IOC Publications : The IOC Electronic Library

Since its founding in 1960 the IOC has organized hundreds of Conferences, Workshops and Training Courses. Most of these activities were documented and reported in IOC Publications. Many of the IOC Programmes and world renowned experts collaborating with the IOC have also produced Technical Manuals and Guides and a wealth of other reference documents. Traditionally these were sent to participants in these events and to IOC Depository Centres only. Thanks to the IOC Electronic Library you now have free and unrestricted access to many of   these documents in full-text. Documents not available from the Electronic Library can be mailed to you on request.

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The Series

The IOC Publications are sub-divided into several series:

• Reports of Governing and Major Subsidiary Bodies *
  * These include Assembly, Executive Council, Regional bodies, IODE, ...
• Report of Meetings of Experts and Equivalent Bodies
• IOC Technical Series: These are publications of a technical nature (scientific papers and publications);
• IOC Manuals and Guides: These are publications that describe methodologies; 
• IOC Workshop Reports: These report the discussions during IOC Workshops including recommendations, suggested workplans, but they may also include scientific papers presented during the workshops;
• IOC Training Course Reports: These provide brief reports on the contents of IOC Training Courses;
• IOC Annual Reports: These containa comprehensive overview of the activities carried out by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission during aparticular year.
• Information Series (INF): This series contains a variety of documents which could not be included in the above series. They can have a policy or scientific nature.

How to find what I need?

There are several ways to retrieve the documents you need, depending on what information you have available:

DO YOU KNOW THE TITLE?

Yes : Go to the relevant Series section (see above)

No: Search for IOC Publications in the ASFA bibliographic Database

How to retrieve the documents?

If you just want to browse through the documents then the best is to select the HTML version of the documents. If, on the other hand, you wish to print out the documents, then it is better to download the Acrobat PDF file. However, in that case you must install the Acrobat Reader software. If you don't have the software then you can download it here. With this software you will be open the document. This way the lay-out will be identical to the 'original' printed version distributed by the IOC by mail. Increasingly we will also make available the MS Word 97 version of the documents.

If you are unable to print the document or it takes too long to download the document then we may be able to send you a printed copy by mail. However, this service is not available for all documents as some may be out of stock. To request a document by mail, e-mail us and we will try to help you