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Coverage: 1946 to the present
The online catalogue of UN documents and publications, the United Nations Digital Library (UNDL) includes UN documents, voting data, speeches, maps, and open access publications. The platform provides access to UN-produced materials in digital format and bibliographic records for print UN documents starting in 1979. System features include linked data between related documentation such as resolutions, meeting records and voting, and refining of searches by UN body, agency or type of document.
The UN documents available online include:
- All UN documents from 1993
- All resolutions of the Principal Organs from 1946
- Security Council plenary documents from 1946
- General Assembly Official Records (GAOR) from 1946, including
- Meeting records of Plenary and Main Committees
- Supplements
- Annexes
- Economic and Social Council Official Records (ESCOR) from 1946, including
- Plenary meeting records
- Supplements
- Annexes
- Trusteeship Council Official Records (TCOR) from 1946, including
- Plenary meeting records
- Supplements
- Annexes
- Select series including: communications, general, information, observations, petitions
Special series that have been digitized include:
- Charter of the United Nations (39 languages)
- Report of World Social Situation (1952-1993)
- United Nations Blue Book Series (1994-1996)
- United Nations Conference on International Organization documents (San Francisco Conference, 22 volumes)
- UN Statistical Yearbooks (1948-2017)
- Yearbook on Human Rights (1946-1988)
Please refer to How to Use the UN Digital Library for a detailed guide. For more in-depth information on UN Documents, see United Nations Documentation: Research Guide, a guide prepared and maintained by the Department of Public Information (DPI), Dag Hammarskjöld Library (DHL).
Additional UN documents and publications are available online through:
- the Official Document System (ODS), which includes documents not collected by the United Nations Library;
- United Nations iLibrary: over 9,000 titles organized by series titles, publication year and alphabetically.
