overview

OpenEdition Freemium for Journals is a bundle of 184 journals in the Humanities and Social Sciences, published by over 140 university presses and small academic publishers. The agreement includes 17 bonus titles. The journals are available in HTML, PDF and ePUB and allow for perpetual access (archival rights).

About 80% of the publications are in French, and half of the journals publish regularly in more than one language. Other main languages are English, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.

The freemium journal bundle is updated each year on 1 January. New titles for 2026 are: Éducation relative à l’environnement (Education & Educational Research, Nature, landscape and environment, Educational sciences), Football(s) (History, Social Sciences, Sociology, Interdisciplinary, Leisure, Sport & Tourism, Sport and Recreation), Journal of Alpine research (Social Sciences; Interdisciplinary; Sociology &Anthropology; Planning &  Development; Governance and public policies; Environmental studies; Geography & Development; Geography: society and territory; Geography: politics, culture and representation; Nature, landscape and environment), Photographica (Art, Cultural studies, Representation, History, History of Social Sciences, Women’s Studies, Historiography, Nineteenth century, Twentieth century), Recherche & Formation (Education, Education & Educational Research, Educational sciences).

subject coverage

Humanities, Social Sciences, and related fields

key features

• Available formats: ePUB, PDF, HTML - no DRM, no restrictions on download quota
• Various tools for users: customize font, send article by e-mail, print, cite the article (DOI provided), find other articles from the same author, share the bibliographic record by social media, crosslinking (citation, OpenEdition review of Books, bibliographic record generator), IdRef author ID
• Information for users and librarians: RSS feeds, search engine and catalogues
• ​Customer support from a technical support team and a dedicated contact person
• On-site training or via web conference
• Institutional personalization: institution logo on the OpenEdition webpage (or by default EIFL’s logo), institution logo on all PDFs and ePUBs
• ​Data supplies and services: OAI-PMH repository, OPML, Coverage list, Kbart data or equivalent, DOI, Z3950 server, MARC21 & UNIMARC catalogue records
• Referencing in the major discovery tools and in public catalogues
• Dashboard for librarians with usage statistics, including COUNTER, and SUSHI protocol

further information

• View list of journals online (including bonus titles)
• View the 2026 OpenEditions leaflet about the collection