Description: The Archives Portal Europe is one of the main milestones achieved by the participants of the APEnet Project supported by the European Commission in the eContentplus Programme. The project's consortium currently consists of twelve national archives/national archive administrations and five associate members:
- Archivos Estatales (Spain)
- Archiwa Państwowe (Poland)
- Arhiv Republike Slovenije (Slovenia)
- Bundesarchiv (Germany)
- Γενικά αρχεία του κράτους (Greece)
- Direcção-Geral de Arquivos (Portugal)
- Direction des Archives de France
- Kansallisarkisto (Finland)
- Latvijas Arhīvi (Latvia)
- Nationaal Archief (The Netherlands)
- National Archives of Malta
- Riksarkivet (Sweden)
- National Archives of Ireland
- National Archives of Belgium
- Държавна Агенция Арxиви (Bulgaria)
- Department of Archives Administration and Records Management of the Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic
- Rahvusarhiiv (Estonia)
Users can search across the holdings of 63 institutions with the aid of finding aids (detailed, hierarchically structured descriptions of the archival material in a specific institution's fonds and collections). Finding aids may include links to digitizations of the archival materials at the institutions' own websites. If users need to plan on-site visits to consult the original material, the Directory section--containing contact details and services offered by the different institutions--can be consulted. The directory not only includes those institutions already presenting their archival material in the Archives Portal Europe, but also other institutions from the participating countries whose content is not yet available in the portal.