DATABASES & E-REFERENCE MATERIALS: all

Open Finances makes World Bank’s financials openly available for exploration. The platform offers advanced tools to export, download, and customize financial data, and to create unique visualizations and filtered views. Datasets include loans and credits, procurement, administrative budgets, financial statements, shareholder equity, and more.

The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (OKR) is the World Bank’s official open access repository for its research outputs and knowledge products. Resources are organized by collection and include books, journal articles, technical papers, country strategy documents, working papers, economic and sector work studies, and speeches. Materials are in English, with over 1000 accompanying documents in other languages, including Arabic, Chinese, Bosnian, French, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Turkish, Spanish, and more. 

Explore the World Bank's low-interest loans, zero to low-interest credits, and grants to developing countries. These support a wide array of investments in such areas as education, health, public administration, infrastructure, financial and private sector development, agriculture, and environmental and natural resource management. Projects are browsable by sector, theme, and country.

Contains current constitutions in their original language for over 190 countries. Also features historical constitutions and secondary resources, including more than 800 books about constitutional law, links to scholarly articles about constitutional development, and links to online sources. Full text is available.

World Heritage Sites: Africa is a collection of more than 86,000 objects of visual, contextual, and spatial documentation of African heritage and rock art sites. Resources include site plans, diagrams, and maps; 3D models; stereo, digital, and panorama images; manuscripts and books; trade logs; videos; excavation reports; archaeological and ethnographic field notes; personal journals and travelers’ accounts from the 17th century to the 19th century; and more.

Translated and English-language radio and television broadcasts, newspapers, periodicals, government documents, and books providing global reaction to major protest and reform movements.

Access annotated entries for international books, articles, reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, audiovisual materials, and electronic media related to Shakespeare that have been published since 1964.

Provides access to trial transcripts and monographs from the 18th century to the 20th century. Full text is available.

An international, multi-disciplinary catalog of books, internet resources, audio visual materials, manuscripts, maps, sound recordings and other materials held by over 20,000 libraries. Contains materials representing 400 languages.

Provides access to records for all dissertations and theses currently in WorldCat.