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TRIPSagreement.net is a comprehensive site dedicated to information on the TRIPS agreement. TRIPS related documents are available in PDF and MS Word Document formats, others are simply links to appropriate websites. The site also contains a thorough bibliography of articles and books on the TRIPS agreement, which can be searched and sorted by a number of criteria.

Files

Files include word documents, pdf documents, and web links. Files are split into four categories, viewable above: The Text of the Agreement, GATT Negotiation Documents, Panel Decisions and Documents from the Doha Round. They are sometimes available in the three official languages of the trips agreement (English, Spanish and French), and sometimes only in one or two of these languages. There are also versions of the TRIPS agreement available in unofficial languages.

Below is an example of a file that is available in English, French and Spanish in word document and pdf formats ("The Text of the Agreement"). Clicking on the E,F, or S link will bring up the corresponding language version of the file. (Note: links do not work on the images below. Go to "The Text of the Agreement" above to view these files.) Clicking on either the PDF or DOC link also links to the English version of that file type. For unofficial language versions (ie:"German"), the PDF or DOC link will bring up the unofficial language version.



Some files are only available in one official language. In these cases both the language link and the file link will bring up the file:



Some files are links rather than PDFs or Word documents. In these cases they will be tagged "LINK" rather than PDF or DOC. The language links will bring up the web page, and clicking on LINK will bring up the English version of the page:




Books and Articles

An exhaustive list of books and articles is also present on the site, under the "Books and Articles on TRIPS" link above. They can be sorted by various criteria by clicking the "Order by" links just under the title "Articles" below. To view the list of themes that books and articles can be sorted by, a user may click on the "List Article Themes" link on the right hand side. The user can also move back and forth from Articles to Books and vice-versa by clicking the "Go to books" and "Go to articles" links, also on the right hand side of the page:



If the user clicks "List Article Themes" in the page above, a listing similar to the one below will appear, allowing the viewing of wide variety of primary and secondary themes by which the books or articles are organized:




Searching

The site also has a simple search function. The user must first choose to search either files (including all the material in the first four sections of the site), books or articles:



The user must then enter a term to search for in the text box, and click "Search" to conduct the search.




This will bring up search results for the area chosen, including a relevance score based on the rarity of the term and how prevalent it is in the particular results:



If you are having trouble getting search results, make sure your search is not too broad. If more than 50% of the database entries are returned by the search it will not be performed.

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