The Council of Europe's Documentation Center for Education in Europe sponsored case studies of research and development information systems for education in Finland, France, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. The resulting case studies are each divided into the following six sections: (1) the problem of information and documentation in educational research and development; (2) the relation between the information and documentation problem and the design of research and development; (3) constituent parts (transmitters, receivers, and linking personnel and functions); (4) the network; (5) information structures and information processing; and (6) special problems as regards the Eudised project (a trans-Europe cooperative information system). An introductory paper (which is divided into the same topics as the case studies) and a concluding section compare problems and procedures in the different countries and offer general observations about research and development. The French and Swiss studies are in French, while the studies from Finland and the United Kingdom are presented in both French and English. (CD)