What is ERPA?

The ERPA network was founded by the Harvard Jean Monnet Chair, Prof. J.H.H. Weiler; the directors of the Cologne Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Prof. Fritz Scharpf and Prof. Wolfgang Streeck; Prof. Philip Alston (Academy of European Law) and Prof. Yves Mény (Robert Schuman Centre) of the European University Institute; and the editor of the European Integration online Papers (EIoP), Dr. Michael Nentwich. The editors of the founding series are members of the management board. In the meantime, a few further papers joined the network (see below).

ERPA's aim is to provide a common access point for the online working paper series of the participating institutions in order to help researchers in the field of European Integration studies searching the growing number of working papers now available in the internet. ERPA is confined to high quality series in order to guarantee high standards. The participating series editors achieve this high level of scholarship by different means: while the Max Planck Institute, and the Harvard Jean Monnet Chair practise high-level internal refereeing, the Robert Schuman Centre and the EIoP have a double-blind review process with two referees per paper. All further participating series subscribe to a similar high-quality policy (see descriptions below).

How complete is the ERPA database? It includes all papers of the participating series which deal with aspects of European Integration and are available online. See for details about the participating series on the pages below. Other papers cannot be searched via ERPA but have to be accessed through the participating institutes' homepages or ordered directly.

ERPA is open for new members which meet certain conditions. Here is our policy vis-à-vis new applicants.

See for further details on the members of the ERPA network and their series:

1. RSCAS Working papers of the European University Institute (founding member)
2. Harvard Jean Monnet Working Papers Series (now: Jean Monnet Working Papers; founding member)
3. Discussion Papers & Working Papers of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (founding member)
4. European Integration online Papers (EIoP) (founding member)
5. Working papers of ARENA (Advanced Research on the Europeanisation of the Nation-State) (joined 1998)
6. Working papers of the MZES (Mannheim Centre for European Social Research) (joined 1999)
7. The ESRC One Europe or Several? Programme Working papers (joined 2001)
8. Queen’s Papers on Europeanisation (joined 2001)
9. Constitutionalism Web-Papers (ConWEB) (joined 2003)
10. Department of Law working papers of the European University Institute (EUI)(joined 2004)
11. European Governance Papers (EUROGOV) (joined 2006)
12. RECON (Reconstituting Democracy in Europe) Online Working Papers (joined 2007)
13. EUROSPHERE Working Paper Series (EWP) (joined 2009)
14. Living Reviews in European Governance (LREG) (joined 2009)

All papers in ERPA are included in the database with the following details:

• author(s)
• title
• keywords
• date of publication
• full text
• abstract (not available for all)

There are two different search forms, a shorter and a longer one: The shorter gives you the opportunity to update yourself on the latest entries in the ERPA database and to make a simple query in the authors' and titles' database. The longer, advanced search form gives you access to all search modes, including full text search. Here, you may choose whether to search in all participating series or in only one or some of them. The search result is a list of papers matching your search string including a clickable reference to the respective papers.

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