FAQ
According to the 2nd national plan for open science 2021-2024, the research data is a new challenge for the sharing of scientific knowledge.
In 2023, BibCnrs offers an experimental service for access to research data.
This service complements the consultation of scientific publications and allows you to identify new knowledge while remaining in your portal.
BibCnrs integrates, in a new specific tab, the interrogation of data sets since 2011 from the daily harvesting of the Datacite reservoir.
DataCite is a global non-profit organisation that provides DOIs for data and other research results.
More than 13 million of datasets have been added to the hundreds of millions of articles already available in BibCnrs.
How to search for datasets in BibCnrs?
Without being signed in and by clicking on the “Research data” tab, you have access to all the research data in open access.
- Enter your query in the search bar and the search will be launched automatically. The search will be performed by default on all fields that detail the content of the dataset (title, description, subject). To access the dataset or the page containing the dataset, simply click on the title.
- You can do a more precise search: by title, on the description field (summary), on the subject field (keywords) or by DOI .In this case, enter your search in the search bar and select the field you wish to search and click on the to start the search.To access the dataset or the page containing the dataset, simply click on the title.
To find out more about the services offered by Inist-Cnrs, click here
What does the “Diamond” logo in BibCnrs mean? 
The blue diamond logo in BibCNRS indicates content published according to the “Diamond”open access model.
Diamond Open Access is a business model for Open Access (OA) scientific publishing.
Diamond Open Access scientific publishing is based on four main principles :
- Publication is free for authors
- Consultation is free for reader
- Submissions are peer-reviewed
- Authors retain copyright over their work
A growing number of institutions and organisations are promoting this model, which is largely based on academic grants. The CNRS is one of the supporters of this model.
Why a “Diamond” logo in BibCnrs?
The “Diamond” model is mentioned by name in the CNRS open science policy as one of the levers for sustainable open science that guarantees bibliodiversity.
The addition of the “Diamond” logo in BibCnrs contributes to this approach and aims to make this publishing model better known and to highlight the publications that use it.
The blue “Diamond” logo complements the orange “OA” logo already present in BibCnrs, which indicates open access publications of all models (Green Open Access, Gold Open Access)
To have more information, EPRIST has written a synthetic sheet, to access it, click HERE
It should be noted that the referencing of “Diamond” content via this logo is an experimental service. For the time being, it is only carried out on the basis of data produced by the DOAJ.
Click & Read is a complementary access mode to the BibCnrs portal.
With the aim of facilitating access to full text, Inist launched the Click & Read extension in 2021. In its first version, Click & Read shared access to services managed by Inist: the BibCnrs portal, the Istex platform and the Panist website. As part of an open science policy, the free Unpaywall reservoir was added to these sources.
In its second version, in March 2022, the tool became more collaborative and added sources from INSERM, CEA, Institut Pasteur and a number of pilot universities.
Installation guidelines :
- To install and set up the Click and Read extension in Chrome, click here
- To install and set up the Click and Read extension in Firefox, click here
- To install and set up the Click and Read extension in Edge, click here
- To install and set up the Click and Read extension in Safari, click here
The Click & Read extension takes over the functions of the Istex and Panist extensions. You need to uninstall them.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the ClickandRead team.
BibCnrs is a portal which gives access to the CNRS documentary resources. This portal provides access for researchers and other personnel from CNRS units to a negotiated range of journals, books and databases along with qualified open access.
BibCnrs can only be consulted on recent versions of Firefox and Google Chrome using a PC, Mac or tablet.
To access the portal: https://bib.cnrs.fr/
BibCnrs is in French and English: on the homepage, click at the top right on (Français/English).
Access to the resources available on BibCnrs is reserved for researchers working in CNRS laboratories (whether paid by the CNRS or other organizations) as well to doctoral students and post-doctoral researchers in the same laboratories.
The CNRS Labintel directory is the reference document for information on rights holders.
The quantity of researchers is declared to the publishers concerned and is the basis for the cost of access to resources.
Some interdisciplinary research projects have broader documentation requirements than a scientific field’s strict framework. However, since the cost of subscriptions set by publishers is based on the number of accesses authorized, for budgetary reasons the CNRS cannot open all subscriptions in all scientific fields to all its units and research communities.
Without being signed in BibCnrs portal, you can access journals, databases and research data in open access identified by the OA logo 
You mainly sign in using the login/password Janus.
This login/password can notably be used to sign into the following CNRS applications: Core, Agate, Sirhus, Labintel…
If you do not have a login/password yet, request a Janus account
- Select your CNRS status and enter the Janus ID (email address) for which you are requesting a password reset.
- You must also check the security box “I am not a robot”.
- An e-mail will then be sent to your address with a link to modify your password which is valid for an limited period of time.
In the event of problems with Safari, please use Firefox or Chrome. If the problem persists, sign in with your old portal access code ” via your old portal access code ” and contact us.
If you do not yet have a Janus account or if the Janus service is unavailable, you can still use your old portal access code temporarily.
Please note: If you see a blue bar which either scrolls or is fixed, please activate the JavaScript plugin in your browser to allow access to the search screen and also contact us.
All users signed in with his Janus account has a personal profile allowing him to:
- see his favourite domain if he has rights to several domains
- view the licenses taken out by the CNRS with publishers for the resources in his or her domain(s)
- access to his favourite resources
- add his personal resources
- The favorite resources are articles, journals, books, databases or platforms pinned
via BibCnrs by the user after a search (like a bookmark).
- The personal resources correspond to resources not included in BibCnrs entered manually by the user.
To enter a Personal Resource, click on the +
then in the “Title” field, enter the name of the resource and in the “Url” field, enter the url address preceded by https and click on “Validate”.
By default, you are recognised on the main domain of your unit.
If you have rights to several domains, click on the domain in which you wish to search.
By default, you are positioned on the tab “Article”. You can search for articles, book chapters, DOIs, authors, title abstract words, ISSN, ISBN.
The implicit Boolean operator between different words in a search is: AND.
The searchable reference pool (Ebsco Discovery Service) contains several hundred million bibliographic references from publishers and content providers. New content is added daily.
The search tool will by default suggest references with full text. To refine the results, you can use the filters on the left of the screen: open access, HAL …
Open Access Filter :
HAL filter :
To view the detailed record, click on the chevron 
to the right of the article title.
To access the document, click on the title of the article.
If you cannot find an article, we invite you to search directly by the title of the journal by selecting the tab “Journal, book” to access the publisher’s site.
Records can be exported in RIS (Research Information Systems) and BIBTEX format. From the list of results, please select the records you wish to export and then click on the button on the right of the search bar “Export selection”.
The implicit Boolean operator between different words in a search is AND. The available Boolean operators are OR, NOT and AND.
Truncation can be used with the star * character. If this is added at the end of a word or after the first letters of a word, it enables a search to be run on works “which begin with…” or “which finish with…” It can be particularly useful for searching for the singular and plural forms of words.
Example: Book* searches for book, books, etc.
To write a search equation, enter in the search bar the syntax you want: {field} : {word to search}
- TX: search in the whole bibliographic record
- AU: search one or more words in the Author field
- TI: search one or more words in the article TI
- AB: search in the abstract
- ISSN ISBN: search in whole bibliographic record while deleting hyphens
- LA: search in the language field
- SU: search one or more words in the keyword field
By default, you are recognized in your unit’s main disciplinary field.
If you are entitled to more than one domain, select the domain in which you wish to search.
Select the “Journal, book“ tab and enter the term(s) of the journal or book title you want.
You can also use the A to Z search.
To refine the results, you can use the filters on the left of the screen.
To view the detailed record, click on the chevron to the right of the journal or book title.
To add a journal or book title to your favourite resources, click on the pin icon
Without being connected in and by clicking on the “Database” tab, you have access to all the databases in Open Access.
After logging in, you will have access to all databases specific to the main domain to which your unit belongs.
If you have rights to several domains, select the domain in which you wish to search.
By checking 
, you only have the databases in Open Access.
Select the “Database” tab and click on the database you are interested in. To add a database to your favourite resources, click on the pin
You can consult the list of electronic resources available for each BibCnrs domain in the TOOLS section on the portal homepage.
- OPEN ACCESS RESOURCES
BibCNRS does not only offer publisher resources under subscription.
BibCNRS is also oriented towards open science and promotes its use.
A systematic and priority call to the Unpaywall free database as well as to the Full Open Access databases listed in the Ebsco society discovery tool, including the HAL open archive, allows, when querying via the “Article” tab, to obtain open access articles marked with the OA logo .
The integration of a facet “Open Access” on the left of the page allows the user to display only the resources available in open access.
It is also possible to display only the articles present in the open archive HAL by the means of the filter HAL in the heading “Provider of contents” bottom left of the page.
Open access databases or platforms have been added in the ‘Database’ tab to complement publishers’ resources. They are marked with the OA logo . They are available without authentication. An “open access” filter allows you to display only the databases available in open access.
- NATIONAL NEGOTIATIONS
These multidisciplinary resources, acquired for all the research communities of the CNRS and available in the 10 domains of BibCNRS, form a base of common scientific publications shared by all the scientific institutes of the CNRS. They cover all the major scientific fields of the CNRS.
- THEMATIC RESOURCES
Digital resources specific to each scientific community are acquired by the CNRS as well as by the CNRS Institutes according to the Institute’s disciplinary field:
- INSB (Biological Sciences)
- INC (Chemistry)
- INEE (Ecology & Environment)
- INSHS Humanities & Social Sciences)
- IN2P3 (Nuclear & Particle Physics)
- INP (Physics)
- INS2I (Information Sciences)
- INSU (Earth Sciences & Astronomy)
- INSIS (Engineering & Systems)
- INSMI (Mathematics)
Specific theme-based resources are negotiated and integrated for the majority of the disciplinary fields.
The Inist-CNRS consults with the CNRS institutes to mediate and negotiate the acquisition of theme-based resources – journals, digital books or databases.
- CSD
Database in crystallography – Cambridge Structural Database published by the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC). It includes over 850,000 crystallographic structures of organic and organometallic compounds and the CCDC’s existing modelling applications.
Available for all CNRS laboratories who request access.
Please contact us
- ISTEX resources –National Licences
ISTEX, a vast reservoir of scientific archives, offers the entire French higher education and research community access to over 27.4 million publications (articles and monographs) in all scientific disciplines from 1473 to 2021.
The resources acquired within the framework of the ISTEX programme are covered by BibCNRS and are available during a search for “One Article” or “One Journal, One Work”. It is a complement to the current subscriptions of the BibCNRS portal.
ISTEX is the result of a partnership between CNRS, Abes, Couperin and the University of Lorraine. Depending on the contract, ISTEX allows access to the full text either via the publishers’ sites or via the dedicated platform which hosts all the acquired data.
Licenses from publishers and resource providers give authorized users the right to search for, make queries about, print and download articles for their own personal use or for study and research purposes.
However, downloading or storing whole or systematic journals is strictly prohibited. Similarly, any redistribution and commercial use of resources is prohibited.
In the event of repeated systematic downloads which are too close together in time, users may have their access to resources suspended.
After sign in via your Janus account, you can create alerts (daily, weekly or monthly) from your search history.
To access your search history, click on the link “Show history”. This link appears after any query.
The search history lasts for 2 months.
To create an alert, click on the bell 
A window allowing you to define the periodicity appears:
Choose your periodicity (daily, weekly, monthly) and click on “Save”.
If results corresponding to the query registered as an alert are detected, you will receive – according to your periodicity – the alerts directly in your e-mail box.
At any time, alerts can be activated or deactivated (e.g. during vacations), modified, or deleted.
In accordance with the CNRS open science roadmap, BibCnrs has evolved in 2020 to integrate more open resources.
ACCESS TO MORE OPEN RESOURCES :
A systematic and priority call to the Unpaywall free database as well as to the Full Open Access databases listed in the discovery tool of the Ebsco company, including the HAL open archive, allows a search via the tab “Article” to obtain in priority articles in open access indicated by the OA logo .
At the time of a research via the tab “Article” the integration, on the left of the page :
– of a facet “Open access” allows the user to display only the resources available in open access,
– of a HAL filter in the heading “Supplier of contents” allows to display only the articles present in the open archive HAL.
Databases or platforms in open access were added in the tab “Database” to supplement the resources of the publishers. They are marked by the logo OA . They are available without authentication. An “open access” filter displays only the databases available in open access.
Open access content has also been added to the “Journal, book” tab to complete subscription packages such as the DOAJ open access journal directory. These journals are marked with the OA logo
NEW EXPERIMENTAL SERVICES IN 2023 TO PROMOTE OPEN SCIENCE VISIBILITY AND PRACTICE :
- Valorisation of journals published under the Diamant model :
This model is specifically mentioned in the CNRS open science policy as one of the levers for sustainable open science that guarantees bibliodiversity.
The addition of a blue logo in the shape of a Diamond to the “Journal, book” tab, in addition to the OA logo , contributes to this approach and aims to make this publishing model better known and to highlight the publications that use it.
ISTEX, a vast reservoir of scientific archives, offers the entire French higher education and research community access to over 27.4 million publications (articles and monographs) in all scientific disciplines from 1473 to 2021.
The resources acquired within the framework of the ISTEX programme are covered by BibCNRS and are available during a search for “Article” or “Journal, work“. This is a complement to the current subscriptions of the BibCNRS portal.
The result of a partnership between the CNRS, Abes, Couperin and the University of Lorraine, ISTEX allows, depending on the contract, access to the full text either via the publishers’ sites or via the dedicated platform which hosts all the data acquired.
A permanent access platform, sponsored by the Couperin Consortium, which offers rightful claimants in the ESR the guarantee of access to the content subscribed to in the contracts, regardless of the evolution of the markets with the publishers.
More than 7 million articles from the publisher Elsevier are available from 2002 to 2018. These resources are covered by BibCnrs via the current subscription to the Elsevier Freedom collection.
Open database of over 46 million free scientific articles from the Our Research project, a non-profit organization that creates tools to make academic research more open.
The Unpaywall database is systematically queried as a priority for any Article search in BibCnrs.
On the BibCnrs home page click on 
which enables you to access:
- general BibCnrs news or specific news for your disciplinary field
- tests of common resources or specific resources for your disciplinary field
Mailing lists
Each discipline has its own mailing list. Subscriptions to the mailing lists are reserved for BibCnrs rights holders.
To subscribe and receive information about a given discipline (new resources, new services, changes, training offers, etc.) please go to the page for your discipline and click on “Mailing list” at the bottom of the page.
To subscribe to the mailing list for Biology: : bibcnrs-insb@services.cnrs.fr
To subscribe to the mailing list for Chemistry: bibcnrs-inc@services.cnrs.fr
To subscribe to the mailing list for Ecology & Environment : bibcnrs-inee@services.cnrs.fr
To subscribe to the mailing list for Humanities and Social Sciences: : bibcnrs-inshs@services.cnrs.fr
To subscribe to the mailing list for Engineering and Systems: bibcnrs-insis@services.cnrs.fr
To subscribe to the mailing list for Mathematics: bibcnrs-insmi@services.cnrs.fr
To subscribe to the mailing list for Nuclear & Particle Physics: bibcnrs-in2p3@services.cnrs.fr
To subscribe to the mailing list for Physics: bibcnrs-inp@services.cnrs.fr
To subscribe to the mailing list for Information Sciences: bibcnrs-ins2i@services.cnrs.fr
To subscribe to the mailing list for Earth Sciences & Astronomy: bibcnrs-insu@services.cnrs.fr
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