• What are document symbols? How are they structured?
• What does the date below the symbol signify?
• What are sales publications? What do sales categories represent?
• What are official records? Where can listings of supplements to the official records be retrieved?
  

• What would be a good starting point for research on UN documents?

• What indexes for UN documents are available? What information can be retrieved from them?
• What is the United Nations Official Document System (ODS)?

• What information can be found in the Journal of the United Nations?
• How is the agenda of the General Assembly organized?
• What major types of documents are issued by the General Assembly?
• What information is included in the reports of the Main Committees of the General Assembly?
• What numbering system is used for the resolutions and decisions of the General Assembly? Where can the full text in electronic or paper format be retrieved? How can resolutions on a particular topic be identified?
• Which resolutions were adopted at the 60th session of the General Assembly? Which resolutions were adopted at earlier sessions of the General Assembly?
• Which conventions, declarations and other instruments were published in General Assembly resolutions (1946 onwards)?
• Where can voting information for the General Assembly be found?
• What numbering system is used for the meeting records of the General Assembly? How can speeches made before the General Assembly on a particular topic or by a particular speaker/country be identified?

• What information can be found in the Journal of the United Nations?
• What major types of documents are issued by the Security Council?
• What numbering system is used for the resolutions and decisions of the Security Council? Where can the full text in electronic or paper format be retrieved? How can resolutions on a particular topic be identified?
• Which actions has the Security Council taken in the current year? Which actions did the Security Council take in earlier years?
• Where can voting information for the Security Council be found?
• What numbering system is used for the meeting records of the Security Council? How can speeches made before the Security Council on a particular topic or by a particular speaker/country be identified?
• Which countries have presided over Security Council meetings since 1946?

• What information can be found in the Journal of the United Nations?
• What major types of documents are issued by the Economic and Social Council?
• What numbering system is used for the resolutions and decisions of the Economic and Social Council? Where can the full text in electronic or paper format be retrieved? How can resolutions on a particular topic be identified?
• What numbering system is used for the meeting records of the Economic and Social Council? How can speeches made before the Economic and Social Council on a particular topic or by a particular speaker/country be identified?

• What information can be found in UN press releases? What do press release series symbols represent? Where can the full text of press releases be retrieved?

• Human Rights
  Which UN bodies work in the field of human rights? Which key UN system reference sources have been published relating to human rights?
  
  
• International Law
  Which UN bodies work in the field of international law? Which key UN system reference sources have been published relating to international law? Where can treaty information be found?
  
  
• Peacekeeping
  What major Security Council and General Assembly documentation exists in the area of peacekeeping and how can it be researched? Which key UN system reference sources have been published relating to peacekeeping?

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