Our missions
A library serving Sciences Po's projects
The Sciences Po Library (Scientific Information and Resources Department, DRIS) is located across Sciences Po’s seven campuses (Paris, Nancy, Dijon, Poitiers, Le Havre, Menton and Reims), each of which houses a part of the library’s collection.
Missions
The Sciences Po library is a social sciences reference library at an international level and more specifically in the field of political science.
As a partner of the French National Library and active member of CollEx-Persée (a national research infrastucture for collections of excellence) it brings together researchers and large scientific information holdings in order to give easier access. It collects, describes, disseminates and preserves material and resources for teaching and research.
As part of the European objectives in promoting Open Science, it designs along with its users the tools and services they need in order to collect, digitalise and explore resources and data.
The library also provides as part of its missions tuition on searching methodology and information literacy to its public (students, teachers and searchers) on all sort of resources (text, archive, image both printed or electronic).
It takes part actively into major european associations such as LIBER (Association of European Research Libraries), SPARC and COAR (Coalition of open access repositories)
Users
The Sciences Po Library is primarily committed to serving the students, faculty and researchers of the Sciences Po community.
The library is also open to outside readers, including from the Sorbonne Paris Cité university consortium, under certain conditions.
Collections
The Sciences Po library is specialized in the social sciences, offering one of the richest collections in this field in all of Europe.
For further information see: the collections.
Services
- Access to print and digital collections
- The Sciences Po open archive: Spire
- Sciences Po Archives
- Training for library users (FR.)
- Research data management
- Images (FR.)
- Digitization
- Promotion of library resources (FR.) and library events
Networks and partners
The library is a member of the consortium of universities and institutions Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (USPC).
It is also actively involved in various professional bodies at the national and international level (FR.).
Contact
FNSP-Bibliothèque
27, rue Saint-Guillaume
75337 Paris Cedex 07 (FRANCE)
Téléphone : 01 45 49 53 00
