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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

SciFinder-n is a very rich and comprehensive bibliographic reference database in chemistry and applied chemistry.
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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. 

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Jesuit Historiography Online (JHO) is an open access resource offering more than seventy historiographical essays written by experts in their field.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

The New York Times academic site, accessible without a New York Times account.

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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

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.

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.

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).

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).

1300 scientific journal titles and 56,000 ebooks published by Springer from the beginning up to the current year (acquired under a national license).

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