The Official Gazettes & Civil Society Documentation online collection is a collection of official gazettes and historical government documentation from ten African and Persian Gulf countries. This project is the result of the digitization of official gazettes from the Center for Research Libraries‘ extensive collection of print and microfilm. CRL is alos planning on adding to the collection “by harvesting from the web more recent gazettes and related data published digitally”.

This collection includes issues from 24 different titles such as al-Jarīdah al-rasmīyah published in Libya, al-Waqāʼiʻ al-ʻIrāqīyah published in Iraq, or the Gazette of the Democratic Republic of the Sudan. Documents can either be read online or downloaded (full issue or a selection of pages) in PDF format.

Funding for digitization and hosting of the Official Gazettes & Civil Society Documentation collection was provided in part by the Carnegie Corporation of New York.