French Research Guide: Useful Databases and Portals

CollEX Persée.CollEx-Persée is a scientific and technical information research infrastructure, set up in 2017. It brings together, in the form of a scientific interest group, 21 research establishments (members or associates), 4 national operators (Persée for digitization; the Abes for bibliographic data; the CTLES for the preservation of documents; the INIST-CNRS for data mining), the National Library of France and around a hundred labeled structures for their collections of excellence . Its objective is to facilitate access and promote the use of library collections by researchers in a context where relations between these two communities are put to the test due to technical developments and the massive availability of documentary resources. online that changed the search process.

Open Edition. Brings together four platforms dedicated to electronic resources in the humanities and social sciences.

Portal Persée. Created in 2005, the Persée portal brings together complete collections of journals, conference proceedings, series and books. It now houses 356 collections, i.e. more than 900,000 documents, which are regularly enriched with new titles. These scientific publications are mainly in the humanities and social sciences, but also in the earth and environmental sciences. (…) . The collections of publications extend from the 19th to the 21st century (the oldest published scientific article dates from 1821).