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• Bulletin of the European Union
  The official record of events and policy actions. Supplements to the Bulletin reproduce a selected number of important legislative or consultative documents. Continues the Bulletin of the European Communities, 1968-93. The first issue of each year has an index for the preceding year.
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• General Report on the Activities of the European Union
  From 1967 - 1993, this report was entitled "General Report on the Activities of the European Communities". Wilson Library Gov Pub uses the same call number (available from the MNCAT record link) for all years (1967 - present).
  The General Report, which is presented to the European Parliament in February, reviews the activities of the European Union in the previous year.
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• How the European Union Works: a Citizen’s Guide to the EU Institutions
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• Alphabetical and Methodological Index to the Official Journal of the European Union
  The Alphabetical Index to the Official Journal, issued monthly and cumulated annually, can be helpful when one knows the year and subject. The Methodological Index to the Official Journal, issued monthly and cumulated annually, lists regulations, directives, other acts and Court decisions by number. The numbers for issues containing written questions are listed. With the exception of Court of Justice cases, no indexing is done for other items published in the C Series of the OJ.
  • Location(s): TC Wilson Library Gov Pub Microfiche: EC. Beginning of the OJ Microfiche.

• LexisNexis Academic (ON CAMPUS USE ONLY)
  LexisNexis Academic is a collection of online databases that includes access to CELEX, the European Union Law database. Need some Lexis-Nexis searching help? Try our guided exercise on Searching LexisNexis Academic.

• European Parliament Legislative Observatory
  This database allows users to track legislation in process or recently passed through the European Parliament.

• CES Opinions and Reports
  Economic and Social Committee. Texts of opinions of the ESC, with occasional reports included. Cited as "CES." Microfiche. Indexed in the Documents catalog.
  • Location(s): TC Wilson Library Gov Pub Microfiche: EC. Economic and Social Committee.

• COM Documents
  The proposals and amendments issued by the Commission, along with policy documents and reports on policy implementation. Cited as "COM Doc." Microfiche. Indexed in the Documents catalog and Eurocat.
  • Location(s): TC Wilson Library Gov Pub Microfiche: EC. COM Documents

• Consolidated Texts of Community Legislation
  Catalog of consolidated texts published in the series Collection of Consolidated Texts. Organized according to the structure of the Directory of Community Legislation in Force and Other Acts of the European Community Institutions. Includes titles and reference numbers.
  • Location(s): TC Wilson Library Gov Pub (Legal): Row 21.

• Directory of Community Legislation in Force and Other Acts of the European Community Institutions
  Broad analytical subject arrangement with indexes by number and topic. Complete history of legal acts, with full OJ citations.
  • Location(s): Latest Edition: TC Wilson Library Gov Pub (Legal) Quarto KJE920.5 .D57
  TC Wilson Library Gov Pub (LC) Quarto KJE920.5 .D57

• Eurlex
  Eurlex provides full-text access to the Official Journal of the European Union, treaties, international agreements, legislation in force, preparatory acts, case law and parliamentary questions. The site content is being added gradually and as of January 2005, it's not yet complete.

• Official Journal of the European Union (Electronic Editions)
  The EC's official gazette, previously called the Official Journal of the European Communities, the OJ contains the texts of legislation and other official acts. It is published in several parts; the main ones are: Communications, "C" series: Informational notices and Legislation, "L" series: Regulations, directives.
  • Location(s): TC Wilson Library Gov Pub (Desk Ref). Call No: CD-ROM KJE908 .O343x. Parts L and C.

• Official Journal of the European Union (Microfiche)
  The EC's official gazette, previously called the Official Journal of the European Communities, the OJ contains the texts of legislation and other official acts. It is published in several parts; the main ones are: Communications, "C" series: Informational notices and Legislation, "L" series: Regulations, directives.
  • Location(s): TC Wilson Library Gov Pub Microfiche: EC. Official Journal. Part C & Part L

• Prelex
  PreLex, the database on inter-institutional procedures follows the major stages of the decision-making process between the Commission and the other institutions:
  • stage of the procedure;
  • decisions of the institutions;
  • persons' names;
  • services responsible;
  • references of documents …etc,
  and monitors the works of the various institutions involved (European Parliament, Council, ESC, Committee of the Regions, European central Bank, Court of Justice, etc.).
  PreLex follows all Commission proposals (legislative and budgetary dossiers, conclusions of international agreements) and communications from their transmission to the Council or the European Parliament.

• Reports of the European Parliament
  European Parliament. Session documents, committee reports and working papers of the Parliament. Cited as "PE Doc." Microfiche. Indexed in Documents catalog.
  • Location(s): Location: TC Wilson Library Gov Pub Microfiche: EC. European Parliament. Working papers (reports)

• Accessing European Parliament Documentation
  Guide to publication program and documents of the Parliament.
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• EC 1992 and Beyond: Access to Information: A Guide to EC Documentation and Databases
  A very comprehensive guide to understanding and using EC publications, created for a series of workshops sponsored by the Delegation of the Commission of the European Communities.
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• Eurocat
  Index of European Community/European Union publications and documents. Also indexes all legislation in force. Updated quarterly.
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• European Access
  Ceased 2002.
  Current awareness guide to policies and activities of the EC. Consists chiefly of bibliographic references to new EC and non-EC publications, classified by subject. Also includes a chronology of events and commentaries on current developments.
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• Catalogue. Part B, Documents.
  Monthly and quarterly classified lists of COM Documents of the Commission, Reports of the European Parliament, and Opinions and Reports of the Economic and Social Committee. Annual cumulations provide alphabetical and numerical indexes.
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• European Community as a Publisher
  Abridged guide to popular sales and free publications, listing currently available publications issued over a period of years.
  • Location(s): Call Number: HC241.2 .A1 E9752x Location: Wilson Gov Pub (Reference)

• Publications of the European Communities. Catalogue.
  Office for Official Publications. Information on sales publications issued during a given year, both monographs and serials. Classified list with keyword, title and series indexes.
  • Location(s): Call Number: JN15 .O34x Location: Wilson Gov Pub (Reference)

• European Economy
  Issues provide overviews of economic issues, and summaries of the economic situation.
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• European Economy. Reports and Studies.
  A series of reports issued under the series title "European Economy", but cataloged in MNCAT by each report's title, not "European Economy". Reports online appear not to duplicate reports cataloged in MNCAT.

• European Economy. Supplement A, Recent Economic Trends
  This series described the most recent trends of industrial production, consumer prices, unemployment, the balance of trade, exchange rates, and other indicators. This supplement also presented the Commission staff's Macroeconomic Forecasts and Commission communications to the Council on economic policy.
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• European Economy. Supplement B, Business and Consumer Survey Results
  This series gave the main results of opinion surveys of industrial chief executives (orders, stocks, production outlook, etc.) and of consumers (economic and financial situation and outlook, etc.) in the Community, and other business cycle indicators.
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• European economy. Supplement C, Economic reform monitor
  This series provided brief overviews of economic developments and the progress of reform in the Candidates Countries.
  • Location(s): TC Wilson Library Gov Pub (LC) Quarto HC241.2 .E85713x
  TC Wilson Library Gov Pub (LC) Quarto HC241.2 .E85715x

• Eurostat
  The Eurostat website contains a mix of statistical information in PDF pages, pre-defined tables and interactive databases. The coverage varies by topic, but some data goes back at least to 1929. All content is freely available.

• Guide to Eurostat
  See http://tinyurl.com/33lg4w for help with Eurostat.

• LexisNexis Statistical
  LexisNexis Statistical, a database that gives bibliographic citations, abstracts, and links to selected full-text tables and web sites when available, covers European Union publications. The Government Publications Library has the companion microfiche collections which include copies of almost all the publications indexed in this database.