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PUBLIC DOMAIN RESOURCES

The University Library maintains legal information sources available under public domain and can be openly accessed by the legal fraternity. The
objective behind maintaining this page is to make aware of about the plentiful of academic and research outcome available under the public
domain umbrella. The resources contributed by the constitutionally established institutions, academic institutions, other governmental bodies
and nono-governmental organization have been showcased for best utilization in educational and research communities. The resources avaialble
on this page is open to use for all legal fraternity around the world.
EUROPEAN UNION PUBLICATION OFFICE
The Publications Office of the European Union is the official provider of publishing services to all EU institutions,
bodies, and agencies. As such, it is a central point of access to EU law, publications, open data, research results,
procurement notices and other official information. Its mission is to support EU policies and ensure that this
broad range of information is available to the public as accessible and reusable data to facilitate transparency,
economic activity and the diffusion of knowledge.
UNITED NATION DIGITAL LIBRARY
United Nation Digital Library is a collection of digital documents preserved and provided by the Office of the
United Nations to rest of the world. UN digital Library provides access of more than 10,27,000 UN Documents
including publications, images, sounds, voting data and speeches of various UN Bodies like Economic and Social
Council, General Assembly, International Court of Justice, Secretariat, Security Council, Human Rights Bodies,
Economic Commissions and other UN Bodies.

UNITED NATION OFFICIAL DOCUMENT SYSTEM
United National Official Document System is a dedicated Search engine provides access of UN official
documents on the basis of various search terminology. One can access UN Official records on the basis of
Symbols, words in title, date of publications, job number and full text search. Truncation, date of release, year,
agenda number, and languages are other additional options useful for effective and pinpointed research search.

UNESCO-UNSDOC DIGITAL LIBRARY
The UNESCO Digital Library is a key tool for enabling UNESCO’s mission of building peace in the minds of
people, in particular by “advancing the mutual knowledge and understanding, and encouraging cooperation
among the nations in all branches of intellectual activity, including […] the exchange of publications, objects of
artistic and scientific interest and other materials of information”.

WORLD BANK OPEN KNOWLEDGE REPOSITORY
The World Bank is the largest single source of development knowledge. The World Bank Open Knowledge
Repository (OKR) is The World Bank’s official open access repository for its research outputs and knowledge
products which can be accessed through this database.
WORLD BANK OPEN DATA (STATISTICAL DATA)
World Bank Open Data Portal provides access to make World Bank data easy to find, download, and use. All of
the data found here can be used free of charge with minimal restrictions. Data displayed on this site are a subset
of those available in the World Bank’s Data Bank, which contains extensive collections of time series data. The
Data Bank has advanced functions for selecting and slicing the datasets, performing customized queries and
data downloads, and creating charts and other visualizations.

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