Useful links:
This directory proposes a certain number of links for must-see sites
for research in European history. Depending on the cases, it includes
resources that are available on-line (documents directly available on
the web) or websites that present the activities of "physical"
institutions. The directory is divided into several sub-categories:
- Portals (generalist sites)
- Archives and sources (archival centres,
original documents online,
etc.)
- Bibliography (database for articles,
online reviews, etc.)
- Research Centers (research centres dedicated
to the history of
European integration)
- Current Events (sites offering an agenda of
scientific events)
- Research database
- http://album.revues.org (in
french)
- Album proposed by Revues.Org is an excellent French portal for
research; it is mostly oriented towards social sciences, but a certain
number of useful sites for European integration are listed. Included
categories are libraries, journals, archives.
- Guide to archives
- http://www.archivesmadeeasy.org
(in english)
- A group of PhD students from the International History Department
of the LSE (London School of Economics) have created an online
guide to archives throughout the world. We strongly encourage
all researchers to consult this site and contribute to its growth,
either by adding new and more up to date information, or by adding new
reports to the database!
- CHEFF (comité d'histoire économique et financière de la
France/committee for the economic and financial history of France)
-
http://www.comite-histoire.minefi.gouv.fr/ (in french, english and
german)
- CHEFF's domain is the history of the economic and financial
administrations. It is involved in and regrouping sources (oral
archives, autobiographical information). The website only indicates an
contact to consult oral archives.
- Archives d'histoire contemporaine de Sciences Po/Sciences Po's
Archives of Contemporary History
- http://centre-histoire.sciences-po.fr/archives/index.html
(in french)
- The archives of the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques
(National Foundation for Political Sciences) offer researchers a
remarkable documentary source on the political, economic, social and
cultural history of France in 20th Century. More than 80 collections
were given to Science Po's Archives of Contemporary History. This
exceptionally rich collection regroups the private papers of top
politicians (Léon Blum, Vincent Auriol, Charles Tillon, Michel Debré),
civil servants (Alain Savary, Paul Delouvrier), intellectuals (Jean
Touchard, Gabriel Tarde), but also movements and political parties (MRP,
UDSR, Parti Radical). The consultation of documents is conditional to
the authorisation of the director of Science Po's History Centre, and,
for some collections, to the authorisation of the President or the
Administrator of the NFPS.
- The website of Science Po's History Centre presents each collection
with a general index. Some collections don't yet have an available index
online, but the inventories are available at the archives. The request
for consultation is available online.
- EuroPressReseach
- http://www.europressresearch.com/
(in english and italian)
- This website is the work of the Study Centre for the European
Project, whose aim is to understand how public opinion is formed, and
especially European public opinion. The site is thus a sort of daily and
weekly press review of five European countries (France, Germany, United
Kingdom, Italy and Spain). A monthly and trimestrial synthesis,
downloable in PDF format, is made by the researchers of the centre.
- Council on Foreign Relations records (Princeton University)
-
http://diglib.princeton.edu/ead/eadGetDoc.xq?id=/ead/mudd/publicpolicy/MC10
4.EAD.xml (en anglais)
- The records of the Council on Foreign Relations, the
influential American foreign policy organization, have been fully
arranged and described, and an electronic version of the finding aid is
available on the website of Princeton University's Seeley G. Mudd
Manuscript
Library.
- «The Council on Foreign Relations was founded in 1921 by
businessmen, bankers and lawyers determined to keep the United States
engaged in the world. [...] Its widely respected and influential
research staff -- with backgrounds in government and scholarship in
almost every international subject -- regularly meets with council
members and other leaders and thinkers. These exclusive sessions, known
as study groups or roundtables, form the council's intellectual core.
The aim is to provide insights into international affairs and to develop
new ideas for U.S. foreign policy, particularly national security and
foreign economic policy. [...] The council also publishes Foreign
Affairs, the leading periodical in the field, which has printed
some of the most important articles about world affairs.»
- The Council on Foreign Relations Records finding aid is available on
the web in html or PDF format. It was encoded in XML using the Encoded
Archival Description standard.
- For further information: http://www.princeton.edu/mudd
and http://www.cfr.org/.
- Euristote
-
http://europa.eu.int/comm/dg10/university/euristote/index_fr.html
(in french)
- Euristote is a database which lists academic research on European
integration. Euristote covers all aspects associated to the construction
of Europe. A very clear form enables you to easily organise the
articles. It is also possible to add entries into the database.
- Érudit
- http://www.erudit.org/ (en
french, english et spanish)
- Érudit is a site from Quebec whose aim is to "promote and spread
academic research" in the humanities. The site offers not only a
platform to put scientific reviews online (especially canadian), edition
of e-books, digital theses and a space to make individual online
contributions. A search form enables you to search all the hosted
reviews.
- Revues.Org
- http://www.revues.org (in
french)
- Revues.Org is a federating French site putting online more than 50
reviews for the humanities (sociology, history, etc.). The project,
financed by the French Ministry for Research and the CNRS, is developed
in close partnership with the Universities of Avignon, Poitiers, Nice,
the École des chartes, l'EHESS, the Maison méditerranéenne des sciences
de l'homme, l'Agence universitaire de la francophonie et le Centre de
communication scientifique directe (CCSD).
- Revues.Org offers also very useful tools, with Calenda (schedule for
scientific events) and the Album of social sciences.
- CHEFF (comité d'histoire économique et financière de la
France/committee for the economic and financial history of France)
-
http://www.comite-histoire.minefi.gouv.fr/ (in french, english and
german)
- CHEFF's domain is the history of the economic and financial
administrations. It is involved in three types of activities: research
(conferences, seminars, initiations to economic history), publications
on economic history (publishing conferences, memoirs, studies), and
regrouping sources (oral archives, autobiographical information). The
website, full of information, is an introduction to the activities of
CHEFF and the IGPDE (institut de formation des fonctionnaires du
ministère de l'économie et des finances/institute for the training of
civil servants of the ministry of the economy and finances, to which
CHEFF is attached). The text of some European history seminars are
available online.
- Agenda for scientific events (Calenda)
- http://calenda.revues.org
(in french)
- Revues.Org also offers a research schedule, oriented towards social
sciences but very detailed. Announcements can be searched by themes
(history, anthropology.), periods or even nature (call for papers,
conferences, etc.). A simple fom allows you to add other events.