UNESCO Courier

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UNESCO Courier
The UNESCO Courier 1972.jpg
1972 edition of the International Book Year
Editor Agnès Bardon
Format Broadsheet
PublisherUNESCO
Founded1948
Based in Paris
LanguageSpanish, English, French, Arabic, Tamil, Chinese, Russian, Portuguese, Esperanto, Sicilian
Website UNESCO Portal'–in English
ISSN 2220-2269

UNESCO Courier is the main magazine published by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). It has the largest and widest-ranging readership of all the journals published by the United Nations and its specialized institutions. [1]

Contents

History and profile

UNESCO Courier was started in 1948 by Sandy Koffler (1916–2020). There was a gap in publication from 2013 until 2017. [2] The magazine has changed a great deal over the years, both in content and in form. But it pursues its original mission: promote UNESCO's ideals, maintain a platform for the dialogue between cultures and provide a forum for international debate.

The printed UNESCO Courier covers issues of literacy, human rights, environment, culture, science and arts.

Available online since March 2006, [3] The UNESCO Courier serves readers around the world: It is available for free on PDF in the six official languages of the organization (English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Russian and Chinese), as well as in Portuguese and Esperanto. A limited number of printed issues are also produced.

The magazine is also translated into Sardinian [4] and Sicilian. [5]

The texts of current issues are available in Open Access under the Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 IGO (CC-BY-SA 3.0 IGO) license. In 2023 a machine-readable digital corpus of Courier’s articles was published on Zenodo, making the archive of Courier’s English-language edition usable for text mining. [6]

Editors-in-chief

Current Director is Matthieu Guével and Editor-in-Chief is Agnès Bardon.

Previous directors:

References

  1. ↑ "About". UNESCO. April 30, 2017. Retrieved November 24, 2019.
  2. ↑ "Archives". UNESCO. April 20, 2017. Retrieved November 24, 2019.
  3. ↑ "The magazine". Unesco. Retrieved September 27, 2015.
  4. ↑ "SU CURREU DE S'UNESCO". PAPIROS (in Italian).
  5. ↑ Cademia Siciliana. "Lu Curreri di l'UNESCO" (in Italian).
  6. ↑ Martin, Benjamin G.; Norén, Fredrik Mohammadi; Mähler, Roger; Marklund, Andreas; Martin, Oriane Mathilde (2023). "The Curated Courier: Digital Text Corpora from the UNESCO Courier (1948–2020)". Zenodo. doi:10.5281/zenodo.10083490 . Retrieved March 11, 2024.
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