VET-Bib explained

VET-Bib
Producer:	European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training
Country:	Greece
Providers:	Cedefop
Cost:	Free
Disciplines:	Vocational education, vocational training, skills
Depth:	Index, abstract
Formats:	EU legislation, research reports, policy documents, statistics, best practices, case studies, conference proceedings, journal articles, glossaries and comparative studies at EU, international and national levels, dissertations, websites etc.
Temporal:	1975-present
Geospatial:	Worldwide, with emphasis on European Union and its member states
Number:	> 80.000
Updates:	Continuously

VET-Bib is a bibliographic database covering European vocational education and training (VET) literature maintained by the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop).

The Cedefop library exists since 1975.^[1] One of its main tasks is to provide reference services on VET.^[2]

Database content

VET-Bib contains over 80.000 references on the topics related to Cedefop's priorities:

• vocational education and training (VET) policy and systems
• qualifications, competences and skills
• vocational guidance and career counselling
• skill needs and shortages
• adult education, continuous and lifelong learning
• informal learning and nonformal learning
• training research
• VET teachers and trainers
• assessment and recognition of learning outcomes and diplomas
• European tools such as the European Qualifications Framework, Europass, and the European Credit System for Vocational Education and Training
• labour mobility and migrant workers

Approximately two thirds of the complete VET-Bib collection is available in full text. VET-Bib is multilingual and all European Union languages are represented in the database.

Database development

The development of VET-Bib is shared between the following institutions:

• Cedefop's library and documentation service: responsible for European and international references, also provides guidelines for collection development, and the indexing tool European Training Thesaurus
• http://www.cedefop.europa.eu/en/content/national-contacts, Cedefop's decentralised network consisting of 27 partners in all EU member states plus Norway and Iceland: each national ReferNet partner provides national references to VET-Bib

Sub products

• VET-Alert: a monthly review on what has just been published on vocational education and training
• VET bibliographies: These are thematic pre-defined bibliographies on key topics of vocational education and training: skill needs, E-learning, Validation of non-formal and informal learning, green skills, lifelong guidance, lifelong learning, etc.

See also

• Education Resources Information Center
• International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
• List of academic databases and search engines

Notes and References

1. Book: Regulation (EEC) No 337/75 of the Council of 10 February 1975 establishing a European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training . 1975. Publications Office. European Commission.
2. Article 2.2 of Regulation (EEC) No 337/75 : The main tasks of the centre [Cedefop] shall be: to compile selected documentation relating in particular to the present situation, the latest developments and research in the relevant fields, and to matters of vocational training structure