- SourceOECD
SourceOECD is the
online library of theOECD . Everything published by the OECD (books ,journals , series, working papers,databases ) is available online on SourceOECD, free at the point of use.OECD publications
The
OECD publishes roughly 250 books a year, on subjects as diverse as general economy, statistics, agriculture, science, future studies or environment. Of allinternational organisations , it's the one with the widest scope.SourceOECD also hosts 14 series of working papers.
The OECD also maintains 82 databases. On SourceOECD, they are accessible in their interactive form: the user can perform queries online.
Free at the point of use
SourceOECD's clients are librarians in a broad sense: universities, administrations, institutions, corporations. They buy access for their users, who can subsequently access SourceOECD without being charged or asked for identification. The potential audience of SourceOECD is about 15 million users.
DOIs
The OECD uses extensively
Digital object identifier s for their publications. Each working paper is assigned a DOI, and many publications also use DOIs for their tables and graphs ( [http://www.oecd.org/statistics/statlink statlinks] ). Using these DOIs, the reader can retrieve documents in a ready-to-use, electronic form.Web books
SourceOECD features a series of reference books with no access restriction: the web books. Its other online books are available in
pdf format. The web books are a series of structured HTML web pages, from which the user can easily access the cited publications as well as tables and graphs. OECD's most-used web book is the [http://www.sourceoecd.org/factbook OECD Factbook] .Easylinks
Virtually every OECD publication has an "easylink", a URI that links directly to its online form. Typically, the easylink is "www.sourceOECD.org/" followed by the
ISBN of the publication.External links
* [http://www.sourceOECD.org SourceOECD]
* [http://www.oecd.org OECD]
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