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UNU - United Nations University
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The United Nations University (UNU) is an autonomous academic institution within the UN system. It serves as a worldwide network of academic and scientific institutions dealing with pressing global problems as well as a tink tank linking the United Nations to the academic world.
The UNU, through its system of research centres around the world, offers opportunities for research fellows and PhD students from other universities, especially from developing countries, to come and engage in research in their particular areas of study.
The UNU consists of a Council composed of 24 members serving in their individual capacities, and a Rector, the senior academic official and administrator of the Research and Training Centres of the UNU, supported by a University Centre.
The UNU was established in 1975, with its headquarters located in Tokyo.
Documentation
The UNU official web site provides background information, news, an overview of UNU research programmes and activities, full text documents and publications.
UNU Annual Reports are posted at the UNU official web site.
The newsletter UNU Update is posted regularly at the UNU official web site.
Wider Angle - a biannual newsletter, WIDER discussion papers, and WIDER Research Papers are published by
WIDER - UNU World Institute for Development Economics Research, based in Helsinki.
Full text series of the following UNU publications are available at the UNU official web site:
A summary of the work of the United Nations University for a given year with references to essential documents can be accessed through the Yearbook of the United Nations, Part Three, Social Questions, Human resource development. A complete collection of yearbooks is held by the Dag Hammarskjöld Library, Uppsala, and the Libraries at UN Headquarters in New York and Geneva. Since October 2008 the complete full text collection of
The United Nations Yearbooks is available online at http://unyearbook.un.org/.
Databases and Indexes
References to UNU documents and reports from 1979 onwards with links to full texts for recent years can be accessed through the United Nations online catalogue - UNBISnet.
Documents from UNU and other relevant sources can be searched through The UNU Library Catalogue.
of indexes is held by the Dag Hammarskjöld Library, Uppsala, and the Libraries at UN Headquarters in New York and Geneva.