Toolkit for Librarians: ILO users (HQ and field)

To dowload Lean Library. Access to e-resources anytime, anywhere​

See the video on Lean Library in the Library intranet: https://intranet.ilo.org/en-us/library/Pages/default.aspx

Some relevant platforms to find journals articles available via Library Intranet & Knowledge Hub  under E-Resources :

Journal articles

• Jstor - Journal articles
• EbscoHost - Journal articles
• EIU – The Economist Intelligence Unit.
• ProQuest - Offers journals and news articles.
• Science Direct - Journal articles on management, economics and social science.

Legal

• HeinOnline – international legal journals, publications, laws.
• LexisNexis – Full-text legislation, case law, legal literature and news.
• Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (MPEPIL)  - peer-reviewed articles on every aspect of international law

News

• PressReader - A platform with over 2,000 newspapers and magazines from around the world
• Le Temps 
• New York Times
• Le Monde Diplomatique

LabourDiscovery   access to ebooks and journal articles.

Economy 

• LIS - a data archive and research center dedicated to cross-national analysis and is home to two databases:
  • The Luxembourg Income Study Database (LIS) - the largest available income database of harmonised microdata collected from about 50 countries in Europe, North America, Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Australasia spanning five decades.
  • The Luxembourg Wealth Study Database (LWS) - the only cross-national wealth microdatabase in existence.

ILO officials who would like to access need  to register individually at:
http://www.lisdatacenter.org/lis-luli-frontend-webapp/app/request-account-identification  
LIS will quickly revert to each requester and provide the necessary credentials to access.
 

ILO Journals

International Labour Review - old issues are available publicly through the library's server at: in English P09602; in French P09628 , in Spanish P09645 and German P09667. Issues and indexes are also available through HeinOnline Law Journal Library via Library Intranet & Knowledge Hub  under E-Resources. In addition, more recent issues, since 2017, are published by Wiley.

Official Bulletin - old issues of Serie A and Serie B are available publicly through the library's server at P09604, in French P09635 and in Spanish P09648.

International Journal of Labour Research - Earlier title was Labour education (1964-2007). From 2009 to 2015 available  through the library's server at P09238 and also via ACTRAV's website. 

International Social Security Review  -  ISSA review P09247; prior entitled Bulletin of the international social security association. As from 2014 only published in English. Also available from JournalTocs.

External e-journals  – The most requested

The Library subscribes to a variety of e-journals and databases, dictionaries, digital collections and guides. The e-journals most requested are :

• Bloomber Businesswek is available vía PressReader
• The Economist (access for HQ)
• The Economist (access for Field Offices). Access to The Economist when not in HQ works through a proxy service. Pages may take longer to load.
•  The Guardian and The Guardian (pre-1997 Fulltext) are available from Proquest via Library Intranet & Knowledge Hub  under E-Resources
• Le Monde Online  Access through IP connexion for 5 concurrent users.
• New York Times is available from Proquest via Library Intranet & Knowledge Hub under E-Resources
• Newsweek is available from Proquest via Library Intranet & Knowledge Hub  under E-Resources
• Le Temps is available from Proquest via Library Intranet & Knowledge Hub  under E-Resources
• Wall Street Journal is available from Proquest via Library Intranet & Knowledge Hub  under E-Resources
• ​The Washington Post (pre-1997 Fulltext)  and The Washington Post (Online) are available from Proquest via Library Intranet & Knowledge Hub  under E-Resources

Some e-journals request password. They are handled by Joelle or Susana: 

• El Diplo - Le Monde Diplomatique en español. Forward the request to Joelle
• Financial Times . Forward the request to Joelle.
• Legis-PALOP + TL. Forward the request to Susana.
• Monthly Barometer. Forward the request to Susana.
• Statista. Forward the request to Susana

Research Guides

 26 RG by topic to help users to start their research. The most relevant for references questions  :

• ILO Official Documentations - ILC; GB; Regional Meetings; ILO Conventions; Official Bulletin. 
• International Labour Conference useful to research ILC Reports like:  Provisional Report, DG Reports, Programmes and Budget, Report on the Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations (CEACR), Resolutions adopted by ILC.
• International Labour Standards
• Labour Statistics

Finding aid on General Surveys - to find ILO Reports General Surveys by theme, by year or by ILO instrument.