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Research Resources

This page was created in collaboration with the University libraries to give direction to users who wish to conduct academic research on the law and policy of the European Union.

For more general information and links to other EU related sites, click here.

UNIVERSITY RESOURCES

CENTER FOR STATISTICAL CONSULTATION AND RESEARCH (CSCAR)
Provides free statistical consulting to all UM faculty, staff, and graduate students with the design, planning, analysis, and presentation of research studies.

GRADUATE LIBRARY

LAW LIBRARY

The law library has, since the 1920's and into the present, sought to develop a collection to support research in the law of European nations as well as the rest of the world. Michigan has succeeded in retrospectively building a collection to support in-depth historical, as well as current, research. The Library was the first in the U.S. to become a depository for documents of the European Community, and continues to enjoy that status, sharing material with the University Library. The below links to the Law Library site may be useful for legal research.

EUROPEAN UNION On-line RESOURCES

EUROPEAN UNION IN THE US

Official web site of the European Union Delegation to the United States, and is the basic starting point for more information about the EU. It has extensive links to electronic resources including:

EUROPA

Portal site for the vast inter-institutional server for the European Union, accessible in twenty three languages. It provides:

  • Up-to-date coverage of European Union affairs and essential information on European integration including a link to the site of the European Convention.
  • Legislation currently in force or under discussion
  • Links to EU institutions and agencies
  • Policies administered by the European Union under the powers devolved to it by the Treaties.
  • Europa site (FAQ), to consult recent statistics on the use of Europa and the results of surveys conducted among its users.
  • Link to European Commissions Libraries Catalog.

EUR-LEX

Aims to provide a comprehensive picture of EU legislation and the decision-making procedures from their concept to their conclusion, the EUR-Lex website incorporates the Official Journal, treaties, legislation in force, legislation in preparation, case-law, parliamentary questions, and documents of public interest.

CURIA

Provides case law from the European Union's Court of Justice and Court of First Instance. It includes an introduction to the institution, research and documentation, a section for press and information, and texts relating to the institution, as well as case-law itself. It also includes a link to the catalog of the Library, although that part was "under construction" as of January 2002.

OTHER On-line RESOURCES

EUROPEAN INTEGRATION CURRENT CONTENTS

Provides access to the tables of contents of journals relevant to European integration research, including law, human rights, economics, history and political science. It covers 104 journals published in 9 languages from 14 countries, and includes available abstracts.

EUROPEAN RESEARCH PAPERS ARCHIVE (ERPA)

Portal to online working paper series in the field of European integration research.

EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE LIBRARY

Contains electronic collection of catalogues, bibliographies, journal indexes, newspapers, statistics, as well as the full text of journal articles, working papers, official publications and legal texts. Some strong points are the Journal collection (3000+ subscriptions), the Working Paper collection with over 50,000 papers from over 500 universities and research centres worldwide, the "European" collection (including the European Documentation Centre of EU publications) of works documenting the process of European integration, the Reference collection of catalogues, bibliographies, encyclopedias and dictionaries, and, lastly, the entire collection (more than 50,000 texts on microfilm) of the Goldsmith-Kress Library of Economic History.

ARCHIVE OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION

The AEI is partnering with the European Research Papers Archive (ERPA) and the European Integration online Papers (EIoP), and seeks to acquire other appropriate papers which do not reside on the ERPA. Soon, a search engine will be available for simultaneous access and searching of the AEI, the ERPA, and (via ERPA) the EIoP. Together, the ERPA and the AEI will constitute the most comprehensive, accessible single interface to materials on European integration either already freely available on the Internet or in some other format that can be converted to be deposited on the AEI.

FIND LAW

Includes an index of sites on European law and links to information on the law and legal systems of the following member states:

JURIST EU: THE LEGAL EDUCATION NETWORK

Legal education portal to authoritative legal instruction, information, and scholarship online. Includes a monthly column that provides a selection of the most representative judgments of the European Court of Justice during the relevant period. Some Opinions of Advocates General and judgments of the Court of First Instance may also be reported.

KARLSRUHE VIRTUAL CATALOG

Catalog of 75 million books and serials in library and book trade catalogs worldwide. A service of the University Library Karlsruhe.

MAX PLANCK SOCIETY

Promotes research in its institutes. Max Planck Institutes (MPI) carry on basic research in service to the general public in the areas of natural science, social science and the arts and humanities.

RAVE

Includes research of articles and decisions in public international law and European law and lists items systematically and provides citations. It has a detailed structure, is up to date, and provides links to relevant material published on the web, including judicial decisions, national statues, documents of international organizations, and full-text articles. Coverage begins in 1995 and is updated quarterly.

QUESTIA
The world's largest online library. Site includes selected European Union resources.

WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources

Links to search engines and web directories for EU-specific searches, official EU sources, other sources, newsgroups and listserves.