The Dag Hammaraskljöd Library at the United Nations Headquarters in New York has as its main task to offer documents and information services to the whole United Nations System, and the Secretariat staff and Member States’ permanent missions in New York.
There are other United Nations Libraries in the world and the one in New York is a reference for them and the depository libraries (national libraries or research libraries) belonging to the United Nations Depository Libraries System.
Moreover, the Library offers services worldwide and free of access using the United Nations Digital Library, giving access to United Nations Official Records (documents) and Periodicals (Publications as Scholarly Journals or Yearbooks issued by different United Nations bodies, agencies, funds, programs, ...)
Other services offered worldwide are a live chat active when users navigate the United Nations Digital Library, the Ask DAG service consisting of FAQs and research suggestions written in English, but translated also in other languages and different research guides.
Please find below platforms giving direct access to open access documents, periodicals and archives.
The ODS, the Official Documents System, was introduced in 1993 before the Digital Library, it is an official documents repository and it is managed by the OICT, the Office of Information and Communications Technology. It contains digital-born documents full-texts, or issued later than 1993, and most important digitized documents issued before 1993.