Research Resources on Europe

• Google Scholar is a useful new search engine to find academic publications.

Wider Europe, including EU relations

• European Sources Online (ESO) provides information about the EU from a variety of sources both official and non-official.
• The Social Science Information Gateway (SOSIG) offers a growing database of high-quality web resources about Europe and individual European nations, with particular emphasis on Central and Eastern Europe.
  
• The Central and Eastern European Online Library (CEEOL) is the only database providing electronic access to articles and eBooks on Central and Eastern European humanities and social science subjects.  The library has a complete list of periodicals and offers the possibility of institutional subscription. This database also offers pay-per-view for individual access.
  
• Single Source Europe is funded by the European Commission and involves the setting up and maintaining of an online portal for Central and Eastern European think tanks and research institutes. The portal will provide a ‘single source’ for all their English language publications, whether policy papers, reports, journals or books; whether they are in electronic or printed form.
  
  
• The AMECO database is the annual macro-economic database of the European Commission's Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs (DG ECFIN). AMECO data is made available free of charge but for personal and non commercial use only. AMECO contains data for EU-15, the euro area, EU Member States, including the new members (Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia), other candidate countries (Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey) and other OECD countries (United States, Japan, Canada, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland, Mexico, Korea, Australia and New Zealand). 
  
  
• The European Research Papers Archive (ERPA) is a single access point to a number of important working paper series.
  
  
• European Integration Current Contents provides access to the tables of contents of journals relevant in European Integration research - law, human rights, economics, history and political sciences. Currently it covers 109 journals published in nine languages and 14 countries. Where available, abstracts are also included.
  
  
• This monthly enlargement research bulletin of the EU Commission provides abstracts of publications concerning the enlargement of the European Union selected from a database of 300 organisations in Member States, Candidate countries and elsewhere.
  
  
• The Development and Transition Newsletter, a joint project between the UNDP and the LSE, provides a forum for policy-oriented discussion about development and transition in Europe and Eurasia. It is published in English and in Russian.   
  
  
• European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the regional development bank to assist countries from Central Europe to Central Asia in their transition processes.
  
  
• Website devoted to EU-Turkey relations, particularly news and current developments.
  
  
• Resources on the Lomé Convention between the EU and the African, Carribean and Pacific (ACP) States.
  
  
• The Euro-Asia Centre's website to foster academic linkages between Europe and Asia.
  
  
• The refereed on-line journal European Political Economy Review is interdisciplinary with a broad coverage of Europe.

• The Journal of Contemporary European Research aims to provide a forum for emerging scholars of European Studies by allowing them to present their ideas alongside those of more established academics and practitioners.

• FORNET, a new network of research and teaching on European foreign policy, funded by the European Commission.  With a discussion board.
  
• The EUobserver  is a daily news website offering comprehensive coverage of EU affairs and beyond.  It covers news from Brussels and Europe's capitals in over 20 European languages (including Russian and Turkish) to report on the most important news of the day. It is a policy of always adding relevant links, original documents and media in different languages.

Organisations related to Wider Europe

• The Council of Europe website covers all major issues facing European society other than defence including: human rights, media, legal co-operation, social cohesion, health, education, culture, heritage, sport, youth, local democracy and transfrontier co-operation, the environment and regional planning.

• European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), see above under Wider Europe

• The website of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) provides information on security issues but also on its peacekeeping mission in the Balkans etc.

• The website of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is a rich source of comparative data and policy debate. Their publications can more readily be accessed at SourceOECD.

• The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) is the largest regional security organization in the world with 55 participating States from Europe, Central Asia and North America. 
  

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European Union

• The EU's official website contains a wealth of information.
  Since it is sometimes difficult to navigate, here are a few more specific addresses:
  
  
• Information on the different EU agencies and institutions, including their most recent reports and statements.
  
  
• EUR-Lex offers full text treaties and legislation, access to case law and the Official Journal.
  
  
• The Jean Monnet website of the University of Leeds has some online bibliographic guides to new EU policy areas. It focuses on official documents and is designed to be useful to students
  
  
• The History of European Integration website has sections that include archives, treaties and statistical sources.

• The European Documentation Centre consists of a total of 656 documentation centres, a network which was created on a global level by the European Communities in the early sixties. They provide all kinds of information on the European Union.

• The European Institute for the Media is a think tank which analyses media and communications development in the Europe of the digital age.

• The EU Constitution Project seeks to examine theories of federalism and constitutionalism, and to contribute to analysis of their political and legal implications for the European Union.

• Govecor is an EU funded multi-national research project on new modes of socio-economic governance. 
   

• Research Data on the Council of the European Union contains data on decision-making and voting in the Council of the European Union.

  Euro

  • European Central Bank (ECB) with links to EU central banks.

  • Giancarlo Corsetti's Euro page is a great source of EMU-related documents.

  • The Eurodebate website is a popular website on the history of the euro, arguments - pros and cons, and links to information about the euro on the internet.

  • Here is an exchange rate site to translate monetary amounts into and from Euros

  • The UK Treasury's website contains the assessment of the five economic tests for entering EMU and the 18 studies that accompanied that assessment.

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Independent Thinktanks

• The European Policy Institutes Network is a comprehensive network of almost 40 member thinktanks in 28 countries, including all the EU member states and accession and candidate countries.

• The Centre for European Policy Studies is an independent policy research institute founded in 1983, located in Brussels. Its research programme comprises both economic policy and politics, institutions, and security.

• The Centre for European Reform is a British think tank ‘devoted to improving the quality of debate on the future of the European Union’. Current and former members regularly lecture in EI courses (EU 441, EU 450).

• The European Centre for Parliamentary Research and Documentation (ECPRD) is a network to foster cooperation and exchanges of information between parliamentary libraries and research departments in Europe.

• The European Policy Centre is an independent, not-for-profit Belgian think tank which acts as ‘an interface between government, business and civil society’ and ‘committed to making European integration work’.

• The Cicero Foundation is a not-for-profit Dutch organisation which provides a forum for discussions on future developments within Europe and the Atlantic World. Special attention is paid to issues connected to integrating Central and Eastern European Countries into the EU and NATO.

• The Observatoire social européenne based in Brussels, focuses on the social aspects of European integration.

• The European Institute for the Media is a think tank which analyses media and communications development in the Europe of the digital age.

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• The Institute of Public Affairs in Warsaw has useful papers to download etc.

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Special topics

• A webportal of information and thinking on 21st century Europe, especially on future EU-CEEC relationships.
  
  
• Website of a new electronic journal and resource bank on the history of immigration, mostly in French but English papers are also available.
  
  
• Public Opinion Analysis sector of the European Commission ('Eurobarometer'). Includes downloadable reports with qualitative and quantitative data from EU member states and candidate countries.
  
  
• The website of a research network in comparative politics on Eurosceptic movements in Western and Eastern Europe. Note that these researchers do not endorse such views, they just explore them, in particular as they relate to the introduction of the Euro and to Eastern enlargement.
  
  
• Bank for International Settlements (BIS), with links to almost all central banks in the world, to the Basel Committee on financial sector regulation and the Financial Stability Institute.
  
  
• The European film academy is a non-profit association to advance the interests of European filmmakers.
  
  
• Kinoeye is fortnightly Internet journal on European film, particularly good on Central and Eastern European film.  

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Conferences and Study Associations

• The World Wide European Integration Events Calendar gives information on upcoming conferences, workshops, special lectures and summer schools in the area of European Integration research.
  
  
• Trans-European Policy Studies Association (TEPSA) of 20+ think tanks in all EU member states and several of the New Member States.
  
  
• University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES), the British European studies organisation. It has a special students forum.
  
  
• European Union Studies Association (EUSA) in the US with a special emphasis on transatlantic relationships.
  
  
• The Central and Eastern European Development Society (CEEDS) is a Student Society at the LSE. CEEDS aims to promote awareness and discussion of the developments in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union through public lectures, forums, and social events.
  
  

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