Europeana

Europeana
Access to Europe's cultural and scientific resources in digital format

An ambitious project aiming at making Europe’s cultural and scientific resources accessible to all – a virtual European library with links to over 6 million digital objects by year 2010. Currently in its beta stage, the database provides free access to about 2 million digital items divided in four groups: Images (paintings, drawings, maps, photos and pictures of museum objects), Texts (books, newspapers, letters, diaries and archival papers), Sounds (music and spoken word from cylinders, tapes, discs and radio broadcasts), Videos (films, newsreels and TV broadcasts). Users can freely access any item and its details page (metadata), and also view the item in original context – but no downloading allowed. The project involves dozens of institutions encompassing all EU countries, as partners or contributors, and includes works from the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the British Library in London, the Louvre in Paris along with a variety of hidden treasures form other sources. Under a professional outline and “universal” accessibility features, the interface is provided in 25 EU languages but most information is still in English. Along with a general keyword search box, more advanced search options and a timeline browsing are available. Registered users can save, share, tag items or searches, and the “communities pages” (will) enable to share, discuss, reuse or blog Europeana content among users themselves.

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Access Services

Library Catalogues

The Library Online Public Access Catalogues or OPAC are integrated databases provided with their own search engines. The Library of Congress, the largest library in the world, provides access to nearly 128 million items in 450 languages, many millions of records in a broad range of formats from books to multimedia. The Online Computer Library Center, as a co-operative of 50,000 libraries and research organizations, produces and maintains WorldCat with 50 million records in 400 languages.
Library Catalogues
Indexes and Abstracts
Articles and Books
Encyclopedias

Participation
The biannual bulletin of the International Political Science Association.
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International Political Science Review
The IPSA Journal, with five issues per year.
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International Political Science Abstracts
abstracts with worldwide coverage and perspective.
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Santiago 2009
The next triennial World Congress of IPSA, July 2009.
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Europeana

EuropeanaAccess to Europe's cultural and scientific resources in digital format