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World Bank eLibrary is a subscription-based online web portal of all books, working papers, and journal articles published by the World Bank from the 1990s to the present. It covers more than 20 disciplines related to poverty, development, and social science including economic and human development, agriculture, infrastructure, health, education, climate change, natural resources, and regional integration. For more information see the website.

All publications in the eLibrary since 2000 are also open access via the World Bank's Open Knowledge Repository (OKR); however many, such as the journal articles, are only freely available after an embargo period of 18 months. The OKR also contains many publications and knowledge products that are not found in the eLibrary, such as Knowledge Notes and other non-formal publications. Beyond the publications prior to 2000, the eLibrary provides better search, reading, research and downloading features (see the user tools here). A quick comparison of the content and functionality of the two sites may be found here.

In support of both the World Bank's and the Wikipedia Library's commitments to Open Access, we recommend that editors cite the document's URI in the OKR whenever an open access version of it is available, and when a publication or item (such as an embargoed journal article or book chapter) is not freely available in the OKR, editors cite the DOI in the World Bank eLibrary.

There are up to 100 one-year accounts available to Wikipedians through this partnership.

Requirements

• You have your preferences enabled to receive email messages on English Wikipedia or on your home wiki linked from your application; (see Special:Preferences)
• You have an account that is a minimum of 6 months old
• You have a minimum of 500 edits to the encyclopedia

If you don't quite meet the experience requirements but think you would still be a strong candidate for access, feel free to apply and you may be considered

Expectations

Approved editors may

• Search, view, retrieve, and display portions of restricted content;
• Electronically save portions of restricted content;
• Print out single copies of portions of restricted content;
• Comply with any terms and conditions which appear on the particular pages of the World Bank website they are accessing.

Approved editors will not

• Share their account logins or passwords with others, or sell their access to other parties
• Mass scrape or mass download World Bank content
• Systematically make printed or electronic copies of multiple extracts of restricted content available for any purpose.
• Datamine metadata without permission, in order, for instance, to use metadata for auto-created stub articles.

Private and confidential information

• By applying to the Program, you understand and agree that your name and email address may be shared with representatives of the Wikimedia Foundation, The Wikipedia Library, and World Bank. Wikipedia Library organizers contracted under the Wikimedia Foundation will abide by the Wikimedia Foundation privacy policy and associated confidentiality agreements. Volunteer representatives of the Wikipedia Library are neither employees nor contractors of the Wikimedia Foundation (or World Bank), but they have signed confidentiality agreements with the Wikimedia Foundation with regards to the personal information they may handle for the Wikipedia Library.

Citation

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• Editors should always provide original citation information including the URI handle or DOI in addition to linking to World Bank, per WP:V and WP:SAYWHEREYOUGOTIT.
• Editors should not provide bare links to restricted World Bank pages or content files
• Note "subscription required" in the citation, where appropriate
• Review citation policies WP:V, WP:SAYWHEREYOUGOTIT, WP:PAYWALL
• Respect the copyright of World Bank, in accordance with Wikipedia's copyright policy and their terms of use (note, many of the documents are licensed under CC-By 3.0 IGO)
• Cite items resources in line with the citation examples provided below or with the examples provided by World Bank

Example

{{cite report|author=de la Torre, Augusto; Didier, Tatiana; Ize, Alain; Lederman, Daniel; Schmukler, Sergio L.|title= Latin America and the Rising South : Changing World, Changing Priorities|url=https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/21869|publisher=World Bank|year=2015}} {{open access}}

• de la Torre, Augusto; Didier, Tatiana; Ize, Alain; Lederman, Daniel; Schmukler, Sergio L. (2015). Latin America and the Rising South : Changing World, Changing Priorities (Report). World Bank. 

Note Many (but not all) of these publications available through the eLibrary are also open access and/or freely licensed via the Open Knowledge Repository (OKR); in line with both World Banks and the Wikipedia Library's commitment to Open Access, we recommend that editors cite the OKR when an open access version of eLibrary documents when available. When citing works in the eLibrary that are not available in an Open Access version, please make sure to note {{Subscription or libraries}} .

Further participation

You can help The Wikipedia Library effectively leverage this partnership:

• Add {{Wikipedia:World Bank/Userbox}} to your user boxes. This helps us share our project with other experienced users.

Apply

Add yourself at the bottom of the list with a line starting with #{{user8|USERNAME|Project=code}} (eg. {{user8|Example|Project=en}}) followed by an explanation of why you would like access to this resource. It is a good idea to include in your application text your editing areas benefited by access and examples of your commitment to content creation.

1. Mayooranathan (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email) I am working on Tamil Wikipedia continuously for more than 11 years now. I have done more than 35,000 edits and started more than 4000 articles. We have a lot of articles in Tamil Wikipedia, on various topics within the coverage of this e-library. If I get the access It will be helpful to improve those articles and also to write new articles. -- Mayooranathan (talk) 03:52, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

   @Mayooranathan: Approved Expect an email shortly with further details. Nikkimaria (talk) 13:58, 19 June 2015 (UTC)

2. Zigzig20s (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email) I create and improve Wikipedia articles with in-line references every day. I would use this resource to improve articles about francophone Africa primarily.Zigzig20s (talk) 16:04, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

   @Zigzig20s: Approved Expect an email shortly with further details. Nikkimaria (talk) 13:58, 19 June 2015 (UTC)

3. ceyockey (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email) I do a substantial amount of work with company- and organization-related articles and I think that this resource might contain some otherwise not accessible content related to companies and NGOs operating outside of the "developed world". --05:05, 19 June 2015 (UTC)

   @Ceyockey: Approved Expect an email shortly with further details. Nikkimaria (talk) 13:58, 19 June 2015 (UTC)

4. Waynejayes (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email) I have written 56 WP articles and have made over 5000 edits. Been a WP editor since June 2012. Active in editing Anglican bishops and priests, naturism, South African schools, south african history and biographies. Wayne Jayes (talk) 11:22, 19 June 2015 (UTC)

   @Waynejayes: Approved Expect an email shortly with further details. Nikkimaria (talk) 13:58, 19 June 2015 (UTC)

5. prymshbmg (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email) I am working on many projects in wikipedia and outside wikipedia on topics like Human development, India, Biological History of Earth, and many more civil engineering projects. Thus, I am always in a continous need of certified data. Hoping to be heard and to hear from you soon.Prymshbmg (talk) 10:42, 27 June 2015 (UTC)

   @Prymshbmg: Approved Expect an email shortly with further details. Nikkimaria (talk) 15:02, 27 June 2015 (UTC)

6. tomtom (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email) I have more than 40,000 edits and wroten more than 400 articles in the Hebrew wiki, including detailed articles about economic subjects such as Robert Barro, Ernst Fehr, William Nordhaus, Jagdish Bhagwati, Martin Feldstein, Jean Tirole, NAFTA. I hope to use this resource for creating new articles and improving current ones Tomtom (talk) 08:21, 29 June 2015 (UTC)

   @Tomtom: Approved Expect an email shortly with further details. Nikkimaria (talk) 13:59, 29 June 2015 (UTC)

7. Pass3456 (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email) I have made 16.000 global contribution. My focus is on economics. --Pass3456 (talk) 19:04, 29 June 2015 (UTC)

   @Pass3456: Approved Expect an email shortly with further details. Nikkimaria (talk) 15:44, 6 July 2015 (UTC)

8. Lingzhi (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email). Used to be Ling.Nut. 5 Fa's, etc. Will chip in at FAC/FAR/FARC; will add content (next project gender pay gap). • Lingzhi♦(talk) 07:03, 15 July 2015 (UTC)

   @Lingzhi: Approved Expect an email shortly with further details. Nikkimaria (talk) 14:43, 15 July 2015 (UTC)

9. JasonRees (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email) - Records from the World Bank should be useful for research into tropical cyclones.Jason Rees (talk) 22:18, 26 September 2015 (UTC)