Where to start
If you could only bookmark 20 websites, what would they be?
Here are our suggestions of the sites and tools which you should bookmark and learn to use regularly. They represent major sources of information.
- Google: general searching site
- Eldis: subject-focused resource guides
- A Good Place to Start: the IDS Knowledge Services guide to development information online
- Ideas/RePEc: economics working papers economics
- SSRN: social science working papers
- Google Scholar: journal articles and academic materials
- Free access to journal articles for developing countries
- Libraries: British Library for Development Studies, World Bank Library and more
- Technorati: searching blogs
- Yahoo News: compiled from a range of sources. More on news
- Statistics: FAO / UNDP / World Bank / UNCTAD
- World Bank: large website focusing on Bank's own work
- OneWorld: NGO portal site, especially useful for campaigning material
- Jobs: Eldis jobs service and links to other job sites
- Pictures: advice on finding pictures from the Eldis "Picturing it" page
- Directory of development organizations: contact details and websites
- Eldis country profiles: geographical starting points
- Directories, Gateway Sites and Portals: listing from INASP
- Internet for development Intute Virtual Training Suite: online tutorial for locating resources
- Manuals and Toolkits: Eldis guide to practical online materials
