World-Wide Web Resources
Europe

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General Continental & European Union Guides
Specific Country Resources

New Sites Added Since March 11

  • Directgov, UK public service information portal.

    • General Information Sites

  • ABSEES Online, the online version of The American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies. Searchable by ten different fields, including author, title, subject, date of publication, and publisher. Available to University of Kentucky on-campus users and off-campus via the proxy server.
  • Accessing European Union Information
  • Agenda 2000, from the European Union.
  • Association for the Monetary Union of Europe
  • The Baltics Online, source for Baltic Daily News in English covering Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania up dated throughout the day.
  • British Official Publications Current Awareness Service (BOPCAS) , a database containing records of new British official publications from July 1995 to the present. It includes records of new Acts of Parliament, Command papers, House of Commons Bills and Papers, House of Lords Bills and Papers, Departmental publications, and Select Committee Reports.
  • Central Europe Online
  • Central Europe Today, free executive news service covering the business and political events in Central Europe every business day. Provides a link to the CET Online archives.
  • Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, independent US government agency which monitors and encourages compliance of the participating states with the Helsinki Final Act.
  • CORDIS, Community Research and Development: a family of 10 databases carrying information on all aspects of European Union-supported, pre-competitive research and development.
  • Company Annual Reports Online (CAROL), offering direct links to the annual reports of a variety of European companies.
  • Conventions & Treaties, from the Council of Europe.
  • Council of Europe
  • Council of European Social Science Data Archives, facilitates the distribution of electronic data for social science education and research in Europe. The multilingual IDC allows users to conduct a broadcast search of up to eleven social science data catalogs located all over the world, including catalogs in Israel, Australia, the US, and Europe.
  • Eurasia Research Center, contains links to news and other resources on Post-Communist-Post Soviet Eurasia. Subpages deal with the Balkans, Western CIS Countries, Central Asia, the Middle East and South Asia.
  • Eur-Lex-European Union Law, Europa provides direct access to current European Union legal information. Eur-Lex offers issues of the Official Journal of the European Communities; Treaties, consolidated versions of existing legislation; and recent judgments by the Court of Justice.
  • EuroFerret, search engine searches specific to European web sites. Search the entire continent or individual countries.
  • Euroguide, a guide to the European Union.
  • Europa - European Union Server, the English language version of the official site of the European Union. Provides current news, official documents, information on the different institutions and bodies of the EU, policies of the Union, and their FAQ, called Abc, with basic answers to key questions.
  • Europages, the European Business Directory , Information contacts and listings for some 500,000 businesses in Europe
  • European Interests, an electronic newsletter.
  • European Parliament
  • European Search Engines
  • The European Site, guide to European Union servers.
  • Europa, the European Union's server.
  • EuroPages, The European Business Directory.
  • European Integration Online Papers, working paper archive of peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary working papers in the field of European integration research, including legal studies, political science, economics, and history.
  • European Library, gateway to 43 European Libraries.
  • European Newslinks, by PanWorld.
  • European Parliament
  • European Patent Office
  • European Search Engines, Directories and Lists
  • EuroSeek, search in a specific country in a specific language.
  • Eurotext, collaborative resource center of learning materials on Europe.
  • EURYBASE: The European Community Database on Education.
  • GESIS: Newsletter-Social Sciences in Eastern Europe, quarterly newsletter providing annotated listings of new publications, research projects, and institutions involved in social science research in Eastern Europe.
  • Geographical Data Description Directory, a listing of all of the principal geographical databases available from the Official National Mapping Agencies of Europe.
  • Historical Archives of the European Communities
  • Jean Monnet Chair Working Papers, Harvard University. Aim to promote teaching in European integration, in particular in Law, Economics, Political Science and History.
  • I'M Europe, Information Market--Europe.
  • Legislative Observatory, The European Union Parliament. Includes status of legislation in progress (procedural files), commentary on parliamentary actions, citations to documents, and selected full text documents.
  • New Europe, weekly publication that reports political, financial business and general news for 29 countries from the Baltic Sea to East Mediterranean and from Central Europe to Central Asia.
  • Political Resources for the European Union, from Europoint Communications.
  • Radio Free Europe
  • SCADplus Database, bibliographical database for the European Union containing references of more than 250,000 documents divided in 4 sectors. Sector A : Community legislation; Sector B : Official publications; Sector C : Articles from periodicals; Sector D : Opinions from the two sides of industry.
  • Travel information to Paris and other Regions in France from the French Government Tourist Office.
  • Virtual European Search Engines
  • Western European Specialists Section, Association of College and Research Libraries.
  • World News Connection, foreign news articles collected by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS). Access restricted to UK users in Young Library. Ask at the Young Library Reference & Government Information Desk to be logged on. (Additional location and coverage information). For indexing from 1975-1996, use the Newsbank/Readex Foreign Broadcast Information Service Daily Reports Index; it is accessible via campus computers and also available off-campus for UK faculty, students and staff; follow these proxy server access instructions.

    Regional categories covered include:

  • Central Eurasia
  • East Asia
  • Near East & South Asia
  • China
  • East Europe
  • West Europe
  • Latin America
  • Sub-Saharan Africa

    • NOTE: Use is currently restricted via subscription to UK faculty, staff, and students and requires that a librarian set up the access for you in the Reference Dept. in Young Library.

    • NOTE: Use is currently restricted via subscription to UK faculty, staff, and students and requires a password. Contact the Reference Desk to acquire a userid and password. Use is currently restricted to one user at a time. If you have questions, encounter blocked databases, or find the access busy for an extended period of time, please contact the Young Library Reference Commons by

  • phone: 257-0500, ext. 2170
  • e-mail: refdesk@uky.edu

  • Yellow Web Europe, Search Engine/Internet Directory served up in six languages (English, Deutsch, Italian, French, Russian, and Spanish).

    Specific Countries

  • Albania
  • Albania: a country study from the Library of Congress.
  • Albanian Homepage, includes a history section, culture, virtual tour, maps, and news section.

  • Austria

  • Belgium

  • Bosnia

  • Bosnia
  • Bosnia.com
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina, from the U.S. European Command.
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina, Governments on the WWW.

  • Britain
  • Great Britain, Government Information.

  • Croatia

  • Cyprus
    • Cyprus, Library of Congress country study.

  • Czech Republic
    • Czech Republic
    • Radio Prague, international broadcast station for the Czech Republic. Offers Czech news about all aspects of Czech life, including history, the economy, and culture, in five languages.

  • France

  • Germany

  • Greenland

  • Hungary

  • Iceland

  • Ireland

  • Italy

  • Netherlands

  • Norway
    • Norway, CIA World Factbook Guide.
    • Norway, Official Documentation and Information from Norway (ODIN).

  • Datafile Portugal

  • Romania

  • Russia

  • Republic of San Marino

  • Spain

  • Switzerland

  • Yugoslavia

    • This page was last updated 3 March 2006. To suggest additions or corrections to this list, send mail to Faith Harders at Faith.Harders@uky.edu.

    URL: http://www.uky.edu/Subject/europe.html
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