Bibliographical database from ILO. Includes references to journal articles, books, conference papers, technical documents, laws, regulations, judicial decisions, collective agreements and ILO publications held in the ILO library on labour questions world-wide. Covers economic policy, employment, labour legislation, labour policy, labour relations, management, project evaluation, rural development, social development, social security, technological change, vocational training, working conditions. Each record contains searchable abstract and index terms in English from the ILO Thesaurus. Available in a variety of forms including:
(a) on ESA-IRS: file 53
(b) on German Business Information (GBI) host
(c) on HRIN host
(d) on Orbit host
(e) on International Labour Information System (ILIS): see separate entry
(f) on IDRC database service: subset covering 1989-1994 (or last 5 years). Need permission from ILO to use this. See IBSS entry for more information
(g) on CDROM: available on the UNS/SABIR disc (subset of ILO publications). Will also appear on its own disc with whole database (from Silverplatter, Spring 1995)
(h) On ILO WWW site: panned to make this available free (subsets of the data are already available, Nov 97). http://www.ilo.org