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The United Nations iLibrary is a comprehensive global search, discovery, and viewing source for digital content created by the United Nations. The UN iLibrary provides librarians, information specialists, scholars, students, policymakers, influencers and the general public with a single digital destination for seamlessly accessing publications, journals, data, and series published by the United Nations Secretariat, and its funds and programs. The Licensor is the OECD.
From 1 May 2020:
Site Licence
This Agreement is of 3 years duration. Institutions may join the agreement at any time during the agreement period. They will then be committed to the end of the Agreement Period unless they give appropriate notice to cancel.
For a 30 day free trial of this service please contact Chest Help.
Universities, colleges and other learning, educational and research bodies in the UK and Republic of Ireland.
Other organisations aligned with Jisc’s charitable objectives of supporting education, research bodies and the public sector may ask to participate in the Agreement. Chest will liaise with the Supplier about any such requests.
The UN iLibrary has recently been digitised and made available through the OECD platform – it is being made available as part of that agreement or as a standalone product.
Licensor Details: OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development), in partnership with Wize Nordic AB.
OECD is an intergovernmental institution having its headquarters at 2 rue André Pascal, 75775 Paris Cedex 16, France.
Wize Nordic AB is a companyincorporated in Sweden having its headquarters at Kungsgatan 44, S-111 35 Stockholm, Sweden.
The United Nations iLibrary is the first comprehensive global search, discovery, and viewing source for digital content created by the United Nations.
It provides librarians, information specialists, scholars, students, policy makers, influencers and the general public with a single digital destination for seamlessly accessing publications, journals, data, and series published by the United Nations Secretariat, and its funds and programs.
United Nations iLibrary offers an extensive list of features that deliver flexibility, speed, and efficiency such as intuitive navigation, integrated search results, granular content, citation tool, DOI identification, and multilingual content.
Every year around 500 new titles are planned to be added to United Nations iLibrary, approximately 70% of which are in English and cover the following topics:
| Agriculture Rural Development and Forestry | International Trade and Finance |
| Children and Youth | Migration |
| Democracy and Governance | Natural Resources, Water and Energy |
| Disarmament | Peacekeeping and Security |
| Drugs, Crime and Terrorism | Population and Demography |
| Economic and Social Development | Public Health |
| Environment and Climate Change | Transportation and Public Safety |
| Human Rights and Refugees | United Nations |
| Human Settlements and Urban Issues | Women and Gender Issues |
| International Law and Justice |
| OpenAthens | No |
| IP Address range | Yes |
| Shibboleth | Yes |
| Username / Password | Yes |
| EZProxy | No |
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Technical Function |
Standard |
Compliance |
Supplier Notes |
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Full text linking |
No |
Implementation is linked to Ingenta capacity to roll it out for all their Pub2Web publishers, no date available. | |
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Federated searching |
No |
Implementation is linked to Ingenta capacity to roll it out for all their Pub2Web publishers, no date available. | |
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Harvesting |
SRW/SRU |
No |
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| OAI-PMH |
No |
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| RSS or Atom |
No |
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Metadata standards |
Dublin Core |
No |
Implementation is linked to Ingenta capacity to roll it out for all their Pub2Web publishers, no date available. |
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Yes |
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No |
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Months embargo period |
N/A |
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Digital preservation |
Lockss |
No |
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| Clockss |
No |
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| Portico |
No |
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Usage statistics |
Yes |
Counter 4 | |
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No |
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Accessibility |
No |
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Personalisation features |
Yes |
Email alerts and RSS feeds are under development. Each institution can brand the homepage. |
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Service levels |
No |
The supplier confirms that throughout the term of the agreement the products will comply with the standards indicated.
New content will be loaded as made available.
Every year around 500 new titles are planned to be added to United Nations iLibrary. All additions and new functionality will be incorporated at no additional charge.
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What can UN iLibrary be used for? Students, academics and researchers can find the answers here - download the flyer |
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UN iLibrary FAQs - download the flyer |
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UN iLibrary One-pager - download the flyer |
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UN iLibrary Postcard - download |
For a 30 day free trial of this service please contact Chest Help.
Support will be provided by the support team at OECD in Paris via a single contact or his/her deputy at each Institution. OECD support can be contacted at:
Comprehensive help files will be available in the future.
A tour of UN material is located here.
All queries should be directed to Wize Nordic:
Dan Ahlskog
Wize Nordic
OECD iLibrary customer service & information - UK and Ireland
Tel: +46 (0) 850 10 31 93
Mobile: +46 (0) 768 94 89 29
Email: Dan@contentonline.co.uk
The Chest Order, together with the Licence Terms and Conditions, and any exceptions listed below, create a legally binding contract between your institution, organisation or company and the Licensor. Therefore please read the terms and conditions carefully and only submit a Chest Order if its terms and conditions are acceptable to your institution, organisation or company and you have the authority to make the financial commitment shown.
This Site licence is subject to the terms and conditions for the Standard Chest Licence for Online Resources. Exceptions to these terms and conditions are shown at the bottom of the page.
This Agreement is of 3 years duration, commencing 1 February 2019 and terminating 31 January 2022.
Institutions may join the Agreement at any time during that period.
On receipt of a completed Licence, Institutions will be invoiced for the Agreement year in which the Licence is signed.
For the subsequent years, unless cancellation notice is received by Chest, Institutions will be invoiced three months in advance of the anniversary date of the Agreement, on 1 November 2019 and 2020.
There is monthly prorata charging for Institutions which become licensed partway through a licence year.
Chest is an Enterprise of Jisc. All Purchase orders must be made out to Jisc, 4 Portwall Lane, Bristol, BS1 6NB to cover all charges plus VAT.
All terms contained in a PO are expressly rejected and do not form part of the Licence or vary the Licence terms in any way.
Payments are due within thirty days of invoice date; recipients of late payments are entitled to interest in accordance with UK statutory provisions.
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Keep a local cached copy for Educational Purposes |
No |
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Incorporation of parts of the Licensed Material |
Yes |
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Deposit learning and teaching objects in repositories |
Yes |
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Interlibrary loan |
Yes |
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User |
On site |
Remote access |
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Students |
Yes |
Yes |
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Staff |
Yes |
Yes |
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Walk-in users |
Yes |
Yes |
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Alumni members |
Yes |
Yes |
The resources can be used for Educational Purposes – defined as:
Exclusions:
Post termination copies of parts of the Licensed Material already made and/or used by the Licensee or Authorised Users in accordance with clause 2.2 may be retained and used in accordance with the terms of this Licence Agreement – see Licence Term 10.5.
The Fee for early termination in accordance with clause 10.4 of the Terms and Conditions for the Standard Chest Licence for Online Resources is nil.
The Fee for retention rights upon termination in accordance with clause 10.5 of the Terms and Conditions for the Standard Chest Licence for Online Resources is nil.
Once the Agreement has terminated then no further access to the service and to future publications will be possible unless the Agreement is renewed or extended.
If the Agreement is renewed or extended then new conditions will apply. If the Agreement is not renewed then renewal is a matter between Institutions and OECD.
Institutions have the right to opt out of the agreement each year by giving notice on or before 1 October to cancel with effective from 31 January the following year.
Personal licences are not available under this Agreement.
Clause 10.4 of the Terms and Conditions for the Standard Chest Licence for Online Resources has been amended for this Agreement. The written notice period is 120 days, and not 60. Therefore, written notice of early termination should be served on or before the 1 October prior to the subsequent term end date of 31 January.
Currency: All prices are in GBP
VAT: From 1 May 2020:
Subscription Year: 1 February - 31 January
Payment terms are shown on the Terms and Conditions tab.
Please note, the below pricing includes details of other OECD products (UN iLibrary, Commonwealth iLibrary), details of which can be found in their respective Agreements. This is to facilitate ease of ordering.
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This agreement expired on the 31/01/2022
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