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European Documentation Centres: Providing Researchers with a Way Through the Maze

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 May 2009

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Abstract

Margaret Watson (Bodleian Law Library) and Maria Bell (British Library of Political and Economic Science, LSE) write about their role in providing EU information for academic research and examine the issues that exist in this specialist area.

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European Documentation CentresEuropean Union
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Articles
Information
Legal Information Management , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , June 2009 , pp. 104 - 107
Copyright
Copyright © The British and Irish Association of Law Librarians 2009

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1 http://europa.eu

2 http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/

3 http://eur-lex.europa.eu/

4 Europe Direct is the newest network of information centres aimed at disseminating EU information to the public. http://ec.europa.eu/europedirect/index_en.htm

5 European Public Information Centres are an older network of information points run by UK library authorities http://ec.europa.eu/unitedkingdom/information/index_en.htm

6 It is rare now for a librarian to have the EDC as their sole responsibility. At LSE, the EDC librarian is also responsible for law and the IGO collections. Likely combinations at institutions are the EDC and law or the EDC with the social sciences or official publications.

7 EU feeds: news feeds from European newspapers provided by the European Journalism Centre http://www.eufeeds.eu/

8 Europe Media Monitor's News Brief is provided by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre http://emm.jrc.it/NewsBrief/clusteredition/en/latest.html

9 EurActiv, an independent company providing digests of news across the EU states. http://www.euractiv.com/en

10 http://eur-lex.europa.eu/en/treaties/index.htm

11 http://aei.pitt.edu/