Cairn : the digital plateform to access French publications in Human and Social sciences
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Cairn.info
The reference digital ressource in French language
for humanities and social sciences
ICSTI 2011
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Cairn.info – General information (1/2)
An initiative launched in 2005 by …
French (La Découverte, Belin, Erès) and Belgian (De Boeck) publishers
Belgian institutionnal investors as the Liege University
With the support of the French national Library (BnF)
… to propose a balanced approach between :
Publishers & librarians’ needs
Private & Public investors
Belgian & French actors
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Cairn.info – General information (2/2)
A plaform : www.cairn.info
Giving access to 300 French, Belgian and Swiss major journals
As well as eBooks and reference works
In Humanities and Social Sciences
Focussed on current publications (2001 - …)
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Cairn.info – Access model
Open access to …
• Metadata for each articles / chapter : abstracts, indexes
• Introductions, editorials, book reviews
• Archives behind the moving wall fixed by each publisher / journal
… and conditionnal access : full text for the latest issues
• Individuals : available through pay-per-view & prepaid accounts
• Institutions : annual licensing for general or thematic « bouquets »
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Cairn.info – Offer for institutions
Unlimited access
For a defined « bouquet » of publications :
• General
• Economics and political science
• Humanities
• Psychology
• Etc.
For all students, teachers, researchers and walk-in users in
the institution
Thanks to IP recognition and remote access solutions
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List of journals in
this discipline
Latest issues released
in the selected
discipline
List of journals in
this discipline
List of journals in
this discipline
Latest issues released
in the selected
discipline
List of journals in
this discipline
List of journals in
the selected
discipline
Latest issues released
for the selected
discipline
Selected discipline
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Name of the journalName of the journalName of the journal
List of issues proposed
on Cairn.info
Journal’s title
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List of articles proposed in
HTML and PDF format
Name of the issueName of the issueName of the issue
Liste des articles
disponibles en version
HTML et PDF
Titre du numéro
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Clicking on « du même auteur », the reader
can visulize the other publications from the
same author proposed on Cairn.info
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Clicking on « Sur un
sujet proche »,
Cairn.info proposes
other publications on
the same subject
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Clicking on « Cité par »,
Cairn.info proposes other
articles, distributed by
Cairn.info or by other
services, that are citing this
article
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The same way, within the
aricles’ bibliographies, the
user can ask to consult, on
Cairn.info or elsewhere on the
web, the quoted articles
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An Advanced search form enables the
user to specify which index, disciplines,
publisher, years of publication they want
to search into