Columbia Books, Inc
For more than 40 years Columbia Books & Information Services (CBIS) has provided users with compliance resources and training, print directories, online databases, and customized data delivery. Our dedicated staff has extensive experience capturing and delivering relevant, accurate and highly useful information to our clients. Learn more.

Editions Delta
Editions Delta was founded in Brussels in 1976, with its primary activitie being the publication of reference books on the European Union and its institutions (yearbooks, who’s who, monographs, etc.), gathered together under the name EuroReferences. Today this series has been co-publishing books with a European character alongside the Office of Official Publications of the European Communities (Luxembourg) since 1980. Learn more.

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Founded in 1945, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) leads international efforts to defeat hunger. Serving both developed and developing countries, FAO provides a neutral forum where all nations meet as equals to negotiate agreements and debate policy. The Organization publishes authoritative publications on agriculture, fisheries, forestry and nutrition. Learn more.

Government Publications Office (GPO)
The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) is the Federal Government’s official, digital, secure resource for producing, procuring, cataloging, indexing, authenticating, disseminating, and preserving the official information products of the U.S. Government. The GPO is responsible for the production and distribution of information products and services for all three branches of the Federal Government, including U.S. passports for the Department of State as well as the official publications of Congress, the White House, and other Federal agencies. Learn more.

Higher Education Publications, Inc.
Higher Education Publications, Inc. was formed to continue producing a directory to succeed the Department of Education’s Education Directory: Colleges and Universities in the new form of the Higher Education Directory®. The mission is to support the higher education community by gathering, verifying, customizing and presenting meaningful industry information at a reasonable cost and with a premier level of customer service. Learn more.

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is the world's center of cooperation in the nuclear field. It was set up as the world's "Atom's for Peace" organization in 1957 within the United Nations family. The Agency works with its Member States and multiple partners worldwide to promote safe, secure and peaceful nuclear technologies. Learn more.

International Monetary Fund (IMF)
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an international organization of 185 Member Countries. It was established to promote international monetary cooperation, exchange stability, and orderly exchange arrangements; to foster economic growth and high levels of employment; and to provide temporary financial assistance to countries in order to help ease balance of payments adjustments. Learn more.

IT Governance Publishing (ITGP)
IT Governance Publishing (ITGP) is the world’s leading IT-GRC publishing imprint and wholly owned by IT Governance Ltd. ITGP provides books and tools covering all IT governance, risk management and compliance frameworks, producing unique and practical publications of the highest quality, in the latest formats available, and which readers will find invaluable. Learn more.

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
The OECD is an international organization that consists of 30 Member countries from the developed world that accept the principles of representative democracy and free market economy. It originated in 1948 as the Organization for European Economic Cooperation (OEEC) to help administer the Marshall Plan for the reconstruction of Europe after World War II. Later its membership was extended to non-European states, and in 1961 it was reformed into the OECD. The organization provides a forum where governments can compare policy experiences, seek answers to common problems, identify good practice and co-ordinate domestic and international policies. With active relationships with some 70 other countries and economies, NGOs and civil society, the organization has a global reach. Renowned for its publications and statistics, its work covers economic and social issues from macroeconomics, to trade, education, environment, development and science and innovation. Learn more.

The Stationery Office (TSO)
Privatized from HMSO in 1996, TSO has a 200-year inheritance of secure, no-fail delivery to Her Majesty's Government and Parliament and it is the largest publisher in the UK by volume, publishing over 15,000 titles a year. Learn more.

World Bank Publications (WB)
The World Bank came into formal existence in 1945 following the international ratification of the Bretton Woods agreements. It is a vital source of financial and technical assistance to developing countries around the world. The organization's activities are focused on education, health, agriculture and rural development, environmental protection, establishing and enforcing regulations, infrastructure development, governance and legal institutions development. The World Bank is made up of two unique development institutions owned by its 185 Member Countries. The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) focuses on middle income and creditworthy poor countries and the International Development Association (IDA), which focuses on the poorest countries in the world.Learn more.

United Nations Publications (UN)
United Nations Publications is the official publisher for the UN and it produces over 400 titles each year. The range of subjects covered are as varied as the issues being tackled by the UN as it works for a better world for all. Since the first printing of the UN Charter, this publishing unit has been providing valued information to those in government, academia and business. Learn more.

United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
UNESCO was founded in 1945 and it is a specialized agency of the United Nations. Its stated purpose is to contribute to peace and security by promoting international collaboration through education, science, and culture in order to further universal respect for justice, the rule of the law, and human rights and fundamental freedoms proclaimed in the UN Charter. The organization pursues it action through five major programs: education, natural sciences, social and human sciences, culture, and communication and information. It has 192 Member States and 6 Associate Members. Learn more.

Van Haren Publishing (VHP)
Van Haren Publishing (VHP) publishes about best practices and standards in the field of IT & IT Management, Enterprise Architecture, Business Management and Project Management. We publish worldwide using our widespread international network of distribution partners. Learn more.

World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)
The WTO originated as the International Congress of Official Tourist Traffic Associations, which was set up in 1925. It went through several transformations over the years and was officially converted into a specialized agency of the United Nations in 2003. The organization is the most significant global body concerned with the collection and collation of statistical information on international tourism and it serves as a global forum for tourism policy issues and practical tourism know-how. In 2006 it was comprised of 150 countries, seven territories and more than 300 Affiliated Members representing the private sector, educational institutions, tourism associations and local tourism authorities. Learn more.

World Trade Organization (WTO)
The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) was created in 1947 and operated almost five decades on a provisional basis until 1995 when the WTO was established. Its goal is to improve the welfare of peoples of its member countries, specifically by lowering trade barriers and providing a platform for the negotiation of trade. The organization deals with the rules of trade between nations at a global or near global level; it is responsible for negotiating and implementing new trade agreements and charged with policing Member Countries' adherence to all WTO agreements. In 2007 there were 150 Member States. Learn more.

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