The Handbook provides thirty chapters by experts in the field of European Studies designed to help librarians new to collection development for regions of Europe and Eurasia find key resources for collection development and offer guidance on working with faculty and students focusing on these areas.
The Archive of European Integration (AEI) is an ever-growing electronic repository and archive for research materials on the topic of European integration and unification. The AEI collects two types of materials: certain types of independently-produced research materials and official European Community/European Union documents.
Includes full text of the Official Journal of the European Union; Treaties; EU Legislation; Consolidated acts; EFTA documents; EU Preparatory acts; EU case law; Parliamentary questions; International agreements. Content is also arranged EuroVoc subject.
The Commission is responsible for making sure that all EU countries properly apply EU law. In this role, the Commission is referred to as the ‘guardian of the treaties’. Search a database of infringement decisions, by type, status, country, policy area or infringement number.
One-stop access to more than 30 million pages of curated, high quality policy reports, briefs, analyses, working papers, and datasets from thousands of policy organizations worldwide including think tanks, IGOs, NGOs, and more than six hundred North American cities and urban agencies.
Faculty, staff, and students may also register direct Global Think Tanks personal accounts with UCSD domain email address for full remote access rights.
Top place to look for European statistics on economy and finance, population and social conditions, industry, trade, and services, agriculture and fisheries, transport, environment and energy, science and technology, and general and regional statistics. Includes numeric and geospatial data.
Parltrack is a European initiative to improve the transparency of legislative processes. It combines information on dossiers, representatives, vote results and committee agendas into a unique database and allows the tracking of dossiers using email and RSS. Most of the data presented is also available for further processing in JSON format. Using Parltrack it's easy to see at a glance which dossiers are being handled by committees and MEPs.
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Geographic or administrative divisions - California, San Diego, etc.
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