Cairn
Cairn offers a comprehensive collection of French language
journals and ebooks collections online. The complete
collection contains over 230 journals and around 1 500
ebooks in the humanities and social sciences, with over
100,000 articles / chapters, which come in full-text format,
and the site is updated each time a journal or a book is
published for the collections proposed.
The project, supported by the Bibliothèque Nationale de
France (French National Library) and the Centre national du
livre (National Book Centre), collects an increasing number
of major journals in the various fields of the Humanities
and social sciences. For each title, the service generally
proposes all issues published from the beginning of 2001,
without any embargo period.
Cairn main subject areas
Economics, Politics, Public affairs, Sociology, Education,
Psychology, History, Literature, Linguistic, Philosophy and
Geography
Journals
You can subscribe to the complete package of over 230
journals, or to any of the following sub-collections:
- Humanities and social science package, (all but the psychology journals)
- Economics, social and political sciences package.
- Humanities package, journals in
history, literature, philosophy and general interest
- OCDE package, journals published by
OCDE
A full list of titles per package is available using the
link on the right of this page.
ebooks
There are two ebook packages available:
- Collective books of research collections – 600
ebooks from 90 collections
- The famous French reference book collection:
“Que sais-je ?” – 800 ebooks
A full list of titles per package is available using the
link on the right of this page.
