Our electronic resources

Digital resources are constantly expanding and provide access to millions of documents. Below, you will find information and links to access them.

For off-campus access, authentication using institutional login credentials may sometimes be required.

Please feel free to contact us if you encounter any authentication issues (via Institution).

Online press

  • Europresse, for reading national and international news.
    Local access Brest & Paris Saclay
    Remote access Paris Saclay
     

  • TheMetaNews is an independent, ad-free media outlet designed to inform and bring together all research professionals, regardless of their discipline or career stage. Summarizing the latest research news, it covers topics common to all disciplines with two issues per week through interviews, letters to the editor, and opinion pieces, all available online.

     

  • Mediapart : Independent participatory media.
    Access available from campus networks only

Scientific and technical journals

  • Cairn.info offers digital journals in the humanities and social sciences.
    Our subscription covers the following fields: economics, management, sociology, and education sciences.
    • Campus access
    • Off-campus access : Select "access via your institution"choose IP Paris, then select ENSTA Brest Campus or ENSTA Paris-Saclay Campus.
       
  • EDP Sciences offers scientific journals. Participation in the National Open Access Agreement in France.
    -> No off-campus access.
     
  • IEEEXplore offers journals, conference proceedings, and standards from the publisher IEEE. Fields covered: electronics, computer science, telecommunications.
    • Campus access
    • Off-campus access by institutional login
       
  • Science Direct offers more than 2,000 science and technology journals in full text dating back to 1996. And 2,250 titles published from the beginning (1823) through 2001 thanks to the ISTEX national license.
    • Campus access
    • Off-campus access
       
  • Springer Nature
  • Techniques de l'ingénieur (Brest campus only) offers leading articles in science and technology, with over 60 million pages of technical information across a wide range of topics: electrical engineering, computer science, materials science...
    • Brest Campus access only
    • Off-campus access: create an account and request the access code from the Brest media library.
       
  • DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals): over 1,000 open-access journal titles.
     
  • Open Éditions: electronic resources in the humanities and social sciences.
     
  • Persée: retrospective collections of French open-access journals in the humanities.

e-Books

  • VLebooks: access to over 1,700 eBooks covering all academic disciplines, via the IP Paris shared subscription. 
    • Campus access
    • Off-Campus access by VPN
       
  • ScholarVox: access to the Science (10,000+ titles) and Computer Science (9,000+ titles) collections.
    • Campus access
    • Off-Campus access by VPN
       
  • Springer Nature ebooks: access to the 2024 Intell. Technologies & Robotics (715 titles) and Energy (191 titles) collections and collections 2025 Artificial Intelligence (208 titles) et Mechanical engineering (220 titles).
    • Campus access
    • Off-campus access
       
  • Cairn.info books, books in the humanities and social sciences, and the Que sais-je/Repères series in all fields.
    • Campus access
    • Off-Campus access : Select "access via your institution"choose IP Paris, then select ENSTA Brest Campus or ENSTA Paris-Saclay Campus.

Language learning platform

  • Assimil : Digital version of the ASSIMIL language-learning method. Account creation must be completed while connected to the network of one of the member schools. Once registered, remote access is available using the credentials created during your Assimil registration.

    • Campus access: Create an account on campus.

    • Off-campus access: Create an account on the website while connected to the school network.
       

  • Vocable, a magazine to read and listen to for improving your English, German, and Spanish.
    • Campus access only.

Databases

  • Auto-innovations.com is a website specializing in automotive innovations. Glossary, features, technology news, innovation quizzes, and resources.
    • Campus access only :  Request login credentials to access all articles and features from the media library.
       
  • Scopus is a multidisciplinary bibliographic database published by Elsevier. It contains over 54 million bibliographic records. Scopus is also a tool for evaluating scientific information that provides insights into journal rankings, researchers’ publications, citations of an article, and more.
    • Campus access
    • Off-campus access
       
  • SciVal is a database that enables the development of indicators to measure the quality and impact of an institute’s research projects.
    • Campus access
    • Off-campus access
       
  • WoS – Web of Science is a database providing access to 2.3 billion bibliographic references from over 22,000 scientific journals, conference proceedings, and book chapters.
    • Campus access : create your account on Clarivate
    • Off-campus access : create an account on the website while connected to the school network
       
  • InCites is a performance analysis tool. It uses (meta)data from Web of Science.
    • Campus access : Use your Wos login
    • Off-campus access : Use your Wos login
  • OpenAlex : an open scholarly catalogue that allows you to explore publications, authors, research institutions and the connections between them worldwide.

Open and institutional archives

  • HAL ENSTA : ENSTA scientific publications
     
  • HAL IP Paris : IP Paris publications
     
  • HAL: national repository and search database for scientific articles
     
  • ArXiv: articles in mathematics, computer science, and physical sciences
     
  • Archimer: Ifremer institutional archive

Theses

  • Theses.fr: all doctoral theses defended in France since 1985.
  • TEL (Thèses-en-Ligne): a multidisciplinary open archive for the deposit and self-archiving of doctoral theses.

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