Access to CAIRN

From now on, our library has a subscription to CAIRN: a collection of French language periodicals in the social sciences and the humanities.

CAIRN holds over 203 titles from more than 40 publishers (like Belin, De Boeck, La Découverte and Erès), teaching institutions and learned societies. The primary subject areas covered by the collection are law, history, psychology, economics, political science and sociology.


Journals are fulltext from 2001 to the present, gathering more than 60,000 articles. Journals include Droit et société, Guerres mondiales et conflits contemporains, Politique étrangère, Politique européenne, Pouvoirs: Revue francaise d études constitutionnelles et politiques, Relations internationales, Revue européenne des migrations internationales, Revue francaise de droit constitutionnel, Revue internationale de droit économique, Revue internationale de droit pénal, Revue internationale et stratégique and Revue sur le droit et la politique de la concurrence.

It is possible to use one single subject or keyword to search through all journals simultaneously, which makes the CAIRN database very powerful. Inhouse use only, from July 1, 2009