Information Sources

Information about the EU can be found in a very wide range of sources. To help people in need for information, this page offers a list of portals, databases and registers of documents.

Useful links

• The European Union portal is the main information source for EU documents and databases: https://europa.eu/european-union/documents-publications_en
• Information about EU institutions and policies, including publications and documents of international organisations, governments of member states, etc. can be found in the ESO database (European Sources Online): https://www.europeansources.info  
• Some sources of the EU information can be found on the web page of the EU Information Centre of the Estonian National Library: https://elik.nlib.ee/en/information-sources/new-acquisitions-at-the-eu-information-centre/  

Books and other EU publications

• EU-related books and other publications held in Estonian libraries can be found in the e-catalogue ESTER: https://www.ester.ee  (word search “European Union” and “Euroopa Liit”) 
• Publications issued by the European Union Publications Office are accessible both in the printed format and in the free of charge downloadable pdf format at the EU Bookshop: https://publications.europa.eu/et/web/general-publications/publications 
•  Plenty of information about all kinds of different subjects can be found in the e-catalogue FIND-eR of the European Commission Library: https://ec.europa.eu/libraries 
•  The European Library portal gives access to 48 National Libraries of Europe and leading European research libraries: http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/  

Databases needed for teaching and learning and research

• A large number of different databases containing information needed for teaching and learning and research can be found on the UT Library web page: https://utlib.ut.ee/en/databases%20 
• A list containing about 300 EU-related databases can be found on the web page of the EDC of the University of Mannheim: https://www.bib.uni-mannheim.de/en/edc/related-databases/  

List of information sources recommended by the UT Library EDC

• Joint interactive database of EU terminology IATE (Interinstitutional Terminology Database) https://iate.europa.eu/home  
• EU Open Data Portal https://data.europa.eu/euodp/et/data  
• EU research results database CORDIS https://cordis.europa.eu  
• OpenAIRE portal giving access to the publications of research projects and research data supported by European funders https://www.openaire.eu  
• E-theses portal DART-Europe http://www.dart-europe.eu  
• Pan-European network of information centres for professional researchers EURAXESS Services Network https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/ 
• EUR-Lex – database of European Union law http://eur-lex.europa.eu  
• Database CURIA, containing texts of the decisions, regulations, submissions by Advocates General and other documents from the Court of Justice of the EU, the General Court of the EU and the EU Civil Service Tribunal http://curia.europa.eu  
• Statistical data about the EU and its member states in the database Eurostat http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat  
• Public opinion reports in the European Commission portal EUROBAROMETER https://ec.europa.eu/commfrontoffice/publicopinion
• Database of European companies EUROPAGES https://www.europages.co.uk/
• Market research, information about services and industrial sector markets; statistics of different states concerning economy, the environment, population trends, production, trade, etc. in the portal Passport : Euromonitor http://www.portal.euromonitor.com
• Database of the European Council documentation http://conventions.coe.int/
• European Council information and material on human rights in the Estonian language http://www.eesti.ee/est/euroopa_noukogu_inimoigusalased_lepingud/
• Estonian-language reviews and classification of more important judgements of the European Court of Human Rights in the electronic version of  the Estonian State Gazette https://www.riigiteataja.ee/kohtuteave/eik_liigitus.html
• On-line version of the Supplement to the Official Journal of the EU, TED (Tenders Electronic Daily) https://ted.europa.eu

Historical Documents and e-learning materials on the history of the European Union

• Database of the historical archives of the European Commission: Historical Archives https://ec.europa.eu/historical_archives
• Access to papers of independent research institutions in the database ERPA (European Research Papers Archive) http://eiop.or.at/erpa/