Your Digital Access to the French Humanities

Cairn.info
Created in 2005 by four Belgian and French publishers (De Boeck Supérieur, La
Découverte, Belin and Éres), Cairn.info offers the most comprehensive online collectionof French-language academic publications in humanities and social sciences from morethan 130 publishing houses such as the Presses Universitaires de France, Armand Colin,Lavoisier, Gallimard, Le Seuil, La Documentation française, Vrin, Le Cerf, Editions del’EHESS, ENS, EDP, ESKA, Klincksieck, Les Belles Lettres and many others.
In 2015, more than 400 journals, 4,000 eBooks and 1,300 pocket encyclopedias areavailable on www.cairn.info, providing students, scholars, researchers and librarians withan online access to more than 300,000 full-text articles and book chapters.
Among the publications available on www.cairn.info, you will find a great number ofprestigious French language academic journals and eBooks covering a wide array of
disciplines such as literature, linguistics, philosophy, history, sociology, economics,
political science, education, psychology and geography.

Cairn International Edition
Today, Cairn.info offers the most comprehensive online collection ofpublications in French in humanities and social sciences. To make this content
more visible and accessible to non-francophone scholars, Cairn.info, with thesupport of the CNL (Centre national du livre [National Book Center]), hasdesigned a special interface enabling users to browse and easily find content
from French journals without the need to speak a word of French:
http://www.cairn-int.info/.
All current issues are listed and their tables of contents can be browsed freelyin English. For all issues, users can access abstracts in English, as well as,when available, full-text versions in English.

Cairn’s "Bouquets"
Journals
The journals available in digital format on Cairn.info are high-quality French language
academic journals in all major fields of the social sciences and humanities: Les Annales,
Esprit, Le Débat, Actes de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales, Hérodote, Revue française de science politique,
Revue internationale et stratégique, Revue française de sociologie, Revue française de psychanalyse, Revued’histoire littéraire de la France, Politique étrangère, Vingtième siècle, etc.
Unlimited access to the full content of those journals, from 2001 onwards, totalling morethan 150,000 articles, is available through annual institutional subscriptions without any
embargo on the print version.
◆◆"Bouquet Général" (400 journals in 2015);◆◆"Bouquet Humanities & Social Sciences" (310 journals), including journals in literature,linguistics, philosophy, history, economics, politics, sociology, geography and law;◆◆

"Bouquet EcoSocPol" (200 journals), including journals in economics, politics,sociology, geography and law;◆◆

"Bouquet French Studies" (130 journals), including journals in literature, linguistics,
philosophy and history;◆◆Cairn International Edition (85 journals), the English versions of major French journals
available on Cairn.info.

Pocket Encyclopedias
All titles from the two main French series of pocket encyclopedias, "Que sais-je?" (PUF)
and "Repères" (La Découverte), are also available in full text on Cairn.info, i.e. around
1,300 books. Just like for journals, new titles and new editions are added as they become
available to subscriptions offered to institutions on an annual basis:◆◆"Bouquet General» (around 1,300 encyclopedias);◆◆"Que sais-je?" series;◆◆"Repères" series.

About the French Pocket
Encyclopedias"Que sais-je?""Que sais-je?", a prestigious series of pocket encyclopedias published since1941 by the Presses universitaires de France (PUF), which has sold more than
160 million copies worlwide and has been translated into 143 languages.
Subjects, ranging from the Inquisition to rugby, are covered by French experts
in each field.

"Repères""Repères", a series of pocket encyclopedias published by La Découverte,covers broad contemporary social and economic issues from a rigorously
scientific yet accessible point of view.

eBooksMore than 4,000 research eBooks (monographs, proceedings, and collective works) fromprestigious French and Belgian publishers – Autrement, De Boeck, La Découverte, Éres,Éditions Mardaga, PUF, ENS, La Documentation française, Presses de Sciences Po andQuae – are available on Cairn.info on the same terms as journals and encyclopedias,i.e. annual subscriptions with very flexible access conditions (unlimited access, on-siteand remote access through IP authentication, unlimited print possibilities, etc.):◆◆"Bouquet Général" (all eBooks available in 2015, i.e. over 4,000 eBooks);◆◆"Bouquet EcoSocPol" (around 1,500 eBooks);◆◆"Bouquet French Studies" (around 600 eBooks).

Magazines
Cairn.info also offers access to 8 specialized magazines, primarily for students – especially
undergraduates and graduates – but also teachers and researchers in the social sciences
and humanities: Alternatives économiques, Alternatives internationales, Le Magazine littéraire,
Le Monde diplomatique, L’Histoire, Manière de voir, Sciences humaines, Les Grands Dossiers des Sciences
Humaines. For each title, the "bouquet" available through Cairn.info includes, as for journals,
all issues published since 2001.
◆◆"Premium Bouquet" (8 magazines);◆◆"Standard Bouquet" (4 magazines: Alternatives économiques, Alternatives internationales,
Sciences humaines, Les Grands Dossiers des Sciences Humaines).

For any further information, please contact us at: licences@cairn.info

Technical Specifications
Authentication
Access is available via IP authentication for an unlimited number of concurrent users.
Remote access through authentication mechanisms such as reverse proxy servers isallowed. Cairn supports Central Authentication Service (CAS) Single Signature Online
protocol and is also Shibboleth-compliant in several countries.

DOICairn.info has systematically acquired Digital Object Identifier (DOI) since 2008, for all
journal articles released on www.cairn.info. This helps Cairn to automatically link articles
containing citations from other articles, to implement direct links in article bibliographies
or to activate functions such as the "quoted by" feature.

Search Options
Search forms support patterns and adjacency, as well as Boolean operators. Searches can be
carried out by title, author, keywords, year of publication, discipline or title of publication:
http://www.cairn.info/recherche_avancee.php.
Searches can be refined through a facetted search engine (type, discipline, date, etc.) andresults are available at the article/chapter level and by issue/book one.
All journal articles are available in PDF and HTML formats, either online or to be
downloaded and printed.

AlertsAny user can ask for an e-mail alert on a journal or an author, so as to be automaticallyinformed of new publications: http://www.cairn.info/mes_alertes.php.
In addition, thematic RSS feeds enable users to follow any updates to the portal:
http://www.cairn.info/abonnement_flux.php.

Federated Searching
The site can be accessed through the main federated search and discovery tools. Cairn isalso OpenURL-compliant.
The site also supports the "get" method using a base URL (where X is the searched term):
http://www.cairn.info/resultats_recherche.php?searchTerm=X.

Metadata Standards
Cairn’s metadata can be harvested freely through an OAI-PMH-compliant interface:
http://oai.cairn.info, which also offers DUBLIN Core and METS formats.
A specific website is also dedicated to eBooks and pocket encyclopedias, "La Boutique":
http://laboutique.cairn.info, which enables librarians to follow these offers and to collectmetadata in different formats: KBART-compliant CSV files and MARC records.

Statistics and Customization
COUNTER-compliant statistics reports are available online for all institutions which havesubscribed to a license, through an administration tool: http://admin.cairn.info. This tool
also enables librarians to customize Cairn for their audience: discipline, content available,
activation/deactivation of pay-per-view possibilities, etc.

CONTACT
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Further information
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