SourceOECD was the online library of the

OECD The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD; french: Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques, ''OCDE'') is an intergovernmental organisation with 38 member countries, founded in 1961 to stimulate ...

from 2001-2010. In July 2010 it was replaced by OECD iLibrary.

OECD publications

The

publishes roughly 250 books a year, on subjects as diverse as general economy, statistics, agriculture, science, future studies or environment. Of all

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in the economics field, it's arguably the one with the widest scope. SourceOECD also hosts 18 series of working papers. The OECD also maintains 82 statistical databases. On SourceOECD, they are accessible in their interactive form: the user can perform queries online.

Access

SourceOECD's clients are librarians in a broad sense: universities, administrations, institutions, corporations. They buy access for their users, who can subsequently access SourceOECD without being charged or asked for identification. The potential audience of SourceOECD is about 15 million users.

DOIs

The OECD uses extensively

digital object identifier A digital object identifier (DOI) is a persistent identifier or handle used to uniquely identify various objects, standardized by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). DOIs are an implementation of the Handle System; the ...

s for their publications. Each working paper is assigned a DOI, and many publications also use DOIs for their tables and graphs
statlinks
. Using these DOIs, the reader can retrieve documents in a ready-to-use, electronic form.

Web books

SourceOECD features a series of reference books with no access restriction: the web books. Its other online books are available in

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format. The web books are a series of structured HTML web pages, from which the user can easily access the cited publications as well as tables and graphs. OECD's most-used web book is th
OECD Factbook

Easylinks

Virtually every OECD publication has an ''easylink'', a URI that links directly to its online form. Typically, the easylink is "www.sourceOECD.org/" followed by the

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of the publication.

External links

OECD iLibraryOECD
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