A wifi that’s good for you

Perhaps you’re a little tired of staying at home: too many people, too much noise, too many incessant demands… not a minute to relax and read the press or a good magazine. A word of advice: discreetly grab your tablet, cell phone or laptop, leave your home on the pretext of an errand to run, and come and visit us at our Riponne site. Once there, find a quiet, comfortable spot and connect to the “public-unil” wifi (self-register by SMS). Let’s go for a no-holds-barred catch-up session with :

• Pressreader: 6,000 newspapers from 100 countries also available for download with the Pressreader app (IOS and Android). By connecting to the “public-bcu” network on the Riponne site, you can download magazines and daily newspapers from Switzerland, France and a hundred other countries around the world to your favorite device. You can read Le Temps, the Washington Post, Marie Claire, Cuisine et vins de France, Les Inrocks, Point de vue, Lire and many other titles from wherever you like. And if your 18-year-old daughter tells you right after you leave the library that she’s pregnant, you can still log on remotely from wherever you are, and download “Parents” or any other title you might be missing while sitting back in the aftermath.
• Europresse: French-language and international press archives
• Heidi.news : a professional news site, created and fed with in-depth, interesting journalistic content, with a style that’s resolutely in tune with the times, with its feeds and explorations – in short, quality information that’s fun and interesting to discover. Because improvised epidemiologists on Facebook are okay for a while, but truly informative content is even better.
• Cairn: 2,000 encyclopedias (e.g. Que sais-je), 8 magazines (e.g. L’Histoire) and 450 journals.

All these rich resources can also be consulted on site, at the BCUL consultation stations, and remotely for authenticated users on the UNIL-CHUV and HEP networks. With all this, you’ll be able to go home without a bag full of magazines that would have given you away, but with the impression that you’ve had time to let your head do some good.