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ELECTRONIC RESOURCES (Find articles, books, chapters, images, reports, et al.)

General Databases

EBSCOHost Academic Search Elite (Coverage : 1984- | Abstracts | Full-text | Updated: Daily.) Provides full-text for over 1,200 journals (some back to 1990) covering the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies and education. It also has abstracts and indexing for over 3,000 scholarly journals, and over 1,700 are peer-reviewed. The Wall Street journal, New York times, and the Christian Science Monitor are also indexed.

LexisNexis Academic Provides full text news and information on a regional, national, and international level. Especially useful for locating full-text newspaper articles and country profiles.

ProQuest Provides access to ABI/Inform Global (1457 business related titles), Periodical Abstracts Research II (1817 multidisciplinary titles), and Newspapers Abstracts (incl. 90-day NYTimes and Wall St. Journal; 32 titles). Full text and images are provided where available.

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Foreign Language and Literature Databases

American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language (Coverage: Medieval times- | Full-text.) (ARTFL) is a cooperative project established by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and the University of Chicago. At present the corpus consists of nearly 2000 texts, ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing.

Arts & Humanities Search (Coverage:1980- Updated weekly.) Indexes more than 1,300 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals and selected articles from more than 5,800 socialscience and science journals. It indexes articles, bibliographies, editorials, letters, reviews,
and more.

Humanities Index (Coverage: 1984- updated: Monthly.) Contains citations for more than 300 humanities publications. Covers feature articles, book reviews, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, fiction, reviews of plays and radio and television programs and more. It does not include letters to the editor, editorials, news, cartoons, and advertising.

Iter gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance A bibliography of approximately 230,000 articles and reviews drawn from over 475 medieval and Renaissance journal titles. Updated daily and with more than 60,000 new records added annually, will be of great use to scholars interested in Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700).

Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism A full-text searchable database of articles on individual critics and theorists, critical and theoretical schools and movements, and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical schools.

MLA International Bibliography (Coverage: 1963- updated: Quarterly.) Produced by the Modern Language Association, indexes critical materials on modern language, linguistics, and folklore. Provides access to over 3000 journals and series published worldwide, as well as monographs, working papers, proceedings, and bibliographies.

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WORLD WIDE WEB RESOURCES (Find Web resources.)

Bartleby.com, Great Books Online A relatively new (since 1999), well-respected Internet publisher of free, full-text literature, verse and reference works. Several important works available in French, search by subject, title and author. For a brief, yet interesting overview of literature, browse the section by Edward J. Fortier, Non-English Writings I (German I, French II, Yiddish III) in Later National Literature, Part III, directly at http://www.bartleby.com/228/index.html

Bibliothèque Nationale de France France's National Library, site searchable in French or English. Access to online catalogs, digitized, full-text resources, virtual exhibitions and more.

ClicNet édite ou localise des ressources virtuelles en français pour les étudiants, les enseignants de français langue étrangère (FLE) ou langue seconde (FLS), et tous ceux qui s'intéressent aux cultures, aux arts et aux littératures francophones. Situé à l'Université de Swarthmore (Pennsylvanie, USA), ClicNet est réalisé par Carole Netter.

Hapax is an experimental server featuring links to French-related resources on the Web of interest to university-level teachers and students. This server is dedicated to the promotion of French world-wide. Hapax is maintained by Angelo Metzidakis, a professor of French at Sweet Briar College in Virginia, USA.

Library of Congress Global Gateway World Culture & Resources: World Library Collections. Linked resources are comprehensive and include international print and electronic information, electronic resources on the nations of the world selected by Library of Congress subject experts, country studies, foreign research guides and legal materials, research opportunities, select items of global importance from the Library's collections, international cyber casts, and so much more.

Project Gutenberg Begun in 1971 by Michael Hart, the Internet's oldest producer of free, fine literature, digitally republished, now has over 6,000 titles in various languages and genres. Select Search option from left vertical menu box, then search by author, title, subject (i.e., language, fiction, poetry, literature), language (i.e., French) or Library of Congress Classification, pre selected by Project Gutenberg or choose your own at: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/lcco.html, click on P--Language and Literature, choose appropriate subclass.

TennesseeBob's Famous French Links A page of web links compiled by TennesseeBob Peckham, Director of the Globe-Gate Project at the University of Tennessee. Access thousands of well-researched resources, some scholarly, some merely informative, covering topics including but not limited to books and literature, art and general culture, history, language and education.

The WESS French Studies Web (Western European Studies Section - Association of College and Research Libraries) provides annotated links to scholarly web resources, both general (including reference shelf and universities, libraries and archives) and subject-specific (including art and architecture, gay and lesbian studies, and literature).

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Print Collections

Library of Congress Classification Heading
PQ 1-3999
French Literature

French literature is located on the 3rd floor in the following Call Number areas:

PQ2660-PQ2685
Literature since 1960

PQ2600-PQ2651
Twentieth century literature (to 1960)

PQ2151-PQ2543
Nineteenth century literature

PQ1956-PQ2138
Eighteenth century literature

PQ1710-PQ1933
Seventeenth century literature

PQ1601-PQ1707
Sixteenth century literature

PQ1301-PQ1593
Old French literature

PQ3919
French Canadian literature

PQ1103-PQ1141
General collections

PQ1165-PQ1194
Collections of poetry

PQ1215-PQ1241
Collections of drama

PQ1-PQ771
History and criticism

REF PQ433 .D53 2001
Dictionnaire de POÉSIE de Baudelaire à nos jours

REF PQ637 .F3 L64 2000
French Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror and Pulp Fiction

REF PQ294 .F72
French VI Bibliography - A critical and biographical reference for the study of ninteenth century French literature

REF PQ1141 .F74
French VII Bibliography - A critical and biographical reference for the study of contemporary French literature

REF PQ149 .F73 1991
French women writers : a bio-bibliographical source book

REF PQ305 .F7
French XX Bibliography - A critical and biographical reference for the study of twentieth century French literature

REF PS221 .D5 vol. 217
Nineteenth-Century French Poets

REF DC342 .B56 1990
Biographical Dictionary of French Political Leaders since 1870

REF PC2640 .C69 1998
Collins-Robert French-English, English-French Dictionary

REF PC2625 .L6 1877
Dictionnaire de la Langue Francaise (par E. Littre)

REF PQ41 .B42 1994
Dictionnaire des Oeuvres Litteraires de Langue Francaise

REF DC704 .F5313 1998
Historical Dictionary of Paris

PC2625 .R553 1994 CD Rom -- Available at Circulation Desk
Le Grand Robert Electronique

REF PC2625 .P43 2002
Le Petit Larousse

REF PC2640 .C54 1992
The Concise Oxford French Dictionary / French-English

REF AE25 .D52
Dictionnaire des Oeuvres de Tous les Temps et de Tous les Pays

REF AE25 .G63 1982
Grand Dictionnaire Encyclopedique Larousse

REF AE25 .L32
Grand Dictionnaire Universel [du XIX Siecle] Francais

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