20 Jan 2005

Official Document System of the United Nations
United Nations, Secretary Office: New York, NY, US
Self-description: "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."
Supplied note: "Language: English, Chinese (UTF-8, Simplified), Arabic, French, Russian, Spanish. This database used to be available only by subscription but was now made accessible for free. Currently (Jan 2005) the database contains about 800,000 documents, some 100,000 will be added every year. Almost all documents are available in each of the UN's six official languages. The database features a simple and a very useful advanced search."
URL http://documents.un.org/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/images.anu.edu.au/china.html
Link reported by: Hanno Lecher / Internet Guide for Chinese Studies (h.e.lecher--at--let.leidenuniv.nl)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: NGO
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 1,000