World problems / Strategic potential

International Organization Information / Research: 2004 (Part #4)

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• Hardcopy: As indicated previously, no current plans in relation to this publication, last produced physically in 1994-5. SAUR would be prepared to publish the version (revised under a Euroepan Commission contract from 1997- 2000) as hardcopy. This would then require cessation of the free distribution over the web, which plays such an important marketing role in relation to the Yearbook. Additionally the amount offered by SAUR would barely compensate for the formatting of the data into hardcopy form, namely without enabling any development of the data.
• Online: The related databases (problems, strategies, values, human development, etc) are very actively used as a free complement to subscriber access to the data on international organizations (as such they conform to the provisions of Article 3 of the UIA statutes). They are recognized by SAUR as being of value to marketing the organization information. Unfortunately the data is slowly becoming obsolete in the absence of any systematic updating of it. Discussions on this possibility continues with SAR, the main constraint being the reallocation of limited editorial resources.