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150 million pages and 150,000 titles of legal history and government documents. More than 2,400 law-related periodicals (Congressional Record, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, coverage of U.S. Reports from 1754), treaties, constitutions, case law, world trials, classic treatises, international trade, foreign relations, U.S. Presidents, and more.

Open Access International Organizations Documentation

EUROPA Union
Provides official documents and open data for the countries of Austria, Bulgaria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Cyprus, Denmark, and Estonia.
League of Nations
Provides open access to digitized publication.
NATO
This NATO Library Guide shows all publicly accessible material.
United Nations Digital Library
Searchable by collection type and UN Bodies
World Bank Open Data
Free and Open-Access to Global Developmental Data. searchable by country or indicator
World Trade Organization
Provides open access legal texts searchable by commonly-consulted documents, documents for meetings, topics, etc.

Center for Global Resources Network

Center for Global Resources Network
The Center for Research Libraries Global Resources Network Digital Collections provides open-access documents, newspapers, books, and journals to support research and teaching.

International Document Citation Help

Authors should exercise caution when including URLs for official international documentation. URLs generated by the Official Document System (ODS) do not work. Authors can generate working URLs by adding the document symbol to http://undocs.org, e.g., http://undocs.org/A/RES/67/97.

Possible citation examples for external authors, inspired in part by the United Nations Editorial Manual and The Bluebook, are as follows:

Resolutions

General Assembly resolution 67/97, The rule of law at the national and international levels, A/RES/67/97 (14 December 2012), available from undocs.org/A/RES/67/97.

Official Documents

United Nations, General Assembly, Situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea: report of the Secretary-General, A/63/332 (26 August 2008), available from undocs.org/A/63/332.

For additional help, see

[1] The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, 19th ed. (Cambridge: Harvard Law Review Association, 2010), 21.7.

[2] Chicago Manual of Style, 16th ed., 14.316 – 14.317; Melissa Shella, “Citing the Charter of the United Nations,” APA Style Blog, May 23, 2013.

[3] The United States Editorial Manual Office

United States Editorial Manual Office