• The United Nations system and its predecessors, Volume 1& 2
  Edited by Kipling, Von Mangoldt and Rittberger
  JZ5566 .S9613
  
  
• Historical dictionary of multinational peacekeeping
  Good reference book to have on hand while reading UN documents
  JZ6374 .M38 2004

• The Circulating collection has UN books in the call number range JZ49 to JZ5600.
  In the catalog do a subject do a subject search on ‘United Nations’. Also do keyword searches on the United Nations AND your area of interest i.e., development, human rights, peacekeeping, etc.
  
  
• The United Nations and Changing World Politics by Thomas G. Weiss, David P. Forsythe and Roger A. Coate
  A good overview of the UN
  JZ4984.5 .W45 2001

Library Databases

• Academic Search Premier
  Full Text Article Database
  Subject Terms:
  United Nations, look for other descriptors with your topic

• ProQuest Research Library
  Full text article database including newspapers and magazines. Check off "Scholarly journals, including peer-reviewed" if you do not want newspaper articles included.
  Subject terms:
  United Nations, look for other descriptors with your topic

• Peace one day: A film by Jeremy Gilley
  The story of one man's attempts to persuade the global community to sanction a ceasefire day through the UN.
  JZ5537 .P43 2006

• Life 4 Global efforts to achieve the UN Millennium Goals: Between war and peace
  The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Liberia encourages combatants to turn in their weapons and wage peace. JZ4972 .L562 2005

• United Nations Documents Research Guide
  Guide produced by the United Nations to navigate and understand their holdings.
  
  
• UNBISnet
  UN Bibliographic Information System
  Most comprehensive database for UN documents; publications, from the United Nations Dag Hammarskj öld Library. Includes speeches, voting records, and resolutions. Full text from 1993, bibliographic records from 1979.
  

• Official Document System of the United Nations
  Database and archive of United Nations documents since 1993, as well as resolutions of the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council and the Trusteeship from 1946.
  
  
• Official Web Site Locator for the United Nations Systems of Organizations
  A complete alphabetical index of UN organizations
  
  
• Un-i-que United Nations Info Quest
  This ready-reference file was created by the Dag Hammarskjold Library to respond to frequently asked questions, and is designed to provide quick access to document symbols/sales numbers for UN materials (1946 onwar.)
  
  
• The University of Minnesota Human Rights Library
  A terrific study guide for Human Rights issues that includes a full text database that includes UN treatises.

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