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Research Portals and Guides

Alexander Street. “Women and Social Movements, International, 1840 to Present.” [http://wasi.alexanderstreet.com/] [This is a great website, which includes 4,660 primary sources as well as 124 links to other on-line resources and twenty-five scholarly essays to ground the user in the context for these primary sources.]

Burnett, Anne, ed. International Organizations Electronic Resource Guide. American Society of
International Law. [http://www.asil.org/sites/default/files/ERG_IO.pdf]

Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies. “United Nations Intellectual History Project.” [http://www.unhistory.org/] [The website includes links to the list of publications as well as oral history interviews, a reading list, links to several relevant archival websites, and a downloadable pdf of the June 2005 summary of the project’s findings, The Power of UN Ideas: Lessons from the First 60 Years by Richard Jolly, Louis Emmerij, and Thomas G. Weiss.]

Sahl, Silke. “United Nations.” Arthur W. Diamond Law Library Research Guides series.
Columbia University Law School. [http://library.law.columbia.edu/guides/United_Nations] [Includes information on U.N. published records, how to understand U.N. document symbols, on-line research strategies, and a very helpful guides to very recent U.N. activities.]

Tashbrook, Linda. “UPDATE: Researching the United Nations: Finding the Organization’s Internal Resource Trails.” New York University Hauser Global Law School Program. [http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/United_Nations_Research1.htm]

United Nations Archives and Records Management Section. “Archival Finding Aids of UN Predecessor Organizations: United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration – UNRRA (1943-1948).” [https://archives.un.org/content/predecessor-organizations]

United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld Library. “Research Guides.” [http://research.un.org/en] 

United Nations Division for Palestinian Rights. “United Nations Information System on the
Question of Palestine (UNISPAL).” [For information about the UNISPAL project and
links to some of its aspects, see https://unispal.un.org/DPA/DPR/unispal.nsf/about.htm?OpenForm] [The portal to UNISPAL and a variety of ways to search the site is available at https://unispal.un.org/DPA/DPR/unispal.nsf/udc.htm?OpenForm]

United Nations History Project. “Researching the United Nations: Research Guides to the United Nations and League of Nations.” [http://unhistoryproject.org/research/research_guides.html]) [Useful links include the official U.N. research guide, the U.N. Dag Hammarskjöld Library, the American Society of International Law’s reports on international organizations, the Harvard/Cambridge 
Centre for History and Economics’ guide to U.N. archives, Heidelberg University’s bibliography on the League of Nations and international organizations, the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law’s guide to U.N. resources, the Columbia University and Georgetown University law libraries’ research guides, and guides to League of Nations, U.N., and Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) materials at Harvard University.]

United Nations Archives and Records Management Section. “Archival Finding Aids of UN Predecessor Organizations: United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration – UNRRA (1943-1948).” [https://archives.un.org/content/predecessor-organizations]

UNESCO. “Guide to Archives of International Organizations.” [http://www.unesco.org/archives/sio/Eng/] [It listed eighty intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) at the time of writing.]

University of Cambridge Centre for History and Economics. Project on International and United Nations History. [http://www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/internationalhistory/index.htm] [Independent guide to U.N. archives and a forum for U.N. archival researchers.]