The Yearbook of the United Nations website has a new look! In line with a UN Office of Information and Communications Technology/Department of Global Communications project to upgrade UN websites by April 2022, the Yearbook online collection has been migrated to the new UN website platform. While the information architecture of the former Yearbook website has been maintained, substantial improvements have been made to take advantage of the new platform, including a fresh look highlighting special Yearbook features and resource footers at the bottom of each page as well as a direct tie to the UN homepage—all in a standardized design shared by all UN websites.
Since 1946–47, the Yearbook has served as the UN system’s flagship reference work. Only the Yearbook provides comprehensive coverage of political and security matters, human rights issues, economic and social questions, legal issues, and institutional, administrative and budgetary matters by placing UN consideration and action in a unique narrative context. The original Yearbook website made its debut in 2008, offering free access to the entire Yearbook collection. The website was completely redesigned in 2014 with added enhanced features such as the Yearbook Pre-press and the Yearbook Express, with e-book quality readability across all platforms and mobile devices.
As we continue our efforts to deliver on the mandate of the General Assembly, which “Acknowledges the importance of the Yearbook of the United Nations as an authoritative reference work and welcomes the work of the Department of Global Communications in expanding the content and the functions of the website of the Yearbook”, we invite readers and researchers to contact us about their experience in using the new website as we fine-tune its features and update its content.
Did you know?
In his annual report dated 14 July 1947, Secretary-General Trygve Lie states that the United Nations Yearbook will be the “chief annual publication in the documentary field”.