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Indexes and Databases

MLA International Bibliography [contained within Literature Resource Center] Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Off-campus access
1926-current. Indexes scholarship on literature, language, linguistics and folklore.

ARTFL Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Off-campus access
American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language.

Bibliographie der franzosischen Literaturwissenschaft
Call Number: 1st Floor Z2171 .K55
A comprehensive bibliography of Western-language materials about French literature and the French language.

Historical Abstracts Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Off-campus access
Covers world history after 1450, except for the U.S. and Canada. Includes articles from over 2,000 journals, books, collections, and dissertations.

Humanities International Complete Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Off-campus access
Covers a diverse range of subjects from the humanities, including archaeology, art, classics, philosophy, history, music, linguistics, literature and religion. Some full text is included.

Project Muse Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Off-campus access
Access to the full-text of over 350 scholarly electronic journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences and mathematics. Available off-campus via proxy server.

JSTOR Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Off-campus access
Complete full text backfiles of several hundred scholarly journals in the Arts and Sciences, Health and General Sciences, and Ecology and Botany, except for the most recent two to five years.

Current Events

Le Monde Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only

Le Monde Diplomatique Unrestricted Resource
Some articles freely available.

Yahoo! France Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only

Arts and Humanities Search Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Off-campus access
Indexes over 1,300 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, as well as selected articles from social science and science journals. Contents include articles, bibliographies, editorials, letters, reviews, and more.

Current Events

Yahoo! News Directory Unrestricted Resource
Links to online newspapers by country.

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Africabib.org Unrestricted Resource
Online access to African periodical literature, women's literature, and some travel literature

African Abstracts
Call Number: Burling Ref. Index Alcove
1961-1972. A quarterly review of ethnological, social, and linguistic studies appearing in current periodicals.

AllAfrica Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only
The French version highlights different news stories: http://fr.allafrica.com/

ARTbibliographies Modern Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Off-campus access
Online bibliographical database providing full abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, dissertations, and exhibition reviews on all forms of modern and contemporary arts dating from the late 19th century onwards.

ATLA Religion Index Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Off-campus access
1949-current. Covers religious and theological scholarship in over 1,000 international journals and 14,000 multi-author works.

Bibliography of the History of Art Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Off-campus access
Index and abstracts (in French or English) of the current literature of European and American art from late antiquity to the present.

Eighteenth Century
Call Number: Burling 1st floor Z5579.6 .E36
A bibliography of periodicals covering all aspects of 18th-century civilization and culture.

Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index Unrestricted Resource
Covers journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages.

French 20 Bibliography
Call Number: Burling 1st floor Z2171 .F7
A critical and biographical reference for the study of French literature since 1885. Published by the French Institute/Alliance Francaise.

Google Scholar Unrestricted Resource

International African Bibliography Unrestricted Resource
Indexes articles on Africa generally, African regions, Indian Ocean islands, and the African diaspora. Publications are from African and international sources, primarily in English. Library also has in print: Reference Alcove, 1971 to the present.

Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Off-campus access
Coverage varies. Some full text. Resources for the study and teaching of the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700) citations in journals(1784-), books, reviews; a finding list of Renaissance humanistic manuscripts; etc.

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Off-campus access
Subjects covered include the nature, use, and teaching of language as well as linguistics, phonetics, speech, communication, sociolinguistics, philosophy of language, hearing and speech physiology, and related topics.

Philosopher's Index Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Off-campus access
1940-current. Indexes books and journals of philosophy: ethics, aesthetics, social and political philosophy, epistemology, and metaphysic logic, philosophy of law, religion, science, history, education, and language.

RILM: Abstracts of Music Literature Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Off-campus access
The comprehensive database to the music literature. Indexes articles, books, conference proceedings, bibliographies, catalogues, dissertations, festchriften, iconographies, critical commentaries to complete works, ethnographic recordings and videos, reviews and more. Particularly strong for classical music. For popular music publications see Academic Search Premier.

The Eighteenth-Century Current Bibliography
Call Number: 1st Floor Z5579.6 .E36
This is an annual interdisciplinary bibliography. It covers all aspects of culture and civilization in the eighteenth century. One section is devoted to articles on "Germanic and Slavic Literatures and Languages."

Databases

Databases for Related Disciplines

Film and Television: A Guide to the Reference Literature
Call Number: PN1994 .E446x 2006
A starting point to find appropriate sources for background information.

Library Catalogs

Center for Research Libraries Unrestricted Resource
CRL is a consortium of North American universities, colleges, and independent research libraries. The consortium acquires and preserves traditional and digital resources for research and teaching.

Grinnell College Libraries Unrestricted Resource
Books, media, Web sites, databases, art work, and more

WorldCat Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Off-campus access
Before 1000 B.C. to the present. The OCLC catalog of books, web resources, and other materials held in libraries worldwide. Contains millions of records.

Reference Resources

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Bibliographie Internationale de l'Humanisme et de la Renaissance
Call Number: Burling 1st floor Z6207.R4 B5
Lists books and articles in all areas of study on the 15th and 16th centuries in Europe: literature, philosophy, history, religion, the arts, economics, political science, law, and science.

Major Sets

Contemporary Authors Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Off-campus access
See description of Literature Resource Center below. Search authors by time period, nation of origin, ethnicity, and name.

Contemporary Literary Criticism Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Off-campus access
(print and online--selective)--The print edition (232+ vol.) is in the reference collection: PN771 .C59

Dictionary of Literary Biography Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Off-campus access
(print and online-selective)Reference collection: PS 21 .D5x (volume no.) The last volume of the series includes a complete index. The online version is selective and available through Literature Resource Center. Print volumes include: v. 321 Twentieth-Century French Dramatists v. 327 Sixteenth-Century French Writers v. 313-314 Writers of the French Enlightenment v. 258 Modern French Poets v. 217 Nineteenth-century French Poets v. 208 Literature of the French and Occitan Middle Ages : Eleventh to Fifteenth Centuries v. 192 French Dramatists, 1789-1914 v. 119 Nineteenth century French Fiction Writers: Romanticism and Realism, 1800-1860 vols. 60, 63, 72, 83, 88,92, 99 Canadian writers

Grove Art Online
Call Number: Ref. N6847 .G758 2000 Off-campus access
Also available in print in the Reference Collection. Ref. N6847 .G758 2000

Literature Resource Center (LRC) Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Off-campus access
Provides the full text of biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses for authors of every age, nation, and literary discipline. Includes the MLA Bibliography which sometimes links to full-text. Available off-campus via proxy server.

Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only
Provides excerpts from criticism of the works of novelists, poets, playwrights, short story writers, philosophers and other creative writers who died between 1800 and 1899. Online version is selective and available through Literature Resource Center. Print version is available in the reference collection: Ref PN761 .N56

Oxford Music Online Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Off-campus access
Look for Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians in the Reference Collection

Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only Off-campus access
Includes excerpts of criticism of literary authors who died between 1900 and 2000.

Web sites

Bibliotheque nationale de France Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only

Bibliotheque national de France: "Ask a reference question": Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only

Bibliotheque nationale de France: Gallica Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only
Access to 90,000+ digitized texts

Library and Archives Canada Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only
Bibliothéque et Archives Canada: Collections Canada

Embassy of France in the United States Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only

Ambassade du Canada, Washington, D.C. Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only

Musee canadien des civilisations Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only

Radio France Internationale (RFI) Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only

BBC News Unrestricted Resource
Includes news from Africa and the Middle East.

LIMAG: Littératures du Maghreb Unrestricted Resource
(Algérie, Maroc, Tunisie)

French Language News and News Magazines Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only
From the MIT Libraries

Africa South of the Sahara Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only
From the Stanford Libraries--including links to newspapers.

LeLibraire.com Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only
A commercial site with information about French books and authors from countries around the world.

Style and Citation Guides

Assembling a List of Works Cited in Your Paper Unrestricted Resource
Prepared by the Duke University Libraries.

MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers
Call Number: Perm Reserve LB2369 .G53 2003
On permanent reserve at the circulation desk.

RefWorks Campus Faculty, Staff and Students only
A Web-based bibliography and database manager that allows you to create your own personal database by importing references from text files or online databases.

University of California-Berkeley Library Style Guides Unrestricted Resource
Includes APA, Chicago-Turabian and MLA style sheets.

Resources at Grinnell

French Department Unrestricted Resource

Grinnell Writing Lab Unrestricted Resource
Room: ARH 132 Phone: 3117

Course Guides

French 303 Unrestricted Resource

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