A QUICK GUIDE TO FINDING UNITED NATIONS MATERIALS AT PRINCETON
United Nations and its External Agencies maintain a position at the leading edge of providing electronic delivery of many publications. First, by building indexes on the web going back over many years. And secondly, from the mid 1990's forward, the full text of many documents from various part of the United Nations is also found on the web, either free or by paid subscription available transparently on this Princeton UN Collection webpage. However, many important United Nations documents can still be found only in paper or microformat, especially those from before the mid-1990's. Excellent electronic indexes to identify many of these documents are found at the top of this web page.
When a document is identified in these indexes, unless there is a full text source listed at the top of this page, it will be necessary to come to Firestone Library and locate the document in paper or in microformat. Main Body documents usually won't be found in the Online Catalog of the library as individual pieces. However, some documents from the External or Specialized Agencies will be found in the Online and Electronic Card Catalogs. Therefore it is helpful to distinguish between the Main Body and Specialized Agencies in order more easily to locate United Nations publications held at Princeton. Be sure to note that Specialized Agencies often have excellent documentation on their web sites, which are hot linked below.
All else in the UN is "Main Body" except for the Specialized Agencies, which are listed on a separate tab.
