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Publications produced by international
organizations
The profiles of international organizations which appear in the Yearbook
of International Organizations (in Volume 1) have included
bibliographical information on the periodical and other publications
produced by such organizations (since the early form of the
Yearbook published in 1910). For example a Catalogue
des publications d'associations internationales was
published by the UIA in La Vie Internationale
(1921, novembre, 1, pp 197-202, fascicule 26). Between 1983
and 1995, such information was also presented in Volume 1
of this Yearbook as a special title index (in an Appendix)
to the publication information in organization profiles. Space
constraints increased the justification for this separate
Volume 4 into which this information could be transferred
in a new format with indexing.
Information on the publications of international organizations first
appeared in a separate volume produced by the UIA in 1953 under the
title Directory of Periodicals Published by International Non-Governmental
Organizations. This contained a total of 699 entries. A revised
edition was published in 1959, containing 1,340 entries; another revision
was published in 1969 containing 1,734 entries.
The UIA was represented in a number of discussions relating to the
challenges of bibliographical control of intergovernmental, and especially
United Nations documentation and produced commissioned reports for two
such events.
The first part of Volume 4 of the Yearbook
contains this bibliographical information (presented in Volume 1
of earlier editions of the Yearbook). It contains 16,695 entries.
Reports on world problems and
strategies of international organizations in response to them
Bibliographical work by the UIA on the problems and issues to which
international organizations dates back to its origins in 1910. It had
been continued through the work on conference proceedings, terminated
in 1970 (see below).
The work continued in a different form in the bibliography included
in the Encyclopedia
of World Problems and Human Potential in the 1991 edition and extended
in the 1994-95 edition with a bibliography on the strategies and initiatives
taken by such organizations.
The second part of Volume 4 of the Yearbook
extends the bibliographical information (also presented in the section
bibliographies on "world problems" (Section PY), "action strategies"
(Section SY) and "human values" (Section VY) of the complementary Encyclopedia
of World Problems and Human Potential). It contains 9,267 entries.
Studies of international
organizations
In addition to bibliographical information appearing in Transnational
Associations, the former Secretary-General of the UIA, G P Speeckaert
produced International Institutions and International Organization:
a select bibliography in 1956 containing 783 entries. A revised
edition was produced under the title Select Bibliography on International
Organization in 1965 containing 1,080 entries. A cumulative index
to articles that had appeared in Transnational Associations under
its earlier names was produced by Eyvind S Tew in 1962 under the title
The First Ten Years of International Associations.
A comprehensive bibliography of studies of international NGOs was produced
by Anthony Judge and Kjell Skjelsbaek under the title Bibliography
of Documents on Transnational Association Networks and
published in the 1972 edition of the Yearbook
of International Organizations. A revised version appeared
in the 1974 French edition of this Yearbook. It contained
approximately 854 entries.
The third part of Volume 4 of the Yearbook
is the result of extensive bibliographical research building on initiatives
of the past and incorporating references to the most recent studies
and information in Transnational Associations. It contains
6,582 entries; this figure does not include entries whose presence was
duplicated under multiple subject headings.
Conference proceedings
In its concern to document the activities of international organizations,
much effort was first devoted by the UIA to bibliographical work on
proceedings of international conferences. This initiative developed
naturally from the long-term documentation of scheduled future international
meetings into the International
Congress Calendar (now produced quarterly).
The bibliographies took a number of forms, notably the Bibliographical
current list of papers, reports and proceedings of international meetings
(1961-68). Cumulative editions by conference year were undertaken in
the form of a Bibliography of Proceedings of International Meetings
(for the conference years 1957, 1958, 1959), published in the period
1963-1966. These initiatives were funded by the National Science Foundation
of the USA. The bibliographies included abstracts and UDC classification.
A more compact presentation, without abstracts, was then adopted for
the publication of a Yearbook of International Congress Proceedings:
bibliography of reports arising out of meetings held by international
organizations (for the conference years 1960-1967) containing 8,500
entries. A second volume was published in 1971 (for the conference years
1962-1969) containing approximately 8,500 entries. With the increasing
importance and commercialization of bibliographic information, the justification
for this initiative by the UIA diminished and this work was terminated
in 1970.
The UIA has also published a Bibliography on Congress Theory and
Practice by G C Fighiera in 1982 as part of its Congress
Science series.
Reports on human development,
potential and values
Many international organizations are explicitly or implicitly concerned
with general or specific approaches to human development or the promotion
of particular values. Since 1972, in connection with the human potential
section of the Encyclopedia
of World Problems and Human Potential, bibliographies have been
compiled on:
- human development
- modes of awareness
- human values
These appear in the Encyclopedia and in its CD-Rom
version, now in its 4th edition (1994-95).
Integrative knowledge and interdisciplinarity
In the Encyclopedia
of World Problems and Human Potential a bibliography of works on
interdisciplinarity, transdisciplinarity, unitary and integrative knowledge
has been maintained, since the first edition in 1976. These relate to
descriptive entries on some 632 such concepts which last appeared in
the 1991 edition of the Encyclopedia.
Metaphor studies
In the Encyclopedia
of World Problems and Human Potential a bibliography of selected
works on metaphor has been maintained since the 1991 edition.
Personal bibliographies of organization
executives
In the Who's Who in
International Organizations the descriptive personal profiles of
executives of international organizations contain bibliographical information
on works that they have authored or edited.
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