EU opens historical archives to public

Euractiv.com reports that thousands of EU publications were made available to the public for free last week (16 October) following the launch in Frankfurt of a new digital library, the 'EU Bookshop'.

The EU Bookshop website hosts an electronic library containing 12 million scanned pages from over 110,000 historical publications. A further two million pages from more recent ones are also included.

The site, launched at the Frankfurt Book Fair, features all publications edited by the EU's Publications Office on behalf of the European institutions, agencies and other associated bodies since 1952.

New publications will be added every day at a rate of up to 1,600 per year.
"With the digital library, we have total transparency" of EU legislative and cultural publications, Multilingualism Commissioner Leonard Orban told AFP on Sunday, adding: "No-one can complain now of problems consulting legislative texts and associated documents."

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