Organisation promoting the exchange/use of information in biomedicine, social sciences, history, dutch language and literature, between researchers in the Netherlands and abroad.
Maintains databases on current research, and bibliographic databases referring to books/reports/journal articles it holds in stock. NIWI runs a large document delivery department and a library reading room. Offers document delivery ordering service available via WWW and photocopy requests by email (IBIS service). Also maintains data archives which acquire, process and distribute empirical data from research projects in social sciences and history. Databases include:
(a) Biomedicine database and biliography, (BIOREP) including database of electronic journals. Free of charge until further notice.
(b) Steinmetz Archive: acquires, processes and distributes empirical data from social science research projects in the Netherlands, and acts as a gateway to international archives. A database describing the datasets is accessible via the WWW. Searching is free of charge.
(c) Social science bibliographic database (SWL) Registration required and charges are payable.
(d) environmental database (MLB) – Registration required and charges are payable.