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Top 11 Academic libraries based in France
RevenueBase identified 34 academic libraries headquartered in France as of September 2026 and tracks 688 professional contacts across them, including 257 with verified work emails. Paris is the largest hub.
This list covers academic libraries headquartered in France, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 19, 2026.
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The 11 largest academic libraries based in France
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 239 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Ouverte en 1977, en même temps que le Centre Pompidou dont elle est l’une des composantes, la Bibliothèque publique d’information (Bpi) est une bibliothèque nationale dépendant du…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 63 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Établissement unique et original dans l’enseignement supérieur et de de la recherche, la Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire affirme une triple vocation : bibliothèque…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La Bibliothèque universitaire des langues et civilisations (BULAC) est située dans le 13e arrondissement de Paris, à proximité du Campus des Grands Moulins.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 53 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La BIS, bibliothèque interuniversitaire de la Sorbonne, conserve et développe des collections spécialisées en lettres et sciences humaines destinées à un public d'étudiants et de…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 45 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “L’Abes - Agence bibliographique de l’enseignement supérieur, a été créée en 1994 pour mettre en œuvre le Sudoc, catalogue collectif des bibliothèques de l’Enseignement Supérieur.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 42 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fondée en 2005 par des maisons d’édition francophones (De Boeck, La Découverte, Erès, Humensis, Gallimard), Cairn.info travaille aujourd'hui avec plus de 400 structures…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Librairie numérique pour les bibliothèques et centres de documentation, BiblioOnDemand propose une offre d’eBooks en titre à titre, complétée par une offre de contenus numériques…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Le réseau des six bibliothèques universitaires de l'UVSQ, localisé dans les Yvelines et les Hauts-de-Seine, est au service de toute la communauté étudiante” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “OUR ACTIVITY: FRENCH LANGUAGE E-BOOKS IN HUMANITIES, SOCIAL, LEGAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCES Numérique Premium, founded by Nouveau Monde Editions, gathers in thematic collections the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: academic libraries. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names academic libraries.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of academic libraries, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name academic libraries. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Academic libraries based in France at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for France, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for France, over 34 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among academic libraries, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in France whose own description of what they do matches “academic libraries”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names academic libraries), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among academic libraries, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside France are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 257 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names academic libraries, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many academic libraries are there based in France?
RevenueBase identified 34 academic libraries headquartered in France as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
BPI Bibliothèque Publique D'information, headquartered in Paris, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most academic libraries?
Paris leads with 9 headquartered companies, followed by Lille (3) and Lyon (2).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 257 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 34 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 19, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.