French Language Research Guide
Encyclopedias,
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Web Sites | Citing Sources
Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, etc.
Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue française. General
Collection PC2580 .B55 2002
Encyclopedia
of contemporary French culture. Reference DC33.7 .E53 1998
Guide to
French literature. Reference PQ 41 L48 1992
Oxford-Hachette French desk dictionary. Reference
PC2640 .O937 1996
The new
Oxford companion to literature in French. Reference PQ41
.N49 1995
Foreign-Language Dictionaries:
Many language dictionaries are located in the Reference collection
on the first floor.
Additional copies, which may be checked out, are kept in the General
Collection on the third floor. To find bilingual dictionaries (e.g., a
French-English
dictionary) in the Library catalog, click on the link below to
get the call numbers for bilingual dictionaries in our library.
French Language Dictionaries in Pickler Memorial Library
Le Grand Robert: Dictionnaire Alphabetique et Analogique de la
Langue Francaise. CD-ROM workstation across from Reference Desk.
Online
Dictionaries and Translators
YourDictionary.com - Enter a term in the
dictionary/thesaurus look-up box for English or use the word
translator and type in a word and select from English, French,
German, Italian, Portuguese, or Spanish.
Free on-line French Dictionary
Find Books
To find books, videos or other materials located in Pickler Memorial Library, search the Library Catalog. It is usually a good idea to start with a keyword search so you can combine search terms that relate to your research project. For example:
nationalism and art
popular culture and france
france and social conditions
Check the Subject Headings listed in the records you retrieve to find other useful terms and phrases to search. Below are some subject heading examples for foreign languages. Each link performs the subject search in Truman's Library Catalog.
France - Civilization
Painting, French - 19th Century
French Literature -- History And Criticism.
If Pickler Memorial Library doesn't have what you want, try your search in MOBIUS to find books in other libraries in Missouri. You can order books online, and they will be delivered usually within 3-4 working days. This service is available to current Truman students, faculty, and staff.
French Language Books in Pickler Memorial Library
French Language Videos/DVDs in Pickler Memorial Library
Find Articles
Databases in this section are restricted to use on the Truman network unless otherwise indicated.
MLA Bibliography. 1926+. A bibliography of scholarship in literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. Contains over 1.8 million citations from more than 4400 journals and series and 1000 book publishers. About 75% are language and literature journal articles. You can limit your searches by the following languages: Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish, Swedish, and Ukrainian.
Persée - Established by the ministère de l'éducation nationale, Persée provides full-text access to the back files of French journals in the social and human sciences. The interface is available in both French and English.
Revues.org - Full-text access to French journals in the social and human sciences. It is possible to search all journals or a specific title.
ARTFL Project,
years of coverage varies
Over 2000 French texts from the 13th-20th centuries are included, ranging from
classical works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and
technical writing.
In print under various titles 1907-1996. Reference AI 3 S6
Contains citations from more than 465 periodicals in archaeology and classical studies, area studies, communication, folklore, history, language, literature, performing and visual arts, philosophy, religion and theology. Coverage: Click here to show journal list.
Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective. Indexing of over 1200 periodicals, some going back as far as 1907. Also has coverage of many important scientific journals up to the 1950s.
L'Année
Philologique Online. Database published by the Société
Internationale de
Bibliographie Classique covering volumes 30 to 73 with more than
480,000 bibliographic records.
Arts
and Humanities Search 1980+
Indexing of 1,300 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals.
Citation Index allows searching of bibliographies.
JSTOR. Archive of scholarly journals. Truman campus has access to the Arts & Sciences I, II, III, & IV collections, Ecology & Botany collection, and General Science collection. JSTOR allows you to limit searches by English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, and Spanish language.
LexisNexis-A wide variety of newspapers with a variety of days covered. The Guided News Search can narrow searches to business, legal, medical, university, arts & sports, and non-English language news (Dutch, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish).
Project MUSE. - Truman campus has access to the Basic Undergraduate Collection of Project Muse journals There is no way to limit to language on Project Muse searches.
Web Sites:
General | Associations | University Hosted Projects
ABU: La Bibliothèque Universelle
- a digital library of French texts in the public domain. It
includes 288 texts by 101 authors. Access to specific works is
available through a keyword search as well as alphabetical author
and title indexes.
Athena
- Provides full-text access to works in French by French and
Francophone authors, and translations of foreign works into French.
Center for Applied
Linguistics -
a group of scholars and educators who use the findings of linguistics
and related sciences in identifying and addressing language-related
problems
CESAR -
details of the plays, people and performance spaces that graced
French theatre during the 17th and 18th centuries, from the dawn of
the age of public playhouses to the French Revolution
Defense Language
Institute Foreign Language Center
Electronic
Text Collections in Western European Literature - Lists
internet sources for literary texts in the western European
languages other than English
Ethnologue---a
catalogue of more than 6,700 languages spoken in 228 countries
Foreign Language and Culture Page offers easy access to
hundreds of language-related sites, easily organizing them by
language. In addition, you can find links to everything from the CIA
World Factbook to crossword puzzles in Dutch.
French
Studies Web - Links to reference tools on the Web that
provide information about France and French culture
Gallica (Bibliothèque Nationale
de France) - access to 90,000 texts and hours of audio
files, covering a time period ranging from the Middle Ages to the
19th century
iLoveLanguages is a comprehensive catalog of
language-related Internet resources; it has over 2,400 of the best
language links the Web has to offer. Whether you're looking for
online language lessons, translating dictionaries, native
literature, translation services, software, language schools, or
just a little information on a language in which you are interested,
this site probably has something to suit your needs.
Learn French - Language Learning Library
Portals to the World - France - links to Web sites covering
a wide range of subject areas (maintained by the Library of
Congress)
Le
Quartier français du village planétaire - A gateway to news
sites, museums, government information, reference tools, and
cultural topics.
radio-locator -
A list of radio stations on the internet
Modern Language Association
Language Map -
The MLA Language Map uses data from the 2000 United States
census to display the locations and numbers of speakers of thirty
languages and three groups of less commonly spoken languages in the
United States.
Word Reference.com -
Superior translation dictionaries for French, Italian, and Spanish
American
Association of Teachers of French
American
Classical League
American Council on
the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)
American
Translators Association
International Language
Testing Association (ILTA)
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Center for
Advanced Research on Language Acquisition at the University of
Minnesota
Center for Language
Education and Research at Michigan State University
Language
Acquisition Resource Center at San Diego State University
National Capital Language Resource
Center
NFLRC at
the University of Hawaii
UCLA Language
Materials Project provides learning resources for less
commonly taught languages of the world, ranging from Armenian to
Zulu.
Yamada Language Center at the University of Oregon - guide
to language resources on the World Wide Web.
Citing Sources
Selected guides to
help you cite sources correctly in APA, Chicago/Turabian, and MLA
styles.
For further assistance, visit or call the Reference Desk
(660-785-4051) or contact the Reference librarian for Language and
Literature.
Daisy Rearick, Reference Librarian for Education
(660) 785-4048
drearick@truman.edu
