UN Dag Hammarskj枚ld Library: a year of innovation and progress
In 2023, the United Nations Headquarters Library marked a year of significant transformation and notable achievements.
Help shape the future: Take the UN Library Global Survey
The UN Dag Hammarskj枚ld Library in New York is launching to gather feedback from our diverse communities.
The Blue Book (1946-1994)
The Blue Book provides a list of the representatives of Member States to the United Nations. The complete collection from 1946 up to today is now conveniently accessible and searchable in the .
Digitization Update 鈥 International Conference on Human Rights
In preparation for the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) on 10 December 2023, the Dag Hammarskj枚ld Library digitized the complete documentation of the International Conference on Human Rights held in Teheran, Iran, from 22 April to 13 May 1968.
2022 by the numbers
In 2022, we stayed true to our mission of providing credible information, data, and human knowledge to Member State delegations, UN staff, researchers, and citizens of the world.
The Library is open for the summer!
The UN Dag Hammarksj枚ld Library is open!
Multilingualism at the United Nations
The second volume of its 鈥淲hy it Matters鈥 series 鈥 focusing on multilingualism is published in honour of International Mother Language Day.
Informed Societies and Integrity in Public Information at the Dag Hammarskj枚ld Library
The UN Library and IFLA hosted an event to explore information trends and the impacts on delivering quality information in the public sphere.
Building Structural Equity and Inclusion in Open Scholarship practices
Watch the recording of the virtual panel discussion that looks at the science-policy-society interface through the lens of open scholarship.
Webinar on Gender Equality in Open Scholarship
This virtual dialogue focused on gender equality in the Open Science suite of activities
2021 by the numbers
In 2021, the Dag Hammarskj枚ld Library considerably increased its global reach and initiated new ways of collaborating with UN and research communities during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Dag Hammarskj枚ld Library and DESA host Open Science Conference
The Dag Hammarskj枚ld Library (in the Department of Global Communications) and the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) recently held the second global Open Science Conference under the theme From Tackling the Pandemic to Addressing Climate Change.
UN Digital Library receives 2021 Jus Gentium Research Award
The UN Digital Library has been awarded the 2021 Jus Gentium Research Award by the American Society of International Law (ASIL).
Dag Hammarskj枚ld Library in 2020 by the numbers
In 2020, the Dag Hammarskj枚ld Library increased its global reach and found new ways of working with the UN community during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Unpaywall and Open Access
If you have searched the Dag Hammarskj枚ld Library catalogue recently, you may have noticed a new feature: the addition of pink PDFs in your results list which link to the full text of open access articles. The new links are supported by the Unpaywall database, a non-profit service that has indexed over 27 million open access scholarly articles.