Who's behind the news?
Who's behind the news?
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Newsjunkie.net is a resource guide for journalists. We show who's behind the news, and provide tools to help navigate the modern business of information.
Use of Data
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Persée is a French open-access digital library and archive of scholarly journals, conference proceedings, book series, and primary sources, focusing primarily on the human and social sciences. It provides free, full-text online access to complete collections of French-language academic publications spanning the 19th to the 21st century, with the oldest scientific article in the collection dating to 1840.
Persée was established by the French Ministry of National Education and launched as a public portal in 2005. It is maintained by the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), and the University of Lyon. The portal was built on the convergence of heritage digitization and electronic publishing, making the backlists of major French academic journals freely available at a time when online access to French scholarship was limited.
As of recent updates, Persée hosts more than 400 collections representing over one million documents, with new titles added on a regular basis. Collections span disciplines including history, sociology, linguistics, philosophy, political science, economics, geography, archaeology, and the earth and environmental sciences. Publications range from the 19th century to the early 21st century, allowing researchers to trace the evolution of scholarly literature over time. In 2025, Persée became the 20th institution to join the Keepers Registry, an international service for the traceability and long-term archiving of serial publications.
All content on Persée is freely available without registration. Metadata and full texts are distributed under open protocols (OAI-PMH, web services, SPARQL endpoint) and are referenced by Google Scholar, JSTOR, and other discovery systems. Persée is involved in a long-term digital preservation program in partnership with CINES (Centre Informatique National de l'Enseignement Supérieur). It also contributes to related French scholarly information tools including Mir@bel, EZB, Bacon, and Isidore.