Databases
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United Nations DocumentsOfficial repository for documents published by the United Nations. The full text of documents dating back to 1993 is accessible in Portable Document Format (PDF) in all official languages of the United Nations - Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish -- and resolutions of the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council and Trusteeship Council since 1946.
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Readex AccessUNThe Readex United Nations Index provides access to current and retrospective United Nations documents and publications. Articles appearing in UN periodicals are individually indexed.. . Indexing of the bilateral and multilateral treaties [is also provided]. Documents from the six main bodies of the United Nations ... are indexed. Masthead documents (formerly referred to as mimeographed documents), Official Records, sales publications, limited and restricted documents, and documents emanating from sessional and standing committees, functional commissions, conferences and regional bodies are the basis of the Index." Full-text resolutions from the General Assembly, Security Council and the Economic and Social Council are appended to their respective bibliographic citations.
Sales Publication -- No symbol number
The United Nations produces many reports that are released as sales publications. In general, sales publications are not part of the depository documents however we may have purchased a sales publication separately. These items may or may not include a document symbol number.
Example: A sample record for a Sales Publication from Readex AccessUN showing:
- Document Number: No Document Symbol
- Document Date: 1992
- Readex Year: Not Filmed
- Document Type: Sales Publication
- Title Yearbook on Human Rights
Search by title in the Cornell Library Catalog or Worldcat.
*Note: Request items not held at Cornell via BorrowDirect or Interlibrary Loan.
Search for the title (not the symbol number) in the library catalog or the Worldcat union catalog. Note: If a sales publication also includes a document symbol number, there is a small chance that it was filmed by Readex for the microfiche or microcard collections.
If the item is not found in a library catalog search AccessUN to see if the document is included in the Readex UN Microcard/Microfiche collection (1946 - 2009).