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.
Strategies
For document symbol numbers that are not from the main bodies...
1) Search for the title (not the symbol number) in the Cornell Library Catalog or Worldcat* The item may have been purchased separately and included in a library's holdings. Example: the Official Records of the Human Rights Committee.
*Note: If the item is not held at Cornell (but identified in Worldcat) place a BorrowDirect or Interlibrary Loan request for the item.
2) Check the Official Web Site locator of the United Nations System of Organizations. (Some of these websites will include documents, although coverage will vary).
3) Search AccessUN. In some cases the working documents of subsidiary bodies or agencies are included as Annexes to the working papers or official records of the the main bodies.
4) Check the Yearbook of the United Nations, 1946 - , for additional clues.
See also: Sales Publications
More Resources...
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United Nations Statistical DivisionFor statistics compiled by the UN, and other IGOs and governmental agencies, see A Guide to US and International Statistics Sources