Working documents of the General Assembly, the councils, and subordinate bodies such as commissions, centres, and ad hoc committees.
Includes masthead documents and mimeographed documents (Official Records and U.N. sales publications are excluded). Documents are typically issued without title pages or covers; the masthead area of most cover sheets show document symbol (e.g. A/CONF.192/1), name of the main organ under whose authority the document was issued, date of publication, distribution information, language information (e.g. Original: English) and the U.N. emblem.
Issuing bodies and conventions include: United Nations General Assembly; United Nations International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination; Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women; Common Fund for Commodities; United Nations Development Programme; United Nations Economic and Social Council; United Nations International Narcotics Control Board; United Nations Trusteeship Council; United Nations International Human Rights Instruments; United Nations Industrial Development Organization; United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East; International Criminal Court, Assembly of States Parties; United Nations Conference on Trade and Development; United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean; United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea; United Nations Security Council; United Nations Secretariat; United Nations Special Fund; United Nations World Food Council; United Nations News Digest; United Nations War Crimes Commission.
Documents issued from 1979 onward are indexed by UNBISnet, the official online U.N. documents index.
UNESCO mimeograph documents cataloged separately.
Some years also available on microfiche and microopaque.
Chiefly in English, with some documents in other languages.