ISTEX - national digital scientific library

Istex was born of a national impetus as part of the "investments for the future" program of the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation (Mesri) and funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR) to the tune of 60 million euros. This budget has enabled the purchase of over 25 million multidisciplinary scientific documents and the creation of a digital platform accessible to all French higher education and research establishments.
Istex is the largest repository of standardized scientific archives serving French research. Its unique feature is that it is technically and legally compatible with text mining and analysis. Istex Search is the platform that enables searches within this national corpus.

Accessible content:
The fruit of 47 publisher negotiations with 30 scientific publishers, the Istex archive is rich in more than 25 million publications, mostly in English, covering almost 700 years and presenting a diverse typology of documents, in all disciplines.

Acquisition methods:
National licenses accessible to all higher education and research establishments.

Access procedures for the Centrale Lyon community:
Access on the Lyon-Ecully campus via IP / Wifi Centrale Lyon address recognition
Access on the Saint-Etienne via recognition of addressesIP / Wifi Eduroam
Access on or off campus via authentication on the ISTEX site (Centrale Lyon authentication after choice of establishment)
Access on or off campus via access facilitators (Click&Read, Google Scholar, Scopus...)
Access on or off campus via authentication from the Bibliothèque numérique.