Shared services: acquisition and reporting of electronic resources
Acquisitions of electronic resources
TheAbes permanent grouping of orders for electronic resources contracts
Working closely with the negotiators of the Couperin.orgconsortium,Abes has been mandated by the MESR to set up groupings of orders, and to sign and execute contracts for the acquisition of electronic resources from the main scientific publishers.
As part of this high value-added activity,Abes is coordinating a permanent group of orders covering 13 separate subscription contracts for electronic resources (data February 2021), including the Elsevier journal subscription contract, carried out in close collaboration with the MESR and the Couperin.org consortium, as part of a national license subscription financed on a pooled basis.
List of resources acquired on behalf of RSE institutions
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Cairn Journals - Cairn |
109 establishments |
2017 – 2021 |
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CAS SciFinder, Sci Finder n - CAS |
35 institutions |
2019 – 2021 |
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Web of Science/InCites and related services - Clarivate |
In the process of being established |
2021-2023 |
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Dalloz Digital Library, Dalloz.fr, Dalloz reviews - Dalloz |
80 institutions |
2019 – 2021 |
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Databases in Economics and Management - EBSCO |
71 establishments |
2020 – 2022 |
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Journals and associated open access publishing services - EDP Sciences |
66 establishments |
2017 – 2021 |
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Complete Freedom Collection, French Medical Library, Cell Press and related services - Elsevier |
2019 – 2022 |
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Scopus/SciVal and associated services - Elsevier |
In the process of being established |
2021-2023 |
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Jstor Reviews - Jstor |
89 establishments |
2021 – 2023 |
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Lexis 360 - LexisNexis |
67 establishments |
2019 – 2021 |
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OpenEdition Journals - OpenEdition |
100 establishments |
2018 – 2021 |
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Humanities and Social Sciences Databases - ProQuest |
20 institutions |
2020 – 2022 |
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Lamyline - Wolters Kluwer |
65 institutions |
2020 – 2022 |
The participation ofAbes in nationally licensed electronic resource acquisition programmes
As part of the national ISTEX (2012-2018) and CollEx-Persée (2019-2022) programs,Abes has been mandated by the MESR to acquire, under national licenses, a vast corpus of multidisciplinary electronic resources (journals and ebooks, digitized heritage documents, databases, etc.).
The resources - acquired or in the process of being acquired - are selected from a collection of needs identified from the various scientific communities and from the analysis of offers from commercial publishers.
The management of access to resources as well as the valorisation of resources at the beneficiary institutions are an integral part of this mission.
The platform ISTEX
Please note: the use of the advanced services of the ISTEX platform requires a subscription from the institutions.
More than 23 million documents from 29 corpus scientific literature in all disciplines are available to the RSE community from the platform ISTEX.
Developed and administered byInist-CNRS, the platform ISTEX offers innovative data processing services that promote the extraction of structured data. This structuring of data is essential for carrying out certain content mining operations (TDM) or producing terminological corpora.
- join the platform ISTEX
- consult the list ofavailable resources ISTEX
- for all information: ABESstp desk
scienceplus.abes.fr: the triple store
Opened in March 2021, the scienceplus.abes.fr database lists the articles and chapters of certain corpora acquired under national licences. Its content is evolving.
Searchable in SPARQL, scienceplus.abes.fr provides metadata modelled in RDF at a fine level of granularity (articles, chapters) and in a homogeneous form, in accordance with the principles of Linked Open Data (LOD).
The metadata are enriched with links to repositories (ORCID, IdRef).
National licenses acquired (July 2020 data)
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American Chemistry Society (journals) |
Volume: 37 titles (Chemistry) Coverage: from the origins to 2008 |
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Brepols (journals) |
Volume: 45 titles (Humanities) Coverage: 1882 to 2012 |
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Brepols (ebooks) |
Volume: 849 titles (Humanities) Coverage: 1962 to 2016 |
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Brill (journals) |
Volume: 220 titles (all disciplines) Coverage : from the origins to 2012 |
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British Medical Journal (journals) |
Volume: 64 titles (Medicine) Coverage : from the origins to 2013 |
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Cambridge University Press (ebooks ) |
Volume: 110 titles (Political Science) Coverage: 1996-2019 |
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Cambridge University Press (journals) |
Volume: 312 titles (all disciplines) Coverage : 1770 to 2010 |
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Classiques Garnier Numérique (ebooks) |
Contents: Large Corpus of dictionaries (24 dictionaries); Large Corpus of French grammars, remarks and treatises on language (48 titles) Coverage: 14th to 20th century |
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De Gruyter (journals) |
Volume : 474 titles (all disciplines) Coverage : from the origins to 2012 |
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De Gruyter (French languageebooks) |
Volume : 223 titles (Humanities) Coverage : 1965 to 2017 |
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De Gruyter(ebooks) |
Volume: 1291 titles (Ancient Sciences) Coverage: 1990-2020 |
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Droz (ebooks) |
Volume: 578 titles from the 'Calvin' and 'Humanism and Renaissance' portals Coverage : 1863 to 2017 |
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Duke University Press (journal) |
Volumetrics : Duke MathematicalJournal Coverage : 1935 to 2012 |
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Early English Books Online (EEBO) |
Content: heritage library Volume: 125,000 titles Cover: digitised version of all printed matter (books, almanacs, journals, tracts, etc.) published between 1473 and 1700 in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and the British colonies in North America. |
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EDP Sciences (journals) |
Volume : more than 90 titles in different fields (Mathematics, Physics, Life Sciences) Coverage: generally from origins to 2016 |
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Elsevier (journals) |
Volume : over 2,200 titles (all disciplines) Coverage: from the origins to 2001 |
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Emerald (magazines) |
Volume : 362 titles (Economics and Management) Coverage: 1898 to 2010 inclusive |
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Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) |
Content: heritage library Volume: 180,000 titles (200,000 volumes) Cover: printed between 1701 and 1800 in Great Britain and British colonies. |
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Geological Society of London (ebooks) |
Volume: 305 titles Coverage: 1964 to 2008 |
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Institute of Physics Publishing (journals) |
Volume: 107 titles (Physical) Coverage : from the origins to 2012 |
| Karger (ebooks)
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Volume: 133 titles (Medicine) Coverage: 2015-2019 |
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Lavoisier (journals) |
Volume: 34 titles (mainly in the medical field) Cover : generally from the origins to 2 titles (013 |
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Nature (magazines) |
Volume: Nature magazine and 7 other titles Coverage: from the origins to 2012 |
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New Pauly Online |
Contents: Reference encyclopaedia in the field of Ancient Sciences (English and German version) |
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Digital Premium (ebooks) |
Volume: 268 titles Coverage : 1962 to 2015 |
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OpenEdition Books |
Volume: 1,195 research books (History, Anthropology, Sociology) Coverage: 2003 to 2017 |
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Oxford University Press (journals) |
Volume: 266 titles (all disciplines) Coverage : from the origins to 2010 |
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Recueil des cours de l'Académie de La Haye (ebooks) |
Volume/coverage: 338 volumes of lectures of The Hague Academy of International Law (1923-2012), 15 colloquium titles (1969-2008), 8 titles of the Centre for Studies and Research in International Law and International Relations (2000-2008), 7 titles of The Law Books of the Academy (1988-2010) |
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Royal Society of London (journals) |
Volume: 29 titles (all fields) Coverage : from the origins to 2014 |
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Royal Society of Chemistry (journals) |
Volume: 118 titles (Chemistry) Coverage : from the origins to 2010 |
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Royal Society of Chemistry (ebooks) |
Volume: 1,200 books Coverage : 1968 to 2014 |
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Sage (magazines) |
Volume: 748 titles (all disciplines) Coverage : from the origins to 2009 |
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Springer Nature (ebooks) |
Volume: over 38,000 titles (all fields) Coverage: 1891 to 2013 |
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Springer Nature (journals) |
Volume: over 1,900 titles Coverage: from the origins to 2014 |
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Taylor & Francis (ebooks) |
Volume: 1,494 titles (Political Science and International Relations) Coverage: 1977 to 2012 |
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Wiley (journals) |
Volume: almost 2200 titles Coverage: from the origins to 2016 |
Learn more
- consult the access and reporting proceduresas well as the contractual documents on the website dedicated to National Licences
- request access to resources for your institution from the dedicated interface
Benchmarks
Supported by theAbes, the CNRS, the Couperin consortium and the University of Lorraine on behalf of the Conference of University Presidents (CPU), the "Investissements d'Avenir" programme ISTEX - Initiative d'excellence pour l'Information Scientifique et Technique (Initiative of Excellence for Scientific and Technical Information) aimed to "offer access to retrospective collections of digital scientific literature " to the entire ESR community.
Signed on 19 April 2012 by the French National Research Agency (ANR), the French State and the CNRS, and scheduled for the period 2012-2018, the agreement for the allocation of aid for the Acquisitions component of the ISTEX project amounted to 60 million euros.
to be consulted: the massive acquisition policy carried out within the framework of the ISTEX project was the subject of a report by the Inspection Générale des Bibliothèques (IGB): Première étude d'impact de la politique des licences nationales (July 2018)
ISTEX, towards innovative services for access to knowledge (February 2012), summary by Raymond Bérard, director ofAbes until June 2013
Support plan for scientific publishing
In the
framework of the Law for a Digital Republic promulgated on October 7, 2016 and with a view to developing open access to scientific documentation and data mining, the MESR has set up a Support plan for French scientific publishing supported by a Scientific Publishing Monitoring Committee composed of representatives of the research, library and publishing communities.
Mandated by the MESR,Abes administers the contracts signed with publishers under the Plan de soutien à l'édition scientifique. These agreements, negotiated by the MESR, the Couperin consortium andAbes, offer innovative terms and conditions tailored to the specific needs of each publisher.
Cairn
Articles from the 30 journals selected from the SHS publisher Cairn's offer are freely accessible via the Cairn.info platform since January 2019.
In addition, articles from 12 journals will be uploaded to the ISTEX platform to be integrated into the content mining system (to be made available in 2020).
- consult the list of CAIRN journals benefiting from the Support Plan
EDP Sciences
The agreement signed with 28 journals reiterates EDP Sciences' commitment to open access through three levers:
- Generalize CC-BY type licenses to all published articles by the end of this contract (2017-2021)
- encourage the gradual transition of all journals to fullopen access by abandoning the model combining access fees and publication fees
- Maintain a reasonable and sustainable APC (Article Processing Charges) pricing policy for both RSE institutions and the publisher.
EDP Sciences is committed to the liberalization of data mining operations by providing structured formats that can be used for these operations via the ISTEX.
- consult the list of journals EDP Sciences benefiting from the Support Plan
OpenEdition
Involved from its inception in promoting open access, the OpenEdition platform currently hosts more than 450 journals, 75% of which are in immediate open access. The contract signed in 2018 provides for the transition of the remaining journals (25%) with a moving barrier to this open model, at a rate of 15 journals per year, over a period of 4 years.
Articles from 161 journals will be provided in the formats required by the ISTEX platform in order to be integrated into the content mining system.
- consult the list of OpenEdition journals benefiting from the Support Plan
Associated Resources
professional
- Practical guide: Accessing and reporting on national licences
- For assistance: ABESstp desk