Subscribed Online Databases on UN

• United Nations Common Database (UNCDB) --provides selected series from 30 specialized international data sources for all available countries and areas.
• UN Commodity Trade Statistics Database (UN Comtrade) --contains more than 700 million records covering over 40 years of detailed trade information. UN COMTRADE not only lets users select the data they are looking for, but also view and extract it in a number of different graphic formats.
• United Nations treaty collections (ask for password at reference desk) -- includes six categories of treaty-related data: Status of Multilateral Treaties Deposited with the Secretary-General; The United Nations Treaty Series; Texts of Recently Deposited Multilateral Treaties; Photographs of Treaty Signature Ceremonies; Titles of the Multilateral Treaties Deposited with the Secretary-General in the UN official languages; and Summary of Practice of the Secretary-General as Depositary of Multilateral Treaties.

United Nations Web site features full text documents including Resolutions, Press Releases, Conference Information and more free of charge.

• Background Information
  • About the UN--an introduction to the structure and work of the UN extracted from Basic Facts About the UN
  • UN in Brief: an Overview
  • State Dept. Background Note on the UN
  • UN Chronicle information, ideas and debates about the United Nations system.
  
  
• Data and Statistics
  • United Nations Population Information Network a guide to population information on UN system web sites.
  • Demographic Yearbook System provides access to Statistics on population size and composition, births, deaths, marriage and divorce and more.
  • Demographic and Social Statistics
  • Human functioning and disability basic statistics on human functioning and disability.
  • Millennium Indicators Database 48 indicators to measure progress towards the achievement of the Millennium Declaration development goals.
  • National Accounts Main Aggregates Database contains a complete and consistent set of time series from 1970 onwards of main national accounts aggregates for all UN Members States and all other countries and areas in the world.
  • Population density and urbanization
  • Population and housing censuses
  • Population and Vital Statistics Report: Series A presents most recent data on population size (total, male and female) from the latest available census of the population, national official population estimates and the number and rate (births, deaths and infant deaths) for the latest available year after 1988. It also presents United Nations estimates of the mid-year population of the world, with its various areas and regions.
  • Social indicators are provided on the following areas: child-bearing, education, health, housing, human settlements, illiteracy, income and economic activity, population, unemployment, water supply and sanitation, youth and elderly populations.
  • Statistics and indicators on women and men on six specific fields of concern: population, families, health, education, work and politics and human rights.
  
  
• Indexes
  • UNBISNet is a 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, voting records, and index to speeches. 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.
  • UN-I-QUE (UN Info Quest) database for quick access to UN document and sales publications numbers from 1946-. This information can be used to locate materials in the CU collection which is available in hardcopy or microform.
  • Global Issues on the UN Agenda--locate key UN documents, upcoming events and activities with the UN system, statements of the Secretary General, and other information by topic.
  
  
• Full Text Documents
  • United Nations Official Document System (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. 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. Please consult Training Guides on how to search ODS.
  • UN Documentation Center provides resolutions and documents from the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council, Secretary General, the International Court of Justice, and the Trusteeship Council.
  
  
• Research Guides
  • Model UN page provides information sources in print and electronic format on model UN research.
  • United Nations Documentation: Research Guide includes an explanation of document symbols, basic tools, indexes, full text options, parliamentary documents, resolutions and decisions, and speeches.
  • Official Web Site Locator for the United Nations System of Organizations
  • UN System Pathfinder "The purpose of this Pathfinder is to identify major publications of the organizations comprising the United Nations system." Includes sections on Communications, Culture, Disarmament, Economic Development, Environment, Human Rights, Human Settlements, International Law, International Security and Peace-Keeping, Outer Space, Population, Social Development, Transport, UN and International Organization.

Links to other UN Related Information

• Cyber School Bus provides an introduction to the UN, country information, a Model UN briefing kit, and briefing papers on global topics geared to students age 12 and up.
• United States Department of State Bureau of International Organization Affairs "develops and implements U.S. policy in the United Nations (UN), its specialized agencies, and other international organizations". Site provides access to an archive of U.S. policy on reform of the United Nations, peacekeeping, U.S. arrears, testimony before Congress, speeches, and other information under the Clinton Administration.
• UN Scholars Workstation at Yale. A detailed page of links and finding aids, including Concise UN Finding Aid.