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Subject Guide: French Language and Literature INDEXES  |  REFERENCE WORKS  |  WEB LINKS  |  PERIODICALS This page is intended to introduce a few select resources, both on the Web and in the Smith Library Center print collection, that are particularly useful for the study of French language, literature, and culture. Start your research early. You may have to use Interlibrary Services, so allow time for interlibrary loan requests to be processed. Consider getting a TexShare card, available by request at the Circulation Desk, so that you can directly borrow materials from other participating libraries. INDEXES French Language Index Repère REFERENCE, 1st floor Index shelving Repère is a print index located on the index shelves near the Literary Societies Alcove. It is published in Quebec, and indexes many popular French and French-Canadian periodicals. See the Periodicals section below for some titles indexed in Repère that the library subscribes to. Repère Online access to the Repère database, including citations to periodical articles indexed since 1980. Also contains the full text of 20,000 French articles. Multiple Language Indexes, including French Most of the online indexes listed below are predominantly English-language, but they all include some materials in French. ArtAbstracts Arts & Humanities Search ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials Biological Abstracts Humanities Abstracts International Index to the Performing Arts (IIPA) JSTOR MLA International Bibliography Project MUSE The Philosopher's Index Women's Studies International WorldCat Literary Sources MLA International Bibliography For articles in French on literary topics, try MLA first. ARTFL Project Try ARTFL for searchable French language texts, bibliographies, reference works, and more. For information in English on authors who write in other languages, try the sources below. Gale Literary Index For author research, begin with this index. You can search by author's name, title of a work, or author's nationality. Your results list will give you citations to works in English the library may own. Please check your citations in the library catalog. Literature Resource Center Biographical, bibliographical, and contextual information in English on authors and their works, including authors of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, history, and journalism. Access to many of Gale's literary sources, including; Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and Contemporary Literary Criticism Select. Voice of the Shuttle: Literatures Other Than English: French Sites concerned with literature written in French. REFERENCE WORKS The library's Voyager online catalog will allow you to search for French language books. Before entering your search terms, select All Search Limits, then select French from the Language menu and click Set Limits to return to the search screen. At the search screen, enter your terms in English. Below are a few reference titles to get you started. To double-check call numberand location information, search Voyager. Collins Robert concise French dictionary = Le Robert & Collins compact plus 4th ed., 2003 REFERENCE, 1st floor 443 C696 2003 De la littérature francaise REFERENCE, 1st floor 840.9 N42 1993 Dictionnaire des litteratures de langue francaise REFERENCE, 1st floor 840.3 B383d 1994. 4 volumes Dictionnaire des oeuvres de tous les temps et de tous les pays REFERENCE, 1st floor 034.1 N855. 6 volumes. Dictionnaire des oeuvres litteraires de langue francaise REFERENCE, 1st floor 840.3 B383di. 4 volumes Encyclopaedia Universalis, nouvelle ed. REFERENCE, 1st floor 034 En195. 32 volumes. Le Nouveau petit Robert : dictionnaire alphabétique et analogique de la langue francaise, nouvelle edition du petit Robert de Paul Robert 2003 REFERENCE, 1st floor 443 R543pet Le Petit Larousse grand format en couleurs : 87000 articles, 4600 illustrations, 292 cartes, dossiers exclusifs atlas geographique, drapeaux du monde commentes, 100 planches visuelles 2002 REFERENCE, 1st floor 443 P44 2002 WEB LINKS French France en Amérique Bilingual digital library conceived in partnership with France's national library, the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Made available by the Library of Congress. Explores the history of the French presence in North America from the first decades of the 16th century to the end of the 19th century. French: Foreign Language News and Newspapers From MIT Libraries. French Resources Links to sites for culture and history, media, literature and languagecountry/city tours, and more. From University of Wisconsin-Madison. Gail's French Educational Links Newspapers France From Start4all.com Radio France Internationale The international arm of the French radio network. TennesseeBob's Famous French Links, 2nd ed. Organized categories relating to French culture or to language learning. WESSWeb: French Studies Web Links to newspapers, primary resources, journals, book reviews,online text collections, etc. Maintained by the Western EuropeanSpecialists Section of the Association of College and ResearchLibraries. Google Select the Language Tools search option. Hotbot Select the Advanced Search option. Yahoo! France Yahoo! for France; in French. Multiple Languages, including French ComFM's LiveRadio on the Internet Access to homepages of radio stations from around the world, and whenpossible, to live Internet broadcasts. ComFM's LiveTV on the Internet Access to homepages of tv stations from around the world, and whenpossible, to live Internet broadcasts. Linguist List--Web Resource Listings--Dictionaries Multi-language dictionaries, with links to other language-related sites. Site maintained by Eastern Michigan University and Wayne State University. Ethnologue World language research, maps, and more. Catalogs over6,700 languages spoken in 228 countries. iLoveLanguages Language-learning resources arranged by topic. Online Newspapers Electronic editions of newspapers from around the world, by country. PERIODICALS To find citations or online full-text for articles in periodicals onyour topic, try the resources listed above under Indexes. To locate the journal articles you want, follow these steps: Once you have searched your topic in the databases or indexes above, you will have a list of citations. A citation gives you all the information you need to actually look up the article: the title of the article, author, name of the journal, volume, issue, pages and date. Many of our databases also include links to the full text of articles cited. Search the library's Voyager catalog to determine whether the library owns the periodical you need, and where in the library the periodical is located. Always check our Online Journals as well, to see if the library has the article you need online. If Smith Library Center does not have the journal in any format, submit an Interlibrary Loan Request. Allow extra time for your article to be delivered.  French language periodicals available in print  at Smith Library Center Modern languages shelves Titles in French É tudes Forces * Français dans le monde (Le) Gazette des femmes (La) * Histoire (L') * Jeune Afrique l'intelligent Lettres Québécoises * LIRE Magazine littéraire * Marie Claire Nouvel observateur (Le) * Paris match * Point (Le) Positif Projet Recherche (La) * Voix et images Modern languages shelves Titles in English / French Canadian modernlanguage review Compar(a)ison Esprit createur (L') French review General interest shelves Rock & folk * Science et vie * Newspaper shelves Devoir (Le) Journal Français * indicates title is indexed in Repère

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