European
Union at the University of Michigan
Last updated on February 4,
2005
European Union
- LAW
- Constitution for Europe
- Eur-Lex/European
Union Law
- Last twenty days of the Official Journal's L
Series (legislation) and C Series
(information and notices)
- Treaties and recent Court of Justice Judgements
- Full text of legislation-in-force
- CELEX [http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe] (UMich Only)
- Data base of European Union law found under the Legal Resources section of LEXIS-NEXIS Academic
- MAIN WEB SITES
- Europa
(European Commission) [http://europa.eu.int/index-en.htm]
- History, structure, program, activities, and directory of members
- Collage of documents in various formats with search engine
- European
Commission's Directorate General for Justice and Home Affairs [http://europa.eu.int/comm/justice_home/]
- Wealth of political and practical information
- Information about program financing and latest developments
- Information about the dismantling of barriers in justice and home
affairs
- European Parliament [http://www.europarl.eu.int/]
- Description, powers, and organization of the Parliament
- List of committees and directories of Member offices
- Full text of speeches beginning January 1996, searchable by date or
speaker but not by subject
- Publications, committee schedules and press releases
- Legislative
Observatory [http://www.europarl.edu.int/dors/oeil/en/default.htm] permits keyword and legislative process
searching of procedural files and documents
- See also European Union Law,
European Parliamentary Elections [http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/psfp.html#euelect],
and SCAD Data Base for the
Parliament's Official Journal
- Election World [http://www.electionworld.org/europeanunion.htm]
also has data on the European Parliament elections
- BIBLIOGRAPHIES
- European Commission Library
Catalogue [http://europa.eu.int/eclas/]
- Includes books, journal articles, conference proceedings, and
Internet sources
- Initial registration and password required
- Eurotext [http://eurotext.ulst.ac.uk:8017/]
- Full text of European Union documents in 28 subject categories
beginning 1994
- Browsable by subject or searchable
- Some publications in pdf format only
- Historical
Archives of the European Communities [http://wwwarc.iue.it/]
- History, access, and holdings of the archives, located in Florence,
Italy
- SCAD
Bibliographic Data Base [http://europa.eu.int/scad/]
- Index to 250,00 documents beginning 1983
- Includes Community legislation, official publications, articles, and
opinions from the two sides of industry
- Various search engines; as of October 1997, the most effective in
English is the General Search by term in title or text
- After initial results are retrieved, the search can be refined by
limiting it to sector (e.g. articles, community legislation)
- After the results are refined, click on Display All
Fields
for a summary and complete identification of the publication
- Locating publications in SCAD
- Publications marked OJL refer to the
Official Journal--Legislation located in the
Graduate Library JN 30 .A1 A343 with current issues in Serials
- Identify
periodical abbreviations through its
Periodicals
List [http://europa.eu.int/comm/libraries/bibliotheques_en.htm] and consult MIRLYN [http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/]
- COM documents are located in the Law Library
- Other documents cited by SCAD may be unavailable at the
University of Michigan
- EU RELATIONS
- European
Union at the United Nations [http://www.europa-eu-un.org/]
- EU and how it works at the UN
- Development cooperation, keeping the peace, trade, human rights,
culture
- European
Union: A Guide for Americans [http://www.eurunion.org/infores/euguide/euguide.htm]
- Chapters describe the history and activities of the European Union
- Timeline for implementation
- Links to web sites by and about the EU
- European Union in the
U.S. [http://www.eurunion.org/]
- Web site of the EU delegation to Washington and New York
- European Union policies, basic statistics, and publications
- Selected articles from its Europe magazine
- United Kingdom
Office [http://www.cec.org.uk/]
- RESEARCH GUIDES
- European Union
Bibliography (UC-Berkeley)
[http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/doemoff/gov_eugde.html]
- Extensive annotated research guide to EU bibliographies, citations,
legislative sources, statistics, and other reference materials
- Includes printed, microfiche, CD-ROM, and Internet resources
- European Union
Documents Research Guide (Princeton) [http://www.princeton.edu/~ssrc/eurefgdpu.html]
- Extensive annotated bibliography of books and web sites on the EU
- Description of agencies, dictionaries, treaties, official journals,
case law and data bases
- European
Union Center at the University of Michigan [http://www.umich.edu/~iinet/euc/home.html]
- Services and projects of the Center
- Courses and teaching materials for elementary school through college
- Annotated webliography of European Union resources
- I'm
Europe (European Commission Host Organisation)
- Official guide to the EU's role in an information society
- Researching the
European Union
- Academic guide on finding treaties and identifying publications
- Includes links to EU agencies, description of the legislative
process, bibliographic guides and electronic materials
- STATISTICS
- Statistical
Office of the European Union (EUROSTAT) [http://europa.eu.int/en/comm/eurostat/eurostat.html]
- Press releases on the European economy beginning 1996
- The full or partial text of selected publications in Adobe Acrobat
format
- Primary economic data (industrial production, prices, employment,
and trade) but some social statistics
- Euro-Barometer
[http://europa.eu.int/comm/public_opinion/index_en.htm]
- Database of public opinion research
- Eurobarometer Trend
File is available to University of Michigan affiliates using
interactive web software
- Data sets also available for downloading from ICSPR
[http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/access/subject.html#XIV] to ICPSR
affiliates
- Major Statistical Yearbooks
- Eurostat Yearbook (Doc. Cen. HA 1107.5 .E97)
- Regions: Statistical Yearbook (Doc. Cen. HA 1107.5 .A4 R3)
- See the class assignment web page for
International Organization and
Integration for coverage of the single European currency
unit
Related European Organizations
- Council of Europe Parliamentary
Assembly [http://assembly.coe.int/]
- Members of the Assembly by country as well as committee assignments
- Current issue of periodical The Europeans
- Note: you must selected language (English or French) to access
information
- Printed copies of the Consultative Assembly debates are located
in the Graduate Library stacks, JN 22.A2 and JN 22.A2B, 1949+
- European
Bank for Reconstruction and Development
- Instructions on investing with the bank
- Environmental policy
- Publications list
- European Central
Bank
- Banking laws in the European Union
- Current interest rates, money market funds, exchange rates and
government financial information
- Links to the national banks in the
European Union
- European Court of Human
Rights
- Basic court procedures
- List of judgments since 1959 and full text of judgments since October
1996
- List of cases pending
- European Laboratory for
Particle Physics (CERN)
- Web site primarily on physics
- Birthplace of the World Wide Web with links to web sources around the
world
- European Telecommunications and
Satellite Organization
- Current television and radio programming in Europe
- North Atlantic
Treaty Organization
- Historic documents, NATO Handbook, NATO Review
- Current press releases and fact sheets
- Organization for Economic Cooperation and
Development
- Organization
for Economic Cooperation and Development
- Catalog of OECD publications and data products
- News and activities
- Free documents arranged by committee since 1990 on subjects such as
sustainable development, electronic commerce, trade
- OECD Washington Center
- Summary demographic, economic, and energy data for OECD countries in
Adobe Acrobat format
- Publication order information for United States customers
- Source
OECD (UMich
Only)
- Statistical data bases and periodicals of the Organization for
Economic Cooperation and Development
- In-depth time series of data for the Western European countries,
United States, Canada, Japan, and Australia
- Main Economic Indicators,
Historical
Indicators, and National Income and Product
Accounts appear under PERIODICALS/STATISTICAL PERIODICALS
- Economic Surveys are under PERIODICALS
- United Nations
Economic Commission for Europe (ECE)
- Web pages of its divisions (transport, economics, statistics, trade)
identify their programs and major program documents
- Press releases and catalog of publications
- Statistics limited to a summary country data for Europe and the U.S.
as well as timber and gas statistics (as of August 1997)
- World
Bank
- Describes programs and publications of the World
Bank
- Extensive summaries of selected publications
- Approximately 150 book titles issued by the World Bank are available
to University of Michigan affiliates through Net Library
- World
Development Indicators (UMich Only)
- World Bank data base with 593 series of demographic, economic, and
environmental information for 226 countries
- Time series covers 1960 to present when annual data are available for a
given country
- Choose countries or groups of countries
- Choose series with the tree or alphabetical view
- Choose years
- Once you view the data, choose the orientation (columns or rows), scaling
options, display (chart, index, raw)
- Download into ASCII or Excel format
- For the University of Michigan, this replaces access provided by the dear
departed CITRIX server
- The Documents Center will maintain a CD-ROM for single workstation
access
Jennifer Nason-Davis, International Documents Librarian
Grace York, Coordinator, Documents Center
The University of Michigan Library
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/eu.html
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