| What is it?
The Industrial Development Abstracts (IDA) is an important source of information on the activities of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) to assist industrialization in developing countries. Much of the work is unique and unpublished elsewhere.
What does it contain?
IDA contains over 11,000 fully indexed abstracts of UNIDO documentation and includes descriptions of major studies and reports, reports resulting from UNIDO's technical cooperation activities, reports and proceedings of expert working groups, workshops and seminars, and publications in series. The time frame is from 1981 to today. New entries are added each month.
How to get copies of the full reports?
Microfiche: All the reports up to the record number 21561 are available on microfiche. The price for photocopies reproduced from microfiche or the price of PDF images scanned from microfiche is EURO 0.10 per page. Image PDF files: All the reports from the record number 21562 onwards are available as image PDF files. The price of a CD-ROM that can contain up to 130 reports is EURO 10.00. The price for photocopies reproduced from image files is EURO 0.10 per page. Shipping and Handling Charges: A minimum charge of EURO 5.00 per order. There is no charge when PDF files are sent via the Internet.
Note: The reports whose titles start with (R) are restricted reports and release of such reports are subject to approval of officers in charge due to their confidential nature. When you order restricted reports, we will let you know if they can be released or not.
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