World Bank Publications

Name of service
World Bank Online Resources, a package of electronic databases that includes:
World Bank e-Library, World Development Indicators (WDI) Online and Global Development Finance (GDF) Online.

Licence agreed
Country-wide for all academic, research and educational libraries within participating countries.

Service type
Optional subscriptions to e-books, reports and statistical databases. Check with your country coordinator to see which services are available in your country.

Content

• The World Bank e-Library is an electronic portal to the World Bank's full-text collection of books, reports, and other documents. It brings together in a fully indexed and cross-searchable database over 4,000 titles published by the World Bank during the past several years and every new title. In addition, subscribers have access to information not available in print. E-Library is fully searchable by subject, region, keyword, title, author, abstract, or year of publication.
• World Development Indicators (WDI) Online is the premier data source on the global economy. It contains statistical data for 854 development indicators and time series data from 1960 for over 200 countries and 18 country groups.
• Global Development Finance (GDF) Online offers external debt and financial flow data for over 130 countries that report public and publicly guaranteed debt to the World Bank's Debtor Reporting System. Time series includes over 200 indicators from 1970. The database covers external debt stocks and flows, major economic aggregates, and key debt ratios as well as average terms of new commitments, currency composition of long-term debt, debt restructuring, and scheduled debt service projections.
• Global Economic Monitor: Some countries have optionally selected to subscribe to Global Economic Monitor. Conceived by the World Bank team responsible for monitoring and reporting on day-to-day developments in the global economy, Global Economic Monitor (www.worldbank.org/gem) is a "one-stop shop" portal for analysis of current economic trends, and economic and financial indicators.

Subject strengths

• World Bank e-Library includes: Agriculture and Rural Development, Banking, Finance, and Investment, Commodities, Pricing, and Trade, Development Economics, Education and Training, Energy, Industry, and Mining, Environment and Pollution Prevention, Gender, Globalization, Governance, Civil Society, and Participation, Health, Nutrition, and Population, Infrastructure, Transport, and Urban Development, Labour and Income, Legal and Judicial Issues, Poverty, Private Sector, Public Policy, Social and Cultural Issues, Technology and Telecommunications, Water Supply and Sanitation, World Bank.
• World Development Indicators Online contains statistical data for about 700 development indicators. Data include social, economic, financial, natural resources, and environmental indicators. For a complete list of indicators go to http://publications.worldbank.org/WDI/indicators
• Global Development Finance Online includes over 200 indicators: For a complete list of indicators go to http://publications.worldbank.org/GDF/indicators

Service strengths

• Full indexed databases, cross-searchable.
• Advanced search features.
• Small file sizes to facilitate downloading.
• Easy navigation through regional collections.
• Metadata provided in Excel so each title can be listed in online library catalogues.
• COUNTER compliant usage statistics.
• Mapping function available in WDI and GDF online databases
• Different language interfaces including English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Arabic, and Chinese.

Archival information
Subscribers are allowed to keep one copy of all e-books and the statistical data for archiving purposes.

URLs to platform/collection access

• e-Library – www.worldbank.org/elibrary
• IP access to WDI and GDF Online - http://www.worldbank.org/data/onlinedatabases/onlinedatabases.html (click on INSTITUTIONAL links for WDI and GDF)
• Username/password access to WDI and GDF Online:
  • WDI - http://publications.worldbank.org/WDI/
  • GDF - http://publications.worldbank.org/GDF/

Registration
Each institution is required to register to use World Bank Online Resources.  If you have not used this resource before you may need to check if your institution is registered and identify the contact person who has your access details. To do this, please go to the INASP registration database and select your country and institution.

Access information
Access by IP address recognition.

URL to general publisher site
www.worldbank.org/publications

Help and support from the publisher
Please contact pubrights@worldbank.org

For further information
Please contact your country coordinator - their details can be found on your country page.

More information for librarians
For more information, including promotional packs and registration details, go to the Librarian’s information page.