The Publications Office of the European Union is the official provider of publishing services and data, information and knowledge management services to all EU institutions, bodies and agencies. This makes it the central point of access to EU law, publications, open data, research results, procurement notices, and other official information. Text was copied from this source, which is available under
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Its mission is to support EU policies and make a broad range of information publicly available as accessible and reusable data. The overall aim is to facilitate transparency, economic activity, and the dissemination of knowledge. As such, it is the central provider of access to publications of the European Union including legal publications (prominently the ''

Official Journal of the European Union The ''Official Journal of the European Union'' (the ''OJEU'') is the official gazette of record for the European Union (EU). It is published every working day in all of the official languages of the member states of the EU. Only legal acts p ...

''), public

procurement Procurement is the process of locating and agreeing to terms and purchasing goods, services, or other works from an external source, often with the use of a tendering or competitive bidding process. The term may also refer to a contractual ...

notices,

open data Open data are data that are openly accessible, exploitable, editable and shareable by anyone for any purpose. Open data are generally licensed under an open license. The goals of the open data movement are similar to those of other "open(-so ...

and applications.

Functions

* Supports the policies and communication activities of the EU institutions and agencies with its services and offers them expertise and synergies in a number of domains. * Ensures, with its modelling and referencing activities, that the diverse information assets coming from EU institutions take the form of findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR) information and data. * Makes sure that this vast array of official EU information and data – an essential element in today's data-driven economy – is made available to the public to support transparency, economic activity, the development of modern technologies, such as artificial intelligence, and access to knowledge in general. * Makes sure that this content is preserved and made accessible for future generations. * Engages with citizens on a regular and increasing basis to help achieve its objectives. Text was copied from this source, which is available under
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Main audience

The Publications Office's main audience is the public (individuals and businesses). Thanks to its work, a wide range of official EU information is available to the public as findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR) data — essential in today's data-driven economy. The Publications Office thus supports transparency, economic activity, the development of modern technologies such as artificial intelligence, and access to knowledge in general. This means it plays a significant role in several of the EU's political priorities: democracy, the economy, and digital transformation.

Collections and services

* Community Research and Development Information Service (CORDIS), the European Commission's primary source of results from the projects funded by the EU's framework programmes for research and innovation. *

EUR-Lex EUR-Lex is the official online database of European Union law and other public documents of the European Union (EU), published in 24 official Languages of the European Union, languages of the EU. The Official Journal of the European Union, Offici ...

, the gateway to EU law, providing free access to, and information about, public legal documents from the European Union. *TED (

Tenders Electronic Daily Government procurement or public procurement is undertaken by the public authorities of the European Union (EU) and its member states in order to award contracts for public works and for the purchase of goods and services in accordance with pri ...

), the online version of the Supplement to the ''Official Journal of the European Union'', dedicated to European public procurement. It is the official entry point to all business opportunities involving public procurement contracts for values above EU thresholds (EUR 144 000) in the European Union, the

European Economic Area The European Economic Area (EEA) was established via the ''Agreement on the European Economic Area'', an international agreement which enables the extension of the European Union's single market to member states of the European Free Trade Asso ...

and beyond. * the Publications Office

online public access catalogue The online public access catalog (OPAC), now frequently synonymous with ''library catalog'', is an online database of materials held by a library or group of libraries. Online catalogs have largely replaced the analog card catalogs previously ...

(OPAC), allowing librarians or other information professionals, to search in more than 330 000 individual

bibliographic record A bibliographic record is an entry in a bibliographic index (or a library catalog) which represents and describes a specific resource. A bibliographic record contains the data elements necessary to help users identify and retrieve that resource, as ...

s and download

metadata Metadata (or metainformation) is "data that provides information about other data", but not the content of the data itself, such as the text of a message or the image itself. There are many distinct types of metadata, including: * Descriptive ...

of their selected publications into their own catalogues. * th
EU Web Archive
preserves websites of EU institutions, agencies and bodies. It maintains collections using the Archive-It service:
data.europa.eu
the official portal for European data
EU publications
website: the publications of EU institutions, agencies and other bodies in various formats
EU Whoiswho
the directory of the European institutions

Management Committee

The Publications Office of the European Union is managed by its director-general and senior management on the basis of the strategic guidelines set by the management committee.

References

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Functions

Main audience

Collections and services

Management Committee

See also

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