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]

UNESCO Courier
1972 edition of the International Book Year
EditorAgnès Bardon
FormatBroadsheet
PublisherUNESCO
Founded1948
Based inParis
LanguageSpanish, English, French, Arabic, Tamil, Chinese, Russian, Portuguese, Esperanto, Sicilian
WebsiteUNESCO Portal'–in English
ISSN2220-2269

History and profile

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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

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

Previous directors:

References

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  1. ^ "About". UNESCO. 2017-04-30. Retrieved 2019-11-24.
  2. ^ "Archives". UNESCO. 2017-04-20. Retrieved 2019-11-24.
  3. ^ "The magazine". Unesco. Retrieved 27 September 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. "The Curated Courier: Digital Text Corpora from the UNESCO Courier (1948–2020)". Zenodo. Retrieved 11 March 2024.
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