UNIS Library Services

The Library deals with requests from the four countries the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) Vienna is servicing: Austria, Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia.

For requests from other countries please find the contact of the respective Information Service/Centre and for Western European countries please contact the Regional United Nations Information Centre (UNRIC) for Western Europe.

The United Nations Information Service reference library in Vienna is open to visitors, journalists and students (upon prior appointment) and to all UN staff members. A wide range of reference material on all aspects of the United Nations System is available especially on topics of the Vienna based UN Organizations dealing with Drugs Control, Crime Prevention and Outer Space Affairs.

We provide a wide range of information and promotional material free-of-charge (handouts, reports, posters) and since there is no UN bookshop in the region we also offer sales publications in limited quantities for free.

The material can be sent upon written or telephone request. To be added to the library mailing list please send us this form (doc).

The " Official Document System of the United Nations" (ODS) gives access to all official documents in the six official languages of the United Nations (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish). Resolutions from 1946 onwards, all other documents beginning 1992.

Other search machines are the "Research Guides", the "United Nations System Pathfinder", "UN-I-QUE" (United  Nations Info Quest) and the "United Nations Bibliographic Information System" (UNBISnet), established by the Dag Hammarskjöld Library in New York.

Finding UN press releases and documents on the Web

Contact:  Iris Schaechter 
Vienna International Centre
UN Information Service
P.O. Box 500
A-1400  Vienna,  Austria 
Telephone: (+43-1) 26060 ext 3325
Fax: (+43-1) 260607-3325
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