Cairn
Cairn offers a comprehensive collection of French language journals online. The complete collection contains over 150 journals in the humanities and social sciences with over 35,000 articles, which come in full-text format, and the site is updated each time a journal is published.
You can subscribe to the complete package of over 150 journals, or to any of the following sub-collections:
- Humanities and social science package, including 96 journals (all but the psychology journals)
- Economics, social and political sciences package, including 58 journals
- OCDE package, including seven journals published by OCDE
A full list of titles per package is available.
Cairn offers a comprehensive collection of French language journals. Over 150 journals in the humanities and social sciences are included, among them a great number of top scholastic journals in their respective fields. All journal are displayed in full-text, online.
Journals range in date from 2001 to the present, with over 35,000 articles available to students, scholars, librarians and walk-in users.
This resource includes the journals Les Actes de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales Etudes, la Revue française de science politique, la Revue française de sociologie, Moyen Age, Economie Internationale, and Population.
A full list of titles is available.
Main subject areas
Economics, Politics, Public affairs, Sociology, Education, Psychology, History, and Geography.
Academic level
Suitable for students, researchers and scholars in higher education.
Updates
Updates are made each time a journal is published.
Comparable resources
English language journals: Project Muse.
Other institutions subscribing
Almost all French university libraries subscribe to this resource, as do the group of Universités du Québec, most French language Swiss universities, and some non-French speaking institutions, such as UNOG (Geneva), the University of Stanford, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, and the University of Ottawa.
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General package |
Economics, social and political sciences package |
Humanities and social sciences package |
OCDE package |
| JISC band |
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|
| A - C |
£3,871.69 |
£2,010.08 |
£2,551.32 |
£245.79 |
| D - F |
£3,167.86 |
£1,644.69 |
£2,087.52 |
£200.94 |
| G - J |
£2,534.29 |
£1,315.75 |
£1,670.02 |
£160.76 |
Notes
- - prices do not include VAT
- - JISC Collections charges an additional administration fee of £50 on all subscriptions of £600 or more
Federated searching
Federated searching is supported via HTTP request and uses the 'get' method in conjunction with the base url: http://www.cairn.info/search.php?fulltext=<X> (where <X> is the searched term)
Cairn is openURL compliant.
Metadata standards
All metadata is open access and is based on Dublin Core metadata standards.
Search options
Searching supports patterns and adjacency, as well as boolean operators. Searches can be limited by title, author, keywords, year of publication, and subject.
Post-search options
Users can order results by relevancy or chronologically. Articles can be downloaded in pdf and html format.
Usage statistics
COUNTER compliant statistics are available online. Excel reports show the number of articles consulted in html and in pdf formats for each journal.
Authentication
Access is available via IP address, reverse proxy server, and the Central Authentication Service (CAS) Single Signature Online protocol.
Personalisation of the resource
Users can sign up for email alerts telling them about new articles by a particular author, or about the publication of the latest volume of any journal held by Cairn.