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Citation Guides to United Nations materials: REF Counter KF245 .U55 2005 The Bluebook. See pages: 179-184. A quick guide is available online from Newsbank .
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- A list of United Nations ambassadors, delegates and supporting diplomatic staff by country can be found at deleGATE, the UN's member states portal. Once on the deleGATE page, opt for the Member States and Permanent Observers link to find your country (left hand side of the page). A print copy of Permament Missions to the United Nations is shelved in the Reference collection: Ref 341.233 U58p (yr). The The Member States index at deleGATE provides additional information.
- Information about delegates is available online from 1993 onward on the ODS database. Go to ODS Advanced, type in the following document symbol number in the symbol search box: st/sg/ser.a/ and type in the phrase "permanent missions to the united nations" in the words of the title search box. Archived digital versions of the Permanent Missions to the United Nations can be found in this database; limit your search by year for best results.
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- UNBISnet provides a database of speeches delivered at the various bodies of the United nations, including the General Assembly, the Security Council, the Economic and Social Countil and the Trusteeship Council.
- Scroll down to Index to Speeches and opt for New Keyword Search.
- From this page, you can search by a speaker's name, a country or organization of origin, topics, speech dates and more. Choose your options from the drop down menus in the search boxes. Be careful to call your country by the official name: for example Russia is Russian Federation.
- To find speeches given in the General Assembly, limit your search to General Assembly in the Limits box.
- Index to Proceedings for the General Assembly_ from the 63rd Session (2008-2009) onward is available in pdf format from http://www.un.org/depts/dhl/deplib/docs/ITP/list.htm#GA. Download the pdf version and use the "find" function to search for delegates/heads of State. Earlier online versions of _Proceedings can be found at ODS Advanced. The document symbol for these speeches will look like this: A/63/PV. numbers. Here the A represents the General Assembly, the 63 refers to the Assembly session, and the PV refers to verbatim record. Usually, the following number is a low number, like a .5 or .16. Type the document number into the _Symbol box in the ODS Advanced database to pull up the full text of the document. You can search within the full text PDF, again using the find or binocular icon, to search for your head of State/delegate within the document (either search for his/her name or the name of your country.) Helpful tip: sometimes heads of States give speeches at the opening session of the General Assembly (and other venues, like the Security Council). At the end of the listing for your country (Part II of the _Index to Proceedings), see if there is a section for President or Prime Minister or some such designation where speeches by heads of States would be listed.The Drew Library has Index to Proceedings of the General Assembly (Reference JX Ref United Nations collection - located on A-level in the Learning Center, compact shelving Ref JX 1977.A44 session/part) which indexes speeches at the General Assembly for each session by corporate name/country; by speaker; and by subject. Part II lists speeches by country/people. This print resource is very easy to use and more reliable than UNBISNET. Drew Library owns these publications from the 8th Session through the 63rd Session.
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- Ratification of Human Rights concerns by countries can be found at Human Rights in the World.
- The Country Reports on Human Rights Practices submitted annually by the U.S. Department of State to the U.S. Congress are available online from 1999 to the most current report. Print copies are available at the Drew library: 1986 through 1993 on A-level: Y 4.F 76/1-15: (YR) and 1994 onward: Y 4.IN 8/16-15: (YR).
- University of Minnesota Human Rights Library
- European Court of Human Rights HUDOC - free online access to the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights, the European
- Human Rights Index of United Nations Documents - provides access to human rights information found in United Nations documents, related to countries and/or specific rights.
- Ref JC571 .A44- Amnesty International Report. See also Amnesty International. Ref JC571 .F66 - Freedom in the World and online at freedomhouse.org.
Security issues
- "The Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is the body of independent experts that monitors implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child by its State parties." http://www.refworld.org/publisher/CRC.html
Security issues
- Small Small Arms Survey - Country Case Studies.
- Small Arms Survey - publications Disarmament publications - from the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs. Browse the Disarmament Yearbook Database http://disarmament.un.org/vote.nsf to see how countries voted on specific disarmament (organized by GA session).
- Small Arms and Light Weapons.
- Peacekeeping Guide from the United Nations
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Information about countries
- Official government/UN UN
- The United Nations Member States site provides country data: http://www.un.org/en/members/index.shtml
- The Europa World Year Book - Ref Counter JN1 .E85. The most concise, comprehensive way to get quick information on countries.
- UNData - Searches across multiple databases. Also provides detailed country data. Updated data available.
- The CIA's World Factbook provides a lot of information about countries and international organizations.
- The UNPAN's (United Nations Online Network in Public Administration and Finance) Public Administration Country Profile page provides links to the government, constitution and public laws for most countries.
- Country information from deleGATE.
- Nations of the World from the Law Library of Congress, provides many useful links to official government sites, legal guides and general resources for countries worldwide.
- Foreign Information About Countries, from the University of Colorado Libraries.
- Countries of the World - All sorts of unexpected information about countries, dating from 1989. The Country Ranks list is very interesting.
- Comparative International Statistics, from the US Census.
- NationMaster - pulls data about countries from a variety of economic and political resources.
- Newspapers:
- News and Periodical Resources on the Web. From the Library of Congress, a list of online free news services from around the world.
- The database LexisNexis (Drew community only access) provides access to over 40 international newspapers.
- From the default search page, open up the blue News tab on the left hand side of the screen.
- Opt for Newspapers and Wires. This search page allows you to limit by Non-U.S. newspapers and wires. Foreign language newspapers and wires is another click off the News tab. Make sure you limit your time period, otherwise you may get too many results. Click on to see titles included in any grouping:
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- Perhaps the two best places to start are: 1) the alphabetical list page of the United Nations System Directory and 2) the Global Issues on the UN Agenda site. These two sites provide thematic access to UN and UN related issues; they more often compliment one another than provide redundant resources.
- The alphabetical list page allows you to search by topic. Open up the CEB
option at the bottom of the page for thematic access to websites, documents, and more. - Global Issues on the UN Agenda also provides thematic access with related links and more.
- The alphabetical list page allows you to search by topic. Open up the CEB
- Annual Review of United Nations Affairs - 341.23 A615a dates from 1959. "The Annual Review of United Nations (ARUNA) is one of the longest established annual publications on the United Nations affairs. It offers in-depth commentaries and analysis by a group of distinguished experts as well as comprehensive documentation of the work of the United Nations."
- ODS offers keyword search access to UN official documents, but works best if you search using the classification symbols for specific types of UN documents (see the section on "United Nations voting records" above).
- UNBISnet - perhaps more user friendly than ODS.
- United Nations - Groups UN resources by the major functions of the United Nations: Peace and Security; Development; Human Rights; Humanitarian Affairs; International Law
- UN News Centre
- List of all United Nations searchable databases.
- A nice browseable list of many UN and UN related websites is available from the State Department.
- UN Conferences - links to past conferences (1994 - 2008) available from this site (scroll down).
- UN Treaty Collections
- United Nations Acronyms and Short Forms explained.
- The Yearbook of the United Nations (JZ4947 Ref United Nations collection - located on A-level in the Learning Center, compact shelving Ref JZ4947 .Y43 yr) provides coverage of UN issues by year. The Drew Library archives the Yearbook back to 1945 in the Reference Section on the main floor of the library. The The most current print edition of the Yearbook is shelved by the Reference Desk (Ref Counter).
- United Nations Multimedia - News articles, radio, television and more.
- Encyclopedia of the United Nations - Ref KZ4968 .M66
- Encyclopedia of International Relations and Global Politics - Ref JZ 1160. E53 2005
- Great Debates at the United Nations: An Encyclopedia of Fifty Key Issues, 1945-2000. - Ref KZ4968 .G67 2001
- United Nations Today (yr) - Ref JZ 4970.U658
- United Nations Handbook (yr) - Ref Ref JX 1977.2.N5U55
- Encyclopedia of Human Rights - Ref JC 571.E673 2009
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- Academic Search Premier - opt for scholarly journals.
- Proquest Research Direct Library - opt for scholarly journals.
- Proquest Political Science
- Columbia International Affairs Online - think tank and other public policy organization papers and articles.
- Worldwide Political Science Abstracts - premier database for political science research.ScienceDirect
- EconLit
- Sociological Abstracts
- Ethnic News Watch - great for non U.S. viewpoints on issues.
- For specific subject resources see: Electronic Resources by Subject.
Books
- Books Many books on the United Nations are shelved on E-level under the classification number 341.23
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