Research Guides: Chesick Program: Visualizing Europe/The European Union/The United States of Europe (HC): Books and Reports

Cultural History Belongs to Everyone

Mathilde Edey-Gamassou portrays Joan of Arc in the 2018 annual parade in Orleans, France (Source: Wikimedia Commons, open access)

Using the Library Catalog (Tripod)

Tripod Library Catalog
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- Use Tripod to find resources available from the TriCo Libraries.
- Search for books, e-books, videos, articles, digital media, and more

While we are all doing our learning and researching remotely, there are still many books and articles available electronically! You can use search filters in Tripod to search only for books available in a digital format, for example.

European Union Information and Publications

European Commission
Website includes news and access to EU reports, documents and publications.
Topics of the European Union
Provides a summary of what the EU does in different areas, and gives useful links to relevant bodies, laws and documents.

Finding Research Reports and Conference Papers

Global Go to Think Tanks, 2019
James McGann at the University of Pennsylvania ranks public policy groups each year. The report organizes ranking by the world and by region in addition to a ranking by area of research. Good for identifying new think tanks as sources of research and analysis.
** See ranked lists of European think tanks:
Central and Eastern Europe pp. 100-103
Western Europe pp. 104-109 .

PolicyFile
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Provides access to articles on public policy research and analysis from think tanks, university research programs, research organizations and publishers. Covers a wide range of topics from international trade to health care reform, from telecommunications regulation to terrorism. Most content is NOT peer-reviewed.

Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
This organization makes conference papers and other works by academics searchable and in many cases provides full text access. SSRN collects conference papers, journal article pre-prints and working papers in the social sciences. This is a good place to find very recent material.