Operates numerous databases including:
(a) WWW service: includes information on UNIDO, its publications, thematic work areas, events and conferences. Plans to make some statistical sets available. Includes full text of Environmental Awareness Bulletin and directory of national cleaner production centres
(b) UNIDO Industrial Development Abstracts (UIDA): UNIDO Conferences and publications on environment and industrial development. Available via Unido WWW site (see separate entry for more details)
(c) Project Information Retrieval System (PIRS): a repository of all technical cooperation project activities of UNIDO that are currently ongoing, plus older records from 1972 onwards.
(d) Intibnet: network of some 600 focal points and nodes connected to UNIDO’s Industrial and Technological Information Bank (INTIB)
(e) Technological Information Exchange System (TIES)
(f) Industrial Statistics database: see separate entry
(g) Commodity Balance Statistics: see separate entry
(h) Library database
(i) BioSafety Information Network and Advisory Services (BINAS) WWW: see separate entry
(j) Referral database on energy and the environment
(k) Micro-Metadex
(l) Technology Supply database
(m) TCDC-INRES: training and expertise database (now called WIDE, see separate entry)
(n) Investment Promotion Information System