Historical Archives Library and E-Resources

Historical Archives Library

Our highly specialised collection contains approximately 20.000 volumes on the History of European Integration from the early 1940’s, external relations of the EC member states and the Cold War. Our reference section holds an important collection of finding aids in the form of guides and catalogues to international archives and repositories. There are also periodicals from professional archival associations and books on archival science.

Of special interest are:

The personal library donated by Enzo Enrique Agnoletti.
A collection of publications of European interest such as reports, periodicals, books, cd roms and microfilms.
An interesting collection of thesis.
The series of European Parliament’s debates, documents produced during sittings and Committee reports as well as the Official Journal of the European Communities from 1952, both on paper and on microfiche.

Users may consult the Library Catalogue via Public Access PCs. Books associated with the HAEU archival fonds can be consulted here.

The Historical Archives Library does not grant borrowing privileges and/or interlibrary loan service.

E-Resources

DORIE (Documentation and Research on European Institutional Issues)

Following an agreement between the Secretariat-General of the European Commission and the EUI, part of the DORIE collection (totalling 170.000 documents) has been deposited at the HAEU and is in the process of being catalogued since mid-2010. DORIE contains documents or document extracts such as legal acts, minutes of meetings, articles and press releases, speeches by European leaders, internal Commission working documents and notes that go back to the Communities' beginnings on a variety of issues of Community interest. These documents have been digitised for storage purposes and are partially available on the DORIE Database.

DNSA (Digital National Security Archive)

Consisting of 36 collections with over 80,000 indexed documents, DNSA is the most comprehensive set of declassified US government documents available. Each of these collections cover the most critical world events, countries, and U.S. policy decisions from post World War II through the 21st century.

Use of this electronic resource is governed by a licence agreement which restricts use to the European University Institute community.

DBPO (Documents on British Policy Overseas)

DBPO is a database of 20th century diplomatic history produced in partnership with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Primary source documents from Britain’s diplomats and policy-makers, from the build-up to WWI and WWII, and the Cold War Documents declassified by FCO’s official historians.

Use of this electronic resource is governed by a licence agreement which restricts use to the European University Institute community.

AGENCE EUROPE

Agence Europe's DanteWeb provides full-text access to the most recent 200 issues of the Europe Daily Bulletin (French and English). Earlier bulletins, from 1953, unavailable on DanteWeb can be accessed on paper and/or microfiches in French at the HAEU.

Historical Archives Library and E-Resources