Handbooks and guides

United Nations Documentation: Research Guide
One of the best guides to United Nations documents is available online from the UN's Dag Hammarskjold Library. It is designed for researchers and information professionals new to United Nations documentation and provides an overview of the various types of documents and publications issued by the organization (eg reports, resolutions, meeting records, sales publications, press releases, etc) with guidance on how to work with them.

Human rights guide

Library holdings

Basic facts about the United Nations, (various dates), UN, NY.

A Chronology and fact book of the United Nations, occasional special supplement of, and shelved with, Annual review of United Nations affairs

Directory of United Nations information sources, UN, NY. 5th ed. (1995). Detailed guide to sources of United Nations information, including databases that are available and contact details.

Hajnal, P.I. (1991), Directory of United Nations documentary and archival sources, United Nations, NY.

Hajnal, P.I. (ed) (1997), International information : documents, publications, and electronic information of international governmental organizations, Libraries Unlimited, Englewood, Colo.

Ku, M. (1978-9), Comprehensive handbook of the United Nations : a documentary presentation in two volumes, Monasrch press, NY.

Luard, E. (1994), The United Nations : how it works and what it does, Macmillan, Basingstoke.

Osmanczyk, E.J. (various dates), Encyclopedia of the United Nations and international agreements, Routledge, NY.

Yearbook of the United Nations, (1946,7- ), UN, NY.

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