A. Mimeographed Documents.

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• The working papers of the UN; not intended for public use.
• Include draft resolutions, verbatim records of meetings, preliminary reports, etc.; often only issued in mimeographed form.
• Documents all come with a UN document series symbol, e.g., A/AC.105/INF.39
• Documents are arranged by agency. Certain series within a classification are not by agency, but by type. Thus, A/AC.105/INF.39 is the 39 ^th document in the Information series (INF) of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (AC.105) of the General Assembly (A).
• A more in-depth explanation of the system may be found in United Nations Document Series Symbols, 1946-1996 (Ref JX 1977 A12 U47 1998).

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• Mimeographed Documents that are thought to have lasting value or usefulness are reprinted in final corrected form and are available for sale to the public. Sales Publications are cataloged in Joyner Library the same way as are books.
• Includes some Sales Publications that have never appeared in mimeographed form; these are usually pamphlets issued by the Office of Public Information.
• Identified by a sales number made up of the year of the publication, a Roman numeral indicating the subject category, and an Arabic numeral indicating the order in which the publications in a subject category are issued, (e.g. the sales number of the 1967 edition of the Statistical Yearbook was 68.XVII.1). Most sales numbered publications also have a UN document series symbol. Sales numbers are not used in cataloging a book.

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• The main organs' meeting records, published after they have corrected, edited, and summarized. They consist of:
• General Assembly (GAOR),
• Disarmament Commission (DCOR),
• Economic and Social Council (ESCOR),
• Security Council (SCOR),
• Trusteeship Council (TCOR), and
• Trade and Development Board (TDBOR).

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• The UN, primarily through its Secretariat, issues a number of periodicals each year. A complete listing of periodicals from 1950-1962 is found in the annex to the February issue of the United Nations Documents Index for those years. From 1963 through 1978, a complete listing was given at the end of the UNDEX, Series C annual cumulative checklist.

2. Everyone's United Nations. Ref JX 1977 A37 E9 1986 (latest). A concise account of aims, structure, and work of the UN family.

3. United Nations. Department of Public Information. Yearbook. Joyner Stacks JX 1977 A37 Y4. 1946-. Issued annually, with comprehensive coverage of the UN. Part I is arranged by subject. Part II is devoted to specialized agencies. It includes an extensive list of UN documents with numbers. This publication is always several years behind.

4. UN Chronicle. Recent issues in Current Periodicals (1st Floor); back issues from 1975-2001 are in the Joyner Stacks, 2nd Floor (JX 1977 A1 U564). Selected articles from 1997-present are online at: http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/; online coverage also available in Academic Search Elite (9/1996-present), and Proquest Research Library (3/1988-present). Predecessors were United Nations Monthly Chronicle and United Nations Review . It describes the proceedings, decisions, and resolutions of the main organs and committees in political, economic and social fields.

5. United Nations Documentation: Research Guide. http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/resguide/. An overview of the various types of documents and publications issued by the UN (e.g., reports, voting, resolutions, meeting records, sales publications, press releases) and how and where to find them.

6. Basic Facts about the United Nations. Joyner Stacks JX 1977 A37 B3 (1986). A brief explanation of the structure of the UN and the specialized agencies. Revised periodically.

7. United Nations Association of the United States of America. A Global Agenda: Issues before the General Assembly. Joyner Stacks JX 1977 A1. U5244a. A summary of UN activities. Its appendix includes a section entitled, "The United Nations at a Glance". Web site at: http://www.unausa.org/ .

8. United Nations. Treaty Series. Joyner Stacks JX 170 U35. 1946-77. The official bilingual text (English and French) of treaties, plus the original language. It is continued by the Readex Microfiche series 1986- (ST/LEG/Ser.A and ST.LEG/SER.E/4)

9. International Court of Justice

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• Bibliography. Joyner Stacks JX 1971.6 B52x. 1971- and Readex Microfiche 1986-96. Annual bibliography of publications of interest about the activities of the Court.
• Recueil des arrets, Avis, Consultatif et Ordonnances. (Reports of Judgements, Advisory Opinions, and Orders). Joyner Stacks JX 1971.6 A244. 1947/48-1949, 1954- and Readex Microfiche 1986-96. Decisions of the Court in French and English printed in chronological order.
• Yearbook/International Court of Justice. Joyner Stacks JX 1971.6 A25. 1946/47- and Readex Microfiche 1986-96. Annual. Information on the Court's activities during the year. It also includes bibliographic lists.

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• Lexis Nexis Academic, Newspaper Source, and ProQuest Newspapers: Web-based databases offering full-text newspaper articles on current events. Available from the library Home Page, under "Databases." Full-text articles or article citations from sources such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, and USA Today , some from as far back as the mid-1980s.
• Facts on File . Ref D 410 F3 and microfiche F119, and Keesing's Record of World Events . Ref D 410 K4. A summary of events, with dates, which may then be used to locate information in newspapers or periodicals.
• New York Times Index . Ref Wall AI 21 N452. This source may also be used for locating dates of events as well as the New York Times coverage of the UN.
• Public Affairs Information Service International (PAIS) . A major index to articles on the UN as well as to key UN documents. It gives the sales number of UN publications as well as document series symbols. The Web version, available at: http://www.ecu.edu/cs-lib/reference/erdbs_description.cfm?id=306 (ECU users only), also includes hot links to the UN documents it indexes. Earlier volumes: Ref H62.25 P822x.
• Lexis Nexis Statistical. http://www.ecu.edu/cs-lib/reference/erdbs_description.cfm?id=167 (ECU users only). Print edition: Index to International Statistics (IIS). Docs Index Table 1 HA 155 U5 A1x (monthly). A guide to the statistical publications of international organizations. Joyner Library subscribes to the microfiche collection of documents indexed in this source.
• Index to Legal Periodicals. Ref K9 N32, 1952-95. A good source for historical legal aspects of the UN.
• Garner, Diane L. The Complete Guide to Citing Government Information Resources: A Manual for Writers & Librarians. Rev. ed. Ref Desk J9.5 .G272 1993.

B. Statistical Yearbook. Ref HA 12.5 U63 (most recent year); back issues from 1956 forward in Joyner Stacks. Statistical data on populations, agriculture, manufacturing, construction, transportation, trade, national income, education, and similar topics.

C . Demographic Yearbook. Ref HA 17 D 45 (most recent year); back issues from 1951, 1953-4, 1956-present in Joyner Stacks. Basic data on area, density, population growth rates, natality, mortality, life expectancy, nuptiality, and divorce. Each issue includes data on a special demographic topic.

D . National Accounts Statistics. Ref HC 79 I5 U532x (most recent year): back issues from 1982 on in Joyner Stacks. Detailed estimates of national income and related economic measures. The series is divided into two annual publications and special publications.

E. International Trade Statistics Yearbook. Ref HF 91 U473 (most recent issue): Back issues from 1966 forward are in Joyner Stacks. A compilation of national tables shows annual figures for several years and summaries of trade by large commodity classes and by principal regions and countries.

F. International Yearbook of Industrial Statistics. Ref HC 10 I673. Replaces Industrial Statistics Yearbook (HC 59 U52x). Summarizes statistics on world industry, with sections for comparative data by commodity and for individual countries. Tables for countries provide data on number of establishments, number of employees, and wages and salaries to the 4-digit ISIC level.

G . World Economic and Social Survey . Ref HC 59 A169 (most recent issue); select back issues in Joyner Stacks. Annual. Formerly World Economic Survey. Describes current trends and policies in the world economy. Statistics on global economic growth, production trends in various regions of the world, international debt and finance, energy, a brief review of demographic indicators, trade, and the outlook for the world economy for the short term.

H. World Statistics Pocketbook. Ref HA 154 W67 (most recent year); select back issues in Joyner Stacks. Annual. Formerly World Statistics in Brief. Basic international statistics are given in compact form for counties, regions, and the world.

I. Monthly Bulletin of Statistics (with supplement) Ref HC 57 U66 (most recent issues); back issues from 1968 in Joyner Stacks. Major compilation of statistics on world economy and social conditions. A supplement giving definitions and explanatory notes is issued irregularly.