http://resources.library.georgetown.edu/libdata/rqs.phtml?subject_id=79 Contact Librarian: Mark Muehlhaeusler en-us Georgetown University Library, 2009 FRANCIS, a multilingual, multidisciplinary database, provides abstracts in French or English, and descriptors in both languages, and includes coverage of journals, books, conference papers, and other materials in the humanities and social sciences. It contains more than 1 million citations for publications on archaeology, geography, linguistics, philosophy, religion, and sociology. Its coverage of articles and books on French language and literature is particularly strong. http://resources.library.georgetown.edu/libdata/rslink.phtml?subject_id=79&resource_id=261&infotype_id=29&masterinfotype_id=3 The MLA International Bibliography, produced by the Modern Language Association of America, provides access to worldwide scholarly research in over 4,400 journals and series pertaining to literature (including drama), language, linguistics, folklore, film, radio, television, and theater. Provides citations to journal articles, books, book chapters from multi-author works, dissertations, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, and bibliographies. Does not include book reviews. MLA International Bibliography represents all national literatures. http://resources.library.georgetown.edu/libdata/rslink.phtml?subject_id=79&resource_id=60&infotype_id=29&masterinfotype_id=3 Provides full text for 4,486 publications (3,718 peer-reviewed) covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. A total of 8,224 titles are abstracted and indexed, of which 7,132 are peer-reviewed. http://resources.library.georgetown.edu/libdata/rslink.phtml?subject_id=79&resource_id=251&infotype_id=20&masterinfotype_id=3 Full-text access (with embargo) to French social science and humanities journals published by the CNRS. Includes titles such as Anthropology of Food. http://resources.library.georgetown.edu/libdata/rslink.phtml?subject_id=79&resource_id=2278&infotype_id=20&masterinfotype_id=3 Full text (in PDF format) of selected, important scholarly journals in a number of fields. Note: journals in JSTOR usually do not include the most recent three to five years. For more recent articles, use one of the other indexes listed in this section. http://resources.library.georgetown.edu/libdata/rslink.phtml?subject_id=79&resource_id=32&infotype_id=20&masterinfotype_id=3 Concise biographical entries for French authors, including lists of works, and timelines. The search interface allows users to search by name, date, period, location, school, or affiliation. http://resources.library.georgetown.edu/libdata/rslink.phtml?subject_id=79&resource_id=2291&infotype_id=7&masterinfotype_id=2 Since the monumental "Dictionnaire de biographie française" remains incomplete (in 2008, it had reached 'Lefevre' in vol. XX: 3), this work remains a primary source of reference for individuals born well before 1865, and with surnames beginning L-Z. Even the earlier volumes (A-L) may afford useful information to supplement the entries in DNF. "Chronologiquement on se limite aux temps historiques - pas d'homme de Tautavel ou de Cros-Magnon -, la période d'histoire envisagée s'étendant de l'antiquité à nos jours; les figures de l'ancienne Gaule, peu nombreuses, il est vrai, ne sont donc pas exclues du dictionnaire, pas plus que les personnalités décédés ces dernières années.Géographiquement, les limites sont plus délicates à fixer. Les territoires d'outre-mer ne sont étudiés que depuis leur attachement à la France; de même, les anciennes colonies ne sont prises en considération que pour la période où elles lui ont été unies. Pour la Corse et l'Alsace, ce n'est aussi que depuis qu'elles entrent dans le cadre du dictionnaire... avec quelques exceptions cependant. Par contre, la Flandre française, la Franche-Comté, la Lorraine, la Provence, la Savoie et le Comtat Venaissin, qui ne sont jamais demeurés entièrement hors de la sphère d'influence française et dont l'histoire fut de tout temps liée à celle de la France de façon si intime, sont étudiés depuis leurs origines.[...] D'autre part, bien qu'il s'agisse de biographie française, il est fait une place aux personnages nés à I'étranger mais dont l'activité soit politique, soit scientifique, soit littéraire et artistique, voire criminelle, s'est exercée principalement en France. Mazarin, Law, Moréas apprennent à l'histoire de la France et doivent figurer dans sa biographie nationale. De même y prennent place les personnages d'origine française qui ont longtemps et quelquefois toujours vécu à l'étranger et y ont acquis une grande notoriété, explorateurs, missionnaires, protestants émigrés… [...] A collection of criticism of 150 French-language writers. Each entry includes an analysis of the writer's work, selected quotations, a brief biography, and a bibliography. Covers writers from the Middle Ages through the twentieth century. Full-text biographical, bibliographical, and critical analysis of more than 100,000 world authors and works throughout history and across all literary genres (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, and journalism). Enables you to search by literary movement (e.g., Harlem Renaissance), gender, or author ethnicity (e.g., African American). Electronic version of such older print reference sources as: Contemporary Literary Criticism: Ref. PN 771 .C59 Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism: Ref. PN 761 .N56 Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism: Ref. PN 771 .G27 Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism: Ref. PN 610 .C53Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800: Ref. PN 86 .L53 1984Shakespearean Criticism: Ref. PR 2965 .S43 1984 Poetry Criticism: Ref. PN 1010 .P499 Short Story Criticism: Ref. PN 3373 .S386Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature: Ref. PN 41 .M42 1995Scribner Writers SeriesTwayne Authors Series http://resources.library.georgetown.edu/libdata/rslink.phtml?subject_id=79&resource_id=217&infotype_id=7&masterinfotype_id=2 A bibliographic newsletter with short reviews of new publications in France. Distributed through the portal Cultures de France as PDF download. http://resources.library.georgetown.edu/libdata/rslink.phtml?subject_id=79&resource_id=2264&infotype_id=58&masterinfotype_id=2 Annual analysis of major trends in economies of over 180 countries. Includes forecasts for the upcoming year and evaluations of foreign trade data and background data on political developments in each country. http://resources.library.georgetown.edu/libdata/rslink.phtml?subject_id=79&resource_id=82&infotype_id=85&masterinfotype_id=2 The ninth edition of this magnum opus by the Académie française. The editors have prefaced their work with these words of wisdom: "La confection d’un dictionnaire, surtout quand il doit être de référence pour des centaines de millions d’usagers d’une langue de par le monde, est une marche de longue haleine, où chaque pas rencontre une embûche, une rigole, un caillou. La langue, comme la mer, toujours recommence.[...] L’Académie ne refuse jamais la modernité. Elle ne refuse que ce qui peut menacer la pérennité de la langue." http://resources.library.georgetown.edu/libdata/rslink.phtml?subject_id=79&resource_id=2298&infotype_id=5&masterinfotype_id=2 French dictionaries of the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th centuries This subset of the ARTFL project site offer a search engine that can be used to query simultaneously the following dictionaries: Dictionnaire de L'Académie française 1st (1694), 4th (1762), 5th (1798), 6th (1835), and 8th (1932-5) editions. Jean Nicot: Thresor de la langue française (1606) Jean-François Féraud: Dictionaire critique de la langue française (Marseille, Mossy 1787-1788) Émile Littré: Dictionnaire de la langue française (1872-1877) The same site also offers the following: Pierre Bayle, Dictionnaire historique et critique (1740) Louis Moréri, Le Grand dictionnaire historique (1671-1759) Robert Estienne, Dictionarium latinogallicum (1552) http://resources.library.georgetown.edu/libdata/rslink.phtml?subject_id=79&resource_id=2260&infotype_id=5&masterinfotype_id=2 An interface to multiple free online dictionaries. Includes historic dictionaries, modern ones, and even a dictionary of synonyms and antonyms. Try Alexandria (direct link) for rich content and related links. http://resources.library.georgetown.edu/libdata/rslink.phtml?subject_id=79&resource_id=2261&infotype_id=5&masterinfotype_id=2 A detailed and scholarly monolingual dictionary, far superior to the online dictionary of the Academie. Includes citations and etymology. http://resources.library.georgetown.edu/libdata/rslink.phtml?subject_id=79&resource_id=2349&infotype_id=5&masterinfotype_id=2 Contains substantial entries for individuals and literary movements. Includes comprehensive bibliographies of works and selective lists of largely book-length studies. Also see: Guide to French Literature: 1789 to the Present. Alphabetically arranged entries on literary critics and theorists, critical and theoretical schools and movements, the contributions of specific countries and historical periods, and nonliterary fields of inquiry shaped by literary theory and criticism. Entries consist of a critical essay addressing the subject's historical and philosophical importance and a selective primary and secondary bibliography. http://resources.library.georgetown.edu/libdata/rslink.phtml?subject_id=79&resource_id=70&infotype_id=6&masterinfotype_id=2 La Bibliographie nationale française est une bibliographie courante prévue par la loi sur le dépôt légal, dont l'article 2 commande "la constitution et la diffusion de bibliographies nationales". Elle donne une vue d'ensemble de la production éditoriale française. La Bibliographie nationale française n'est pas un catalogue : elle ne signale pas l'ensemble des documents qui entrent à la Bibliothèque nationale de France. Pour effectuer une recherche sur l'ensemble de ces documents, il est nécessaire d'utiliser les catalogues de la BnF. http://resources.library.georgetown.edu/libdata/rslink.phtml?subject_id=79&resource_id=2262&infotype_id=22&masterinfotype_id=4 "La base de données bibliographique LITAF donne des informations complètes sur la production littéraire en langue française de l'Afrique subsaharienne. [...] Extraite de la base générale, la version Web de LITAF propose près de 8800 notices " à jour " jusqu'à fin avril 2008." http://resources.library.georgetown.edu/libdata/rslink.phtml?subject_id=79&resource_id=2272&infotype_id=22&masterinfotype_id=4 Le catalogue BN-OPALE PLUS est le catalogue en ligne qui contient la majorité des références des documents conservés sur tous les sites de la BnF. Il contient les références : des livres et périodiques conservés dans les magasins et en libre accès. des documents sonores (disques 78 t, microsillons, disques compacts et cassettes audios), vidéos (cassettes vidéos et vidéodisques), multimédias et électroniques sur supports (cédéroms, DVD-ROMS, jeux vidéos ...). d’une partie des manuscrits modernes et documents d’archives (brochures, programmes, scénarios, coupures de presse, tapuscrits, correspondances, lettres autographes…) concernant les arts du spectacle et la musique (théâtre, cinéma, opéra, ballet …) (site Richelieu-Louvois et Opéra). des documents iconographiques : estampes, photographies, affiches… d’une partie des documents cartographiques (atlas, cartes, plans, globes…). des objets (cuivres et bois gravés, pierres lithographiques, tissus…) (site Richelieu). d’une partie des partitions imprimées et manuscrites (site Richelieu-Louvois et Opéra). des documents numérisés par la BnF. d’une partie des microfiches et microfilms. d’une partie des périodiques électroniques dont la BnF possède aussi la version imprimée. http://resources.library.georgetown.edu/libdata/rslink.phtml?subject_id=79&resource_id=2263&infotype_id=24&masterinfotype_id=4 The union catalog of France. Contains some 20 million records for printed books, manuscripts, electronic resources, etc. http://resources.library.georgetown.edu/libdata/rslink.phtml?subject_id=79&resource_id=2275&infotype_id=24&masterinfotype_id=4 WorldCat is a catalog consisting of over 100 million records for books and other materials in over 60,000 libraries. NOTE: Available only to Georgetown University students, faculty, and staff. A publicly accessible version is available at http://www.worldcat.org/. http://resources.library.georgetown.edu/libdata/rslink.phtml?subject_id=79&resource_id=104&infotype_id=24&masterinfotype_id=4 The official website of the French bureau of statistics. Offers an exhaustive range of statistics both from the central government and the regions. http://resources.library.georgetown.edu/libdata/rslink.phtml?subject_id=79&resource_id=2276&infotype_id=34&masterinfotype_id=7 The French government's web portal. Provides basic information about government ministries and agencies, up-to-date statements on the government's positions and actions, and links to detailed files on current issues. http://resources.library.georgetown.edu/libdata/rslink.phtml?subject_id=79&resource_id=2320&infotype_id=150&masterinfotype_id=14 A superb annotated gateway to internet resources, with a particular focus on libraries in France, French bibliography, and French literature and culture. http://resources.library.georgetown.edu/libdata/rslink.phtml?subject_id=79&resource_id=2271&infotype_id=40&masterinfotype_id=11 Provides access to the full text of thousands of national and international magazines, newspapers, wire services, TV and radio broadcast transcripts, web publications, and blogs. Search by General, News, Legal, Business, or People. http://resources.library.georgetown.edu/libdata/rslink.phtml?subject_id=79&resource_id=30&infotype_id=50&masterinfotype_id=6 Provides direct or indirect access to a vast number of archival materials in national, regional, or municipal archives throughout France and DOM-TOM. Resources are browsable by geographic region, or material type, and include parish registers, marriage records, photographs, urban planning documents, maps, etc. http://resources.library.georgetown.edu/libdata/rslink.phtml?subject_id=79&resource_id=2279&infotype_id=140&masterinfotype_id=5 French-language literary, religious, philosophical, political, and scientific works from the 13th through the 20th centuries. Originally created in 1957 as the database behind Trésor de la Langue Française, a French-language dictionary, this database drew from a broad range of written French, from novels and poetry to biology and mathematics. Useful not only for lexicographers but also for many other types of humanists and social scientists engaged in French studies, the database was expanded in 1981 by a cooperative project of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and the University of Chicago. This joint project is called American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language (ARTFL). The database consists of nearly 2000 texts written between the 13th and 20th centuries, ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing. ARTFL also includes a Provençal database. Genres include novels, verse, theater, journalism, essays, correspondence, and treatises. Standard scholarly editions were used in converting the text into machine-readable form. http://resources.library.georgetown.edu/libdata/rslink.phtml?subject_id=79&resource_id=117&infotype_id=48&masterinfotype_id=5 Digital library of French and francophone culture maintained by the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Contains electronic texts, images, maps, animation, and sound files of French and other publications in history, literature, science, philosophy, law, economics, and political science. Almost all "classic" works of French literature are represented. http://resources.library.georgetown.edu/libdata/rslink.phtml?subject_id=79&resource_id=90&infotype_id=48&masterinfotype_id=5