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The Archive of European Integration (AEI) is an electronic repository and archive for research materials on the topic of European integration and unification.[1] The AEI contains two types of documents:
- European Community publications intended for public distribution, published by the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), the European Atomic Energy Commission (Euratom), the European Economic Community (EEC), the European Communities (EC), and the European Union (EU) (all hereafter referred to as EC/EU documents), as well as related organizations such as the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the Western European Union (WEU)
- Research papers produced by private research organizations who agree to have their publications uploaded onto the AEI (see list of Contributing Institutions).
In January, 2016 the AEI contained over 41,800 EC/EU documents and more than 7,300 privately produced documents, making it the largest online repository of EU documents in the world except for EU websites.
Since the creation of the AEI in February 2003, the University Library System (ULS), University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States has provided the technical and material support for the AEI.[2][3] The ULS department of Information Technology - under the directorship of Tim Deliyannides - hosts and maintains the AEI as part of its D-Scribe Digital Publishing program. The AEI system is powered by EPrints 3, free Open Source software developed by the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK.
- ^ Archive of European Integration
- ^ "ULS sets up European integration archive". University Times. 35 (15). 3 April 2003. Retrieved 31 July 2011.
- ^ Wilkin, Phil; Deliyannides, Timothy (2010). "Electronic access to documents and publications on the European Union: The role of the Archive of European Integration". Cahiers de la documentation / Bladen voor documentatie. 64 (4): 42–46.