CRL (www.crl.edu) recenty put online a digital collection of official gazettes and other key historical government documentation from countries where the integrity of the public record is known to be at risk. The open web repository promotes transparency and accountability by providing a permanent public record of government documentation defining the rights and obligations of citizens and recording the activities of certain national governments in Africa and the Middle East. CRL is digitizing official gazettes from its extensive collection of print and microfilm, and will augment these materials by harvesting from the web more recent gazettes and related data published digitally.
Funding for digitization and hosting of gazettes from ten African and Middle Eastern countries was provided in part by CRL libraries and the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
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