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.
General Debate Corpus
See also: United Nations General Debate Corpus
"This new dataset, the UN General Debate Corpus (UNGDC), introduces the corpus of texts of General Debate statements from 1970 (Session 25) to 2016 (Session 71). Basic visualization and corpus exploration tools are available."
Documents Online
ODS Online covers all types of official United Nations documentation. It's complete from 1992 forward, but older UN documents are being added to the system all the time. ODS also provides access to resolutions of the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council and the Trusteeship Council, from 1946 - .
Official Records -- Bound Volumes
Prior to 1992, you may need to locate a hardcopy of the document in the library. Bound volumes of United Nations Official Records are housed in the Library Annex
Call number: ++ JX 1977 .A41
From 1946 - 1997, documents were collated and bound by the library. In later years, after the UN Documents system (ODS) came online, paper documents were collated and filed in grayboards and sent to the Annex.
Please Note: The bound volumes of Offical Records are incomplete. If you don't find something in the bound volumes, try the UN Official Document System (ODS Online), above. If the item is not available in ODS Online, check the microfiche/microcard sets.
The bound volumes are organized by session (year) and then according to the following scheme:
General Assembly Official Records (GAOR)
Request from the Library Annex:
- Checklist of Documents
- List of Delegations
- Plenary Meetings (Meetings)
Note: "A/PV.__" document numbers are located in lower right-hand corner of each document bound in the meetings volume. - General Committee: A/BUR/__SR.__
- First Committee (Political and Security): A/C.1/__PV.__
- Second Committee (Economic and Financial): A/C.2/__SR.__
- Third Committee (Humanitarian and Cultural): A/C.3/__SR.__
- Fourth Committee (Trusteeship): A/C.4/__SR.__
- Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budget): A/C.5/__SR.__
- Sixth Committee (Legal): A/C.6/__SR.__
- Annexes May include documents from subsidiary bodies
- Supplements
- Resolutions and Decisions are in the last supplement of each session. A/Res/__
- Index to Proceedings : ST/LIB/SER.B/A
Economic and Social Council Official Records (ESCOR)
Request ESCOR volumes from the Library Annex
- List of Delegations (maybe)
- Plenary Meetings: E/ /SR.
- Supplements: E/ /
(Resolutions and Decisions are in the first supplement of each session) - Index to Proceedings ST/LIB/SER.B./E
Security Council Official Records (SCOR)
- Meetings: S/PV. __
- Supplements: S/__/__
- Resolutions: S/INF.__
- Index to Proceedings: ST/LIB/SER.B./E