What
is the ODS?
The ODS stores electronic versions of official UN documentation
in portable document format (pdf) and/or text format. A
web browser, such as Internet Explorer, and Adobe Acrobat
Reader are required to access the system and view the pdf
files. Documents are uploaded at duty stations worldwide,
including ESCAP. Indexing data is provided by
the Dag Hammarskjöld Library.
Comprehensive, though not complete, coverage of all types
of official UN documentation begins in 1993. These files
are contained in the UN Documents database. Digitization
of earlier documentation is ongoing. Currently, the ODS
contains close to 800,000 files, and approximately 100,000
new documents are added each year.
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The Information Technology
Services Division (ITSD) at UNHQ in New York, is pleased to announce
the implementation of Google search on the Official
Document System (ODS) effective 15 April 2005. This
option will only be available on the public ODS site
located at http://documents.un.org.
This option will be called ”Global Search”
and it will be in addition to the “Simple”
and “Advanced” search options currently
available on ODS. Please note that, as this new search
option uses a different search engine from the one
used by ODS internally, search results may be slightly
different from those obtained by using the search
options available on the current ODS. You can access
the “Global Search” option through http://documents.un.org
or through specific language access points as follows:
You may also
find further detailsfrom the following URL:
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