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(266) Resources In 'French Studies'
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Databases & Article Indexes (31) E-Journals (151) Associations, Organizations & Societies (1) Biography (3) Book Reviews (5)
Dictionaries & Thesauri (Languages) (3) E-Books (18) Encyclopedias & Subject Dictionaries (11) Government Information (3) Images (4)
Libraries, Museums, Catalogs & Archives (13) Multimedia & Video (1) News Sources (6) Penn Sites (1) Publishers & Books Sellers (1)
Research Guides (6) Search Engines & Portals (7) Technical Reports (1)
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Primary French Studies Databases & Article Indexes

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ARTFL
The 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 p...   [more]
    ARTFL-FRANTEXT

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MLA International Bibliography (EBSCO)
Also Known as: Modern Language Association Bibliography, MLAIB
Covers literature, languages, folklore, and linguistics. Includes English and foreign languages. ...   [more]
Holdings: Covers 1963 to the present. New records are added ten times a year.

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Periodicals Index Online
Also Known as: PIO,PCI,Periodical Contents Index,Chadwyck PCI,Periodicals Contents Index
Humanities and social sciences. The scope is international, including journals in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and other Western languages. ...   [more]

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PERSEE
This is a documentary portal of French social and human science journals, created by the education nationale. Users must register before accessing this resource. Provides partial fulltext for Annale...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

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Important French Studies Databases & Article Indexes

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Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)
Broad collection of fulltext scholarly journals and related periodicals in all scholarly disciplines. Includes bibliographic citations, indexing and abstracting for more than 8,000 periodicals. A comp...   [more]
Holdings: Coverage varies: mostly 1990s to present.

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ARTstor
The ARTstor collection includes approximately 500,000 images of works of art, architecture and archaeology along with the necessary software to view the images, create personal groups of images and cr...   [more]
Supplemental URLs
    Help - technical help
    Help - general index
    Browse Penn collections in ArtStor
    Search ArtStor

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Black Women Writers
- from Alexander Street Press
Searchable fulltext for writings by women from Africa and the African diaspora worldwide. Includes more than 460 fiction, nonfiction, and poetry texts in more than 100,000 pages in English, French, Fr...   [more]

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CESAR Database
Provides detailed information on the play, people, and performance spaces of French theater during the 17th and 18th centuries....   [more]
Unrestricted Access

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E-corpus
e-corpus is a collective digital library that catalogs and disseminates numerous documents: manuscripts, archives, books, journals, prints, audio recordings, video, etc. This diverse platform present...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

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European Colonialism in the Early 20th Century: French Colonialism in Africa: From Algeria to Madagascar, 1910-1929
- from Archives Unbound
[more]

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Film Index International
Index of films and film personalities that is an unmatched reference work for entertainment films and biographical information about directors, producers, actors and more. in collaboration with the Br...   [more]

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Historical Abstracts
Historical coverage of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada)....   [more]
Holdings: ca. 1974- present. Updated three times a year.

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IBZ Online
Also Known as: IBZ, Internationale Bibliographie der geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Zeitschriftenliteratur
Internationale Bibliographie der geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Zeitschriftenliteratur (IBZ) Aims and Scope has been the leading international and interdisciplinary reference work documenting a...   [more]

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Indexes and Guides to Western European Periodicals in the Humanities and Social Sciences
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Unrestricted Access

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ITER: Gateway to the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Medieval (400-1500) and Renaissance (1300-1700) studies...   [more]

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L'Affaire Dreyfus: son influence dans la criation de la France moderne (The Dreyfus Affair in the Making of Modern France)
Also Known as: Affaire Dreyfus , Dreyfus Affair
- from Archives Unbound
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Liberation Journals Index
"The Liberation Journals Index is an analytic, searchable, online index covering the interwar Pan-African periodicals La Revue du Monde Noir, Legetime Defense, L'Etudiant Noir, the wartime Tropiques, ...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

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Literature Resource Center
Biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on nearly 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.
PLEASE NOTE: Penn has ...   [more]

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Newspapers of the French Revolution of 1848
- from Archives Unbound
[more]

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Provencal Database
The PhiloLogic implementation of the Provengal Database is based on data provided by Professor Akehurst at the University of Minnesota.

The Project for American and French Research on the Treasu...   [more]

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Repere
Repere indexes articles published in French language periodicals covering all fields of general and specialized knowledge. Created by the National Library of Quebec (BNQ) and Services Documentaires Mu...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

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Sign@l : Signalement des contenus de periodiques en sciences humaines et sociales
Also Known as: Somrev: Sommaires de revues; Fripes
Sign@l is a successor to the Somrev and Fripes databases. As of June 2014 it provides "339905 references d'articles, 18338 sommaires, 300 revues." Links to about 40% of the primarily history and socia...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

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Web of Science
Also Known as: ISI Citation Indexes, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, SSCI, SCI, AHCI, ISI, WOK, Web of Knowledge
Indexes journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Allows for cited reference searching. Includes Science Citation Index, the Social Science Citation Index[more]
Holdings: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED)--1945-present, Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)--1956-present, Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI)--1975-present. Updated weekly.
Supplemental URLs
    Web of Science Tutorials
    Cited Reference Searching Tutorial

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Related French Studies Databases & Article Indexes

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DigiZeitschriften
Also Known as: Digi Zeitschriften
DigiZeitschriften provides full-text access to over 100 scholarly journals published in Germany or neighboring countries since the late 1700s. The journals are in German, English, or other European la...   [more]

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EUscreen
"The EUscreen project aims to promote the use of television content to explore Europe's rich and diverse cultural history." Its aim is provide unified access to a collection of TV programming, sources...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

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Factiva
Also Known as: Dow Jones Factiva, Factiva Dow Jones
Provides access to sources of national and international news, business and general information. News sources include newspapers, magazines, media transcripts, wire services, pictures and web sites. I...   [more]
Holdings: Dates vary. Most publications begin in the late 1980's or early 1990's
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Francis
Also Known as: Bulletin signaletique
Francis covers a wide range of multilingual, multidisciplinary information in the humanities and social sciences. It is strong in religion, the history of art, and literature with emphasis on cur...   [more]
Holdings: 1984 to the present. Updated monthly.
Unrestricted Access
Supplemental URLs
    FRANCIS via EBSCOhost (closed file)

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Global Books in Print
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Holdings: Updated weekly.
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Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)
Abstracts and indexes the international literature in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences Covers all aspects of the study of language including linguistics, language acquisi...   [more]
Holdings: 1973 to present.
Supplemental URLs
    Serials List
    Search Guide
    LLBA Classification Codes

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Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Academic) (NYT & much more)
Also Known as: lexis/nexis, Lexis-Nexis, Lexis Nexis, LN Academic, LexisNexis Academic, Lexis Nexis Academic
Access to full-text national and international newspapers , including the New York Times, and the Times of London business and accounting information, biographical data, and some selected legal mat...   [more]
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Proquest Dissertations and Theses Fulltext (formerly Dissertation Abstracts)
Also Known as: Digital Dissertations, Dissertation Abstracts, UMI, DAI, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses (PQDT), Proquest Dissertations and Theses Fulltext
Indexing (since 1861) and abstracting (since 1980) for doctoral-level dissertations completed at North American universities. Page images or fulltext of all available dissertations - including Penn d...   [more]
Holdings: Indexing 1861-present, abstracts 1980-present, page-image or fulltext PDF for available dissertations dissertations from 1997 to the present.
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