Created in 1968 in a former NATO building, the Paris-Dauphine University specializes in economics and management with a view to offering a high quality training for its students.

Divided between two spaces - the Study Library which has just undergone important works of renovation, and the Research Library -, the library offers 720 seats. The Study library is open to the 9 000 students of the University. The Research Library maintains collections of higher level for the exclusive use of PhD students and researchers.

Collections
The library is nationally famous for the quality of its collections and is the leading resource in Economics and Management for Paris and its surroundings. As such, it is much used by outside readers (around a fifth of its more than 10 000 readers).

Appointed as a reference library for collections in economics and management (CADIST - “Centre d’Acquisition et de Diffusion de l’Information Scientifique et Technique”) by the Ministry in charge of Higher Education and Research and partner of the French National Library (Pôle associé), the Dauphine library has developed a particular specialization in accountancy, mathematical and quantitative models in economy and management, econometrics, financial analysis, insurance, marketing, economics and management of health, health care and social security, and economics of specific geographical areas: South America, Middle East, India and Far East.

All in all, it offers more than 160 000 books, among which 45% are on open access : 60 000 in the Study Library and 12 000 in the Research Library. It also provides 2 000 journals, 7 000 electronic journals, 40 databases to its readers.

Eager to exchange views and information with foreign partners, the Dauphine Library is, besides NEREUS, also a member of the European Business Schools Librarians’ Group (EBSLG).

Digital Library Projects
Focused on the development of a reference collection of electronical resources in economics for French universities through the negotiation of databases on a national level (COUPERIN consortium), the library also participates in a national working group dealing with the measure of the usage of electronic documentation. In accordance with the scientific policy of the University which aims to give a wider audience to the publications of its researchers in the fields of economics and management, and under the guidance of the Scientific Board of the University, the library has launched a project of IR fed by Dauphine-produced scientific publications and theses. It also participates in the union catalog of the library holdings of French universities (Sudoc), which also endeavours to increase the full text supply of catalogued electronic publications.