Cairn.info

Summary

Cairn.info is the central French-language academic-publishing platform for the social sciences and humanities (Bibliothèque numérique en sciences humaines et sociales) — a journal/database hosting service operated by a consortium of French-language academic publishers and institutions. Registered here as stub with abstract-only license because Cairn is paywalled at the article level. [source: cairn-info]

Body

The 20240825152259 Wayback-Machine snapshot of shs.cairn.info/ recovered on 2026-07-03 carries the published-curation list (the editorial-direction attributions for new / recently cited works, e.g. Frank Hamilton Cushing, Patrick Pérez, Frédéric Saumade; Bernard Bruneteau & François Hourmant; Christophe Bident, Arnaud Maïsetti & Sylvie Patron; Aliénor Bertrand, Patrick Giraudoux & Arnaud Macé; Florian Alix, Évelyne Lloze & Romuald Fonkoua) — i.e. it confirms Cairn’s role as a curated journal publisher, not a free-text archive [source: cairn-info]. The live site, the cheap curl pass, and even the Playwright browser pass all return 403 (the platform’s standard academic-publisher gateway), which is why the abstract-only license applies.

For wiki purposes, never paste or persist paywalled Cairn full text; cite the abstract or a free secondary source when grounding a claim against a Cairn-published paper.

Use it for

Sourcing French-language academic literature on political communication and social-movement studies via the Cairn catalogue (use the catalogue / abstract as the citation pointer — not the paywalled PDF); confirming that communication politique and mouvements sociaux papers are first-stop sources on Cairn when working in French-language scholarship.

Related

• civil-resistance
• power-mapping
• theory-of-change
• three-and-a-half-percent-rule

Sources & verification

• sources/cairn-info — grounding: primary — RAW (wayback snapshot 20240825152259 of shs.cairn.info/, ≈436 KB gross HTML; trafilatura-cleaned ≤3 KB)