European Union

Research guides

• European Union Legal Materials: An Infrequent User's Guide. By Duncan E. Alford (GlobaLex).
• European Union Law: An Integrated Guide to Electronic and Print Research.

EU webservers (selective list)

• Europa. The principal web server of the European Union. Provides links to EU institutions and agencies, as well as basic information, documents, and policies.
• European Union in the U.S. The web site of the Delegation of the European Commission in the United States.
• Court of Justice and Court of First Instance.
• EUROPARL. European Parliament.
• CORDIS (Community Research and Development Information Service).
• Information Society web site (Information Society Promotion Office).
• European Central Bank.

EU document sources (selective list)

• EUR-Lex. Includes full-text of last 45 days of Official Journal; information on EU legislation in force; Community preparatory acts; treaties; case law; other documents of public interest, e.g., white papers, green papers.
• Treaty of Nice, signed Feb. 26, 2001.
• Consolidated Versions of the Treaty on European Union and of the Treaty Establishing the European Community (2002). Official Journal C325, 24 December 2002, p. 01. Incorporates the amendments made by the Treaty of Nice, signed 26 February 2001
• Treaty on European Union. Signed at Maastricht, 7 February 1992 (non-consolidated version).
• Treaty Establishing the European Community. Signed at Rome, 25 March 1957. (non-consolidated version).
• Treaties (non-consolidated versions).

EU legislative, current awareness, and bibliographic web sites

• RAPID. Database of press releases and speeches from EU institutions.
• PreLex. Inter-institutional procedures database.
• Legislative Observatory (OEIL). European Parliament site for current legislative activity.
• ECLAS. European Commission Libraries Catalogue. A bibliographic database consisting of approximately 200,000 catalogue records in the area of European affairs, as well as citations to periodical articles. Also includes links to Internet resources in the area of European integration, as well as "Internet Pathfinders."
• Eurodicautom. European terminology database.

Unofficial sites on the EU and European integration

• Archive of European Integration (AEI). An electronic repository and archive for research materials on the topic of European integration and unification.
• European Union Internet Resources. UC Berkeley Library. Links to EU servers and institutions, EU documents, servers of interest in or from EU countries, and other items of interest, including European Documentation Centers, newspapers and journals, regional resources, and university links.
• EuroInternet: Information Resources Related to European Integration in the Internet. Site maintained by Dr. Michael Nentwich, Austrian Academy of Sciences.
• Jean Monnet Working Papers. Harvard Law School; papers on European integration.
• European Research Papers Archive (ERPA). A common access point for several online working papers series in the field of European integration research.