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Labordoc is your access to the world's literature on the world of work. It provides access to both electronic and print books, journal articles, reports, conference papers and other documents. Almost all ILO publications are available in full text in Labordoc from 1919 to today.
For more information, see
"About Labordoc".
By title, author, keyword
| Any field | Find items containing your search terms anywhere in the title, author, keywords, abstract, table of contents. | |
| You can combine words from different fields such as title and author. | ||
| Author | Enter a family name. | |
| For authors with more common surnames, enter the full name or the surname and initials. | ||
| Institutions, organizations and departments can also be authors. | ||
| Subject | The subject field allows you to do a precise search as long as you use ILO Thesaurus terms. This field allows you to do a precise search as long as you use Thesaurus terms. |
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| Title | Enter keywords or phrases from the title. |
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By collection
Labordoc offers the possibility to browse or search within collections.
You can narrow your search by looking at only ILO publications, or more narrowly, ILO books,
ILO working papers, etc. It is also possible to search just within the collections of the ILO's International Labour Conference or Governing Body. You can also search within journal articles.
At the bottom of the main page, you can select to search only within collections of individual ILO libraries and information centres. For example, ILO Bangkok.
| Year | You can enter a specific range of years. |
Publication year:
until: |
| Language | Limit your search to items in one or more languages. Keep the CTRL key pressed to select different languages. | Language: OR Language: |
| Electronic documents | Limit to only documents available in full text by selecting the "e-docs only" box in Advanced search. | e-docs only: |
| Journals | Select the "journals only" box in Advanced search to find print and electronic journals by title. | journals only: |
| Articles published in a specific journal | In Advanced Search enter a journal title and select "published in journal". This will retrieve selected articles from this journal. | |
| Meeting | Find conference and meeting documents by entering meeting name, place or date. | |
| Fulltext | You can search within the contents of ILO publications. For example, to find all publications that mention the name of former ILO Director-General Wilfred Jenks, open the ILO publications collection, Advanced Search and enter: | |
| ISBN/ISSN | Find items by ISBN (International Standard Book Number) or ISSN (International Standard Serial Number). You can enter the numbers with or without hyphens. |
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| Title < | You can find all titles that begin with a certain word or phrase. Enter just the first word(s) of a title. |
Phrase search and truncation
| Phrase search | To find an exact phrase you can use the "". Please note that this kind of search may take longer than simply entering the phrase. |
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| Truncation | Replace characters at the end of a word by the symbol * to retrieve variant forms. "matern*" returns records containing words maternal, maternity, maternity benefit and even maternelle or maternidad in the title. |
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| Stemming | Labordoc offers automatic stemming. Similar to truncation, stemming helps you retrieve items in both singular and plural, masculine and feminine, and some other minor variations. To find an exact term without stemming, use the quotation marks " ". "profession" retrieves professions, professional and professionals. |
Boolean operators
| AND | Find records containing all your terms. |
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| OR | Find records containing either of the terms. | |
| NOT | Exclude records containing this term. | |
| Parentheses | Return records containing either women or gender, and rural but not farm in the title. Nested parentheses are supported. | |
| Logical operator precedence | Logical operations are automatically chained from left to right. These search will find publications on both migration and construction, but not in Asia. |
How to combine words
| All of the words | Find records containing all your terms. For example, to find publications on labour inspection in mining, type: | |
| Any of the words | Find records containing any of the items you type in the search box. For example, to find publications written by Somavia or Jenks, select the author field and type: | |
| Phrase | Find records containing an exact phrase. For example, to find publications on primary health care, you will type: |
Example: To find all ILO publications on labour migration written by Somavia and published since 2002, you would first select ILO publications collection and search in the ILO Thesaurus for the appropriate keywords. Then you will type:
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| Sorting | By default, results are sorted by most recent first. You can also sort by:
• oldest first • relevance • title • author |
Sort by: |
| Number of results displayed | By default, 25 results are displayed. You can also display 10, 50, 100, 250 or 500 results in the same page. |
Display results |
| Display by collection | By default, results are presented in a single liste in basic search, but split by collection (ILO publications separate) in the Advanced search. |
Display results |
| Output formats | By default the results are presented in a brief format showing title, author, date, publication type and full text link if the item is available in electronic format.
The detailed format allows you to see the full bibliographic record directly in the results list without having to click on each record individually. You will also see keywords, abstract, table of contents and other language versions. The other formats are mainly used by information professionals for sharing data. |
Output format |
Select all results on the page by clicking the "select all" box at the top of the results list or select one by one the items that are of interest to you.
Select the format for display:
• Bibliographic: title, author(s), publisher, date, URL and ILO Library call number.
• Brief display: title, author, date, full text link.
• Detailed display: title, author(s), publisher, meeting name, report number, journal title, date, full text links, ISBN, table of contents, abstract, alternate language versions and keywords.
The other formats are mainly used by information professionals for sharing data.
If the document is available in electronic format, a "full text" icon appears directly in the results list. Just click on the icon to open the document.
If there is no "full text" icon, ILO staff, including those on short term contract and interns, may request the item by clicking on the "Request" button and entering your client number and surname.
If you are not ILO staff, then you may consult the item in an ILO Library near you or make a request for an inter-library loan at your library.
If you want to know which library has a document that you want, click on the title of the item that interests you, and then on the tab "Find in an ILO Library". You will see the location(s) which have this item. ILO staff may request items held in any of the ILO libraries around the world. External users may request an interlibrary loan through your own library.
Every search result page offers an RSS feed at the bottom of the page. Click the RSS icon to subscribe to any search or any collection to keep up to date in your area of interest.
If you have any questions about how to find information on the world of work, Ask a Librarian.