CAIRN - Multidisciplinary French Language Journals


The CAIRN database consists of fulltext scholarly French language journals in the various fields of social sciences and humanities including:
  • Economics
  • Geography
  • History
  • Law
  • Literature
  • Linguistics
  • Philosophy
  • Politics
  • Sociology
CAIRN provides the French language equivalent of Project Muse and includes journals from 130 publishing houses like Presses Universitaires de France (PUF), Armand Colin, Lavoisier, Gallimard, Le Seuil, La Documentation française, Vrin, Le Cerf, EHESS, Les Belles Lettres, L’Harmattan, and others.

A sample of journal titles covered by CAIRN include:
  • Actes de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales
  • Esprit
  • Hérodote
  • Les Annales
  • Le Débat
  • Politique étrangère
  • Revue française de science politique
  • Revue internationale et stratégique
  • Revue française de sociologie
  • Revue française de psychanalyse
  • Revue d’histoire littéraire de la France
  • Vingtième siècle

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