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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:

  1. Portals (generalist sites)
  2. Archives and sources (archival centres, original documents online, etc.)
  3. Bibliography (database for articles, online reviews, etc.)
  4. Research Centers (research centres dedicated to the history of European integration)
  5. Current Events (sites offering an agenda of scientific events)

Portals

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.

Archives and sources

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/.

Bibliography

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.

Research Centers

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.

Current Events

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.