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- 1948 - 2006 (Publication)
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The original UNESCO Courier was a monthly printed magazine published between 1947 to 2001. It was published in more than thirty languages including braille. The magazine is written journalistically and each issue looks into a single subject from different angles. From 2002 to 2005 the UNESCO Courier was followed by the New Courier, published in three languages.
The fond includes all exemplars of
- The UNESCO Courier (published from 1948 - 2001) and
- The The New Courier (published from May 2002 - November 2005).
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Language of material
- English
- French
- Spanish
- Arabic
- Chinese
- Russian
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Finding aids
From 1948 on all articles indexed separately and available via UNESDOC database (from 1948-1953 available in full text for English, French and Spanish versions).
Since 1996 published online on the UNESCO Courier website=44481&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
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Publication note
From 1948-2001 also published in: Bulgarian, Serbo-Croatian, Dutch, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Macedonian, Malaysian, Persian, Portuguese, Sinhala, Slovene, Swahili, Tamil, Turkish, Urdu; incl. a selection in Braille in English, French, Spanish.
From 2002-2005 published only in English, French and Spanish.
Since 2006 online published in all six working languages.
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- UNESCO (Subject)
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Language(s)
- English