cairn international edition

Your Digital Access to the French Humanities

Cairn International Edition - A Quick Overview
Founded in September 2005 by four Belgian and French publishers,Cairn.info offers the most comprehensive online collection of Frenchlanguage publications in the humanities and social sciences. As of 2015,
it contains four hundred journals and four thousand eBooks from major
French, Belgian and Swiss publishers. On www.cairn.info, students,
scholars and librarians from all over the world can access three hundred
thousand full-text articles and book chapters.
While Cairn.info’s content is originally published in the Frenchlanguage, it is not limited to it. Around 45,000 abstracts andover 4,000 full-text articles in English are currently available onCairn.info, either originally published in English or translated fromFrench.
To make this content more visible and accessible to the English-speaking
world, Cairn.info (with the support of the CNL, a French governmental
agency dedicated to the promotion of French publications around theworld) has designed an English-language interface enabling Internet
users to browse and easily find content from French journals without
speaking a word of French: www.cairn-int.info.
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Cairn International Edition’s Homepage
Cairn International Editon’s homepage showcases recently added issuesof the journals that are fully or partly available in English, in addition tothe corresponding French version that will still appear on Cairn.info.
This homepage also links to recent articles from French journals thatare fully available in English.

Translations of Outstanding Articles Publishedin French Journals
To increase the number of articles with full-text in English,
Cairn.info and its public partner, the CNL, asked some French journals
to select outstanding and representative articles they have published in
the last ten years.
These articles were translated by native English speakers who are also
subject specialists in the humanities and social sciences. They are now
available to international scholars through www.cairn-int.info.

Tables of Contents in English
For each journal available on Cairn International Edition, all current
issues are listed and their tables of contents can be browsed freely inEnglish. For all issues, users can access revised abstracts in English andwhen available full-text versions in English and/or in French. A direct
link allows users to view all full-text articles in English for the samejournal.

improved search engine
Cairn International Edition’s search engine was purposely designed toenable users to search in abstracts and, where possible, in articles withEnglish full-text. However, it is always possible, in the event that noresults are found in English, to extend the search to content available
in French.

Articles in html format
Articles on Cairn International Edition can be downloaded in PDF
format to enable users to save and access them on their own device.
They are also available in a specially designed HTML format, with links
to further information on the same author, on the same subject, fromthe same journal issue, etc.

Revised English Abstracts
While French publishers generally provide English translations of theirabstracts, that is not always enough. In order to meet the standards ofacademic English, we systematically assess the quality of the content.
We perform a rigorous evaluation of all abstracts in English submittedfor Cairn.info and rewriting work is undertaken whenever necessary toimprove the quality of the language.

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