Government Publications Guide

United Nations Databases

Use the databases listed below to find official documents produced by the United Nations and Affiliated Organizations.

United Nations Documents and Publications, Microfiche Edition
1946 - 1981 (currently not available)
1982 - current DBW govt mfiche UN2 A P71
Index to United Nations Documents and Publications (on CD-ROM) 1946 - current DBW ref quick Z 6482.I53
NOTE: This CD-ROM can be used on a Guest PC in Weldon Library. It is an index to the Readex (microform) collection of UN documents. See Reference Staff for assistance.

ODS Online ODS covers all types of official United Nations documentation, beginning in 1993. Older UN documents are, however, added to the system on a daily basis. ODS also provides access to the resolutions of the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council and the Trusteeship Council from 1946 onwards.

UN Press Releases & Meetings Coverage Features daily briefings, text of press releases from Oct. 1995 - and information on current conferences & events.

AccessUN
The premier index to United Nations documents including Official Records, masthead documents, draft resolutions, meeting records, UN Sales Publications, and the UN Treaty Series citations. Also included is the full-text of several thousand UN documents. Date coverage is 1966 - current.
United Nations digital library
Catalogue of United Nations(UN) documents and publications indexed by the UN Dag Hammarskjöld Library and the Library of the UN Office at Geneva. Also included are commercial publications and other non-UN sources held in the collection of the Dag Hammarskjöld Library. The coverage of UNBISnet is from 1979 onward, however, older documents are being added to the catalogue on a regular basis as a result of retrospective conversion. UNBISnet also provides instant access to a growing number of full text resources in the six official languages of the UN (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish), including resolutions adopted by the General Assembly, the Economic and Social Council and the Security Council from 1946 onward.
United Nations Treaty Collection
Licensed to UWO users only. 1946 - current and Internet (password required; see password link) The United Nations Treaty Series (UNTS) is a collection of treaties and international agreements published by the Secretariat since 1946. The UNTS includes the texts of treaties in their authentic language(s), along with translations into English and French, as appropriate. The collection currently contains over 50,000 treaties and a similar number of related subsequent actions which have been published in hard copy in over 2,100 volumes.