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French Language & Literature
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Subject Specific Databases
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MLA International Bibliography [via CSA Illumina] (http://www.csa.com/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=davis&access=davis856&db=mla-set-c&adv=1) VPN
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The Modern Language Association International Bibliography (MLAIB) covers international scholarly materials on all languages, literatures, linguistics, and folklore from around the world. It includes citations to items from journals, series, books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies. MLAIB does not index book reviews.
- Coverage: 1926-present
- Access: http://www.csa.com/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=davis&access=davis856&db=mla-set-c&adv=1 (http://www.csa.com/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=davis&access=davis856&db=mla-set-c&adv=1) VPN
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FRANCIS [via FirstSearch/OCLC] (http://uclibs.org/PID/9572) VPN
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Over 862,000 records covering a wide range of multilingual, multidisciplinary information in the humanities, sciences, and economics
- Coverage: 1984-present
- Access: http://uclibs.org/PID/9572 (http://uclibs.org/PID/9572) VPN
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Gale Literature Resource Center (http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/ucdavis?db=LitRC) VPN
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Full-text biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Combines core literary resources such as Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, and the Dictionary of Literary Biography
- Access: http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/ucdavis?db=LitRC (http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/ucdavis?db=LitRC) VPN
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French 17 (http://segonku.unl.edu:8080/cocoon/cdrh/french17/protected/index.html;jsessionid=691E364B0AF98C0D50398A3C21C6BD67)
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Annual survey of seventeenth-century French studies. Includes summaries of articles, books, and book reviews. Features literary history, criticism, bibliography, linguistics and language, politics, society, philosophy, science, religion and the arts.
- Coverage: no. 43 (1995)--
- Location: Hardcopy version in Shields Library Humanities/Social Sciences Reference Z2172 .M6. No. 26 (1978)--
- Access: http://segonku.unl.edu:8080/cocoon/cdrh/french17/protected/index.html;jsessionid=691E364B0AF98C0D50398A3C21C6BD67 (http://segonku.unl.edu:8080/cocoon/cdrh/french17/protected/index.html;jsessionid=691E364B0AF98C0D50398A3C21C6BD67)
General Databases
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Europeana: Europe's Digital Library (http://www.europeana.eu)
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Direct access to some 2 million digital objects (and counting): film,photos, paintings, sounds, maps, manuscripts, books,newspapers and archival papers.
Selected from already digitised resources available in Europes museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual collections.
[Note: there is heavy demand for this site so access is sometimes limited to prevent overload.]
- Access: http://www.europeana.eu (http://www.europeana.eu)
Full-text Resources
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ABU: La Bibliothéque Universelle (http://abu.cnam.fr/)
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A collection of electronic text versions of works by a number of major French philosophers and novelists (e.g. Descartes, Leibnitz, Pascal, Voltaire, Diderot, Rousseau, Corneille, Racine, Moliere,Balzac, Flaubert, de Maupassant, Rostand, Stendhal, and Zola . 288 electronic text versions of public domain works of 101 authors, and a number of dictionaries.
- Access: http://abu.cnam.fr/ (http://abu.cnam.fr/)
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ARTFL (http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/ARTFL/) VPN
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The "Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language," better known as ARTFL, offers access to a collection of texts in a web-based digital format, ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing. The eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries are about equally represented, with a smaller selection of seventeenth century texts as well as some medieval and Renaissance texts.
- Coverage: Medieval Period to 20th Century
- Access: http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/ARTFL/ (http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/ARTFL/) VPN
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Athena: Textes Francais (http://un2sg4.unige.ch/athena/html/francaut.html)
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"La Bibliothèque Française," actually a portal providing entry to five databases, has links to many full text literary works by francophone authors (some simply link to other full-text resources mentioned here), to anonymous works in French, and to translations from and into French. Also provides links to other sources of information in Europe and the USA.
- Access: http://un2sg4.unige.ch/athena/html/francaut.html (http://un2sg4.unige.ch/athena/html/francaut.html)
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Gallica Classique (Bibliotheque Nationale de France) (http://gallica.bnf.fr/)
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Provides full text versions of the works of the "grands écrivains de la France." In progress. The project will eventually provide coverage of French literature from the Middle Ages to the present. Also includes links to other relevant sites.
- Coverage: Medieval France to 1914
- Access: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ (http://gallica.bnf.fr/)
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- To get a sense of the range of authors represented, click on "Liste des Auteurs"; from there choose either a complete alphabetical or a list classified by period.
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Les Classiques des Sciences Sociales (http://classiques.uqac.ca/classiques/)
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Of special value to scholars with an interest in French language philosophers, historians, and social theorists. Authors represented include Descartes, Bayle, Diderot, Saint-Simon, Voltaire, Sainte-Beuve, Durkheim, Mauss, and Gaston Bachelard. Includes both French originals and a significant number of French translations of works originally appearing in other languages.
Digitized texts are usually downloadable in three file formats (MS Word doc and rtf, and pdf).
- Coverage: 17th through 20th centuries
- Access: http://classiques.uqac.ca/classiques/ (http://classiques.uqac.ca/classiques/)
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- Verify coverage by checking "Compete list of authors" from the welcome page (near the end of the list of links on the left side).
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Persée (http://www.persee.fr/)
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A portal of great significance for all French-language scholarship in the human sciences,Persée is a controlled, open access backfile of a wide-ranging selection of key periodicals. Registered users can access advanced functionalities facilitating downloading, printing, annotation and note-taking. Representative journals from Archaeology, Anthropology, the Arts, Economics, Law, and Literature.
- Coverage: Goes back to the beginning of each title, and forward to a moving wall determined separately for each title.No current issues
- Access: http://www.persee.fr/ (http://www.persee.fr/)
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- Many titles are central French language periodicals, e.g.Actes de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales(1975-2003) Annales(1929-2002), and Communications(1961-2005). http://www.persee.fr/web/support/tour
Encyclopedias & Dictionaries
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LEO: German-English, English-German, German-French, and French-German Online Dictionary (http://dict.leo.org)
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A free service of the Technical University of Munich. At somewhere near 500,000 entries LEO is the online dictionary of choice for users of the above-named languages(substantial one volume hardcopy dictionaries contain between 120,000 and 150,000 entries, so a source like this is comparable to significantly larger multivolume dictionaries). Currently expanding its coverage to include Spanish, Italian, and Chinese, making it even more valuable to comparativists.
- Access: http://dict.leo.org (http://dict.leo.org)
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Trésor de la Langue Française Informatisé (http://atilf.atilf.fr/tlf.htm) VPN
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Draws on about 2,000 French language texts published since 1789. Enter also from ARTFL links (see Full-text Resources).
[Begun 1981; ongoing.]
- Access: http://atilf.atilf.fr/tlf.htm (http://atilf.atilf.fr/tlf.htm) VPN
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Lexique d'ancien français (http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/%7Edcwalker/Dictionary/dict.html)
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Database consisting of 48,000 words from Altfranzösisches Wörterbuch
- Access: http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/%7Edcwalker/Dictionary/dict.html (http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/%7Edcwalker/Dictionary/dict.html)
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InterActive Terminology for Europe (http://iate.europa.eu)
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Translate from and/or to any of 24 currently spoken European Union(EU)languages. "My Preferences" feature enables user to select most-frequently used source and target languages. Although the site is useful for limited general use, its special focus is EU-specific terminology.
- Coverage: Current
- Access: http://iate.europa.eu (http://iate.europa.eu)
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Professional Societies
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L'Academie Francaise (http://www.academie-francaise.fr/)
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Official site of the Academy. Provides information on its role and history.
- Access: http://www.academie-francaise.fr/ (http://www.academie-francaise.fr/)
Other Resources
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Catalogue du Système universitaire de documentation (SUDOC) (http://www.sudoc.abes.fr/LNG=FR/DB=2.1/IMPLAND=Y/CHARSET=ISO-8859-1/DB_START)
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SUDOC Contains some 7 million bibliographic records (books, theses, periodicals, manuscripts, a significant number of high quality images accessible online through links, and other document types). Includes library locations (look for the button "localisation" near the bottom of the results screen).
Use this resources also to locate French language humanities and social sciences theses and dissertations held at member libraries. Coverage begins with 1972. For coverage of US and Canadian dissertations, see Dissertation Abstracts International (remote access for UCD users only). Link available in the Databases A-Z list, accessible from the UCD library home page, http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu
- Access: http://www.sudoc.abes.fr/LNG=FR/DB=2.1/IMPLAND=Y/CHARSET=ISO-8859-1/DB_START (http://www.sudoc.abes.fr/LNG=FR/DB=2.1/IMPLAND=Y/CHARSET=ISO-8859-1/DB_START)
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French Language Links from Voice of the Shuttle (http://vos.ucsb.edu/index.asp)
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This comprehensive collection of humanities links includes one on the welcome page to "Literatures (Other Than English)" which leads to an alphabetical list by language.
- Access: http://vos.ucsb.edu/index.asp (http://vos.ucsb.edu/index.asp)
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- Extensive Help pages include material on navigating and bookmarking, searching, and contributing to the site. Uses pop-up windows to facilitate browsing. http://vos.ucsb.edu/help.asp
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Reference Reviews Europe Online (http://rre.casalini.it/) VPN
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C.300 English-language reviews of some 500 European reference titles. Much of the content consists of abstracts in English of reviews that originally appeared in the German journal Informationsmittel:IFB, edited by Klaus Schreiber of the Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart. German-language publications predominate, but titles in French, Icelandic, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, and Spanish are also covered. The "Special Reports" feature offers reviews surveying reference works in a particular topic area.
- Coverage: 1994--present
- Access: http://rre.casalini.it/ (http://rre.casalini.it/) VPN
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