Is the ECB’s communication policy a model ?

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Odd ? No, at least as far as the publications of the European Central Bank (ECB) are concerned.

It is indeed possible to subscribe to the RSS feeds and to receive directly all the titles of the publications and studies ( see below). This kind of service don’t exist anywhere else within the EU websites

Nevertheless some improvements are possible:

• a notifying service by email (at present many people are not aware of the RSS feeds potential,
• an abstract in other languages (like on the OECD website),
• a more focused thematic choice of the publications
• a merger with publications and studies focused on the same matters but published by other European Institutions

Sources :

Fed Speak

"Mister Greenspan, are you or do you ever intend to, and if not why

not, and if so how and when?"

Greenspan replied, "Yes and no."(He later added, "And if you feel I answered the question, I'm sorry.") 

The EBC’ RSS notifying service

The EU-bookshop RSS feed (presently not yet operational)

…but there is a service to notify by email for EU-Bookshop 
( the titles are sometimes not very informative)



The publications about the theme "finance, money ..) 

The OECD translations of abstracts




See also for another domain

Massive online depository of public information : about the public.ressource.org experiment, Stephane Cottin, 24-08-2007

Mise en ligne massive de documents publics : à propos de l’expérience de public.ressource.org

Le 24 août 2007, par Stephane Cottin