Libraries dedicated to cognitive sciences in France

In Paris

The Risc library (collections from Risc + ENS-Cognisciences)
Besides our books and memoirs collections (details), we subscribe to the journal Intellectica, produced by the French Association for cognitive research (ARCO).

In Bron (near Lyon)

ISC library (institute for cognitive sciences)

Consulting French catalogues

General catalogues:

Catalogue collectif de France (CCFr):
records for printed and electronic collections of French national Library (BnF), collections of universities, higher education institutes and ancient funds of public libraries.
Search for over 15 millions documents in more than 160 different libraries recorded in a specific repertory.

SUDOC (university documentation system):
more than 5 millions records (theses, monographs, periodicals) and their locations in university libraries, research institutes ...
NB: SUDOC is now harvested by Google Scholar

Theses :

Theses defended in France can be found in SUDOC (records only) or in the open multidisciplinary theses server TEL (records + full text), where every doctor can upload his/her theses and make it public.
If you want to put your thesis in cognitive sciences online, we also propose to do it for you on our website. les disciplines.

Libraries and documentation centers:

RNBCD (National repertory of libraries and documentation centers):
location of the main documentation centers in France.

Bibliographic basis:

INIST
Article@inist : is the bibliographic online base of INIST (national institute for scientific and technical information). It records more than 8 millions articles, books, proceedings

Elsevier
ScienceDirect is the bibliographic scientific online base of Elsevier.

Free online documents:

CNRS
HAL (Hyper Article on Line): is a French database for authors to deposit scholarly documents from all academic fields. It records about 53 000 documents for the moment. It offers many search possibilities : you can create e-mail alerts, using different criterions, or search by subject, organization ...

Online journal:

Cognitextes (produced by the French association in cognitive linguistics: AFLICO) is freely available online

Other resources:

MIT
The MIT Cognet: developed by the MIT Press, MIT Cognet is an online location for the brain and cognitive science community's scientific research and interchange