PERSEE: French Open Access Portal to Scholarly Human and Social Sciences Journals

PERSEE is the French Open Access Portal to the archives of scholarly journals in the fields of Human and Social Sciences. It was initiated by the Ministry for National Education, Higher Education and Research and is maintained by a consortium of public research institutions led by the University Lumière - Lyon 2 in partnership with the Higher Education National Informatics Center (/Centre Informatique National de l'Enseignement Supérieur/ - CINES).

Based on an open-source policy, PERSEE developed new tools for the production and publication of digitized contents, following international norms in the fields of digital libraries and open access to scientific information.

Since its opening in January 2005, the PERSEE portal (www.persee.fr) offers a free and immediate online access to constantly growing collections of scientific journals, along with services specifically developed for the best use of these digitized contents.

Journal List [ http://www.persee.fr/listRevues.do ]