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The United Nations is committed to making information about its programmes and operations available to the public and considers free access to information a key democratic principle.
In order to make its documents and publications available throughout the world, the United Nations maintains a network of depository libraries.
The Dag Hammarskjöld Library, Uppsala, as part of this network, holds Scandinavia's most complete collection of UN documents in print covering the period 1946-1992. For more recent documents it has access to electronic archives and special databases.
The UN system
The UN as such, is made up of six main organs with specific tasks and functions.
Read more about the UN structure in DagDok.
Specialized Agencies
The specialized agencies are 16 autonomous organizations joined to the UN organization through special agreements.
The following specialized agency is represented at the Dag Hammarskjöld Library:
The UN archive
The UN archive (pdf 3.4 MB) covers the complete United Nations documentation 1946-1992.
The UN database ODS contains the full-text of almost all documents issued since 1993 and select documents from earlier years.
