International Documents
Contact: Jim Church
Scope of Collection
The UC Berkeley libraries participate in selective and full depository programs, exchange agreements, and purchasing plans to build its foreign and international government documents collections. The collections serve the entire campus community, the general public, and non-campus users.
UC Berkeley collects Foreign and International Government Documents and Publications in the following subjects areas:
- Censuses (all kinds): population, housing, economics, and agriculture
- Statistical publications and abstracts
- Economic development and international business
- Population, demography and vital statistics
- Human Rights
- Foreign relations and international affairs
- Political science and government policy
- Women's studies and family issues
- Public health and epidemiology
- Constitutions and constitutional conventions
- Elections and election data
- Higher education, educational policy, language and literacy
- Environmental policy and sustainable development
- Labor, poverty and social issues
- Budgets and public finance
- Agricultural economics
- Urban studies and planning; natural resources
- Reference and bibliographic aids, indexes, government guides and directories
Exclusions: Law, parliamentary papers, gazettes; applied technology; state, provincial, and municipal documents; educational curricular material
Special Collections
Materials on the founding of the United Nations at the San Francisco conference.
Primary Languages and Formats
Primarily English and French, but many others, including but not limited to German, Italian, Dutch, and other Western/Eastern European languages, as well as languages from South and Southeast Asia and the Middle East.
Related Collections
Government information is multidisciplinary. Closely related collections include Biosciences, Public Health and Law.
More
For information about research tools, library guides, and related pages, see International & Foreign Documents Collections at UC Berkeley.
