Scope

This Research Guide focuses on the European Union (also referred to as the European Economic Community). The European Union is a group of European nations which have developed a Common Market system aimed at breaking down trade and political barriers between member countries. There is an enormous amount of information available on this topic. Thus, you might find it useful to narrow your focus by dealing with the European Union in relation to a specific country or type of product.

Overview

Encyclopaedia Britannica Online 1992 (updated daily)
Britannica Online is a searchable collection of authoritative references, including Britannica's latest encyclopedia articles. Basic instructions for Encyclopædia Britannica Online

Europa World Year Book
College Library Reference Collection: JN 1 E85

Facts.com 1980 - to date (updated weekly)
Includes 75,000 full-text news articles, weekly updates from Facts On File World News Digest, and regular wire service updates from Reuters. Basic instructions for Facts.com

Finding Journal and News Articles

Below are links to databases that cover this subject area. The truncation symbol for all of them is an asterisk (*) unless otherwise noted.

Sample searches for databases:

european union and economic polic* and employment
euro and britain
euro and china and trade
european union and commerce and south africa
european union and govern*
european union and commerce
european union and mone*

Recommended Databases:

ABI/Inform 1971 - to date (updated daily)
ABI/Inform indexes and abstracts articles from more than 1300 scholarly and trade business periodicals. Popular journals such as Forbes, Fortune, and Business Week are also included. The Web version, ABI/INFORM Global, provides full-text articles from more than 600 of the journals from 1992 to the present. It is an excellent source of information on management techniques, corporate strategies, trends, and business conditions. Basic instructions for ABI/Inform

Academic Search 1984 - to date (updated daily)
This library database indexes approximately 3,100 popular magazines and academic journals and provides the full-text articles from approximately 1,000 journals. Basic instructions for Academic Search

Business Source Elite 1984 - to date (updated daily)
Contains a full-text database of more than 900 business journals plus an indexing and abstracting database of approximately 1,570 scholarly and popular journals. The database covers many areas of business including management, economics, finance, banking and accounting. Basic instructions for Business Source Elite

Global NewsBank 1996 - to date (updated monthly)
Global NewsBank covers issues and events in Africa, Asia, Europe, the former Soviet Union, Pacific Rim, Central and South America and the Middle East. It is ideal for researching a wide variety of international developments related to politics, economics, science and business. The full-text news articles are from more than 1,500 international sources. Basic instructions for Global NewsBank

Lexis/Nexis Academic Universe Dates Vary (updated daily)
Contains the full-text articles from U.S. and international newspapers (including the New York Times, June 1980 - to date), as well as some news and business magazines and trade journals. The truncation symbol is an exclamation point (!). Basic instructions for Lexis/Nexis Academic Universe

ProQuest Newspapers Dates Vary (updated weekly)
Indexes articles from 41 national and Wisconsin newspapers; includes full text for most. The truncation symbol is a question mark (?). Basic instructions for ProQuest Newspapers

ProQuest Research Library 1988 - to date (updated daily)
Indexes over 2,000 general-interest and academic journals. Nearly 1,000 periodicals are full-text. Dates vary, but many full-text journals go back to 1988. Basic instructions for ProQuest Research Library

Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS) 1972 - to date (updated quarterly)
Indexes journal articles, books, government documents, statistical compilations, committee reports, directories, serials, reports of public, intergovernmental and private organizations, and most other forms of printed literature from all over the world. The full-text of the articles is not available in the database. Basic instructions for PAIS

Finding Books

MadCat
Books on the European Union can be found in MadCat, the UW-Madison library catalog.

Sample keyword searches:

"european union" and trade and china
"european economic community" and immigrat? and law?
france and "european union" and employment"
"european union" and foreign relations
"european union" and (a specific country in the EU)

Searches can be limited by language and to most recent years.

Internet Sites

European Union: A Guide to EU Resources
http://www.library.wisc.edu/guides/EU/
This guide is intended to help beginning researchers at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

European Union Internet Resources
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/doemoff/govinfo/intl/gov_eugde.html
Sites organized and presented by Univerisity of California - Berkeley Library.

Current Europe: A Guide to Resources in the Social Sciences
http://www.library.wisc.edu/guides/europenow/index.html
This guide is intended to help researchers at the University of Wisconsin - Madison who are interested in Western Europe after 1945.

Statistics

Statistical Universe 1973 - to date (updated monthly)
Contains the full text of more than 800 U.S. government statistical publications. Lexis-Nexis Statistical Universe is available to UW-Madison registered users.

Organizations

Europa - The European Union Online
http://europa.eu/index_en.htm