COUPERIN (Consortium unifié des établissements universitaires et de recherche pour l'accès aux publications numériques) (English: Unified Consortium of Higher Education and Research Organizations for Access to Digital Publications) is an academic

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. Formed in 1999, it includes more than 250 universities, research organizations,

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(schools), COMUE, and others. The consortium negotiates with

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the prices and conditions of access to scientific publications and other digital resources for the benefit of its members. It promotes

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, particularly with regard to scientific publications, both nationally and internationally. It is headquartered in

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Members

As of 2018, members of the Couperin consortium include the following institutions.

Universities

* Bordeaux INP * * COMUE - Lille Nord de France * COMUE - Normandie Université * COMUE - Paris Sciences et Lettres * COMUE - Sorbonne Universités * COMUE - Université Bretagne Loire * COMUE - Université confédérale Léonard de Vinci * COMUE - Université de Lyon * COMUE - Université fédérale de Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées * COMUE - Université Paris Saclay * COMUE - Université Paris Seine *

Conservatoire national des arts et métiers The (; ; abbr. CNAM) is an AMBA-accredited French ''grande école'' and '' grand établissement''. It is a member of the '' Conférence des Grandes écoles'', which is an equivalent to the Ivy League schools in the United States, Oxbridge in th ...

Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales The School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (, EHESS) is a graduate ''grande école'' and ''grands établissements, grand établissement'' in Paris focused on academic research in the social sciences. The school awards Master of Resear ...

École française d'Athènes The French School at Athens (, EfA; ''Gallikí Scholí Athinón'') is one of the seventeen foreign archaeological institutes operating in Athens, Greece. History Founded in 1846, the EfA is the oldest foreign institute in Athens. Its early f ...

École française de Rome The École française de Rome (EFR) is a French research institute for history, archaeology, and the social sciences; overseen by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, and a division of the Ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur et ...

École pratique des hautes études The (), abbreviated EPHE, is a French postgraduate top level educational institution, a . EPHE is a constituent college of the Université PSL (together with ENS Ulm, Paris Dauphine or Ecole des Mines). The college is closely linked to É ...

* Fondation Maison des sciences de l'Homme * Institut Catholique d'Etudes Supérieures *

Institut Catholique de Paris The Institut catholique de Paris (, abbr. ICP), known in English as the Catholic University of Paris (and in Latin as ''Universitas catholica Parisiensis''), is a private university located in Paris, France. History: 1875–present The Institut ...

* Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Bordeaux (Sciences Po Bordeaux) * Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Grenoble (Sciences Po Grenoble) *

Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Lyon (Sciences Po Lyon) An institute is an organizational body created for a certain purpose. They are often research organisations (research institutes) created to do research on specific topics, or can also be a professional body. In some countries, institutes ca ...

* Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po Paris) * Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art *

Institut national polytechnique de Toulouse National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse (, ; abbr. Toulouse INP) is a French university cluster based in Toulouse, France, part of the University of Toulouse. It was founded in 1969. The institute is composed of seven schools (six engineering ...

* Institut national supérieur de formation et de recherche pour l'éducation des jeunes handicapés et les enseignements adaptés (Inshea) * Institut national universitaire Champollion * Institut supérieur de mécanique de Paris (SupMeca) *

Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle The French National Museum of Natural History ( ; abbr. MNHN) is the national natural history museum of France and a of higher education part of Sorbonne University. The main museum, with four galleries, is located in Paris, France, within the Ja ...

* Observatoire de Paris-Meudon *

Pôle universitaire Léonard-de-Vinci The Leonardo de Vinci University Center (French language, French: ''Pôle universitaire Léonard-de-Vinci'') is a French Private universities in France, private university cluster located at La Défense. History The Leonardo de Vinci Universi ...

* Université catholique de l'Ouest *

Université catholique de Lyon The Catholic University of Lyon (UCLy), also known as the Lyon Catholic Institute ( French: ''Institut Catholique de Lyon''), is a French private university based in Lyon and Annecy, Southeastern France. History The Lyon Catholic University has ...

* Université Claude Bernard (Lyon I) * Université Clermont-Auvergne * Université d'Aix-Marseille * Université d'Angers * Université d'Artois * Université d'Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse * Université d'Evry-Val-d'Essonne * Université d'Orléans *

Université de Bordeaux The University of Bordeaux (, ) is a public research university based in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. It has several campuses in the cities and towns of Bordeaux, Dax, Gradignan, Périgueux, Pessac, and Talence. There are also ...

Université de Bourgogne The University of Burgundy Europe (, UBE; formerly known as University of Dijon) is a public university located in Dijon, France. The University of Burgundy Europe is situated on a large campus (more than 150 ha) in the eastern part of Dijon cal ...

Université de Bretagne occidentale The University of Western Brittany (; UBO) is a French university, located in Brest, in the Academy of Rennes. On a national scale, in terms of graduate employability, the university oscillates between 18th and 53rd out of 69 universities depend ...

* Université de Bretagne-Sud *

Université de Caen Basse-Normandie The University of Caen Normandy (French: ''Université de Caen Normandie''), also known as Unicaen, is a public university in Caen, France. History The institution was founded in 1432 by John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford, the first rector ...

* Université de Cergy-Pontoise * Université de Corse Pasquale Paoli *

Université de Franche-Comté The Marie and Louis Pasteur University (UMLP), formerly known as University of Franche-Comté, is a pluridisciplinary public French university located in Besançon, Franche-Comté, with decentralized campuses in Belfort, Montbéliard, Vesoul and ...

* Université de Haute-Alsace * Université de la Guyane * Université de la Nouvelle-Calédonie * Université de la Polynésie Française - Tahiti * Université de La Réunion * Université de La Rochelle * Université de Lille I Sciences et technologies * Université de Lille II Droit et Santé * Université de Lille III Sciences humaines et sociales * Université de Limoges *

Université de Lorraine The University of Lorraine (), abbreviated as UL, is a public university, public research university based in Lorraine, Grand Est (region), Grand Est region, France. It was created on 1 January 2012, by the merger of Henri Poincaré University, ...

* Université de Montpellier *

Université de Nantes Nantes University () is a public university located in the city of Nantes, France. In addition to the several campuses scattered in the city of Nantes, there are two satellite campuses located in Saint-Nazaire and La Roche-sur-Yon. The university ...

* Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis * Université de Nimes * Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense (Paris X) * Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour * Université de Perpignan Via Domitia * Université de Picardie Jules Verne *

Université de Poitiers The University of Poitiers (UP; , ) is a public university located in Poitiers, France. It is a member of the Coimbra Group. It is multidisciplinary and contributes to making Poitiers the city with the highest student/inhabitant ratio in France ...

* Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne * Université de Rennes I * Université de Rennes II Haute-Bretagne * Université de Rouen * Université de Savoie * Université de Strasbourg *

Université de technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard The University of Technology of Belfort-Montbéliard (UTBM) is a Grande École university. of engineering located in Belfort, Sevenans and Montbéliard, France. The University of Technology of Belfort-Montbéliard is part of the network of the ...

* Université de technologie de Compiègne * Université de technologie de Troyes * Université de Toulon * Université de Toulouse I Capitole * Université de Toulouse Jean Jaurès (Toulouse II le Mirail) * Université de Valenciennes et du Hainaut-Cambrésis * Université de Versailles St Quentin en Yvelines * *

Université du Havre Le Havre Normandy University () is a French university located in Le Havre. Along with five other schools, Le Havre Normandy University is a member of Normandy University, an association of universities and higher education institutions. Identit ...

* Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale * Université du Maine * Université François Rabelais (Tours) * Université Grenoble Alpes * Université Jean Monnet Saint-Etienne * Université Jean Moulin (Lyon III) * Université Louis Lumière (Lyon II) * Université Michel de Montaigne (Bordeaux III) * Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II) * Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) * Université Paris Descartes (Paris V) * Université Paris Diderot (Paris VII) * Université Paris Est Marne-la-Vallée * Université Paris XIII Paris Nord * Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV) * Université Paul Sabatier (Toulouse III) * Université Paul Valéry (Montpellier III) * Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI) * Université Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris III) * Université Vincennes-Saint Denis (Paris VIII)

Research organizations

* Agence Nationale de Sécurité des Médicaments et des produits de santé * Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l'alimentation, de l'environnement et du travail *

Bureau de recherches géologiques et minières BRGM is France's public reference institution in Earth science, Earth Science applications for the management of surface and Geology, subsurface resources and risks. It also deals with geological surveys of French territory. BRGM was founded in ...

Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement The French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD) is a French agricultural research and international cooperation organization working for the sustainable development of tropical and Mediterranean regions. It is a publ ...

Centre national d'études spatiales CNES () is the French national space agency. Headquartered in central Paris, the agency is overseen by the ministries of the Ministry of Armed Forces (France), Armed Forces, Ministry of Economics and Finance (France), Economy and Finance and Min ...

Centre national de la recherche scientifique The French National Centre for Scientific Research (, , CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe. In 2016, it employed 31,637 staff, including 11,137 tenured researchers, 13,415 eng ...

Commissariat à l'énergie atomique The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission, or CEA ( French: Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives), is a French public government-funded research organisation in the areas of energy, defense and sec ...

* Eurecom * IFP Energies nouvelles * Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris *

Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire The French ''Institut de radioprotection et de sûreté nucléaire'' (IRSN) ("Radioprotection and Nuclear Safety Institute") located in Fontenay-aux-Roses is a public official establishment with an industrial and commercial aspect (EPIC) created by ...

* Institut de Recherche en Sciences et Technologies pour l'Environnement et l'Agriculture * Institut de Recherche et de Documentation en Economie de la Santé * Institut de recherche et de sécurité pour la prévention des accidents du travail et des maladies professionnelles *

Institut de Recherche pour le Développement The French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development, or ''Institut de Recherche pour le Développement'' (IRD), is a French science and technology establishment under the joint supervision of the French Ministries of Ministry of ...

* Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales * Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer * Institut Français des Sciences et Technologies des Transports, de l'aménagement et des Réseaux * Institut National de l'Environnement Industriel et des Risques *

Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière The (; "National Institute of Geographic and Forest Information"), previously (; "National Geographic Institute") and still abbreviated as IGN, is a French public state administrative establishment founded in 1940 to produce and maintain geog ...

Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique The Institut national de la recherche agronomique (; ; abbr. INRA ) was a French public research institute dedicated to agricultural science. It was founded in 1946 and is a Public Scientific and Technical Research Establishment under the join ...

* Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale *

Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique The National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology (Inria) () is a French national research institution focusing on computer science and applied mathematics. It was created under the name French Institute for Research in Comp ...

Institut Pasteur The Pasteur Institute (, ) is a French non-profit private foundation dedicated to the study of biology, micro-organisms, diseases, and vaccines. It is named after Louis Pasteur, who invented pasteurization and vaccines for anthrax and rabies. T ...

* Joint ILL-ESRF Library (Institut Max von Laue-Paul Langevin) * Laboratoire National de l'Eau et des Milieux Aquatiques * Laboratoire National de Métrologie et d'Essais * Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aérospatiales - The French Aerospace Lab * Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Economiques

Grandes écoles

Agrocampus Ouest Institut Agro Rennes-Angers (previously named as Agrocampus Ouest till 2020) is a French higher education institution, known as a grande école. Its official name is ''Institut supérieur des sciences agronomiques, agroalimentaires, horticoles et ...

AgroParisTech AgroParisTech (; officially ''Institut national des sciences et industries du vivant et de l’environnement'', or Paris Institute of Technology for Life, Food and Environmental Sciences)English naming according tEnglish brochure is a French h ...

* Agrosup Dijon *

Arts et Métiers ParisTech Arts et Métiers ParisTech () is a French engineering and research institute of higher education. It is a ''grande école'', recognized for leading in the fields of mechanics and industrialization. Founded in 1780, it is among the oldest French i ...

Audencia Business School Audencia Business School is a French grande école and business school located in Nantes, France. The school enrolls 7,800 students from almost 90 countries in bachelors, international masters, specialised masters, MBAs, doctorates and executi ...

* Bordeaux Sciences Agro (ex Enita Bordeaux) * Centrale Supelec *

Chimie ParisTech Chimie ParisTech, officially École nationale supérieure de chimie de Paris (; "National High School of Chemistry of Paris") and also known as ENSCP or Chimie Paris, is a prestigious grande école and a constituent college of PSL Research Univer ...

École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay The (; also ENS Paris-Saclay or Paris-Saclay), formerly ENS Cachan, is a grande école and a constituent member of Paris-Saclay University. It was established in 1892. It is located in Gif-sur-Yvette within the Essonne department near Paris ...

* Ecole polytechnique * École Supérieure d'Ingénieur d'Agro-Développement International (ISTOM) * Ecole supérieure de chimie physique électronique de Lyon * Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris * Ecole supérieure de physique et de chimie industrielles *

École supérieure des sciences commerciales d'Angers ESSCA School of Management is a French grande école and business school. Historically based in Angers, it now has campuses in Paris, Aix-en-Provence, Lyon, Strasbourg, Bordeaux, Budapest, Malaga, Luxembourg and Shanghai. The school offers sev ...

* Ecole supérieure des sciences économiques et commerciales * Ecole Supérieure des Technologies Industrielles Avancées (ESTIA) * EM LYON Business School * ESCEM - Ecole de management *

ESIEE Paris ESIEE Paris () is a grande école of engineering located in Marne-la-Vallée. The school was established in 1904 and is part of the ESIEE network of graduate schools. ESIEE Paris offers its students general engineering training with the aim of ...

* Grenoble Ecole de Management * Groupe des Ecoles Nationales d'Economie et Statistique * Groupe ESA -

École supérieure d'agricultures d'Angers École or Ecole may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France * Éco ...

* Groupe ESC Troyes * IMT Atlantique Bretagne - Pays de Loire *

INSEAD INSEAD ( ; French: ''Institut européen d'administration des affaires'') is a non-profit business school with locations in Europe (Fontainebleau, France), Asia (Singapore), the Middle East (Abu Dhabi, UAE) and North America (San Francisco, USA ...

* Institut agronomique méditerranée de Montpellier * Institut catholique d'arts et métiers de Nantes * Institut catholique d'arts et métiers de Toulouse * Institut National des Sciences Appliquées Centre Val de Loire * Institut Mines-Télécom Business School *

Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon The Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon (; "Lyon National Institute for Applied Sciences") or INSA Lyon is a French grande école and engineering school. The university is located on the La Doua – LyonTech campus, in a cluster o ...

* Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Rennes *

Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Rouen The Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Rouen (; "Rouen National Institute for Applied Sciences") or INSA Rouen Normandie is a French Grande école, that is to say a five-year curriculum which aims to train highly skilled engineers who p ...

* Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Strasbourg *

Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Toulouse An institute is an organizational body created for a certain purpose. They are often research organisations (research institutes) created to do research on specific topics, or can also be a professional body. In some countries, institutes ca ...

Institut national du service public The Institut national du service public (INSP; ) is a ''grande école'' based in Strasbourg, France. It is dedicated to the recruitment, initial training and continuing training of senior executives and civil servants of the state. It was created ...

Institut Polytechnique LaSalle Beauvais UniLaSalle is one of the 210 France, French Engineering education, engineering schools authorized to award engineering degrees. It was created following the merger of ESITPA and LaSalle Beauvais. UniLaSalle is a Independent school, private higher ...

Institut supérieur d'agriculture Rhône-Alpes An institute is an organizational body created for a certain purpose. They are often research organisations (research institutes) created to do research on specific topics, or can also be a professional body. In some countries, institutes ca ...

* Institut Supérieur de Commerce *

Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace The Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace (, ISAE-SUPAERO; ) is a French ''grande école'' of engineering, founded in 1909. It is the world's first dedicated institute of aerospace engineering. ISAE-SUPAERO is part of University ...

(ex Supaero) * Institut Supérieur international du parfum, de la cosmétique et de l'aromatique alimentaire *

Kedge Business School KEDGE Business School is a triple accredited (AACSB, EQUIS and AMBA) French business school and grande école. The Grande Ecole was founded in 2013 from the merger of two middle business schools: Bordeaux Ecole de Management (ESC Bordeaux), fo ...

* Montpellier SupAgro * Neoma Business School * Novancia Business School Paris * ONIRIS - Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire, Agroalimentaire et de l'Alimentation Nantes Atlantique * SIGMA Clermont *

SKEMA Business school SKEMA Business School ("School of Knowledge Economy and Management") is a leading French business school ("Grande Ecole") with campuses across Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Africa. It was established in 2009 through the merger of Ecole Supér ...

* Sup'Biotech * Télécom ParisTech *

Télécom SudParis Télécom SudParis (formerly known as Télécom INT) is a French ''engineering school''—a public institution of higher education and research (grande école) that awards engineering degrees in France. In 2025, it ranked 27th in the French eng ...

* Toulouse Business School * VetAgro Sup

Libraries

Bibliothèque nationale de France The (; BnF) is the national library of France, located in Paris on two main sites, ''Richelieu'' and ''François-Mitterrand''. It is the national repository of all that is published in France. Some of its extensive collections, including bo ...

* Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire de Strasbourg *

Bibliothèque universitaire des langues et civilisations The Bibliothèque universitaire des langues et civilisations (BULAC) is a major academic library located in Paris Rive Gauche and which has been open to the public since its 2011 opening. The library has a scope that includes all languages and c ...

Other

American University of Paris The American University of Paris (AUP) is a private university in Paris, France. Founded in 1962, the university is one of the oldest American institutions of higher education in Europe, and the first to be established in France. The university ...

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Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris Greater Paris University Hospitals ( , AP-HP) is the university hospital trust operating in Paris and its surroundings. It is the largest hospital system in Europe and one of the largest in the world. It employs more than 90,000 people in 38 tea ...

* * * Centre hospitalier de Cayenne Andrée Rosemon * Centre hospitalier de Gonesse * * * Centre hospitalier régional de Metz Thionville * * * Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Bordeaux * * Centre hospitalier universitaire de Nîmes * Centre hospitalier universitaire de Pointe-à-Pitre Abymes * Centre scientifique et technique du bâtiment *

Cité internationale universitaire de Paris Cité internationale universitaire de Paris () or the Cité universitaire (CIUP or ''Cité U'') is a university campus, a private park and foundation located in Paris, France. Since 1925, it has provided general and public services, including ...

Collège de France The (), formerly known as the or as the ''Collège impérial'' founded in 1530 by François I, is a higher education and research establishment () in France. It is located in Paris near La Sorbonne. The has been considered to be France's most ...

* Direction de l'enseignement militaire supérieur - Centre de documentation de l'Ecole militaire * * Groupement hospitalier de territoire Nord-Ouest Vexin Val d'Oise * Hospices civils de Lyon * Institut National de Recherche en Archéologie Préventive * Institut National de Veille Sanitaire * Institut National du Sport, de l'Expertise et de la Performance * ISTP France * Musée du Quai Branly * Unicancer * Université catholique de Lille

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