Databases
Archives of Scientific Journal Collections. The ACS Legacy Archives allow researchers to understand, throughout history, the chain of discoveries that led to modern chemistry and greatly influenced fields such as biology, physics, medicine, agriculture, and engineering.
Arkyves is both a unique database of images and texts and a meeting place for everyone who wants to study imagery and publish about it. All visual and textual sources are made accessible with the help of the multilingual vocabulary for cultural content of the Iconclass system. By using this system, it has been made possible to find and retrieve images and texts from various sources on a specific topic. Currently, Arkyves provides access to almost 900,000 images, texts, etc. from libraries and museums in many countries, including the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD), the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel, and the university libraries of Milan, Utrecht, and Glasgow. More collections will follow in the near future. The database also contains a link to the images available in open access.
arXiv is an open-access archive of electronic preprints containing over 2 million scientific articles in fields such as physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering, and systems, as well as economics.
Thirty-two journal titles in all fields of chemistry, published between 2000 and 2019 by the publisher Bentham Science. To view the list of titles, access the corpus on the national licenses platform.
Specialized in arts, humanities and social sciences, law, business, and management, as well as study skills, Bloomsbury Collections’ selection places lifelong learning at the heart of our activity to inspire, educate, and inform, emphasizing that intellectual curiosity and educational success go hand in hand.
Archives of medical journals published by the BMJ (British Medical Journal). 39 journal titles are available online, from their origins up to 2012, on the ISTEX platform.
BMJ Journals is a collection of more than 60 medical and allied science titles. They are published by BMJ, the global healthcare knowledge provider and pioneer in the development of open access.
Specialized in ancient and medieval history, literature, linguistics, medieval thought, and theology, 849 digital book titles are accessible on the ISTEX platform.
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Covering a wide variety of disciplines in the humanities, 23 journal titles are available online on the ISTEX platform.
Jesuit Historiography Online (JHO) is an open access resource offering more than seventy historiographical essays written by experts in their field.
Archives of scientific journals published by Brill from their inception until 2012, primarily devoted to the humanities and social sciences, international law and human rights, as well as biology. 220 journal titles are available online on the ISTEX platform.
The courses of The Hague Academy are published in the Collected Courses, the Academy’s flagship collection. These contributions from prestigious authors deal with the theoretical and practical aspects of the subject, including legislation and case law. 4 titles are accessible under the National Licenses on the ISTEX platform.
The corpus includes the digital version of 240 research works originally published between 1961 and 2020 in three collections specializing in Greek and Roman religion:
- Religions in the Graeco-Roman World (RGRW)
- Preliminary Studies on Eastern Religions in the Roman Empire (EPRO)
- Studies in Greek and Roman Religion.
It brings together studies in religious history, commentaries on ancient textual sources, and catalogs of archaeological sources. The two main languages of publication are French and English; German and Italian are also represented.
The French portal of 370 titles in the humanities and social sciences. For journals distributed on Cairn.info, as a general rule, all articles published from the first issue of 2001 to the last issue that appeared are thus offered online, in full text. The content thus gathered (more than 200,000 journal articles) is accessible.
PSL offers you access to the Cambridge University Press electronic book collections, with more than 44,000 titles published by Cambridge and their publishing partners, available until February 28, 2023. Afterward, the most popular titles during this period will be acquired on a permanent basis.
Cogent OA, which is part of Taylor & Francis, publishes a series of open-access journals in all major branches of medicine, science, humanities and social sciences, and the arts.
This legal database contains Dalloz news, legal codes, and all legal journals accessible on the dalloz.fr platform.
Exceptionally, access to this database is reserved exclusively for students, teaching researchers, and administrative staff of the PSL center (thus excluding students, teaching researchers, and staff of component, partner, and associated institutions).
With 1 generalist daily online, 2 weekly journals in private law and public law, and 28 other specialized titles, Dalloz journals cover the essentials of the subjects on which a jurist, whatever their specialty, is likely to work at some point.
Exceptionally, access to this database is reserved exclusively for students, teaching researchers, and administrative staff of the PSL center (students, teaching researchers, and personnel of component, partner, and associated institutions are therefore excluded).
Archives of collections of scientific journals in French, edited by De Gruyter and published under various editorial brands between 1965 and 2017, in seven disciplines of the humanities: art and architecture, classical studies, history, linguistics, literature, philosophy, theology, and religion. They are accessible as part of the National Licenses on the ISTEX platform.
Accessible within the framework of the National Licenses, the Early English Books Online (EEBO) database offers the digitized version of the entirety of printed materials (books, journals, pamphlets, almanacs, etc.) published between 1473 and 1700 in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and the British colonies of North America, as well as works in the English language printed elsewhere during the same period. Among the 125,000 documents in the corpus, 25,000 are digitized in text mode, making it possible to search for occurrences.
The corpus includes digitized collections of documents from the National Library of Florence’s holdings (15th-17th centuries), organized according to four themes:
- The Nenci Aldine Collection, which gathers more than 770 editions printed by Aldo Manutius and the Aldine Press, a famous printing house founded in Venice in 1494.
- Volumes of particular scientific and historical interest due to the marginal annotations indexed in the database: 64 copies (16th-17th centuries), some of which include Galileo’s annotations.
- The incunabula collection: nearly 1,200 volumes, including the first editions of works by Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, as well as the collection of the preacher Savonarola.
- The collection of sacre rappresentazioni: more than 780 editions (16th-17th centuries) of the religious theatrical genre developed in the 15th century in Tuscany.
EDP Sciences is a French scientific, technical, and medical publisher jointly owned by the French Physical Society, the Chemical Society of France, the Society of Applied and Industrial Mathematics, and the French Optical Society. The corpus acquired under the National Licenses includes 90 journal titles, often from their first issue up to 2012, including the prestigious Journal de Physique and Le Radium. It covers fields ranging from mathematics to life sciences, including physics and biology.
ECCO has more than 180,000 titles (200,000 volumes) printed between 1701 and 1800 in Great Britain and the British colonies. The selection of titles is largely based on the collections of the British Library from the English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC), but also on the catalogs of more than 1,500 university, private, and public libraries, including those of Oxford, Harvard, Huntington, and Cambridge. You also have access to Artemis Primary Sources, a virtual environment that allows you to launch frequency and relationship analyses on the texts contained in ECCO.
An encyclopedia written in French, published in print volumes and on the Internet. Universalis is the reference encyclopedia for the French-speaking world. It is dedicated to research, general culture, and education, catering to both individuals and professionals (schools, communities, libraries, businesses, etc.). Universalis provides high-quality answers across all disciplines and major fields of knowledge through various media.
More than 4000 press titles (including Le Monde, The Economist, Harvard Business Review, The Washington Post, The Guardian, El País, Die Tageszeitung, Datamonitor, Reuters Medical News, etc.), and more than 1 million reports and statistics since 1980 (in French and in English).
Published by The Geological Society, the corpus acquired under the National Licenses consists of the archives of the Special Publications from the Lyell Collection. It covers the first 305 titles of this collection of ebooks published by GSL Publishing between 1964 and 2008.
GlobalExam is a training platform for language exams (TOEFL, TOEIC, BULATS, IELTS, Cambridge ‘B2 First’, Bright Spanish, French Knowledge Test and Diploma). Several languages are offered: English, Spanish, French, German, Chinese.
Access modalities: once on the platform, authenticate yourself in the Connection space. If you encounter any difficulties, please inquire at the library of your home institution.
IOPscience is an online service for journal content published by IOP Publishing. IOPscience embraces innovative technologies to make it easier for researchers to access scientific, technical and medical content.
The archives of Le Monde allow researchers to digitally travel through decades to become eyewitnesses of history. Covering the major issues and events, such as World War II and the Fifth Republic, European and international politics, society and business, the ProQuest Historical Newspapers database - Le Monde contains articles from Le Monde published between its inception in 1944 and the year 2000.
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The Lyell Collection represents one of the largest integrated collections of online Earth Science literature available. Bringing together key journals, Special Publications and Society book series on a single site, the Lyell Collection is a unique resource for researcher and student alike.
In a national license, the Nature journal from 1869 to 2012, as well as seven other titles from the group from their inception to 2012, are accessible on the ISTEX platform: Nature Chemistry, Nature Cell Biology, Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, Nature Immunology, Nature Reviews Immunology, Nature Reviews Neuroscience, Nature Reviews Drug Discovery
The New York Times academic site, accessible without a New York Times account.
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This unique and exclusive collection, created in partnership with Autrement editions, brings together almost all of the titles from the authoritative ‘Atlas’ collection, both in France and abroad. Dedicated to issues of global, national, or supranational scope, they favor a cross-disciplinary approach and address history, geopolitics, and major societal questions in a modern and educational manner.
Accessible within the framework of National Licenses, the French and Francophone Literature database includes 145 titles published between 1968 and 2015. Composed from a Francophone perspective, it gathers several titles dedicated to French-language literature (Caribbean, Vietnam, Quebec, Africa), numerous monographs and biographies of writers, studies on works, as well as cross-disciplinary approaches by genres or periods. All eras are represented, from the Middle Ages to the present day, with a strong presence of the 19th century (particularly around Émile Zola and naturalism) and the 20th century (Albert Cohen, Jean Genet, Milan Kundera, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Georges Simenon, etc.).
The French Revolution - First Empire database, which includes 122 titles published between 1962 and 2015 and acquired as part of the National Licenses, covers the period from the fall of the monarchy to the collapse of the Napoleonic Empire and the Restoration of 1815. It combines the works of several scholarly societies (Société des études robespierristes, Napoleon Foundation and Institute) and specialized or general publishers
OpenEdition is a complete electronic publishing infrastructure serving scientific information in the humanities and social sciences. Of international scope, the OpenEdition portal includes four platforms for publication and information in the humanities and social sciences: OpenEdition Journals (journals), OpenEdition Books (book collections), Hypothèses (research notebooks), and Calenda (announcements of international academic events). The portal thus constitutes a space dedicated to the enhancement of research, publishing tens of thousands of scientific documents that promote open access, while respecting the economic balance of publications.
Accessible within the framework of National Licenses, the corpus includes 264 titles of scientific journals published by Oxford University Press from their inception until 2010.
The Persée portal is a portal for the dissemination of scientific publications, mainly in the field of humanities and social sciences but also in earth and environmental sciences. Opened in 2005, it ensures the dissemination of heritage collections (the oldest document distributed dates from 1840) and currently disseminates nearly 400 collections, or more than 1 million documents in full text and free access.
Discover more than 30,000 editorialized video clips from INA.
With France 24, you have access to thousands of video podcasts with reports filmed around the world. Our offer includes 4 global continuous news channels in French, English, Arabic, and Spanish.
Find 40,000 podcasts from the seven complementary channels of Radio France, the leading French radio group: France Inter, franceinfo, France Bleu, France Culture, France Musique, Fip, and Mouv’.
With RFI, discover thousands of podcasts on the economy, ecology, new innovations, world news, etc. A French news radio, broadcast worldwide in French and in 15 other languages.
Duke University’s presses are known for their publications in the field of mathematics (Project Euclid). The title acquired under the National Licenses consists of volumes 1 to 161, published from 1935 to 2012.
A comprehensive study of current publications in the fields of visual and applied arts. This collection includes specialized indexes such as ARTbibliographies Modern (covering modern and contemporary art), Design and Applied Arts Index (for all aspects of design and crafts), and the International Bibliography of Art (covering scholarship on the history of Western art), as well as a complementary collection.
The Premium Arts Collection includes interchangeable databases with thousands of journal titles, allowing for in-depth research in vast collections in specialized fields not covered in more general databases. The fields covered include: art, design, architecture, humanities, film/screen studies, music, performing arts, etc. With international coverage and access to definitive indexes in these fields, the Premium Arts Collection facilitates academic research and is a rich source for comprehensive analyses of artistic literature.
Supporting comprehensive literature reviews, this resource combines seminal interchangeable bibliographies in music and performing arts, with the full text of hundreds of journals.
ProQuest One Business is a comprehensive research platform designed for professionals, students, and researchers in management and business. It provides centralized access to high-quality resources: scholarly articles, analyst reports, market studies, videos, and case studies from renowned publications and industry experts.
Full-text archives of 430 journals covering the fields of arts and humanities and social sciences, from their inception to 2000 or 2005 depending on the titles.
A comprehensive survey of current publications related to film scholarship alongside detailed and expansive filmographies. This collection includes the specialist index FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Database and the detailed and complementary filmographies created by the American Film Institute and the British Film Institute; AFI Catalog and Film Index International.
Over 140,000 full-text e-book titles, published by more than 500 publishers (e.g., Brill Academic Publishers, Cambridge University Press, Columbia University Press, Cornell University Press, Harvard University Press, I.B. Tauris, Indiana University Press, John Benjamins Publishing, John Wiley & Sons, MIT Press, Oxford University Press, Palgrave Macmillan, Peter Lang, Rodopi, Stanford University Press, Taylor & Francis, University of California Press, The World Bank, Yale University Press).
PubMed comprises more than 29 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
The Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (RAI) is the world's longest-established scholarly association dedicated to the furtherance of anthropology (the study of humankind) in its broadest and most inclusive sense.
1200 books published by the Royal Society of Chemistry between 1968 and 2014 (accessible within the framework of National Licenses on the ISTEX platform).
Acquired within the framework of National Licenses, 118 titles of scientific journals published by the Royal Society of Chemistry from the beginning (the oldest issue dating from 1841) up to 2010 are accessible on the ISTEX platform.
Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge” is undoubtedly the oldest learned society still in activity. Equivalent to the Academy of Sciences in France, it counted Isaac Newton among its prestigious presidents. Founded in 1660, the Royal Society of London began publishing the journal Philosophical Transactions in 1665, representative of the advent of experimental sciences; the RSL is also at the origin of the peer-review system for evaluating articles. The corpus acquired within the framework of National Licenses covers the 29 titles published by the Royal Society, from the beginning up to and including 2014, among which are current titles: Proceedings A and B, Philosophical Transactions A and B, Notes and Records, Biographical Memoirs, Interface and Interface Focus, as well as Biology Letters.
748 titles of scientific journals in all fields published by the publisher Sage from the beginning (the oldest issue dating from 1847) up to 2009.
More than 2200 titles of scientific journals published by Elsevier from the beginning up to 2001, accessible within the framework of National Licenses on the ISTEX platform.
SciFinder-n is a very rich and comprehensive bibliographic reference database in chemistry and applied chemistry.
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SciVal offers quick and easy access to the research performance of more than 14,000 research institutes and 230 countries around the world. An out-of-the-box solution with unmatched flexibility and power, SciVal allows you to visualize research performance, benchmark yourself against your peers, develop collaborative partnerships and analyze research trends.
1300 scientific journal titles and 56,000 ebooks published by Springer from the beginning up to the current year (acquired under a national license).
PSL offers you access both to Taylor and Francis Ebooks in Open Access and also to a selection of 366 electronic books until November 15, 2023. Among these latest titles, the most popular during this period will be acquired permanently.
Scientific articles and technical documentation in the field of engineering sciences.
The idea is simple: to inform and unite all the players in research, from doctoral students to university directors, including (teaching-) researchers, engineers, laboratory or university directors, librarians, communicators… All research actors, regardless of their discipline and career level, deserve quality information about their profession. TheMetaNews is an online newspaper distributed by email that also offers archives of News sent to subscribers. TheMetaNews is a young independent media without advertising. It offers a summary of research news in 5 minutes of reading, via 2 issues per week sent directly by email [newsletter].
To receive TheMetaNews, you simply sign up by filling out the form.
After receiving a confirmation email, each subscriber will therefore receive two issues per week, on Wednesday and Friday at 9 am.
The corpus includes the digital version of 312 research works, selected from the titles of the Torrossa Edición Española Online collection. The selection offers a broad overview of the regional diversity of Iberian studies, with works published in Castilian, Catalan, and Galician, by academic publishers from different regions of Spain. The corpus brings together studies in history and art history, civilization, religious history, political science, linguistics, and literature, published since 1994.
Trismegistos est une base de données qui permet de comparer le contenu des papyrus en langue gréco-romaine et les écritures égyptiennes.
The corpus includes the works of more than fifty leading theologians of the 20th century (616 titles), as well as the archives of Reinhold Niebuhr (more than 3,000 documents). The main themes represented are Protestantism, Catholicism, Evangelicalism, Lutheranism, Liberation Theology, Systematic Theology, Dialectical Theology, and Theocentric Theology.
U.K. Parliamentary Papers is a primary source base on British political life from the 17th century to the present day. Parliamentary documents are the main and most detailed source for all areas of social, economic and foreign policy in Britain. This comprehensive collection brings together the British parliamentary documents now held in different institutions, namely the complete collection of the archives of the House of Commons and the House of Lords, but also of committee reports, commissioners' reports, accounts and documents of commandment. All articles are searchable in full text.
Web of Science is a platform (produced by Clarivate Analytics) that provides access to numerous references of scientific articles, conference proceedings, and books. A link to the full text is often available. It is a platform of bibliographic databases that also allows the generation of bibliometric indicators (statistical analysis of publications).
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PSL offers you access to Wiley’s electronic book collections from the past five years, until May 30, 2023. Afterward, the most popular titles during this period will be acquired on a permanent basis.
Nearly 2200 titles of scientific journals published by Wiley from the beginning until 2016.