Cairn.info offers an extensive collection of publications in the French language in the areas of Humanities and Social Sciences. In 2017, Cairn will offer over 440  journals and more than 6,000 eBooks from major French, Belgian and Swiss publishers on the same platform, enabling students, scholars and librarians to access more than 350,000 full-text articles and book chapters online.

The number of journals in the Full Collection (‘Général’) grew from 256 in 2011 to 440 in 2016, and is expected to continue to grow over the period of this renewed agreement. The project is supported by the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (French National Library) and the Centre National Du Livre (National Book Centre).

Institutions can subscribe to the «Bouquet Général», which is the complete collection of over 440 journals, or to any of the following sub-collections:

– Humanities and Social Science Collection, 345 journals in 2016
– Economics, Social and Political Sciences Collection, 235 journals in 2016
– French Studies Collection, 138 journals in 2016 in the areas of History, French Literature and Philosophy

A subscription to one of the «bouquets» includes access to the English version of the journals that are part of the «bouquet» on Cairn International Edition, provided the English version exists (in 2016 over 200 journals have English full-text articles available).

As well as journals, there are also collections of eBooks, (around 600 eBooks) and reference collections such as «Que sais-je?», a Pocket Encyclopedias collection from the French Publisher PUF (880 titles).

When placing an order, please select the required option(s) on the Jisc Collections website. The order will be forwarded to the publisher.