UNDOCS home Welcome to the United Nations العربية 中文 English Français Русский Español Department for General Assembly and Conference Management UNDOCS About Us eSubscription Journal Digital Library How UNDOCS Works The United Nations relies on documents for nearly every aspect of its work. UNDOCS, also known as EZ-Link, was created in 2011 to provide a quick and easy way to link directly to documents within the Official Document System (ODS). With UNDOCS, anyone can link to any document in ODS without needing technical knowledge or a complex login process. This system works seamlessly for web pages and document formats like PDFs or Word files. Every document in ODS has a unique document symbol, which is all you need to create a link. For more information on document symbols, please see the Research Guide to United Nations Document Symbols by the Dag Hammarskjöld Library. Linking to a Document To link to a document, you only need its unique document symbol. Example: Let's use the United Nations Millennium Declaration as an example, with the document symbol A/RES/55/2. Root URL: https://docs.un.org Document symbol: A/RES/55/2 Final URL: https://docs.un.org/A/RES/55/2 If no specific language is chosen, an intermediate window will appear, prompting users to select a language for the document. This ensures compliance with the United Nations' commitment to multilingualism. Linking to a Document in a Specific Language Linking to a document in a specific language is a common use case. For this, simply add the language code to the URL. Example: To view the Millennium Declaration (A/RES/55/2) in English: Root URL: https://docs.un.org Language: en for English (available language codes are: ar for Arabic, zh for Chinese, en for English, fr for French, ru for Russian, es for Spanish) Document symbol: A/RES/55/2 Final URL: https://docs.un.org/en/A/RES/55/2 Linking to a Document in a Specific Language and Page If you need to link to a specific page within a document in a specific language, add &page=(pagenumber) to the end of the URL. Note that this only works if a language is specified. Example: To link to page 3 of the Millennium Declaration (A/RES/55/2) in English: Root URL: https://docs.un.org Language: en for English Document symbol: A/RES/55/2 Page number: ?page=3 Final URL: https://docs.un.org/en/A/RES/55/2?page=3 Linking Directly to a Document Without Frames To link directly to a document file (bypassing frames), append ?direct=true to the end of the URL. This functionality requires specifying the language of the document. Example: To link directly to the Millennium Declaration (A/RES/55/2) in English: Root URL: https://docs.un.org Language: en for English Document symbol: A/RES/55/2 Direct: ?direct=true Final URL: https://docs.un.org/en/A/RES/55/2?direct=true Donate A-Z Site Index Contact Copyright faq Fraud Alert Privacy Notice Terms of Use