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The IRE Resource Center is a rich reserve of print and broadcast stories, tipsheets and guides to help you start and complete the best work of your career. This unique library is the starting point of any piece you're working on. You can search through abstracts of more than 19,000 investigative reporting stories without leaving the convenience of your Web browser! As a special offer, IRE has selected four of its best 2002 tipsheets to offer for free to the readers of Global Journalist. To order, just contact the Resource Center by e-mailing rescntr@ire.org, or by calling 573-882-3364. Be sure to include your full name and media organization, and provide the order code mentioned in the Global Journalist. Tipsheets Here are four tipsheets offered free of charge for readers of the Global Journalist: • No. 1663: Advice on teaming up with journalists in other countries and a few helpful Web sites. (Maud Beelman, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists) • No. 1536: Tips on accessing and using international databases. (Noemi Ramirez, Diario el Mundo) • No. 1534: International data on terrorism. (Margot Williams, The Washington Post) • No. 1626: Leads on several Web sites that are useful for international investigations. (Pedro Enrique Armendares, Centro de Periodistas de Investigacion) Stories Click here to see some of the stories about international issues that are available from the Resource Center. Links Here are some useful links for covering international issues, taken from IRE's Beat Source Guide: Synopsis Name/Description Link 278 Private International Law Database http://www.state.gov/www/global/legal_affairs/private_intl_law.html 244 The WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources http://www.etown.edu/vl/ 301 World Press Institute http://www.worldpressinstitute.org 277 International Insurance http://www.internationalinsurance.org/default.htm 275 International Data Base (IDB) http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbnew.html 245 Exposing World Crimes American Human Rights Reporting as a Global Watchdog http://www.worldlymind.org/expose.htm 26 U.S. International Trade Statistics http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/foreign-trade/www 316 Public Record Office - UK http://www.pro.gov.uk/ 295 Norbert's Bookmarks for a Better World http://www.betterworldlinks.org 282 CountryWatch.com http://www.countrywatch.com/ 158 United Nations http://undcp.or.at/unlinks.html 311 The University of Strathclyde in Glasgow/Business Information Sources on the Internet http://personal.dis.strath.ac.uk/business/index.html 45 Center For International Earth Science Information http://www.ciesin.org/sub_guide.html 298 Railway Technology http://www.railway-technology.com 276 U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency http://www.state.gov/www/global/arms/wmeat97/wmeat97.html 100 Freedom Forum First Amendment Center http://www.freedomforum.org 170 Earthwatch Institute http://www.earthwatch.org 133 Ozone depletion http://www.epa.gov/docs/ozone/science/science.html 161 United States Information Agency http://usinfo.state.gov/ 84 Food and Agricultural Organizations http://www.fao.org/ 149 National Technical Information Service http://www.ntis.gov Membership in IRE puts you in the company of the world's best journalists and gives you access to valuable resources and training opportunities. See the benefits of membership and learn how you can join IRE. Planning is underway for the next Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, May 1-4. More than 300 journalists from 44 countries attended the first Global Journalism Conference in April 2001. Use IRE's International Directory of Investigative Journalists to look up investigative journalists throughout the world. You can search based on their location or on their beat. The IRE Resource Center is partially supported by the Jane Pulliam Trust, The Florence and John Schumann Foundation and the John S. & James. L. Knight Foundation.