Help using the Numérique Premium platform
We have put together a list of answers to frequently asked questions about the Numérique Premium platform. For more help guidelines, please download our help pages. If your query is not answered either in the FAQs or the help pages, please contact us.Help Pages
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Frequently Asked Questions
Access conditions on the Numérique Premium platform
- What is available on the Numérique Premium (NP) platform?
- Do I need to register or sign-in to access the site?
- Can I get access to any content for free?
- Do I need a subscription to use this site?
- How much does it cost to subscribe?
- What's included as part of my subscription?
- How do I subscribe?
- Can I purchase an individual e-book online?
- Who do I contact if I am having technical problems with my access?
- Which browsers do you support?
- What's your commitment to accessibility?
- What is your policy on privacy and use of cookies?
Search and use of results on the Numérique Premium interface
- How do I search for content?
- How do I find articles by a particular author?
- What wildcards does your search engine support?
- Can I save searches?
- What are social bookmarks and how do I use them?
- What are favourites and how do I use them?
- What type of email alerts are available?
- Can I retrieve a file with all available books like the KBART file?
- Can I easily see what my institution is subscribing to?
- How can I have ebook titles displayed in result sets or collection names on their page?
The NP platform holds more than 5,000 ebooks in French from 60 French-speaking publishers and societies in Humanities, Social, Legal and Political Sciences. There are currently 35+ thematic collections available with around 130 titles in each one.
Do I need to register or sign-in to access the site?
You do not need to register or sign-in to explore the NP platform, but if you want access to the full range of services – including accessing to the full text, setting up free email alerts, and saving searches or favourites - it is recommended. Please refer to our Registration page for further information.
Can I get access to any content for free?
Content that is freely available is indicated with a 'Free content' icon as shown below:
All other content is available by subscription to the ebook collections. A free trial period can also be set up during 1 to 2 months.
Do I need a subscription to use this site?
No, anyone can search and browse the NP platform for free. However you will need a subscription in order to use full services such as full text display of the ebooks.
How much does it cost to subscribe?
Please contact us in order to get a customized subscription quotation based upon a couple of criteria such as: number of FTE in Humanities and Social Sciences / Law and Political Sciences for an academic or research library, or number of subscribers / members for a public library.
What's included as part of my subscription?
A subscription to one or several ebook collections on NP platform will give you access to all ebooks available within the collection(s) including re-publications and new titles integrated during the subscription period. All services will also be part of your subscription : full text access, user account management, COUNTER 4 and 5 statistics, SUSHI...
How do I subscribe?
Please contact us in order to get a customized subscription quotation and we will open the service upon order receipt.
Can I purchase an individual e-book online?
No, you cannot purchase individual ebooks online; you have to subscribe to ebook collections as described above in order to access the service.
Who do I contact if I am having technical problems with my access?
Please contact us at [email protected] with the screenshot showing where the technical problem occured.
Which browsers do you support?
The NP platform is accessible by common browsers including Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera and it is compliant with W3C standards. NP platform shall support the two most common releases of those popular browsers. For older (e.g. IE 7 and lower) the site hasn't been optimised for these versions, there may be display problems and users are recommended to choose a higher version of the browser or choose another browser.
What's your commitment to accessibility?
The NP platform is committed to providing a website that is accessible to all users. Our website has been designed to conform to Level AA of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0.
What is your policy on privacy and use of cookies?
Cookies are used to help provide the users with the best possible online experience, such as remembering the user session and tracking website performance. Numérique Premium informs users of its use of cookies when they first visit the site.
Using the Numérique Premium interface
How do I search for content?You can either use the quick search box at the top or the Advanced Search page.
- Using quick search, keywords entered in this box will search ebook titles, keywords, authors, subjects, ISBNs and DOIs.
- The platform's 'Advanced Search' page offers individual fields for searching by keyword, for an author or for a book title, ISBN or DOI. The keyword field allows you to choose whether to search for all of the keywords, some of them or for an exact phrase. You can also search within the fulltext of the book by ticking the box. There's also a field for excluding terms from your search. You can then limit the search by subject or date and control how the results are sorted – the default is by relevance but you can also sort them by recency. Once the search results are displayed, you can filter the search by a range of criteria, such as collection, publication date, content type or geographical region. If you select any of these filters, then the listing will change to show the items you’ve selected. You can choose how many results are displayed and how they are sorted (e.g. by date or alphabetically).
How do I find articles by a particular author?
You can simply enter the author name into the quick search field. Alternatively, there is a specific field for authors on the advanced search page. When dealing with common names it is advisable to combine this search with another term, such as a word from the book title or subject term.
What wildcards does your search engine support?
Use asterisks to create wildcard searches. So histo* will return results containing 'histoire, historique, historien', and 'historiographie'.
Yes. Whenever you conduct a search, you should see an option to save it on the right hand column of the search results page. You can also create an email alert to be notified when new content relevant to your search becomes available. Alternatively, all searches conducted within a particular session are stored in the search history, which you can find under 'My Account'. You can permanently save any searches from the history as well as creating alerts from them.
What are social bookmarks and how do I use them?
Every ebook page on the site includes links to a range of social networking websites. These sites allow you to share pages that you find interesting with your colleagues and contacts. All of these sites are free to use but do require you to register. Once you have registered you can begin sharing links. When you click on the logo for a social network, a pop-up will appear that enables you to sign in to the third-party site (if you're not already signed in), and then share the link.
What are favourites and how do I use them?
Favourites are a personalized list of all the things you have found interesting and would like to come back to for future reference, or would like to consider subscribing at a later point. A favourites list will be created for you at the point where you register on the site. To add items, browse the site and when you find something you'd like to add, click the 'Save' button, which you'll find under the 'Preview' button on the right-hand side of each book page.
What type of email alerts are available?
You can create alerts to be notified when new content is added to the site, when new content is added for a particular subject area and when new content is added to a title e.g. a new book issue. You can also create alerts around particular searches for when new content is later added that is relevant to your search query. Please refer to 'My Account' page for further information.
Can I retrieve a file with all available books like the KBART file?
You can download at anytime the KBART file (Knowledge Base and Related Tools) listing all available books in the Numérique Premium catalogue by going to KBART File. This is a Text file that you need to convert into a Tab Separated Values file. This standardized file does not allow retrieving the books sorted by thematic collections.
Can I easily see what my institution is subscribing to?
You can anytime access the list of your institution's current subscriptions thanks to the "My Collections" filter, located on top of the filters' column on the left hand side of the screen. This list allows you viewing the collections' labels (with option to expand the title list) or individual titles' list in the case of pick and choose collection.
How can I have ebook titles displayed in result sets or collection names on their page?
With some internet browsers, extensions' usage like «AdBlock» prevents end users from seeing all fields and metadata on our website. The solution is very easy: you need to disable any ad blocker on the "numeriquepremium.com" domain, and possibly refresh the page and/or the browser.
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