Library
Collection and Resources
EIGE is setting up a comprehensive database of EU legislation, books, grey literature, best practices, case studies, research reports, policy documents and reference works available from the member states of the EU and from international and civil society organisations worldwide - in print and electronically.
EIGE's library, and its collections and services, make up an open environment available to academics, practitioners and students, researchers as well as to all interested members of the general public.
Various subscriptions to electronic academic titles and to online bibliographical databases on gender equality topics, Gender Studies Databases and Women's Studies International, are available at EIGE's premises.
Library services
The library offers a wide range of services to its visitors:
- access to a stock of recent publications appearing throughout the publications catalogue and the EU-Bookshop.
- online order of one free copy of any of our recent publications via the EU-Bookshop.
- access to books, periodicals, grey literature and newspapers including the possibility to photocopy certain materials.
The library's PC-station allows visitors to
- carry out bibliographical research using EIGE's database and subscribed databases on gender equality topics (EBSCO)
- consult ECLAS, the European Commission's library catalogue.
Visit the library
The library is open to visitors by appointment only from Monday to Friday 14.00 to 16.00.
You are kindly requested to make contact with us in advance, also stating the reasons why you would like to visit EIGE's library, e.g. research literature, request material etc).
Contact the Library
We kindly ask that you use the contact form in order to get in touch with EIGE Resource and Documentation Centre.
Alternatively, please address any traditional mail/post to:
EIGE Resource and Documentation Centre
Švitrigailos g. 11M - 6th floor
03228 - Vilnius, Lithuania
Network and partnerships
EIGE's Resource & Documentation Centre is working in cooperation with:
Aletta - Institute for Women's History, using the European Women's Thesaurus for indexing.
Eurolib Network: grouping of European institutional libraries
Note
- Specialised services such as the preparation of reading lists, information packages or topic-based bibliographies are envisaged for the near future, only upon specific requests. Users will have the possibility to be informed on new arrivals through an electronic news bulletin.
- Rules on intellectual property rights do not permit making photocopies of entire books or of other copyrighted publications.
- For the time being, external visitors to EIGE will not be able to borrow library material(s). Interlibrary loans are also presently unavailable to external users.
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