Press and news databases

More than 8,000 French and international press titles are available free online at the Bpi: skip the subscriber access to your favorite newspapers (Le Monde, Liberation), find your favorite independent media (Médiapart) or discover our many digitized press archives.

Press databases are classified into 3 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.)


French and international press

PressReader

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Pressreader, an online kiosk, gives you access to nearly 3,500 international titles in more than 60 languages, from the Washington Post to Marie Claire via the Novaya Gazeta, the Point, the Petit Quotidien, Causette, El Pais, 01Net. ..

How do I access PressReader remotely? A step by step tutorial!


Europresse

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Europresse provides access to more than 10,000 French and foreign sources of general and specialized information.
Find the major national (Le Monde, Le Figaro…), regional (Corse Matin, Le Midi Libre, Le Parisien…) and international (The Economist, The New York Times…) titles as well as the specialized press (the Team, Télérama, Sciences et Avenir…)!


Le Monde 1944-2000

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The Proquest database provides access to all the archives of the daily newspaper Le Monde, from 1944 to 2000. The resource offers the possibility of downloading in PDF as well as advanced search tools by type of document (comics, photos, obituaries, small advertisement…)


Vocale Presse

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VocalePresse is only accessible in booths for people with disabilities

25 French press titles accessible to visually impaired or blind people thanks to voice synthesis. The library subscription includes three bouquets: Daily news and your regional newspaper, Information weeklies, Leisure and culture.


Cairn Info

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Find titles such as Alternatives économiques , Alternatives internationalesLe Magazine littéraireLe Monde DiplomatiqueLes grands dossiers de Sciences humainesL’HistoireManière de voirSciences humaines.


Généralis

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Generalis allows you to locate on any subject, in any field, articles present in more than 200 French-language journals and magazines. Generalis also offers to take stock of questions of society, history, culture… with its thematic files to download.


Ulrich’s Web

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With Ulrich’s Web, you can have a state of the art of all the magazines and journals published in France and abroad since their publication date.


Independant media

Mediapart

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Mediapart is an information and opinion site that has no paper equivalent and is published only on the Internet. Created in 2008 by several journalists including the former director of Le Monde, Edwy Plenel, Mediapart mixes debates and points of view on current events using textual formats, but also numerous multimedia contents.


Arrêt sur Images 

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Independent media criticism. Investigations and chronicles every day, weekly program presented by Daniel Schneidermann.


Les Jours

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At the dawn of Les Jours, there is a group of eight journalists from Liberation, covering many fields of current affairs (society, politics, economy, culture, media, etc.). This newspaper notably offers series, with several articles which are as many episodes, in order to investigate the same subject for several months or even years.


Press archives

Vogue Archive

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Rediscover all the issues of this famous fashion magazine, in its American version, from its first publication until today!


The Economist Historical Archive

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Find all the issues of this magazine in economics, from its origins in 1843 until 2015. It is possible to search by keywords.


Times Literary Archive

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Find all the issues of this literary criticism magazine, from its origins in 1902 until 2015. It is possible to search by keywords.


Screen Studies Collection

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Browse the Screen Studies Collection database to read French and international film magazines published since 1974.


Inathèque

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Consultation only possible on dedicated workstations in the Press area.

Go back in time thanks to the INA! The Bpi allows you to view their entire catalogue: you will find there both Filmed News broadcast from 1940 to 1969 as well as all the television archives since 1947 and those of the radio since 1933. You will also be able to consult the broadcasts more recent, the day after they are broadcast.