network of research and training centres/programmes
New database will be one-stop source for UN research
UN University has launched a new Internet portal designed to provide better access to research materials from throughout the United Nations system.
The Research in the United Nations (RUN) Database, created and managed by UNU International Institute for Software Technologies (UNU-IIST), uses meta-data submitted by members, either through a URL to the actual publication or by uploading entire publication files to the IIST mainframe.
RUN currently contains research reports from four UNU centres
– UNU-IIST, UNU Institute for Advanced
Studies (UNU-IAS), UNU Institute
for New Technologies (UNU-INTECH) and UNU World
Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) – but will gradually grow to incorporate the work of
many other UN research organizations and agencies.
The RUN portal has been
created as a single repository for research material from
different UN organisations, allowing the public to have a global
view of the research activities within the UN. It is also an archive
for long-term information storage. It will allow users to retrieve UN
documents on a subject without having to search several UN websites.
Any organisation or institution belonging to the United Nations can join RUN. Technical/Research Reports that present new research/technical/development work as well as surveys of previous work can be included in the repository.
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