bases-de-donnees

The databases can provide access to full-text versions of articles, the references of articles, the full text of books, dictionaries and encyclopedias and bibliographies.

The resources can be accessed outside of the university’s campuses.
Students, teachers and staff can access the databases via their Digital Work Space. A description of the procedure to follow can be found here (in french).

Access to databases by subject


  • • Business Source Complete (Subscription in partnership with the CEPN-Centre d’Economie de Paris Nord). BSC provides access via the Econlit search engine to several thousand economics and management journals, mainly in English, as well as economic reports by industry, country and company, author profiles, case studies, etc.
    University access/Distance access via your Digital Work Space

    • Cairn – A portal that provides access to the full text of French-language journals in the human and social sciences, including journals of psychology, psychoanalysis, clinical psychology and psychiatry and journals of economic sciences, political sciences and international relations. PLEASE NOTE: OECD publications cannot be accessed via CAIRN, only via SourceOECD.
    University access/Distance access via your Digital Work Space

    • Dalloz – A weekly magazine of legal news since 1990: legislation, jurisprudence, legislative news (from 1990 to 1995). Information about law journals
    University access/Distance access via your Digital Work Space

    • Doctrinal – Collection of legal journals since 1993 (for some titles, since 1994). Instructions for use (URFIST, Strasbourg University)
    University access/Distance access via your Digital Work Space

    • Eur-Lex – Portal of access to European Union legislation (official journal, treaties, legislation, legislation undergoing preparation, parliamentary questions, jurisprudence).
    Free access

    • Jstor – Our subscription covers most the « business »collection. Access to journal articles in different subjects published before 1923 for the United States and before 1870 for other countries. (Tick « Include only content I can access »).
    Free access

    • Lamyline – Access to official data, specific collections of Lamy publications and legal news.
    University access/Distance access via your Digital Work Space

    • Legifrance – The public service access to legislation. Instructions for use (URFIST, Strasbourg University)
    Free access

    • LexisNexis (Juris-Classeur) – Access to the JurisClasseur encyclopedias, jurisprudence (decisions of courts of appeal, the Jurisdiction Court, the Court of Cassation, etc.), JurisClasseur journals (the five editions of La semaine juridique (JCP), Revue de droit fiscal, etc.), journal searches, consolidated legislation and the official journal. Information about law journals (in french)
    University access/Distance access via your Digital Work Space

    • Lextenso – Legal database that provides access to the full text of the following journals: Bulletin Joly Bourse (2000 to present), Bulletin Joly Société (1986 to present), Cahiers sociaux du Barreau de Paris (2004 to present), Gazette du palais (2000 to present), Petites affiches (1995 to present), Répertoire Defrénois (1990 to present), Revue des contrats (2003 to present), Revue de droit public (2005 to present), Revue générale du droit des assurances (1995 to present). Information about law journals
    University access/Distance access via your Digital Work Space

    • Navis – The Navis collection comprises all the publications of Editions Francis Lefebvre by subject with 30 years of jurisprudence available. The following areas are covered: tax, social, corporate, accounting, real estate, inheritance.
    University access/distance access via your Digital Work Space
    User ID: paris13

    • OECD iLibrary – Access to the statistics and journals of the OECD.
    University access/Distance access via your Digital Work Space

    • Oxford University Press (ISTEX license). Access to archives of 268 journals published by Oxford University Press until 2010
    University access/Distance access via your Digital Work Space

    • Collected courses of the Hague Academy of International Law (ISTEX license). Collection that provides access to monographs in international law (courses, conferences, etc.)
    University access/Distance access via your Digital Work Space

    • Westlaw – Westlaw provides access to sources of law in the United States and the UK and to the full text of legal periodicals.
    University access/Distance access via your Digital Work Space

  • • Dictionaries of Classiques Garnier in digital form (ISTEX license) – Corpus of dictionaries covering the evolution of the French language from the ninth to the twentieth centuries.
    University access/Distance access via your Digital Work Space

    • Dictionary of the French Academy, new edition (1994 to present) – Edition is undergoing development.

    • Dictionary of the French Academy, eighth edition (1932-1935) – Latest complete edition of the dictionary.
    Free access

    • Encyclopaedia Universalis – Access to articles of the encyclopedia. Searchable by words in the text.
    University access/Distance access via your Digital Work Space

    • Diderot and d’Alembert’s Encyclopedia
    Free access

    • New Pauly Online (ISTEX license) – Reference encyclopedia of the sciences of the antiquity, available in English and German.
    University access/Distance access via your Digital Work Space

  • • Brill Online (ISTEX license) – Access to the main titles in the « Journals »category for issues published before 2012. The disciplines covered are essentially within the human and social sciences, international law and biology.
    University access/Distance access via your Digital Work Space

    • EEBO (ISTEX license) – Access to the digital version of all works printed between 1473 and 1700 in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and the British colonies in North America as well as works printed elsewhere in English.
    University access/Distance access via your Digital Work Space

    • Classiques Garnier Numérique (ISTEX license) – Corpus of dictionaries and French and francophone literature from the Middle Ages to the 20th century.
    University access/Distance access via your Digital Work Space

    • Digital language resources of the ATILF (Analysis and digital processing of the French language). Linguistic databases that are mostly free to access.
    Free access

    • Jstor – JSTOR provides free access to journal archives in different subjects published before 1923 for the United States and before 1870 for all other countries (Tick « include only content I can access »).
    Free access

  • • Europresse – Europresse provides access to national, regional and international press publications (mainly in French and English) as well as newswires, websites and topic-specific blogs. Some titles are available in PDF versions (under « Search for PDF newspapers » below the search field).
    University access/Distance access via your Digital Work Space

  • • Brill Online (ISTEX license) – Access to the main titles in the « Journals »category for issues published before 2012. The disciplines covered are essentially within the human and social sciences, international law and biology.
    University access/Distance access via your Digital Work Space

    • CAIRN – A portal that provides access to the full text of French-language journals in the human and social sciences, including journals of psychology, psychoanalysis, clinical psychology and psychiatry and journals of economic sciences, political sciences and international relations. Please note: OECD publications cannot be accessed via CAIRN, only via SourceOECD (database menu: economics).
    University access/Distance access via your Digital Work Space

    • De Gruyter (ISTEX license): access to archives (dating back to 2012) of 474 titles in all disciplines.
    University access/Distance access via your Digital Work Space

    • Em-consulte – A collection of all the content of EMC (Encyclopédie médico-chirurgicale) publications since 1970 as well as the articles published in the Elsevier-Masson journals in French.
    University access/Distance access via your Digital Work Space

    • ERIC – American bibliography database in the education sciences. Contains article references (sometimes with the full text), works, conference reports and dissertations. Managed by the US Department of Education. Instructions for use (URFIST, Strasbourg University)
    Free access

    • ISIDORE – Search engine that provides access to digital data in the human and social sciences. Open to all, particularly teachers, researchers, PhD students and other students. Resources are free to access.
    Free access

    • Jstor – JSTOR provides free access to journal archives in different subjects published before 1923 for the United States and before 1870 for all other countries (Tick « include only content I can access »).
    Free access

    • New Pauly Online (ISTEX license) – Reference encyclopedia of the sciences of the antiquity, available in English and German.
    University access/Distance access via your Digital Work Space

    • Oxford University Press (ISTEX license) – Access to archives of 268 journals published by Oxford University Press until 2010
    University access/Distance access via your Digital Work Space

    • Persée – Portal of scientific journals in the human and social sciences, created by the Ministry for National Education, Higher Education and Research. The purpose of PERSEE is to digitalize retrospective collections and make them available on-line (Annales de géographie, Revue française de science politique, Revue d’Art, etc.)
    Free access

    • Revues.org – Platform for journals and collections of books in the human and social sciences, open to collections that want to publish the full text of works on-line. Revues.org publishes tens of thousands of scientific documents with free access. The platform’s mission is to promote the electronic publication of works in the sciences with respect for the economic balance of publications.
    Free access

    • Sage (ISTEX license): access to archives (dating back to 2009) of over 700 journals in medicine and the biomedical sciences, engineering sciences and human and social sciences.
    University access/Distance access via your Digital Work Space 

    • Wiley Interscience – Full text of periodicals in medicine, chemistry, engineering, mathematics, physics, earth sciences, psychology and economics from 1997 to the present. The ISTEX license also provides access to archives of over 2,000 journals from 1791 to 2011. Instructions for use (URFIST, Strasbourg University)
    University access/Distance access via your Digital Work Space

  • • BDSP – A public health database that provides free access to bibliographies as well as various tools: thesaurus, subject-specific bibliographies, multilingual glossary, website directory, conference announcements and job offers.
    Free access

    • Brill Online (ISTEX license) – Access to the main titles in the « Journals »category for issues published before 2012. The disciplines covered are essentially within the human and social sciences, international law and biology.
    University access/Distance access via your Digital Work Space

    • British Medical Journal (ISTEX license): access to archives (from the first issues until 2013) of 64 medical journals published by the British Medical Association.
    University access/Distance access via your Digital Work Space

    • CISMEF – Catalog and index of francophone medical websites (medical research, recommendations and consensus, training and teaching, patient information).
    Free access

    • De Gruyter (ISTEX license): access to archives (dating back to 2012) of 474 titles in all disciplines.
    University access/Distance access via your Digital Work Space

    • Elsevier ScienceDirect – Please note: our subscription to full texts does not include the entire ScienceDirect database. To check whether a full-text version of the journal you are interested in is accessible, consult the list of titles here: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journals
    University access/Distance access via your Digital Work Space

    • Em-Premium – A collection of all the content of EMC (Encyclopédie médico-chirurgicale) publications since 1970. Our subscription also provides access to some journals published by Elsevier-Masson in French.
    University access/Distance access via your Digital Work Space

    • IOP – Full text of periodicals published by the Institute Of Physics. Under ISTEX licenses, IOP also provides access to archives of 108 of its journals up to 2012.
    University access/Distance access via your Digital Work Space

    • Jstor mathematics & statistics – JSTOR provides free access to journal archives in different subjects published before 1923 for the United States and before 1870 for all other countries (Tick « Include only content I can access »). Our subscription covers most of the « business » and « mathematics »collections.
    University access/Distance access via your Digital Work Space

    • Nature – Available under ISTEX licenses, Nature provides access to archives of its journals as well as « Nature branded journals »from the first issues until 2012. A list of titles is available on the licences nationales website. http://www.licencesnationales.fr/liste-ressource/nature/
    University access/Distance access via your Digital Work Space

    • Oxford University Press (ISTEX license). Access to archives of 268 journals published by Oxford University Press until 2010
    University access/Distance access via your Digital Work Space

    • Pubmed – Bibliographic database produced by the National Library of Medicine. It contains over 16 million references beginning from 1950.
    Free access: only for documents available in open archives

    • La Revue du praticien (DOCDOCPRO). Access to articles back to 2001 that have appeared in La Revue du praticien, a key journal for doctors and medical students, published by Global Médecine Santé.
    University access/Distance access via your Digital Work Space

    • Royal Society of Chemistry (ISTEX license) – Access to the content of the journals of the Royal Society of Chemistry from the first issues until 2010.
    University access/Distance access via your Digital Work Space

    • Sage (ISTEX license): access to archives (dating back to 2009) of over 700 journals in medicine and the biomedical sciences, engineering sciences and human and social sciences.
    University access/Distance access via your Digital Work Space

    • SpringerLink (ISTEX license) – Access to scientific journals published by Springer from the first issues until 1996 and e-books published up to 2004. Instructions for use (URFIST, Strasbourg University)
    University access/Distance access via your Digital Work Space

    • Techniques de l’ingénieur – Articles from the encyclopedia of the same name. Full texts available.
    University access/Distance access via your Digital Work Space

    • Wiley Interscience – Full text of periodicals in medicine, chemistry, engineering, mathematics, physics, earth sciences, psychology and economics from 1997 to the present. The ISTEX license also provides access to archives of over 2,000 journals from 1791 to 2011. Instructions for use (URFIST, Strasbourg University)
    University access/Distance access via your Digital Work Space