WAO - World Affairs Online – Current Bibliography 2010, March 1 – 15

NOTES FOR USERS
The source of this Current Bibliography, the database WAO - World Affairs Online, contains about 806.000
referral units (since 1974). The type of documents are: Articles (62%), books and reports (30%), official
publications (6%). Approx. 49% of the original documents are in English, 28% in German, 12% in French, 4% in
Spanish, 4% in Russian, the rest in other languages. (Updated: January 2010)
The database is available for the public free of charge at the subject gateway IREON and at GENIOS in the
framework of WISO-Net.
Members of FIV - The German Information Network International Relations and Area Studies have access to
the database on a server computer of the software house KTS Informationssysteme GmbH in Munich. The
database is produced and managed with the documentation software system DOMESTIC. The program ADP is
used for printing. Both are software products of KTS Informations-Systeme.
The database is produced with co-operation from the following institutes:
- Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC), Bonn BICC
- Deutsch-Französisches Institut (DFI), Ludwigsburg DFI
- German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), Berlin DGAP
- Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), Bonn DIE
- European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI), Flensburg ECMI
- Freie Universität Berlin (FUB), Berlin FUB
Otto-Suhr-Institute for Political Science (FUB/OSI) OSI
- German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Hamburg GIGA
- Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa), Stuttgart IFA
- Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy (IFSH), Hamburg IFSH
- Peace Research Institute (PRIF/HSFK), Frankfurt am Main HSFK
- Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), Berlin SWP
- Südost-Institut (SOI), Regensburg SOI
FIV – The German Network International Relations and Area Studies has started to applicate diacritics in its
data base. For a transitional period the titles are shown both with and without diacritics.
The literature generally can be found in the institution producing the record as well as in other institutions,
whose location is represented by a code followed by the signature. If possible, one location of a accessible
library is offered as well.
You will find the online edition of the Current Bibliography on:
http://www.fiv-iblk.de/information/bibliography.htm
Example for a record:
418 1) Kohorst, Pia; Neuneck, Götz; Rothkirch, André:
Weltraumbewaffnung und Optionen präventiver
Rüstungskontrolle / Pia Kohorst ; Götz Neuneck ; André
Rothkirch. - In: Friedensgutachten 05 /
Forschungsstätte der Evangelischen
Studiengemeinschaft ... - Münster: Lit Verl., 2006,
S. 154-162 - ISBN 3-8258-8592-5
HSF 2) D 764992 3) 4) SWP: U. 701 DGA: DG 39147 HSF: HSFK
BIC: BY FRGUT IAs: D31 Öff. StaO: 1a 5)
A list of regularly indexed serials is added each in the issues No. 1, 7, 13 and 19.
1) Current number used in the indexes for reference to the
main part. Multiple entries of one record in the main part
have reference numbers separated by a semicolon.
2) Record producing institution
3) Database ID
4) Locations/shelf numbers of member institutes
5) The library code helps you to identify the library, where
the publication is available.
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