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Several UN agencies produce publications and other text available under an open license that can be copied into Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects using the instructions below.
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Descriptions
UNESCO
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Biosphere Reserves promote solutions reconciling the conservation of biodiversity with its sustainable use, today there are 669 biosphere reserves in 120 countries belonging to a World Network of Biosphere Reserves. UNESCO has made descriptions of the Biosphere Reserves available under a Wikimedia compatible license to help create Wikipedia articles about the sites, click here to help create new articles. |
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UNESCO Global Open Access Portal is a current snapshot of the status of Open Access (OA) to scientific information in 158 countries worldwide. Create Wikipedia articles on the state of Open Access on many countries around the world using these open license descriptions. click here to help create new articles. |
Publications
UNESCO
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Subject matter experts from different UNESCO sectors have suggested text from publications that can be added to Wikipedia.
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Education publications
A list of publications from the Education Sector. |
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Communication and Information publications
A list of publications from the Communication and Information Sector. |
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Science publications
A list of publications from the Science Sector. |
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General History of Africa
Eight volumes which highlight the shared heritage of the peoples of Africa. |
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The majority of new publications produced by UNESCO are available under a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 3.0 license and so can be used both as references and using the text directly on Wikipedia. UNESDOC is the central repository for UNESCO open license publications, you are free to use text from any publication that carries the CC-BY-SA logo on their description page e.g. Atlas of the World Languages in Danger.
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Click here to search all open license publications on UNESCDOC. The newest UNESCO publications on the major UNESCO themes are available below: |
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Food and Agriculture Organization
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Some UN FAO publications have been made available under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 3.0 license on Wikimedia Commons here. Note: Please link to the Wikimedia Commons page for the 'license statement URL' field in the attribution template, the license statement on the FAO website are not the same. |