Humanities and social sciences databases
The Bpi provides access to several digital collections to deepen your knowledge of the humanities and social sciences: you will find many journals and articles on sociology and political science as well as several dictionaries and encyclopedias specializing in religion and spirituality.
The Human Sciences databases are classified into 2 sections:
How to access resources?
Click on the instructions for use to discover the meaning of the access pictograms next to the resources (accessible from Bpi computers, from wifi.bpi, from your home, etc.)
The unavoidable
Cairn
Cairn is a platform of French journals, magazines, pocket encyclopedias and collective works in the humanities and social sciences. The Bpi subscription gives access to all of their journals, magazines and the Que-Sais-je collection, all disciplines combined, as well as to their digital books in sociology and politics.
OpenEdition
Open Edition is a digital platform offering access to more than 500 academic journals and 7,200 digital books in history, anthropology and sociology.
The library subscription allows access to documents in PDF format.
Numérique Premium
Numérique Premium allows online consultation of more than 1,500 scientific reference works, particularly in philosophy, sociology of the media, geopolitics or educational sciences. Authors as founding as Foucault, Ricoeur or even Adorno can thus easily be found there.
A little extra: the creation of a personal account within the walls of the Bpi then makes it possible to find all these texts in full and remotely! All this content can be found at home after creating an account at the Bpi
Bibliovox
Numérique Premium allows online consultation of more than 1,500 scientific reference works, particularly in philosophy, sociology of the media, geopolitics or educational sciences. Authors as founding as Foucault, Ricoeur or even Adorno can thus easily be found there.
A little extra: the creation of a personal account within the walls of the Bpi then makes it possible to find all these texts in full and remotely! All this content can be found at home after creating an account at the Bpi
Ulrich’s Web
With Ulrich’s Web, you can have a state of the art of all the humanities journals published in France and abroad since their publication date. Many journals freely available on the Internet are also listed.
Religion and spirituality
Encyclopaedia Judaica
The Encyclopaedia Judaica is now online! You will find there more than 21,000 entries as well as photographs and maps, concerning the history, culture, art, literature … of the Jewish religion through the centuries: from 2000 years before Jesus Christ until the end of the twentieth. A bibliography accompanies each article.
BREPOLiS Religious Studies
BREPOLis makes it possible to carry out research on the history of the Church, from Antiquity to the present day, on the five continents. The library provides access to two databases in particular: the Dictionary of Ecclesiastical History and Geography, which includes more than 70,000 articles, and the Religious Index, a bibliographic tool.
Numérique Premium – History of religions
Numérique Premium offers two collections dedicated to science and the history of religions since Antiquity. There is a majority of works devoted to Christianity and more general titles on the religious fact.
