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Donations of German scientific books and journals to developing countries

Institutions in Africa can apply for the donation of scientific books and journals from German publishing houses. Explanatory leaflet concerning donations of German scientific books and journals by the "Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft" (German Research Foundation).

Further Tools

Country names

• The Federal Foreign Office of Germany has two lists with names in different languages:
  • » Official country names in the respective languages
  • » Official names in English, French, German, Spanish
• GEOnet Names Server of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency / USA.

Language names

• » Ethnologue (in English)
• » ISO Codes (in English and French)