Hints for locating info on web sites
These hints won't apply to every IGO web site, but will apply to many.
Make use of a web site's Search This Site feature!
About sections usually have information on
- Current membership
- Structure of organization
- History
- Governing and founding documents
News sections often have links to transcripts of speeches by the IGO's leaders
Publications and documents: IGOs use many different words for types of publications: documents, journals, papers (working or policy), publications, reports, research. In general (but not always)
- Materials called publications tend to be
- Issued for the general public, rather than for internal or official use
- Major reports, studies, yearbooks, conference proceedings, and bibliographies
- Materials called documents tend to be
- Records of the day-to-day workings of an IGO
- Intended mainly for the people representing the members
- Agendas, transcripts of meetings, letters to/from countries, statements by countries, IGOs, or NGOs and preliminary drafts of documents
Subject Guide
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