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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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Cairn.info - Publications

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Cairn.info – Navigation in disciplines

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Latest issues
released
List of disciplines

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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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Most popular
articles in the
discipline

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Cairn.info – Navigation in journals or books

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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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Cairn.info – Navigation in articles

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Chaque article est proposé en
version HTML...
All articles are proposed in
HTML format …

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…And in PDF format, with
the same presentation as
the print version

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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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Cairn.info – Search engine

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Cairn.info search engine
is available at any
moment, on all pages

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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

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