Research Guides: UN Security Council Documentation: Resources

UN Documentation Research Guides

Security Council Meetings & Outcomes
Full text of meeting records from 1994. Also includes links to resolutions, presidential statements and communiqués.
Security Council Presidential Statements
Full text of Presidential Statements organized by year from 1994
Security Council Resolutions
Full text of resolutions organized by year from 1946.

Official Document System (ODS)
United Nations official document system: provides full text search of documents issued since 1993; resolutions of all principal organs & Security Council plenary documents since 1946. Older documents are added regularly. Includes the Daily Journals of New York and Geneva.
United Nations Digital Library
The United Nations Digital Library (UNDL) includes UN documents, voting data, speeches, maps, and open access publications. The platform provides access to UN-produced materials in digital format and bibliographic records for print UN documents starting in 1979. System features include linked data between related documentation such as resolutions, meeting records and voting, and refining of searches by UN body, agency or type of document.
UN Meetings Coverage and Press Releases
Available online from October 1995. Press Releases are not official documents but provide timely information on the current activities of the principal organs and subsidiary bodies, including summaries of meetings.

Repertoire of the Practice of the Security Council
Provides comprehensive coverage of the Security Council’s interpretation and application of the United Nations Charter and its own Provisional Rules of Procedure since 1946.
Repertory of Practice of United Nations Organs
Analytical studies of the decisions of the UN principal organs under each of the Articles of the Charter ; Comprehensive summary of the decisions of United Nations Organs, together with review of related material, organized by Charter Articles.

Index to Proceedings of the Security Council / United Nations
Date: 1946-49 & 1964-
The Index to Proceedings (ITP) of the Security Council is a research tool that provides a window into the meetings of the Security Council. It is comprised of a subject index to all the documents issued by the Council and an index to speeches delivered during a particular year.
UN Yearbook / United Nations
Date: 1946-
Principal reference work of the UN; provides a detailed overview of the Organization's activities during the course of a year. All the Yearbooks are available online. They provide citation to the documentation and include the full text of resolutions.

UN Resources
Exhaustive list of UN online resources: databases, research tools, etc.

The following websites are provided for information only. It does not imply endorsement of the content by the United Nations.

Security Council Report
Security Council Report (SCR) is an independent organization that publishes forecasts and analysis.

What's in Blue supplement SCR forecasts by providing insights on on-going negotiations:

The Procedure of the UN Security Council / Sievers & Daws
Date: 2014
Reforming the UN Security Council Membership: The illusion of representativeness / Sabine Hassler
Date: 2012
Resisting United Nations Security Council Resolutions / Sufyan Droubi
ISBN: 9781138670518
Date: 2016
The UN Secretary-General and the Security Council / Manuel Fröhlich; Abiodun Williams
Call Number: online subscription resource
ISBN: 9780198748915
Date: 2018
The UN Security Council and Domestic Actors / Machiko Kanetake
ISBN: 9781138858589
Date: 2017
UN Security Council Reform / Peter Nadin
ISBN: 9781138920224
Date: 2016