The RTD-Publications Database contains bibliographic references and abstracts of publications resulting from Research and Technological Development (RTD) programmes financed wholly or partly from the budget of the European Communities. These programmes are normally implemented through contractual agreements placed by the European Commission with commercial organizations, research institutes, universities, or other bodies. In addition, the database contains references to other scientific and technical publications of the Commission not necessarily related to specific RTD programmes.

• Publications, known as EUR reports, including scientific and technical studies, monographs, proceedings of conferences, workshops and contractors' meetings, organized by the European Commission as well as progress, final and evaluation reports from contract research.

• Articles and conference papers resulting from the Commission's research work.
• Other reports and documents associated with Community RTD activities and produced by the Commission.

Within the database abstracts are in English, and the title of the publication is in both English and the original language. If the document exists in more than one Community language the citation is usually given for the English language document, and the availability of other language versions is also indicated.

The database contains records dating from 1962. From 1990 onwards record contents are in a form to allow consistency with other CORDIS databases. Therefore the information contained in certain record fields may occasionally be incomplete or vary in format and style.

To provide maximum coverage for users preliminary records are created as soon as documents become available with sufficient information for their identification. The database is updated frequently, which enables these preliminary records to be completed.

• Information that enables documents to be identified.
• Information that enables the content of documents to be assessed.
• Supplementary information that enables documents to be related to specific RTD programmes or projects listed in other CORDIS databases.

Summary of Fields

Note: Every record includes the fields marked with a red asterisk "*"; other fields are also included if relevant information is available.

Quality Validation Date

The date that the information was checked prior to loading it on to the host.
 Example entry: 2002-03-18

Update Date

This field shows the date that the record was created or last updated. It is not necessarily the date on which the information was current.
 Example entry: 2002-02-26

Record Control Number

This field contains a number which provides a unique reference for each record in this database. When noted, it is a useful way of quickly retrieving the same record subsequently. It should be noted in the event of queries to the CORDIS Help Desk when these relate to a specific record.
 Example entry: 200214455

Abstract

This field contains a brief English language abstract of the publication content. This abstract is normally provided by the author.
 Example entry: This report by a panel of independent experts reviews the activities of the EC Esprit programme. The period covered, 1991 to mid-1996, encompasses Esprit in the Third Framework Programme (Esprit III, 1991-1994) and in the first part of the Fourth. The key issues addressed were...

Author(s)

This is a multiple entry field containing the names of the authors as well as the department and organization they represented for the publication.
 Example entry: CARNEIRO R Department of Education, Catholic University of Portugal (PT)

Availability in Languages

This field contains ISO 639 two-letter language codes that indicate the languages in which the publication is available.

Where more than one language is given the separator used indicates the format in which the publication is available.
 Example entries:

Title in English

This field contains either the original English language title, or an English language translation of the original title if it is not in English.
 Example entry: Five year assessment of the specific programme: Information technologies

Bibliographic Reference

This is a multiple entry field providing descriptive information which can be used to identify a publication, and information relating to the availability of the publication. The information provided depends on the type of publication involved.
 Example entry: EUR 19434 EN (2002), pp.141. Euro: Free of charge;
ISBN: 92-894-1837-0;
EUR-OP reference: KI-NA-19434-EN-S.
Available from: Documentation Service of DG Research:
Fax: +32-2-29-58220.
E-mail: research@cec.eu.int

EUR-OP Reference

This field contains the EUR-OP (Office for Official Publications of the European Union) reference number. The field is usually absent in the recent records, because the EUR-OP reference also appears in the Bibliographic Reference field.
 Example entry: CG-NA-17601-EN-C

Facet Codes

This is a multiple entry field containing the RTD-Publications subject index codes and the related headings. They are used to describe the basic subject matter of the publication. A list box showing the full list of facet codes can be found in the Professional Search interface.
 Example entry: IT application technologies; Remote sensing

Publication Year

This field shows the year of publication. Where the year of publication is not available the year is shown as an approximation, or the date of coverage of the publication, or the copyright date. For oral communications it is the date the paper was presented.
 Example entry: 1997

Publication Type

This is a multiple entry field indicating the types of publication identified by the record (e.g. an article in a journal, an oral conference paper, an EUR report, etc).
 Example entry: A report issued by the Commission as an EUR report and identified by its EUR number

Euroabstracts Number

This field contains the reference number to the citation in the Euroabstracts journal. It indicates the section, the volume and the sequential accession number within the volume. This field has not been used since the end of 1997, when the Euroabstracts journal stopped publishing an 'Abstracts' section.
 Example entry: EAB135150900

Commission Service

This is a multiple entry field whose use began in 1991. It shows the Commission Directorate-General (DG) or service responsible for initiating the publication.
 Example entry: DG XIII; Enterprise DG

Subject Index Codes

This field shows the SIC codes assigned to a publication. A list box showing the full list SIC codes can be found in the Professional Search interface
 Example entry: Information Processing, Information Systems; Information, Media

Programme

Publications relating to a given programme can be identified by selecting an acronym from the Programme Acronym listbox. The acronym provides a consistent means of cross-referencing between databases. This is a multiple entry field.
 Example entry: INNOVATION-SME

Project Reference

This field contains the project reference number of the specific project from which the publication resulted, and provides a link to the RTD-Projects database.
 Example entry: D2.5/96

Project Title

This field contains the project title that corresponds to the project reference in the adjacent field.
 Example entry: ENTERPRISE INTEGRATION - INTERNATIONAL CONSENSUS

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