Research Guide: French
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Finding Background Info [help]
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these sources for quick overviews, to develop vocabulary for searching and/or for more sources |
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Oxford Reference Online Database -
access to over 140 online reference books
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Global Road Warrior --
Cultural, social, travel and business information
about countries around the world |
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French dictionaries can be found in the reference collection (Ref PC 2640) |
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Finding Articles [help]
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ARTFL Project -- (American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language) -- consists of nearly
2000 texts, ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing, including works by Voltaire, Moliere, Camus, Balzac and many others. 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 |
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MLA International Bibliography - consists of bibliographic records
pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore, and includes coverage from 1926 to the present. The MLA International Bibliography provides access to scholarly research in over
3,000 journals and series. |
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Bloom's Literary Reference Online --
full-text literary criticism from Professor Bloom and others |
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Finding Books [help]
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Library Catalog -- search by subject,
keyword, author or title! |
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Web Resources |
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IPL: Literary Criticism (University of Michigan & Drexel University) -- Contains "critical and biographical websites about authors and their
works." Browse by author, title, nationality or literary period
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Voice of
the Shuttle --
The French literature segment of the Voice of the Shuttle: Web Page for Humanities Research, based
at the University of California, Santa Barbara
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World Digital Library -- "makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual
format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world" It is browsable by time, topic, place, type and institution and includes a wealth of manuscripts, maps, rare
books, films, sound recordings, and prints and photographs. |
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