The URCA digital library provides access to almost 800,000 electronic books and over 120,000 digital journals. You can access these resources using your URCA virtual office login. In addition to this page, the library catalogue also allows you to search for documents in some of the online collections (indicated by the symbol 🔍 in the list below). If you have any problems, please write to us.
Digital library
Our Flagship resources
CAIRNThe essential humanities and social sciences resource: scientific and intellectual journals, basic textbooks
ClinicalKey Student130 health books, encyclopaedias and clinical syntheses
Europresse14,000 newspapers and magazines from all over the world, including the national (Le Monde) and local press (L'Union)
Numérique Premium2800 digital books in history, literature, political science and educational science
Browse the Digital library (alphabetical order)
Searchable resources in the library catalogue are indicated by the symbol 🔍
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Abridge: international wine legislation
Academic Search Ultimate: multilingual academic journals in humanities and social sciences 🔍
Académie de Droit International de La Haye: collection of lectures, symposia and books on international law
Alternatives économiques: monthly and special issues of the magazine since 1993
American Chemical Society (ACS): ACS chemistry journals 🔍
L'Année philologique: classical philology journals and conferences
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BiblioOnDemand: school textbooks
Bibliothèque médicale française: BMF journals on Science Direct 🔍
Bibliothèque numérique de droit de la santé et d'éthique médicale (BNDS): health law journals, books and case law
Brill's New Pauly / Der Neue Pauly: encyclopaedia of ancient science
British Medical Journal (BMJ): BMJ and other medical journals 🔍
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Cairn: journals and books in humanities and social sciences 🔍
Éditions CdP: dental journal Clinic 🔍
ClinicalKey Student: medico-surgical encyclopaedia and Masson books
Cobaz (AFNOR): AFNOR and ISO standards, French and European technical regulations
Cochrane Library: systematic reviews, meta-analyses, evidence-based medicine
Conf+: preparatory documents for medical competitive examinations (ECN)
Cyberlibris - Scholarvox : university-level works in all fields 🔍
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Dalloz Livres - Bibliothèque numérique Lefebvre Dalloz: codes, handbooks and professional works
Dalloz Revues et Jurisprudence: codes, annotated case law, Dalloz reviews, encyclopaedias, revision and methodology sheets
Éditions Diamond: computing magazines
Dictionnaire des francophones: collaborative French dictionary
Le Doctrinal: legal journals and works (bibliographic references)
Droz, Calvin portal and Humanisme-Renaissance portal: books published by Droz
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Early English Books Online (EEBO): English books printed between 1470 and 1700 🔍
EBSCOHost ebook Collection: books in all fields 🔍
EDP Sciences: scientific journals (mathematics, life sciences, physics, biology) 🔍
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO): English-language works printed between 1701 and 1800 🔍
Encyclopédie Diderot: access to the Encylopédie by Diderot and d'Alembert (18th century)
ENI (Informatique technique): computer science books in French
ERIC, Educational Ressource Information Center: journals and books in the educational sciences 🔍
Europresse: French and international newspapers
eVidal: pharmacological dictionary, drug information leaflets
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Francis et Pascal: scientific journals and grey literature (theses, reports, conferences, etc.)
Frantext: linguistic study of French literature from the 9th to the 21st century
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Grand corpus des dictionnaires et des grammaires (Garnier): dictionaries (9th-20th centuries) and French grammars (14th-17th centuries)
Greenfile: environmental science journals, books and documents 🔍
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HAL: multidisciplinary open archive 🔍
HeinOnline: journals, books and official texts on the history of American and international law 🔍
HeTOP: CISMeF medical terminology tool
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IEEE Xplore: conferences, journals and standards in electronics, computing and engineering sciences 🔍
InCites - Journal Citation Reports: tool for evaluating the impact factor of research journals
InCites - Essential Science Indicators: ranking of authors, research organisations, countries and research journals
INIS (Système d'information nucléaire international): nuclear science journals, books and documents
ISIDORE: search tool for open access data in the social sciences and humanities 🔍
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Juricaf: case law of French-speaking supreme courts
JSTOR: journals in humanities and social sciences, American law, economics and mathematics 🔍
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Klapp-online: bibliography of French-language literature and its history
Kompass: business directory
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Lamyline: Lamy legal works and reviews, case law with commentary 🔍
Le Doctrinal: legal journals and works (bibliographic references)
Légifrance: French legislation, official bulletin, case law
Lexis 360 Intelligence - Jurisclasseur: codes, case law with commentary, Lexis reviews, encyclopaedias, revision and methodology sheets
Lextenso: journals (including Petites Affiches) and annotated case law
Loterre: a platform for exhibiting and sharing multidisciplinary and multilingual scientific terminology
LiSSa - Littérature scientifique en santé: French-language medical journals
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MathSciNet: reviews in mathematics 🔍
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Navis - Mémentos Francis Lefebvre: encyclopaedic manuals and Francis Lefebvre journals
Numérique Premium: books in history, literature and educational science 🔍
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OECD iLibrary: books, journals and statistics on the world economy 🔍
OpenEdition Books: books on social sciences, languages and literature, economics, law and health 🔍
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Pappers: business directory
Pascal et Francis: scientific journals and grey literature (theses, reports, conferences, etc.)
Philarmonie à la demande: video and audio concerts, music documentaries
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection: multilingual psychology journals 🔍
PsycInfo: journals and books in psychology, psychiatry and educational sciences 🔍
PubMed: health and biology database 🔍
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Que sais-je ? / Repères (Cairn): short books in all fields 🔍
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RetroNews: French press digitised by the National Library of France (1631-1950)
Revues du Praticien / Le Concours médical: medical journals
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SAGE Publications: English-language medical, scientific and technical journals 🔍
Scholarvox-Cyberlibris: books in all fields of study 🔍
Science: journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 🔍
Science Direct (Elsevier): journals in all fields 🔍
Sciences en ligne: news and resources in science and technology (undergraduate level)
SciFinder : Chemical Abstracts Service: journals, books, patents and conferences in chemistry
Scopus: journals and books in science, health and social and human sciences
S-ECN: training for DFASM2 and DFASM3 (medicine)
S-EDN - Tout savoir sur les ECOS: ebook
SPORTDiscus : sport science journals, books and documents 🔍
Springer Link: journals and books in science, engineering, social sciences, economics and management 🔍
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Taylor & Francis Politics & International relations eBooks: books in English from 1977 to 2022 in political science and international relations
Techniques de l'Ingénieur: encyclopaedia of engineering sciences 🔍
Tënk: online documentary films
Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG): Greek literature
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Universalis: multidisciplinary encyclopædia 🔍
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Vente et Gestion: management, marketing, accounting and logistics journals 🔍
Visible Body: atlas of human anatomy
Vocable: language journals (English, German, Spanish)
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Web of Science: science journals and books
Wiley: journals and books in science and technology, economics and management 🔍