [more]
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Brazilian Government Document Digitization Project
The Latin American Microfilm Project (LAMP) at the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) has digitized executive branch serial documents issued by Brazil's national government during the period between ...   [more]
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Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (GPO)
Also Known as: MoCat, CGP, Monthly Catalog
This online catalog consists of bibliographic records published in the Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications (MOCAT). Records describe Government information products avai...   [more]
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documentArchiv.de
A large collection of government documents from the nineteenth century to the present. German emphasis....   [more]
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FDsys: Federal Digital System
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Gesetzestexte
" ANNO-Gesetze ist der virtuelle Lesesaal der Vsterreichischen Nationalbibliothek f|r vsterreichische Gesetze. Hier kann in historischen vsterreichischen Gesetzbldttern online gebldttert und gelesen w...   [more]
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International Monetary Fund Publications
Also Known as: IMF Publications
Fulltext of official IMF publications, documenting and supporting the activities of the IMF in promoting international monetary cooperation, exchange stability and orderly exchange arrangements, forst...   [more]
Holdings: 1981-present.
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Labordoc: Catalog of the ILO Library
Contains over 350,000 records of books, articles, documents, and reports providing international coverage of labor related topics, including employment, labor relations, labor law, working conditions,...   [more]
Holdings: Late 19th century-present
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LAPTOC Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents
Also Known as: LARRP
Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents (LAPTOC): provides article titles from the tables of contents over 800 periodicals published in Latin America and the Caribbean. They cover...   [more]
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National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS)
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NCJRS Virtual Library
Also Known as: National Criminal Justice Reference Service Virtual Library
Identifies and links to fulltext U.S. federal publications on criminal justice....   [more]
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ProQuest Congressional
Also Known as: Congressional Universe, LexisNexis Congressional, Lexis Nexis Congressional
U.S. legislative publications and government information. Much of the material is fulltext. Includes pending bills, laws, legislative histories, committee reports and documents, Congressional heari...   [more]
Holdings: Varies with document series
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Social Explorer
The Social Explorer produces maps and reports of US Census Tract level data from 1940-2000. Using high quality maps and data, they make available the full contents of the tract data for the United Sta...   [more]
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UN ODS
Also Known as: United Nations Official Documents Search
UN ODS, also known as UN Official Documents Search or UN Optical Disk System, provides fulltext documents, official records, and resolutions of the United Nations covering all topics of concern to the...   [more]
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UNESDOC / UNESBIB
Also Known as: UNESCO Documents Collection
Fulltext or page image for UNESCO documents. Materials cover the subject areas of interest to UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization): education, communication and in...   [more]
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United Nations Treaty Collection
Also Known as: UNTC, UN Treaty Series
Primary sources, fulltext and image for international treaties and agreements deposited or registered with the United Nations since 1946. Ratification and annotation information for individual tre...   [more]

World Bank Documents & Reports
Also Known as: World Development Sources, WDS
Page-image fulltext of more than 14,000 World Bank documents. Covers World Bank activities and interests worldwide in agriculture, economic policy, education and social protection, electrical power, o...   [more]
Holdings: 1960-present. Updated weekly.
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