Collections

The university library provides you with over 85,000 printed documents covering all your courses. The catalogues enable you to identify, locate and check the availability of documents in the library.

Armadillo to find out about the BU's range of documents

Armadillo is a discovery tool that allows you to search the entire catalogue of the library's printed collections, as well as its electronic collections, in a single federated search.

Sudocto locate documents in other BUs that can be borrowed via the ILL service

Sudoc is the union catalogue of France's university libraries. It contains over 10 million bibliographic records describing all types of documents (books, theses, journals, electronic resources, audiovisual documents, microforms, maps, scores, manuscripts and old books, etc.). The Sudoc enables you to locate a document that your BU can borrow for you via the ILL service. To access the service, click here.

Worldcatto locate documents in other libraries that can be borrowed via the ILL service

Worldcat is the international union catalogue for libraries. It contains over two billion records for documents held in more than 10,000 libraries around the world. Worldcat enables you to locate a document that your BU can borrow for you via the ILL service.
To access it click here.

Magazines and newspapers available in your BU
The library offers a range of printed periodicals. Consult the catalogue in line.

These hyperlinks can only be consulted from computer workstations on the University of Guyana campuses. Outside the campuses, use Remote Access.

The use of electronic databases is governed by the contractual conditions agreed with the publishers. Generally speaking, it is permitted to consult, download and print articles within reasonable limits and for personal use or for research or teaching purposes. For more specific uses (communication of copies to a third party, insertion of copies on a course site, distribution of copies to students, etc.), please contact your library in advance.

As part of the implementation of the "Digital Scientific Library", the Agence Bibliographique de l'Enseignement Supérieur was commissioned by the Ministry of Higher Education and Research at the end of 2010 to negotiate and acquire resources in the form of national licences drawing on the expertise of the Couperin consortium and INIST-CNRS. The French programme of acquisitions under national licences currently concerns closed collections (archives of scientific periodicals - also known as backfilesThese are not subscriptions to current resources.

Encyclopaedias and dictionaries

• EnclopaediaUniversalis Encyclopaedia Universalis is the encyclopaedic reference for the French-speaking world. It offers high-quality answers in all disciplines and all major areas of knowledge.
• Le Petit Robert  Le Petit Robert is the reference dictionary of the French language.

Press

• Europresse Online database specially designed for the academic world. This database provides unique access to over 36,000 sources of information: international press headlines, company information, country data, biographies of senior executives.
• Médiapart access to all articles in the independent French newspaper Médiapart
• TheMetaNews Access to the archives of the leading journal on research and researchers, guaranteed to be independent and free of advertising.

Cinema and videos

• Digital Media Library The French Overseas Departments and Territories: watch thousands of feature films and documentaries online. Before using the platform, register by choosing the University of French Guiana as your media library in the "DOM-TOM" section.

Digital libraries (books)

• Clinical Key Student Nursing Digital resource on nursing science, including 130 e-books, 18 professional journals and 1 EMC Savoirs et Soins infirmiers.
• Elibris : Elibris is a platform of more than 30,000 digital books created in partnership with the company Cyberlibris and specially developed for the needs of the UG. All disciplines are covered: economics, management, law, engineering sciences, humanities and social sciences, sciences and . You'll find university-level textbooks as well as books on hobbies and cooking recipes. Web access after authentication.
• Directory of the open access books : 8729 peer-reviewed academic books from 224 publishers (including Collège de France, CNRS, Presses universitaires de Rennes, etc.). The DOAB aims to list as many books as possible, provided that these publications are distributed in open access and comply with the standards and rules of scientific publishing.
• Cairn Pocket Encyclopaedias Cairn is a portal for the humanities and social sciences. Its collection includes all the "Que sais-je?" and "Repères" collections. Pocket encyclopaedia more than 1,000 titles.
• ENI digital library with thousands of digital books, courses and IT e-learning courses

Books and Magazines

ALL FIELDS

• Cambridge University Press This database contains 312 journal titles published by Cambridge University Press in every field, from its origins (the oldest dating back to 1770) to 2010. (national licence)
• De Gruyter 474 titles of scientific journals published by De Gruyter from their origins to 2012. (national licence)
• Intechopen InTechOpen publishes open-access digital scientific books in the fields of science, technology, life sciences, health and the humanities and social sciences.
• Oxford University Press 264 titles of scientific journals published by the university presses of the prestigious Oxford University from their origins to 2010. (national licence)
• Wiley : Nearly 2200 titles of scientific journals published by Wiley from their origins to 2013. 

ART, LITERATURE AND LANGUAGES

• Brepols - ebooks Brepols Publishers publishes resources in ancient and medieval history, literature, linguistics, medieval thought and theology. The corpus of ebooks covers 849 titles, including Miscellanea. The texts are mainly in English, but also in French, Spanish, German and Italian. (national licence*)
• Brepols - magazines : Brepols Publishers publishes resources in ancient and medieval history, literature, linguistics, medieval thought and theology. The corpus of journals covers 45 titles from its origins, with the oldest issue dating from 1882, to 2012. (national licence)
• CAIRN : 389 specialist journals and magazines in French-language literature, humanities and social sciences.
• Cairn Ouvrages 
• Cambridge University Press This database contains 312 journal titles published by Cambridge University Press in every field, from its origins (the oldest dating back to 1770) to 2010. (national licence)
• De Gruyter 474 scientific journal titles, including journals in the arts, literature and linguistics, published by De Gruyter from its beginnings until 2012. (national licence - research level)
• ECCO (Eighteenth Century Collections Online) Archive of 180,000 titles (200,000 volumes) printed between 1701 and 1800 in Great Britain and the British colonies. (national licence)
• EEBO (Early English Books Online) Archive of 125,000 works printed between 1473 and 1700 in England and the British colonies, as well as English-language works printed elsewhere. (national licence)
• Scholar More than 150 French-language scholarly and cultural journals in the humanities and social sciences in North America.
• JSTOR : Archive of over 2,000 periodical titles, 20,000 digital books and 2 million primary documents. Collections available: Arts & Sciences I, II, III, VII, Life sciences.
• Gale Virtual Reference Library A collection of 14 thematic encyclopaedias in English. (national licence)
• Numérique Premium - French Literature Collection : Digital Premium is a French publisher of e-books in literature and the humanities. This corpus provides access to 145 French-language works from the collection published between 1962 and 2015. (national licence)
• New Pauly Online Encyclopédie de référence en sciences de l'Antiquité, in its English and German versions. (national licence)
• Oxford University Press 264 titles of scientific journals published by the university presses of the prestigious Oxford University from their origins to 2010. (national licence)
• French Language Treasury Digital version of the 19th and 20th century French language dictionary published between 1971 and 1994 (national licence)

HUMAN AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

All disciplines

• Brill : 220 scientific journal titles published by Brill from its origins until 2012, devoted mainly to the humanities, social sciences, international law and human rights, and biology. (national licence)
• CAIRN : 389 specialist journals and magazines in French-language literature, humanities and social sciences.
• Classics Social Sciences Free access to French-language works in the social sciences and humanities. The Social science classics are part of a long tradition of sharing knowledge and provide an extraordinary forum for French-language research. Various types of publications can be downloaded free of charge in different formats (.doc, .pdf, .rtf).
• De Gruyter 474 scientific journal titles, including journals in the humanities and social sciences, published by De Gruyter from its origins until 2012. (national licence - research level)
• Scholar More than 150 French-language scholarly and cultural journals in the humanities and social sciences in North America.
• Intechopen InTechOpen: InTechOpen publishes open-access digital scientific books, including books in the humanities and social sciences.
• JSTOR Archive of over 2,000 periodical titles, 20,000 digital books and 2 million primary documents. Collections available : Arts & Sciences I, II, III, VII, Life sciences.
• OpenEdition : OpenEdition is a complete electronic publishing infrastructure for scientific communication in the humanities and social sciences. It brings together four complementary platforms dedicated respectively to books, journals, research blogs and scientific announcements. Most of the content on all these platforms is open access.
• OpenEdition Books, the online book platform : Books in the humanities and social sciences are accessible on a space specific to each publisher. More than half of the catalogue is freely accessible in HTML, and can be quoted, printed and "encapsulated" on external sites. More than 4,000 works from 67 publishers (ENS Editions, Editions complètes du CNRS, EHESS, IRD, French and foreign university presses, etc.).
• Revues.org, the journal platform A platform for journals in the humanities and social sciences, it currently hosts 400 online journals, representing 100,000 articles, of which 95 % are available in full text.
• Hypotheses, research notebook platform Founded in 2009, Assumptions At the end of 2014, the site brought together almost 1,000 research notebooks run by a community of 10,000 notebook keepers from all over the world. All the content is freely accessible. Assumptions hosts different types of notebook: researcher's notebook, field notebook, seminar notebook, watchbook, etc. The platform itself is organised into language subdivisions corresponding to communities of French-, German- and Spanish-speaking loggers.
• Calenda, the humanities and social sciences calendar  : calenda is an online platform dedicated to research news in the humanities and social sciences. It includes open access announcements of scientific events. Calenda publishes conference announcements, full study day and seminar programmes, conference cycles, job offers and research grants, calls for tenders and calls for contributions for conferences, study days or thematic issues of journals, in all languages.
• Oxford University Press 264 titles of scientific journals, including journals in the humanities and social sciences, published by the University Press of the prestigious Oxford University from its origins to 2010. (national licence)
• SAGE 748 titles of scientific journals, including journals in the humanities and social sciences, published by Sage from its beginnings up to 2009. (national licence)
• Wiley Nearly 2,200 scientific journal titles, including journals in the humanities and social sciences, published by Wiley from its beginnings until 2013.

History

• Brepols - ebooks  Brepols Publishers publishes resources in ancient and medieval history, literature, linguistics, medieval thought and theology. The corpus of ebooks covers 849 titles, including Miscellanea. The texts are mainly in English, but also in French, Spanish, German and Italian. (national licence)
• Brepols - magazines : Brepols Publishers publishes resources in ancient and medieval history, literature, linguistics, medieval thought and theology. The corpus of journals covers 45 titles from its origins, with the oldest issue dating from 1882, to 2012. (national licence)
• Cairn Ouvrages 
• Digital Premium - "French Revolution and First Empire" collection This corpus provides access to 123 works from the collection published between 1962 and 2015. (national licence)

Education sciences

• CAIRN 389 specialist journals and magazines in French-language literature, humanities and social sciences.
• Cairn Books in educational science You will have access to the educational science books most frequently consulted by users at your university.
• Cairn Ouvrages 
• ERIC : editorial platform produced by the US Department of Education, providing access to over 900 periodical titles (bibliographic references or full texts).
• JSTOR archive of over 2,000 periodical titles, 20,000 digital books and 2 million primary documents. Collections available : Arts & Sciences I, II, III, VII, Life sciences.
• Numérique Premium - "Education sciences" collection 154 volumes (published by Retz and ESF) This collection, based on the catalogues of two major publishers in the educational sciences, ESF and Retz, offers a wide choice of theoretical and practical books for students and teachers at all levels, from nursery school to higher education. All issues relating to education are covered: teaching methods and the history of teaching, as well as different educational policies and the recent use of new technologies. Numerous theoretical schools are represented, notably through the works of Rémi Brissiaud and Philippe Meirieu, which have become classics. Taken as a whole, this is an unrivalled reference library.

LEGAL, ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL SCIENCES

• Brill 220 scientific journal titles published by Brill from its origins until 2012, mainly devoted to the humanities, social sciences, international law and human rights, and biology (national degree - research level).
• Dalloz.fr : Dalloz.en is the legal database containing Dalloz publications for your documentary research: codes, journals, encyclopaedias, books, etc.
• DallozLibrary DallozBibliothèque gives you rapid access to several hundred digital works: codes, Dalloz action, dictionaries, university textbooks and revision works.
• Emerald Access to 362 journals, from their first publication (the oldest dates back to 1898) up to and including 2010, mainly in business, management and economics. (national licence)
• Lamyline More than 5 million legal documents: official sources, books, journals and forms from the collections. Lamy and Liaisons. A Lamyline training guide is available to download.
• Lextenso This legal database contains articles from newsletters and other publications.  Joly publishings, and newspapers Palai Gazettes and Small posters.
• Lexis 360 Lexis360, the legal information and research portal, gives you access to the JurisClasseur Encyclopaedias and leading legal journals, as well as methodology and revision sheets. You must create an account on the site to access the database. How to connect to the tools LexisNexis is as follows:

Go to Lexis 360
Click on Sign in at the top right of the screen
Enter your e-mail address en @etu.univ-guyane.fr
You will receive an email entitled "Activation of your Lexis360 account".
Click on the activation link in the e-mail

The site then displays "Your account has been created successfully". Click on OK.

• Recueil des cours de l'Académie de La Haye 338 volumes of courses taught at The Hague Academy of International Law, from its origins (1923) to 2012, 15 symposium titles, 8 titles of the Centre for Studies and Research in International Law and International Relations (2000-2008) and 7 titles of The Law Books of the Academy (1988-2010). (national licence - research level)
• Taylor and Francis The Taylor and Francis selected for ISTEX covers nearly 1,500 works in political science and international relations published between 1977 and 2012. (national licence)

SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, HEALTH

All disciplines

• BMJ (British Medical Journal)  64 medical journal titles published by the BMJ group (British Medical Journal), the publishing arm of the British Medical Association (BMA) from its origins until 2013. (national licence)
• Clinical Key Student Nursing Digital resource on nursing science, including 130 e-books, 18 professional journals and 1 EMC Savoirs et Soins infirmiers.
• De Gruyter 474 titles of scientific journals, including science and technology journals, published by De Gruyter from its origins until 2012. (national licence)
• Intechopen InTechOpen publishes open-access digital scientific books in the fields of science, technology, life sciences, health and the humanities and social sciences.
• EDP Sciences Journals in physics, astrophysics, engineering sciences and technology, health, life sciences, chemistry, mathematics and computing.
• JSTOR Archive of over 2,000 periodical titles, 20,000 digital books and 2 million primary documents. Collections available : Arts & Sciences I, II, III, VII, Life sciences.
• Oxford University Press 264 titles of scientific journals published by the university presses of the prestigious Oxford University from their origins to 2010. (national licence)
• SAGE 748 titles of scientific journals published by Sage from its origins to 2009. (national licence)
• Science direct access to the collection  Freedom More than 2000 titles of reference periodicals in chemistry, medicine, biology and technology. (national licence)
• Springer Link Springer Link: a bouquet of 1216 multidisciplinary journals. Springer Link is a digital publishing service for journals published by SPRINGER Verlag and Kluwer in the fields of Life and Earth Sciences, Chemistry, Computer Science, Mathematics, Medicine, Physics, Astronomy, Engineering Sciences, Environmental Sciences, Social Sciences, Economics and Management.
• Springer Nature  This corpus Springer e-books is made up of 4 collections in mathematics and statistics, physics and astronomy, chemistry and materials science, and engineering sciences. It represents more than 33,000 titles, including the entire output of each publishing year, and is made up of monographs, textbooks, course books, reference works and book series. The period covered extends from the origins of the school up to and including 2013. A fifth collection, the LNCS - Lecture Notes in Computer Sciencehas added to its collection of over 600 titles in the field of computer science. The titles acquired are for 2013. (national licence)
• Wiley Nearly 2,200 titles of scientific journals published by Wiley from their origins to 2013.

Biology

• Brill : 220 scientific journal titles published by Brill from its origins until 2012, devoted mainly to the humanities, social sciences, international law and human rights, and to the biology. (national licence)
• NPG -Nature All publications from the reference biology publisher (national licence)
• Science direct access to the collection  Freedom More than 2000 titles of reference periodicals in chemistry, medicine, biology and technology. (national licence)
• EDP Sciences Journals in physics, astrophysics, engineering sciences and technology, health, life sciences, chemistry, mathematics and computing.

Geology

• The Geological Society The Geological Society is a learned society created at the very beginning of the 19th century in the United Kingdom. It covered the field of geology. Shortly after it was founded, GSL Publishing was established as an associated publishing house. The corpus acquired as part of the National Licences covers 305 ebook titles published by GSL Publishing between 1964 and 2008. It consists of the archives of the "Special Publications" of the "Lyell collection". (national licence)

IT

• De Gruyter 474 titles of scientific journals, including computer science journals, published by De Gruyter from its origins until 2012. (national licence)
• Springer Nature  the collection, the LNCS - Lecture Notes in Computer Sciencehas added to its collection of over 600 titles in the field of computer science. The titles acquired are for 2013. (national licence)
• Springer Link Springer Link: a bouquet of 1216 multidisciplinary journals. Springer Link is a digital publishing service for journals published by SPRINGER Verlag and Kluwer in the fields of Life and Earth Sciences, Chemistry, Computer Science, Mathematics, Medicine, Physics, Astronomy, Engineering Sciences, Environmental Sciences, Social Sciences, Economics and Management.

Mathematics

• De Gruyter 474 titles of scientific journals, including mathematical journals, published by De Gruyter from its origins until 2012. (national licence)
• Duke Mathematical Journal all of these Duke Mathematical Journal consists of volumes 1 (1935) to 161 (2012). Published by Duke University Press, the DMJ is one of the leading international journals in mathematics. The DMJ focuses on the most active and influential areas of contemporary mathematics and includes several French Fields medallists on its editorial board. The journal has published the work of Fields medallists Cédric Villani, Ngô Bảo Châu, Jean-Pierre Serre and Artur Avila (national licence).
• EDP Sciences Journals in physics, astrophysics, engineering sciences and technology, health, life sciences, chemistry, mathematics and computing.
• Mathscinet : This database provides access to the references of over 550 mathematics journals (research level).
• Numdam, the French digital mathematics library The full text of research publications in mathematics: journal articles, proceedings of seminars and conferences, books, theses (state doctorates). A large part of the collection has been digitised from the first issue to around 2000 from paper originals. The library acquires more recent articles directly from the publishers who supply them. The full texts can be freely downloaded from this site after a sliding scale of 0 to 10 years.
• Springer Nature This corpus Springer e-books is made up of 4 collections in mathematics and statistics, physics and astronomy, chemistry and materials science, and engineering sciences. It represents more than 33,000 titles, including the entire output of each publishing year, and is made up of monographs, textbooks, course books, reference works and book series. The period covered goes from the origins up to and including 2013. (national licence) 5,400 research-level mathematics books have been acquired by the university.

Nursing medicine and science

• Clinical Key Student Nursing Digital resource on nursing science, including 130 e-books, 18 professional journals and 1 EMC Savoirs et Soins infirmiers.

Physics - Chemistry

• De Gruyter 474 scientific journal titles, including physics journals, published by De Gruyter from its origins until 2012. (national licence)
• EDP Sciences Journals in physics, astrophysics, engineering sciences and technology, health, life sciences, chemistry, mathematics and computing.
• IOP (Institute of PhysicsPublishing) 107 titles of scientific journals published by the Institute of Physics from its beginnings to 2012. (national licence)
• Royal Society of Chemistry  1200 books published by Royal Society of Chemistry between 1968 and 2014. (national licence)

Engineering sciences

• EDP Sciences Journals in physics, astrophysics, engineering sciences and technology, health, life sciences, chemistry, mathematics and computing.
• Engineering techniques : Engineering techniques is the leading technical and scientific publisher. The complete collection gives access to more than 10,000 reference or practical articles and 4,000 news articles. Free content (articles, extracts, white papers) is also available.

Need a brief?  

• The platform DUMAS (Dépôt Universitaire des Mémoires après Soutenance) is an open archive integrated into the HAL (Hyper articles online), which provides full-text access to the best academic dissertations.
• The European thesis portal DART-Europe provides access to research dissertations from over 560 universities in 28 European countries,

Need a thesis?  

• The BU catalogue Armadillo allows you to find and consult theses defended at the UG and the former UAG online,
• The portal theses.fr lists doctoral theses defended or in preparation, at national level, and provides access to the full-text document where possible,
• The SUDOC lists French theses in all disciplines, in both paper and electronic versions,
• Cybertesis, the Latin American online thesis portal, provides references to theses defended in South America.

If the thesis does not exist in electronic form, please contact the ILL service to send the paper version from another university.

The Manioc digital library brings together more than 20,000 heritage documents (books, images, maps) on the Caribbean, the Guiana Plateau and Amazonia, as well as scientific audio-visual documents (conferences and study days).

The Manioc digital library has set itself the dual objective of promoting both heritage and science. Its content is transdisciplinary, covering all fields of knowledge, from botany and literature to history, geography and economics. This transdisciplinarity is reflected in a wide variety of thematic studies: arts and literature, crafts and colonial trade, culture and the sugar industry, the plantation economy, slavery (the slave trade and its abolition), gold mining, tropical medicine and the Franco-Brazilian dispute, etc.

The University of French Guiana is a member of the Pôle associé interrégional Antilles-Guyane (associated documentary centre with the BNF). As such, the university library participates in the development of  Cassava.

To access it, click here.

The Amazon fund: all about French Guiana... and its neighbours!

This documentary offering is complemented by a collection of transdisciplinary works devoted to the three Guianas (French Guiana, Suriname and Guyana). Here the humanities, social sciences and exact sciences come together to give you a wide range of tools for understanding this geographical area. Guiana has a special place of honour in this collection, where you can consult encyclopaedias and specialist dictionaries such as the Desormeaux Encyclopaedia, the Mémorial du Bagne de la Guyane and several Creole-French dictionaries. The issues of slavery and indigenous peoples are also well documented.

In addition, the environmental aspects of the region are covered, with a special focus on flora and fauna. You will also find research work by lecturers at the University of Guyana, as well as dissertations and theses defended at the UG. This collection is identified by green labels.

Want to relax? The BUL!

Comic books, manga, novels (science fiction, fantasy, etc.) and DVDs await you in the University Leisure Library on the ground floor. A wide range of comics is available, from the great classics to more contemporary works. Cinema is just as important here, with fiction and documentaries to keep you entertained. A press consultation area is also available!

All these documents are listed in the catalogue Armadillo