The European Union continually strives to ensure information is readily accessible to EU citizens, such as developing repositories and explanation or terminologies:

 

EU Repositories:

  • OpenAIRE - provides open-access to scientific peer-reviewed publications and European funded research output. Grant recipients from the following: H2020; FP7 with SC39; or ERC are required to publish in open access. OpenAIREs successor OpenAIREplus is aimed at linking the aggregated research publications to the accompanying research and project information, datasets and author information

  • JRC Publications Repository - gives access to data about research publications produced by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC). The JRC is the European Commission's in-house science service which employs scientists to carry out research in order to provide independent scientific advice and support to EU policy

  • Historical Archives of the European Union (HAEU) - consists of documents of the Institutions of the European Union, papers of pioneers and visionaries, of political leaders, and of the numerous European voices from movements, associations and political groups. The HAEU is developing digital archives, which currently stores over 250, 000 items (including photographs), which is approximately 6% of the material held

  • Open Repository Base on International Strategic Studies (ORBIS) - is currently being developed to aid in the EU’s forward planning. The purpose of the repository is to collect research studies that facilitate forward thinking. ORBIS is run by the European Political Strategy Centre, which acts as a think-tank for the Juncker Committee by providing strategic analysis and policy advice on matters related to the policy priorities. Currently, anyone can submit their work, by creating an account in ORBIS. Each person will need to be approved by the Commission and the submission will go through a stringent checking procedure and requires approval from the editorial team. ORBIS is available to the public, researchers and academic to further their research.

  • Speech Repository - an e-learning tool developed by DG Interpretation to help improve the quality of conference interpreter training. The repository consists of a collection of real-life speeches, on varying subjects and with different styles from national institutions and international organisations. It also contains recordings of pedagogical material, i.e. speeches delivered by experienced EU interpreters and university trainers. The Speech Repository covers all 24 official EU languages, the languages of some of the candidate countries, plus Russian, Arabic and Chinese

 

EU Reference Tools:

  • EuroVoc - a multilingual, multidisciplinary thesaurus covering the activities of the EU, the European Parliament in particular. It contains terms in 23 EU languages, plus Serbian. The aim of the thesaurus is to provide the information management and dissemination services with a coherent indexing tool for the effective management of their documentary resources and to enable users to carry out documentary searches using controlled vocabulary.

  • IATE multilingual database – consists of EU-specific terminology and jargon, as well as terms from all sorts of areas, such as law, agriculture, information technology and many others. IATE has 8.4 million terms, including approximately 540 000 abbreviations and 130 000 phrases, and covers all 24 official EU languages.

  • Glossary of terms - The European Commission provides a glossary of terms by topic.