This section describes the online disclosure of recent аIJʿª½± content such as a project information document, a working paper, or a procurement plan. Many documents are routinely disclosed as part of their overall information life cycle as described in There are several categories of disclosure described below.
Routine Disclosure - Documents & Reports
- Most routinely disclosed documents are available in the (D&R) repository, which contains over 380,000 documents starting from 1946
- D&R follows specific Collection Curation Guidelines requiring content to be final, dated, stand-alone (not partial documents), and not in violation of any copyright
- Sometimes a document is not disclosed in its entirety, but its metadata (basic catalog information) is disclosed - this enables the public to see that it is potentially available and to make an Access to Information request to obtain full access - see list of metadata-only documents
- Though the majority of content is in English, the top web levels of D&R are available in the six Bank languages: Spanish, French, Arabic, Portuguese, Russian, and Chinese
- D&R metadata (including links to content) is also available via direct download from the site as well as via ,
- The Bank has an official ¡°Open Access¡± Policy and Repository available here: WB's and the Open Knowledge Repository (OKR) (). The OKR contains the Bank¡¯s high-level original research, which is a subset of D&R
- Docs & Reports currently discloses 30,000+ documents per year
Additional Items Available via Public Documents
- Additional items means content which does not fit into the D&R collection nor into a regular website. This content is disclosed and made available via pubdocs.worldbank.org.
- Content in pubdocs.worldbank.org that is associated with a project ID number is available for the relevant Project at .org under the Documents subtab,
- Some content is disclosed directly to the Projects site such as procurement notices and contract awards
Datasets
- The Development Data Hub at has thousands of development related datasets, many from аIJʿª½± research and operations work
- The site has an enormous amount of information, including historical, about the finances of the аIJʿª½± Group
Websites
- A large number of files (documents, presentations, photos,) are made public via individual websites (not necessarily part of a more standardized repository) - these are searchable and browsable from /
- Older websites are sometimes removed from the 'live' worldbank.org and made available at
Email Alerts
- let the public subscribe to the latest news, project documents, procurement notices, research, and more
- Alerts are delivered to the subscriber's inbox daily and can be customized by topic, country, and content type
- Available in the six Bank languages