Excerpt from the Database of the "Specialized Information Network of International Relations and Area of Studies" (FIV-BLK). This excerpt provides you with access to over 3.000 bibliographic references and around 500 articles available online dealing with all aspects of the CSCE/OSCE.

The "Specialized Information Network of International Relations and Area of Studies" (FIV-BLK) is a consortium of ten independent research institutes aimed at the establishment of common information resources. The source of this Literature Service, the database "International Relations and Area Studies", contains about 600.000 referral units (since 1974) at the end of 2001. The types of documents are: articles (68%), books and reports (24%), official publications and serials 4% each. Approx. 52% of the original documents are in English, 30% in German, 9% in French, 5% in Spanish, the rest in other languages. Within FIV, the Center for OSCE Research (CORE, Hamburg), which is involved in the OSCE Networking Project, is in charge of adding documents and literature about the OSCE to the database. The FIV provides the OSCE Networking Project with more than 1000 OSCE relevant document entries, which are updated on a monthly basis. The literature references are not limited to bibliographical data but also include a first textual opening up of the documents via a keyword search facility. On the one hand, this allows searching for specific academic literature within the database. On the other hand, the keyword search permits a first textual assessment of the literature references, once the user is in possession of the search results. Wherever possible a link refers to the url of fulltext articles of literature references.

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