Databases and other resources providing information on cultural policies across the world.

Other relevant information & contacts can be found at:

• Gov - pan-national government bodies and country-based agencies who promote culture internationally
• Observe - cultural research organisations, including many who specialise in cultural policy research
• Research - general resources for cultural research: bibliographies, journals and networks
• Statistics - sources of statistical data on culture or areas relevant to the cultural sector

Information on this page is organised under the following headings:

Databases & Reviews

• International
• Africa
• Americas
• Europe

Journals

Networks

Databases & Reviews

International

Artslynx Cultural Plan Library (online links to an eclectic selection of cultural policies around the world)

Culturelink Cultural Policy Database

Websters World of Cultural Policy

National Arts Policy Database (searchable database with approximately 7,000 items published since 1960 documenting information on the arts and culture in the US)

Cultural Policy and the Arts National Data Archive (CPANDA) (research and statistical analysis, data on artists, arts and cultural organizations, audiences, and funding for arts and culture)

Compendium of Cultural Policies (historical & administrative context for cultural policy making, plus a snapshot of current trends, figures, strategies and meaningful examples in different European countries) (Council of Europe initiative)

Cultural Policies Collection (a 'dedicated interface' that searches the Cultural Policies Collection of the Council of Europe)

Cultural policy and cultural diversity reports (project carried out 2001-2003)

Cultural Policy Research Online (CPRO) (online database of research studies concerning the arts and culture in a political, social, educational, historical and management context, whereby the research touches upon policy issues)

Kulpol Database (Swedish and international references to research, conference reports, articles in periodicals, public documents, and other non-fiction literature on cultural policy, from 1972 onwards)

National Book Policy Reviews (reviews for Central and Eastern Europe within the framework of "Governments love books (electronic books, too!)")

National Cultural Policy Reviews (cultural policy reviews that assess the policies in most member states of the Council of Europe)

National Heritage Policies (information on heritage policies from most countries around Europe)

Policies for Culture: Policy Resources for Culture in South East Europe (encouraging a participative principle in the design, implementation and evaluation of new effective cultural policies throughout South East Europe)

Project Eurocult 21 (bibliography on urban culture and urban cultural policy)