Sciences Po, 150 years of educational innovation

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Sciences Po

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Digitisation audit and technical study
Heritage digitisation offers

An innovative school expanding its digital reach
Sciences Po’s Parisian premises at 27 Rue Saint Guillaume.

A strong digitisation policy from 2016

To keep pace with the school’s development in France and abroad, the library established an ambitious digitisation programme to offer unified access to all the school’s resources. A dedicated team of 6 people work on this programme together with Olesea Dubois, Head of Digitisation and Digital Archiving, and Pauline Bougon, the librarian in charge of digitisation.

Every year since 2016, Science Po has entrusted Arkhênum with digitisation campaigns that have included some of the school’s iconic collections: Histoire de Sciences Po andMémoires de l’Ecole, to name a few. The types of documents are extremely varied, including prints, surveys, monographs and theses.

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“We’re very satisfied with Arkhênum’s work on all the documents”

“Since 2016, as part of our contract with Arkhênum, we’ve entrusted their team with digitising our FNSP heritage documents and theses.
This represents a volume of around 100,000 pages per year (…).
We’re very satisfied with Arkhênum’s work on all the documents, their transportation, digitisation, the quality of the files produced, and their communication with our team.”


Olesea Dubois, Head of Digitisation and Digital Archiving

Digitisation as a means of sharing knowledge

The digital library: a dissemination driver

The school’s successive digitisation campaigns now allow it to offer 860,000 documents for consultation in digital format via its digital library. On the menu: 4,500 press kits covering the period 1945-1981, the archives of l’Ecole libre de sciences politiques, electoral documents (legislative, presidential and European), 19th and 20th century books and magazines, maps, theses, memoirs, etc.

A new version of the Sciences Po digital library was launched in May 2021, increasing the collections’ attractiveness and consultation.

Digital technology: helping to overcome geographical constraints

A digital library is the most appropriate response for a delocalized context such as Sciences Po. To meet the requirements of openness to an international audience, the digital library is available in English and French versions.

Additional visibility is provided through a link to the Internet Archive website.

Standing out

The next step for the Sciences Po project team will be to integrate even more content from other School entities such as the Cartography Workshop, History Research Centre, etc.

Sciences Po also wishes to emphasize the unique nature and sheer wealth of its archives. Its digitisation project with Arkhênum has enabled it to put unique newspapers online, such as the Bulletin analytique de documentation politique, économique et sociale, offering students and researchers a unique opportunity to work on essential documents.

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