Currently, a lot of documents are converted into PDF format for easy downloading. The World Bank's Project Search Database provides information on the Bank's current portfolio of pipeline, active, dropped, and closed projects. Pipeline projects contained here are only those that were already received by the InfoShop. World Bank Publications provides a broad range of print and electronic products published by the World Bank. Products can be ordered online via the secure e-book store, email, telephone, fax, or mail.
Publications are also available around the world from the network of local distribution partners.
The World Bank InfoShop is the bookstore and main distributor of World Bank publications. Each of the offices has a reading room with a workstation to view the Internet and a full set of documents for reference. The key research outputs are available on this website, including World Development Reports, Policy Research Reports, Global Development Finance, Policy Research Working Paper Series, Abstracts of Current Studies, and Evaluations of Research. The page also provides links to many other websites about research projects done by different groups in the World Bank. If you are looking for online research papers on certain topics, the Policy Research Working Papers Series is worth exploring, as many titles of the series are accessible online.