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EU
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Europa: The European Union On-Line
http://europa.eu/index_en.htm
Official
Web site of the European Union
- Public
Opinion Analysis [European
Commission]
http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/index_en.htm
"...surveys and studies address[ing] major topics concerning European
citizenship: enlargement, social situation, health, culture, information
technology, environment, the Euro, defence, etc."
- European Union Documents
http://europa.eu/documents/index_en.htm
The access point to documents related to the work of the EU such as law, "legislation, activity reports, brochures, audio-visual material, internal documents, archives, etc."
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EU Whoiswho
http://europa.eu/whoiswho/public/index.cfm?lang=en
Includes access to directories of European Union institutions by organizational
entity, personal name, and hierarchical ranking.
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The European Union in the U.S.
http://www.eurunion.org/
Official Web site of the Delegation of the European Commission to the
United States. Provides basic information on the EU, EU "hot items",
EU laws & policy issues, and links to EU sites, including official
publications and those monitoring the EU.
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Background
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European Parliament Fact Sheets
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/factsheets/default_en.htm
Overview
of how the European Community works, Citizen's Europe, the single market,
Common policies, Economic and monetary union, and the Union's external
relations.
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The Euro:Our Currency
http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/euro/our_currency_en.htm
Overview of the euro,
including physical description, implementation history, and current news.
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Inside Europe: Your Guide to Life Inside the European Union [BBC]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/europe/2001/inside_europe/
Background briefings, current
news, special
in-depth reports, and country profiles.
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The History of the European Union and European
Citizenship
[Juan
Carlos Ocaña]
http://www.historiasiglo20.org/europe/
Prepared by a History
& Geography teacher from Spain for his students. Narrative contains
internal links to primary documents from the official EU Web site. Includes
a glossary, chronology, biographies, and links to other Web sites discussing
the EU.
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JN4 E8 |
Europa World Year Book. 1961- [annual]
Latest
kept on Reserve.
- See chapter
on the European Union
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HC241.2
E8334 |
The
European Union Encyclopedia and Directory.
[Europa]
2004
- In addition
to the encyclopedic information, includes a chronology, essays on the
political, social, and legal aspects including enlargement, and an extensive
statistical survey
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JN30 E52 |
Encyclopedia of the European Union. 1998
- Covers
"concepts, issues, developments, institutions, policies, events,
negotiations, treaties, national interests, and personalities related
to European integration" -from the Preface
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KJE926.5
P55 |
Dictionary of the European Union.
2002
- Explains
terms dealing with the historical development, issues and personalities
associated with the European Union
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HC241.2
R59 |
The
New Europe: An A to Z Compendium on the European Community.
1991
- Provides
the context for terms related to the EC
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HC240
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OECD
Economic Surveys. Euro Area. 2001-
Latest kept in Reference, earlier editions in General Collection.
Also available
online through Business Source Premier (EBSCO) database.
Once in Business Source Premier,click on
and type oecd economic surveys euro.
- Reports
on the economic situation and policies of the euro area
- Includes
extensive tables, charts, graphs, and bibliography
- OECD
publishes individual country surveys which are located nearby in the
Reference stacks
- For alphabetical list of all surveys available type oecd economic surveys
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Research
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ERPA: European Research Papers Archives
http://eiop.or.at/erpa/
Portal to the publications of institutes that research issues of European
integration. Indexes working papers from Centre and Academy of European
Law at the European University Institute (Florence), Max Planck Institute
for the Study of Societies (MPIfG) Cologne, NYU Law School, ECSA-Austria,
Advanced Research on the Europeanisation of the Nation-State (ARENA) Oslo,
Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES), ESRC Programme, IES
Queen’s University of Belfast, University of Manchester / Queen's University
Belfast.
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CEPS: Centre for European Policy Studies
http://www.ceps.be/index3.php
Independent research policy institute that provides online access to many
of their publications including briefs, papers, documents, and reports on
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Centre for European Reform
http://www.cer.org.uk
Provides open access to many policy briefs, working papers, bulletin articles, and pamphlets on these and other topics. Topics covered include EU 2020, EU foreign policy, environment, euro,
justice & home affairs, security & defense, enlargement,Turkey, China, Russia & energy, the Middle East, and the Arab Reform Initiative.
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Web
Directories & Bibliographies |
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European Union Internet Resources [UC
Berkeley]
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/doemoff/govinfo/intl/gov_eu.html
- Links to Web sites arranged by categories: EU Institutions & Bodies/ EU by Subject/ EU Documents by Type / Other Items of Interest
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European Integration History [WWW
Virtual Library]
http://vlib.iue.it/hist-eur-integration/Index.html |
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EuroInternet: Information Resources Related to European
Integration in the Internet
[Michael Nentwich, Austrian Academy of Sciences]
http://eiop.or.at/euroint/
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European Interest Links [NYU
Law School]
http://www.jeanmonnetprogram.org/links/EU/index.html
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Statistics |
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Eurostat: Statistical Office of the European Communities
Provides
free access to a limited number of statistical publications including:

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Catalog & Online Databases |
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Searching
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The Catalog:
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federation (= political unity among European countries)
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communities (= communities discussed collectively)
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Academic Search [Ebsco]. 1990-
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for citations, abstracts and some full text articles from magazines
and journals in various disciplines including Political Science, Law
and History.
- Provides
full text online of Europe, published by Delegation of
European Commission, from 7/1/93 to date.
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Business Source Premier
[Ebsco].
Provides
full text access to the Economist Intelligence Unit's European
Union Country Profile [annual] 12/1/97 - and European Union Country
Report [monthly] 10/1/96- , both of which discuss political climate
- Click
on
and type country
profile european union or country
report european union
- Also
check for the reports on individual countries (e.g. country report
germany, country profile france)
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Historical Abstracts
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for abstracts of articles from scholarly journals in the social sciences,
with an emphasis on history. Focus on the world excluding North America.
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Social Sciences Abstracts. 1983-
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PAIS International
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government documents, book chapters, statistical directories, and Web
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