The Times(London) (online from 1985- via NewsBank) and the New York Times (online from 1851- via ProQuest), have excellent coverage of UN activities. Current issues are in the Serials and Newspaper Room, the rest are on microfilm on the 2nd floor.
Find press releases & other information from foreign governments and embassies via UCSB Librarys web page on Foreign Governments: www.library.ucsb.edu/subj/govt-for.html
UN DOCUMENTS, OFFICIAL RECORDS, RESOLUTIONS, ETC:
The UCSB Library's UN Documents microform collection has UN documents back to 1945. If an item is not full-text in one of the above, jot down it's UN Documents number and find it in the UN microfiche collection.
Meeting Records
Verbatim (PV) or summary (SR) records of meetings are indexed by (and often full-text online in) the above
sources. They are also in the United Nations Documents microform collection,
filed by document number. Document numbers for meeting records are made
up of the following elements:
General Assembly: A/session/PV.meeting#
[ex.: A/46/PV.79 is the 79th meeting of the 46th session]
1st Committee: A/C.1/session/PV.meeting#
5th Committee: A/C.5/session/SR.meeting#
2nd Committee: A/C.2/session/SR.meeting#
6th Committee: A/C.6/session/SR.meeting#
3rd Committee: A/C.3/session/SR.meeting#
General Committee: BUR/session/SR.meeting#
4th Committee: A/C.4/session/SR.meeting#
Special Political Committee: /SPC/session/SR.meeting#
Security Council: S/PV.meeting#
Economic & Social Council: E/year/SR.meeting#
Resolutions Resolutions by topic may be identified using the Documents systems above. Also, see:
Resolutions and Decisions Adopted by the General Assembly. [JX
1977 A1 R47; latest 4 years in Ref]
Resolutions are also in the United Nations Documents
microform collection, filed by document number:
General Assembly: A/RES/session/number (A/RES/47/18 is res.
18 of the General Assembly's 46th session.)
Economic & Social Council: resolutions are published in
its Information Series. Use their Index to Proceedings to
find the document number (e.g., E/1991/INF/5).
Security Council: S/RES/# (e.g., S/RES/714)
Voting Records An unofficial record of the vote on a resolution or decision is included
in the press release that comes out after each meeting (see UN NewsCentre
for recent press releases). The official vote is included in the meeting
record of the meeting in which it was passed (see meeting records above).
Many votes are not recorded, while for others only summary information
is given (i.e., vote totals, but not by country). The easiest method to find voting records may
be to use UNBISNet online:
Autonomous Organizations with Agreements with UN, see: below.
UNITED NATIONS "SPECIALIZED AGENCIES" (autonomous
organizations with cooperative agreements with UN):
(Davidson Library owns various publications from the below)
