Since 1991 the EU Commission Depository Library (DEP) has been operating within the CNR Central Library following an agreement with the EU Commission Directorate General for Information, Communication and Culture.
During 2006 the Depository Library, after a new convention, it's become European Documentation Centre (EDC) and it has entered to make part of a network that includes 600 Centres altogether across the world, with 366 of them in Europe and 46 in Italy with the purpose to promote the diffusion of the EU information.
Under the agreement, the Library is provided with a copy of all the paper and electronic publications, whether periodical or monographic, concerning the activities of the various EU institutions (Commission, Council, Parliament, Court of Justice, Economic and Social Committee, Committee of the Regions, European Investment Bank, EUROSTAT), issued by the EU Office for Official Publications, the EUR-Op.
EDC is located in a room of the "G. Marconi" Central Library, where EU publications and several EU databases are available to users.
Additionally, a number of workstations are available for users to access the European Union website and to carry out bibliographic searches.
EDC represents one of the service points of the EU information networks.
Its main objectives are:
- promoting information, studies and knowledge of EU activities and values;
- making information on EU institutions and policies available to all European citizens, companies and research centres;
- supporting the Universities and the Centers of search in the promotion and development of the teaching and the search on the European integration;
- providing students, researchers and workers with integrated information and documentation services concerning EU activities, through databases and different types of documents;
- keeping documents, ensuring their proper arrangement, classification, indexing and collocation
The Library provides users with access to several EU databases featuring both full-text documents and bibliographic references.
OPENING HOURS
The CDE is open to the public:
Monday to Friday: 8.15 am – 6.45 pm
In August, the CDE remains closed.
The Reference service is available by appointment calling: +39.06/4993.3486
Notice will be given on the website of any temporary changes.
SERVICES
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Online information and documentation: for information on paper documents, please consult the Library catalogue; for information concerning EU activities, please visit the EU website; for further information, you can send an e-mail to: adelaide.ranchino@cnr.it
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Information, guidance and assistance for individual users and businesses on publications concerning EU activities and initiatives
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Assistance with final-year degree and postgraduate dissertations in agreement with students’ supervisors
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Legislative, law, bibliographic, statistical and documentary research activities subject to specific agreements
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Access to paper and online versions of EU documents
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Workstations to visit EU websites with the assistance of skilled staff
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Access to EU and Italian law databases
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Information material issued by the EU Commission
- EU documents are associated with collections of EU and Italian Economics and Law monographs and periodicals.
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