Despite the excellent weather, visitors are still arriving in droves at the fair.

Among the visitors to our stand over the weekend have been a number of school classes interested in finding out about how the Publications Office works for the EU institutions, agencies and other bodies. The most frequent buzz words have been ‘EU publications and information’ and ‘free access’.

Although we still have a number of excellent publications, our stock has been depleted of popular titles such as The ABC of European Union law and Europe in 12 lessons: titles which you can order FREE on EU Bookshop. So don’t worry. But come by and see the range of other fascinating publications on display.

If you haven’t been to our stand so far, why not drop in. We’re on stand 425, corridor G, Hall 4.2. Ask our hosts anything about our FREE services. They are there for you — until 5pm this Sunday.

More information at: http://publications.europa.eu/

This Saturday and Sunday, come and visit the stand of the Publications Office of the European Union — the EU’s publishing house. We’re in Hall 4.2, Corridor G, Stand 425. We’ve brought a wide range of publications for you to browse through or even take home free.

Don’t hesitate to ask our hosts anything about our services or the EU in general. We are here for you.

http://publications.europa.eu/

A fairytale often ends with the words ‘and they lived happily ever after’.

This story is not a fairytale, but we do hope you will be very happy with the new version of EUR-Lex and that the changes will facilitate your access to EU law.

The new website will go live in 2012. The existing and the new versions will run for some time in parallel.

For us the story does not end there! Our aim is to keep improving the website, by incorporating technical evolutions, by extending the content, but also by implementing your feedback. Therefore, we are curious to have your feedback about EUR-Lex.

Send your comments to: eurlex-helpdesk@publications.europa.eu

Go and discover EUR-Lex for yourself: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/en/index.htm

STAND 425, HALL 4.2: Come to our stand today, 14 October, at 14:30–15:30 for the presentation by the authors (CNR-ISAC and DG RTD) of:

The atlas of climate change impact on European cultural heritage

EC Cultural Heritage Research Series No 19 — Edited by C. Sabbioni, P. Brimblecombe and M. Cassar — Published in partnership with Anthem Press.

Climate change has only recently begun to be considered as a relevant factor threatening built heritage, archaeological sites and cultural landscapes, and is now attracting interest both at research and policy levels. The atlas of climate change impact on European cultural heritage fills the existing gap in studies on the effects of future climate variations on cultural heritage, producing maps that link climate change science to the potential damage to cultural heritage.

The atlas presents different types of maps highlighting current research outputs and predictions of future scenarios. You will find climate maps, displaying traditional climate parameters relevant to cultural heritage, and specific heritage climatologies; damage maps that quantitatively express the damage induced by climate parameters on building materials in future scenarios; risk and multiple‑risk maps showing areas of increasing or decreasing risk across European regions; and thematic sections focusing on the specific processes of damage that may arise from climate change.

The atlas includes key recommendations for policy-makers managing the impact of climate change on European heritage sites. The atlas is also supported by management guidelines that provide heritage managers with advice on initiating mitigation and adaptation measures to protect European cultural heritage in the face of climate change.

You’ll find this and other partnership publications in our new Editoral Partnership catalogue: http://bookshop.europa.eu/en/editorial-partnership-pbOAAR11001/

Today has been another active day for the Publications Office at the Frankfurt Book Fair, with conferences, presentations and meetings (see programme in previous post) following in quick succession. 

There have been numerous productive meetings with private publishers, both large global ones as well as small, specialised independent ones. (Of course, as an EU office, we cannot mention the names of these companies.)

Many publishers were interested to find out about the call for expression of interest (see previous interest). We met a number of publishers who had replied to the call for interest.

At the European Publisher Forum, Commissioner Neelie Kroes was present to discuss various topics such as tax regime for e-books or print books, copyright harmonsation, conditions for licensing, standardisation and open platforms, europeana and so on.  

More news tomorrow.

You will be able to register for free on the new EUR-Lex. After registration, you get a personal space on the website: My EUR-Lex. There you can define your preferences, e.g. in relation to visualisation and navigation. You can also save and manage documents, queries and RSS feeds. My EUR-Lex is directly accessible from anywhere on the website, allowing you, at any moment, quick access to your favourite content and searches.

Registered users will also be able to interact with the EUR-Lex website and with other users. It will be possible to register for predefined RSS feeds and to create personalised notifications based on search queries. This system will replace the current notification service LexAlert. A ‘social network’ will make it possible to share expertise with other users. You can get in touch with people who share your fields of interest by asking them questions or giving your opinion on their requests.

Curious to read how the story ends? Maybe you will find the answer in the next instalment.

9:30–14:00 (exact time to be determined), Conference Center, Room Illusion: Metadata perspectives conference. Paying participation.

10:00–10:30, SPARKS Hall 4.2: ‘CORDIS: EU Research results and collaborative networks’. Free participation.

14:30–15:30, stand G 425, Hall 4.2: Presentation of UK economy: the crisis in perspective with the authors from the Commission’s DG for Economic and Financial Affairs. Published in partnership with Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. Free participation.

16:45–17:15, SPARKS Hall 4.2: Environmental publications available on EU Bookshop. Free participation.

If you’ve been to our stand or visited one of our conferences, we want to hear from you. You may also want to find out more about our services or how we could work together through an editorial partnership. Leave us your comments and questions using the ‘reply feature’. We look forward to hearing from you.