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Search in our collections

Description and access to the various tools for searching and accessing our resources.

(crédits : Caroline Maufroid / Sciences Po)

The catalogue

The catalogue is the main entry point to the library's collections. It lists all our printed holdings and the vast majority of our electronic resources.

Check out the tutorial “How to use the catalogue?” 

Sciences Po digital library

The digital library of Sciences Po provides students, researchers, and the general public with access to over 860,000 documents from the library's collections, the institution's archives and research centers, and the Sciences Po Cartography Workshop. 

Sciences Po Archives

The Sciences Po archives website provides readers with research tools for institutional archives, political archives, and research archives. It also offers digital access to the archives of the École libre des sciences politiques via the Sciences Po digital library, to electoral archives via the Archelec Explorer interface and the Internet Archive, and to digitised research surveys in the Data .sciencespo data warehouse.

Spire / Hal - Sciences Po institutionnal repository

SPIRE (Sciences Po Institutional REpository) brings together the publications of the institution's researchers and PhD students. Aligned with the open science movement, its goal is to provide the widest possible access to these works. 

data.sciencespo

Launched in February 2020, data.sciencespo is a repository that offers visibility, sharing and preservation of data collected, curated and processed at Sciences Po. The repository is based on the open-source software solution Dataverse and is organized into collections. It is listed in the re3data registry of research data repositories.