Focus Arte Campus to develop your general knowledge and improve your language skills

Arte Campus is an Arte resource specializing in Higher education and Research. It is multidisciplinary, and offers multilingual and multi-media content. Covering all the disciplines taught at CY Cergy Paris University, it is a guarantee of knowledge development and language progress through diversified learning methods and media. As the library subscribes to this resource, you can access it free of charge via our website, accessible via this link.

Once on the home page of the library website, click on “Databases” below the search bar, then find and click on “Arte Campus”.

Registration is required to access the database resources : start by selecting the CY Cergy Paris University institution, then create your account with your institutional e-mail address “@cyu.fr”.

• The catalog: provides access to all the resources in the database. The central area lets you explore documentary resources in a variety of formats: mind maps, video extracts, themes or series. Filters on the left-hand side of the screen help you to refine your search, so you can find the documentary support you're looking for by subject or video criteria.
• The two main resources are mind maps and videos. Each mind map and video is accompanied by a notice providing information about the resource: who the creator/director is, a summary, key words, video criteria (transcription?, multilingual?)... All this helps to describe the resource and ensure its reliability. What's more, videos can be downloaded for later playback by downloading a player in offline mode. It's also worth noting that some videos can be accessed in up to 4 different languages, either in audio or in transcription (French, German, English, Italian, Spanish) !
• Your personal space: this is where you'll find all the videos you've downloaded and pinned; video extracts and mind maps you've created; your latest consultations... This is also where you can log out of the platform. 
• Settings: the platform offers a foreign-language setting (English or Spanish): very useful for progressing in these two languages!
• Last but not least, tutorials are available on the platform to help you learn how to create a mind map or video extract, for example.

In short, Arte Campus is the database for improving and updating your general knowledge in every subject area, making progress in languages, using features to illustrate your presentations, or helping you revise !