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Official Document System of the United Nations
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- Description
- The Official Document System of the United Nations (ODS) comprises the full
text of United Nations
parliamentary documents (including resolutions and decisions) issued at United Nations
Headquarters
in New York and the United Nations Office in Geneva since 1993 as well as at the United
Nations
Office in Vienna since 1997. They include pre-session, in-session and post-session documentation
for
meetings of the General Assembly and its subsidiary bodies, the Security Council and its
subsidiary
bodies, the Economic and Social Council and its subsidiary bodies and the Trusteeship Council,
and
for global conferences convened by the United Nations as well as for other meetings included in
the
Calendar of Conferences and Meetings authorized by the General Assembly. The documents and
official
records are stored in the official languages of the United Nations: Arabic, Chinese, English,
French,
Russian and Spanish. Selected documents are available in German. Older UN documents are added to
the
system on a daily basis.
The resolutions database, accessible only from the Advanced Search
screen, contains the final official records version of all United
Nations resolutions and decisions adopted by the General Assembly, the
Security Council, the Economic and Social Council and the Trusteeship
Council from 1946 up to and including 1993 (for General Assembly up to
the 51st session of 1996).
The system does not contain press releases, UN sales publications, the United Nations Treaty
Series
or information brochures issued by the Department of Public Information.
- Help
- A Help button is available in the upper right corner of each search and results screen.
- Dates covered
- Resolutions from 1946 to the present; other documents from 1993 to the present with older documents
being added on a continuing basis.
- Updating frequency
- Continuous.
- Sources
- Full-text documents and resolutions from the United Nations General Assembly, Security Council,
Economic and Social Council, Trusteeship Council and their subsidiary bodies. Also, includes
documents from global conferences convened by the United Nations as well as for other meetings
included in the Calendar of Conferences and Meetings authorized by the General Assembly.
- Type of coverage
- Indexing and full-text that can be viewed or downloaded in multiple languages in PDF format or
downloaded in text format.
- Print counterpart or related resources
- Many publications included in the database are available in print or microfiche at the
Alexander
Library. Most are not included in
the Library Catalog. Consult the
United Nations and United Nations Organizations Research
Guide for
additional information.
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- United Nations
- Vendor/electronic presentation provider
- United Nations
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