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is the result of 10 years of work by the Frankfurt Eastern/Western
European Cultural Center
PALAIS JALTA. During the 1990's, the annual book fairs
in Frankfurt offered the most appropriate opportunities for networking
among publishers, as well as for discussions and all kinds of
public events.
In 1998, the company QUESTA.Soft
GmbH arose from the Cultural Center. From the very beginning,
the company started to build-up the technical and logistical basis
for the future operation of C.E.E.O.L. The cooperation between
PALAIS JALTA and QUESTA.Soft mirrors the political and cultural,
along with the economic intentions of C.E.E.O.L.
C.E.E.O.L.'s intention is to be an online
LIBRARY and DOCUMENT SHOP. Its CONTENT is provided by numerous
publishers and editors, mainly from Central European countries,
along with those from the West who deal with Eastern Europe, its
histories, languages and literatures, along with its cultural,
social and political realities. C.E.E.O.L.'s goal is to become
the Internet's main PORTAL to Central and Eastern Europe.
LIBRARY
means that all documents available in C.E.E.O.L. are registered
in a catalogue database which allows online-research by all the
means provided by traditional libraries.
Our CONTENT
consists of electronic versions of publications (mainly periodicals)
from different fields of culture and science. In a second step,
we have begun to include the electronic re-edition of books.
PORTAL
which makes many additional resources from or about Central and
Eastern Europe accessible. C.E.E.O.L. will become the main web
portal for this region of the world.
The project's primary concern is to make
documents available to a public which can currently only gain
limited access when using traditional channels or who have been
previously unaware of the existence of these documents.
Any evaluation of C.E.E.O.L. should be considered
from a double point of view by regarding both the impact on the
users' and on the publishers' side.
C.E.E.O.L.'s scope is to provide a closer
alliance between the people of Europe, based on shared values,
taking into full account national and regional identities, cultures
and values, and especially languages, in the context of the European
Union's enlargement.
C.E.E.O.L. aims to enable communication among
the actors in the East (authors, publishers) and their readers
and counterparts in the West by providing a stable platform on
which this communication can flourish. And, whenever we speak
about "the West" we in fact include the entire world
outside of Central and Eastern Europe.
You will find any information you need
to register as a C.E.E.O.L. user in the
Subscription section.
However, do not hesitate to contact
us. To do so, please use the addresses and telephone numbers which
can be found on our Contact
page.
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