Toolkit for Librarians: ILO users (HQ and field)

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

To dowload LibKey Nomad. LibKey Nomad browser extension gives you fast, one-click access to scholarly articles.

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 – Joelle and Susana have access. 
• ChinaLaw - request full text to Acquisitions.
• IRNotes - request full text to Acquisitions.

News

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

Economy and Trade

• 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.

• The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies – wiiw . A key research centre on Central, East and Southeast Europe. Their work is focused on macroeconomic developments and structural change, international economics, labour markets and social issues. Password required. https://wiiw.ac.at/ 
• World Trade Online - request full text to Susana or Joelle. https://insidetrade.com/ 

The IMO Web Accounts Administrator for ILO has created an account for you to access IMO web services. This access is essentially for meeting documents, circulars but doesn’t give access to their e-Books.

This access is nominative and is not meant to be shared. Do not communicate these credentials outside the library. This account is for your individual use only.

Please use the following details to log in:

Authority:   ILO

Username:    baille

Password:    Seab00ks

Registered e-mail address: baille@ilo.org

Account expires on: 06 February 2027

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 - 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 via PressReader
• The Economist (access for HQ)
•  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 10 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. 

• El Diplo - Le Monde Diplomatique en español. Assign the request to ACQ (libraryacq@ilo.org) with STATUS "OPEN"
• Legis-PALOP + TL. Assign the request to Susana with STATUS "OPEN".
• Statista. Assign the request to Susana with STATUS "OPEN"
• Project Syndicate.  Assign the request to Edit,, Irma or Susana with STATUS "OPEN". 
• Financial Times. Assign to the Library Acquisitions queue with status "OPEN".
• Mind HR - Assign the request to

Documents lost in time on the web

Consult this website to recover old documents sometimes no longer available from their websites 

Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Books, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine 

Research Guides

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

• ILO Official Documentations - ILC; ILO Resolutions; ILC Records of Proceedings; 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.