Peer review committees

The Digital Research Infrastructure on European Integration is composed, among other ePublications, of two main collections: ‘European integration studies’ collection and ‘Oral history of European integration’ collection.

In relation with the quality assurance of the ‘European integration studies’ collection, a peer review committee composed of three or four external experts (including members of the CVCE’s Committee of Experts) assesses both the results and the rigor of the method employed in the thematic ePublications.

According to the CVCE Strategy adopted by the Board of Governors on 8 December 2014, the following committees are set up on an interdisciplinary basis by the CVCE’s Committee of Experts:

 

The quality assurance of the ‘Oral history of European integration’ collection is performed through a twofold external peer review.

Firstly, an oral history peer review committee composed of three or four external experts (including members of the CVCE’s Committee of Experts) will assess the implementation of the four-year ‘Oral history of European integration’ programme based on the Strategy Paper at the end of the period in 2017 and provide advice to further develop the collection over the next four-year period of development. Secondly, each peer-review committee set up for a specific thematic ePublication is called on to assess the relevance of a list of potential interviewees in relation with the given research theme.

 

The three peer review committees appointed by the CVCE CE on 26 June 2015 are the following:

1) ‘European integration studies’ collection (temporal strand)

The related thematic ePublications are part of a comprehensive work entitled ‘Historical events in the European integration process’.

2) ‘European integration studies’ collection (institutional strand)

The related thematic ePublications are part of a comprehensive work entitled ‘The origins and development of the European organisations’.

3) ‘Oral history of European integration’ collection.