CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, has opened its scientific multimedia collections to searches by the Energy Department’s ScienceCinema. The ScienceCinema website performs searches of the audio in a database of audio and video presentations; results link directly to multimedia files. Aside from the CERN works, the content is from the U.S. Energy Department and its national laboratories. (For more information, see our previous blog post: ScienceCinema: DOE Multimedia Search, 9 February 2011.)

The CERN materials are audio files only at this point. They include recordings for both general and expert audiences interested in particle physics research. To limit a ScienceCinema search to CERN content only, choose theBibliographic Search option and select the button for CERN under ‘Media Source’ in the lower right corner.

Also see the Energy Department press release, CERN Multimedia Now Playing at DOE’s Science Cinema, 25 May 2011.

The European Union launched a new European e-Justice Portal this week. Versions of the site are available in the European Union languages, including English. The Council of the European Union website explains the need for the portal:

Ten million citizens in the EU are engaged in cross-border judicial
procedures each year. With the new electronic one-stop-shop the answers
to their questions – in 22 languages – will be only a click away. The
portal helps citizens, businesses, lawyers and judges with legal
questions involving another member state.

For more coverage of the new site, see:

• European e-Justice Internet portal up and running, Euroalert.net news
  European e-Justice Portal Now Available, Legal Informatics blog