Volume 3: Subject Volume | Global action networks

Using a "yellow pages" approach, Volume 3 of the Yearbook of International Organizations  classifies international and regional bodies in 812 specific categories of common concern, grouped into 70 major areas. There are about 90,000 such entries. Major subjects are also subdivided by region and other international groupings (developing countries, Arab, Commonwealth, IGO etc) leading to a further 1,316 categories so that, for example, the "Academic Cooperation Association" can be speedily located under "Developing Countries/Education", together with over 100 other international bodies working in the same field.

Additional listings comprising organizations of a particular structural type, such as institutes and religious orders, mean that organizations are listed under a total of 2,126 categories with, due to attribution of several subjects to an individual organization, a total of about 130 thousand entries in all.

Volume 3 profiles include:

• Names and abbreviations of the organizations listed in Volume 1
• Addresses of main offices plus telephone, fax, telex, email and websites
• Names of principal executive officers
• Numerical codes referring back to full organization profiles in Volume 1

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• The main Subject Directory lists organizations under an alphabetical list of subject categories
• The final Index includes 105,820 keywords and where to find them under the broader subject categories above
• The index includes keywords from organization names; organization subject categories in English, French, German, Russian and Spanish; personal names of founding personalities

See the dynamic subject index in Yearbook Online.