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28 September 2010

Four collections from the Collège de France join Revues.org

Inès Secondat de Montesquieu
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This summer, four collections from the Collège de France were published online on the Revues.org platform: Leçons inaugurales, Les Conférences, L’Annuaire, and La Lettre du Collège de France.

The Leçons inaugurales are the first lectures given by a new professor at the Collège de France. The site offers eight lectures available on open-access in varied areas: paleontology, health, sustainable development, chemistry, and the history of religions.

The Les Conférences collection brings together online works from conferences, seminars and lectures organised by the Collège de France. A first conference, held in 2008, is now available on open access: Interpretative Plurality. The Historical and Cognitive Foundations of the Notion of Perspective.

The L’Annuaire du Collège de France Collection provides a presentation of the lectures, research and publications from professors, lecturing staff and associated teams, over the year. The volumes for 2007-2008 and 2008-2009 are already online, and soon videos of lectures will also be available.

La Lettre du Collège de France is published thrice yearly. Its articles discuss the life of the institution and related events. Five issues are already available in full text including two special issues, devoted to Lévi-Strauss and the other to tobacco.

These publications also provide the chance to offer new services for mobile formats which will enable us to broaden distribution of content for other platforms and in other formats. There are for example works available in EPUB format in online bookstores, like iBookStore or Immateriel.fr. They are also accessible for readers (Ipad, Sony Reader…), or smartphones.

The new distribution platforms for electronic books and in particular, the works of the Collège de France were presented by the French Education Minister, Valérie Pécresse, 8 September during a press conference on digital universities.



Three platforms for electronic resources in the humanities and social sciences: Revues.org, Hypotheses.org, Calenda