GENEVA (ILO News) - The International Labour Office today announced the availability of a new electronic library that will simplify access to essential ILO publications on globalization, HIV/AIDS, fighting poverty and other issues concerning the world of work.
The collection, called ILO Insight, is a fully searchable archive of over 1,000 publications covering such issues as labour, employment, social protection, women at work, occupational safety and health, child labour, management, training, labour statistics and more.
The ILO has partnered with MyiLibrary, a company specializing in online content, to create this large and diverse collection. Available on a subscription basis, it includes key ILO books, monographs, official documents of the annual International Labour Conference, complete text of Conventions and Recommendations, reports, working papers, codes of practice and more. Many of the publications are offered in French and Spanish as well as English.
Further information on this new service can be found at www.myilibrary.com.
Recent publications included in the collection are "A Fair Globalization: Creating opportunities for all", the report compiled by The World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization and the first systematic attempt to deal with social dimensions of globalization. "HIV/AIDS and Work: Global estimates, impact and response" which provides global projections of the impact of HIV/AIDS on the world of work, as well as other past and current Reports of the Director-General including "Organizing for Social Justice" and "Working out of Poverty".
The collection will be updated monthly and provide subscribers with immediate access to the latest information and research from the ILO.
Lord Bill Brett, the head of the ILO London office, called the ILO Insight e-collection "an excellent example of how the ILO is determined to ensure its publications reach the widest possible audience, so that the ILO can achieve its mission of disseminating this vital and important content to the people who need to access it. We are pleased to have partnered with MyiLibrary and are excited at the prospect of offering our social partners and other interested parties online access to our publications".
For further information about the ILO Insight, please contact:
Nadine Prowse
Coutts Library Services MyiLibrary
Headlands Business Park
Salisbury Road
Ringwood Hampshire BH24 3PB.
Tel: +44(0)1425-471160, Fax:
+44(0)1425-471525
Email: ebooks@couttsinfo.com
Web: www.myilibrary.com
or
Lauren Elsaesser
ILO Publications
4, route des Morillons
CH-1211 Geneva 22, Switzerland.
Tel: +4122/799-6195, Fax: +4122/799-8578
Email: elsaesser@ilo.org
Web:
www.ilo.org/publns.