Important and government funded research centers increasingly offer open access to research results; use the registries below to identify a research institute and check the institute's website for publications. For example: Institute Nicod is a research institute that provides full-text documents (and a subject browse).
Science and Technology publishers are international by nature. You will find that French medical libraries offer many of the same subscription databases as American libraries. Look, for example, at the offerings at BIUM. In addition to subscription resources the following Open Access Science databases are referenced as good resources in European libraries
INSERM (L’institut national de la sante et de la recherche medicale) was created in 1964. It is the only French public research body devoted entirely to human health. The website is available in both French and English.
80% of INSERM’s 318 research units are located in either university hospitals or cancer treatment centers.
The layout of INSERM is very structured – within each institute, there are research units, research platforms, competitiveness clusters, and other structures in place to encourage progress in research. See the layout here.
INSERM sponsors an institute of “Neurosciences, sciences cognitives, neurologie, psychiatrie”. The research goals of this specific institute are listed here. (Medical issues – Scientific issues)
The neurosciences institute publishes “Dossiers d’information” (Information Packs) about a variety of neurological disorders and diseases, which provide essential information and links for further research into each disorder.
