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United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
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Resources
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History of Civilizations of Central Asia
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The full set involves six volumes, which traces the central Asia region starting from the paleolithic human history until the end of the twentieth century.
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History, Central Asia, the Asian civilization
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Printed
Publications
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OPAC
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Electronic
resources
(Full text online)
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Reading online
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Atlas of the world's languages in danger
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Published in 2010, the third edition of the "world map endangered languages" points out that the world has 199 languages in emergency situation, there are 18 languages classified as "critically endangered language" because the user of such languages are arguably less than 10 people, mostly even only one. This book aims to awakening the public awareness of endangered languages. Online version provides the interactive retrieval tools which can be inquired through country, name of the language, the number of multiple access points such as query endangered languages in different countries and regions.
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Endangered languages, forms, and maps
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Printed
Publications
(On-site reading)
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OPAC
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Electronic
resources
(Full text online)
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Reading online
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Learning: The Treasure Within
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The 21st century international education committee submitted to UNESCO's landmark report, discusses education's role in the people and social development, emphasizes the life-long education, puts forward the four pillars of education, namely society cognition, learn to do things, learn to get along with people and learn to live.
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Education and the development of education, education policy,study
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Printed
Publications
(On-site reading)
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OPAC
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Electronic
resources
(Full text online)
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Reading online
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Global Education Digest
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The annual report covers the latest statistics of pre-school education to higher education stage in more than two hundred countries and regions in the world.
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Education, education policy, education statistics, comparative analysis
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Printed
Publications
(On-site reading)
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OPAC
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Electronic
resources
(Full text online)
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Reading online
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International Social Science Journal
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Founded in 1949, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a comprehensive social science journals (quarterly). Each issue revolves around a topic. These topics are usually with realism, pertinence and universality, such as cultural, social, poverty, health care, crime, human rights, rule of law, the role of government, education, globalization, women, youth, farmers, immigration, etc.
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social sciences
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Printed
Publications
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OPAC
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The UNESCO Courier
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Monthly, may add topic issues, sometimes a kind of nature magazine, newsletter published papers, interviews, and various features, etc.. Language versions of Chinese, English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Portuguese, and Russian are provided.
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Culture, education, science and current affairs
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Printed
Publications
(On-site reading)
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OPAC
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Electronic
resources
(Full text online)
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Reading online
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Copyright Bulletin
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Quarterly, have Chinese, English, French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic and other languages of texts. Information law progress of copyright and related rights are provided in order to promote the field of discussion.
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Copyright and intellectual property rights
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Printed
Publications
(On-site reading)
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OPAC
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Electronic
resources
(Full text online)
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Reading online
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Unesco Institute for Statistics
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Chart type database, provides the global education, science and technology, culture and communication between different countries and regions in the comparability of statistical data.
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Education, science, culture, and statistics
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（Download）
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Online database
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Statistical Yearbook
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International statistical data related to education, science and technology, cultural exchanges, chart type data.
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Culture, education, science and technology, statistics, yearbook
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Printed
Publications
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OPAC
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UNESDOC Database
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The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization documents and publications database features since its founded year of 1945, which contains the agency released documents, publications, journals and UNESCO other library bibliographic records and part of the full text. The database is updated daily.
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UNESCO, documents, publications, catalogs, database
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（Download）
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Online database
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UNESCO World Heritage Sites
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In the form of graphic and text to provide detailed situation of the world cultural and natural heritage sites
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The world heritage list
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（Download）
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Reading online
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THE GLOBALISATION OF CULTURAL TRADE: A SHIFT IN CONSUMPTION
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UNESCO institute of statistics in the spring of 2016 cultural products and services on global trade statistics released the latest report, in 2013 by 10 years, despite the global has experienced the recession and mass in film, music and other products in the consumer shift to service based on network platform, cultural products trade doubled during this period. At the same time, China overtook the US as the biggest exporter of cultural products. According to the report, art and artifacts rose to 10 types of cultural products in the trade of the world's biggest trade ranking, it is mainly affected by the gold ornaments. In addition, the portion of statues, sculpture and painting, and other products in the arts and crafts products has increased. Report also pointed out that, music, movies and newspapers, and other products are gradually become a part of the cultural services, but have huge impact by digital production process. Report said that despite the trade of printing products, including newspapers also fell, but the books as important cultural products, increased up to 20% over the same period in some areas.
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Cultural products
trade
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Reading online
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Declarations, conventions, agreements and recommendations adopted under the auspices of UNESCO
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The resources cover fields of education, science, society and humanities, culture, communication and information, etc.
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International
conventions and
protocol
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Reading online
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Culture and Development
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Placing culture at the heart of development policy constitutes an essential investment in the world's future and a pre-condition to successful globalization processes that take into account the principles of cultural diversity. It is UNESCO's mission to remind all States of this major issue.
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Culture and
development
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Reading online
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Full list of documentary heritage inscribed to the Memory of the World Register
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The Memory of the World Register lists documentary heritage which has been recommended by the International Advisory Committee, and endorsed by the Director-General of UNESCO, as corresponding to the selection criteria regarding world significance and outstanding universal value.
This website provides access to the inscriptions on the International Register listed by different categories such as: region, country and year.
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Memory of the World Register
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Reading online
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UNESCO Science Report 2015: Towards 2030
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On November 10th, 2015 the UNESCO Science Report: towards 2030 was published. This report is published every five years and presents a picture of the trends in global research and development, based on a wealth of qualitative and quantitative data.
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Unesco Science Report
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Reading online
中文版
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