This is only a sampling of subject headings which may be used to search COAST.  For a more complete list of  headings relevant to FRENCH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE, consult the Library of Congress Subject Headings volumes located in the Reference Center on  the first floor of the University Library.  Click on any of the following subjects now to retrieve records from COAST.  If you would like to search for a subject other than one of those listed, click here now.
 

ELECTRONIC REFERENCE RESOURCES

MLA INTERNATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
Indexes scholarly books, critical articles and essays in journals, and books on post-classical literature, language, linguistics, and folklore.  Coverage:  1963 to date.  Updated ten times per year.

HUMANITIES ABSTRACTS
Citations to more than 400 periodicals on archaeology, art, classics, film, folklore, journalism, linguistics, music, the performing arts, philosophy, religion, world history, and world literature. Abstracts are available from March 1994 to date. Coverage:  February 1984 to date.  Updated monthly.

ACADEMIC SEARCH ELITE
Find references to more than 3,000 periodicals in a wide range of subject areas, with many dating back to 1984.  Also provides full-text data for over 1,200 journals, with many dating back to 1990.  Updated as information received.

ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center)
Good source for references to journal articles and documents on teaching languages.  References to thousands of educational topics. Coverage: 1966 to date.  Updated monthly.

LIBRARY PRESS DISPLAY
Provides same day, front to back coverage from over 300 newspapers in the U.S. and around the world. It is just like reading the familiar print edition, viewers can browse articles and other key content, such as pictures, advertisements, classifieds, and notices while enjoying 60-day back issues access. Updated daily.

NEWSPAPERS (ProQuest Newspapers)
U.S. and international news sources.  Includes coverage of 150+ major U.S. and international newspapers such as The New York Times and the Times of London, plus hundreds of other news sources and new wires. Many articles are full text.  Updated daily.

DISSERTATION ABSTRACTS
Doctoral dissertations and masters theses from over 1,000 North American and European universities.  Coverage: 1861 to date.  Updated monthly.

PROJECT MUSE
Provides full-text electronic versions of more than 40 scholarly journals published by Johns Hopkins University Press.  Updated monthly.

JSTOR
A continuously growing electronic archive of core scholarly journal literature in full text, with the aim of digitizing the complete backfiles of selected journals in these major subject areas: African-American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, ecology, economics, education, finance, history, literature, mathematics, philosophy, political science, population/demography, sociology, and statistics. Coverage: not a current file. Most current issues of the JSTOR journals are two to five years old.

LEXIS NEXIS ACADEMIC 
Good source for full-text of newspapers in French, German, Italian, and Spanish.  Also contains text of many journals, legal digests and reports, and other publications covering economic, business, medical, social science and popular culture issues. Coverage:  most files started between 1970 and 1985 and run to the present.  Some legal materials (laws, court reporters, law digests) go back to 1799.

INGENTA
Ingenta is a multidisciplinary database indexing topics ranging from science, technology, and medicine to the humanities and social sciences.  Updated daily.   

ELECTRONIC JOURNALS AND NEWSPAPERS

L'EXPRESS
Online version of the magazine.
http://www.lexpress.presse.fr/home.asp

LE FIGARO
Online version of the newspaper.
http://www.lefigaro.fr/

LE MONDE
Online version of the newspaper.
http://www.lemonde.fr/

PARIS MATCH
Online version of the magazine.
http://www.parismatch.tm.fr/

ALL THE WORLD'S NEWSPAPERS
A collection of addresses for world newspapers on the internet.
http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/

If you want to search for more ELECTRONIC JOURNALS  in this subject or in a subject of your choice, please click here.

INTERNET SITES

ARTFL PROJECT, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
ARTFL is a cooperative project of the Institut National de la Langue Francaise (INaLF) of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and the Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Chicago.  Access to some databases restricted to members of the ARTFL consortium.
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/ARTFL/ARTFL.html

BIBLIOTHEQUE NATIONALE DE FRANCE
The national library of France.
http://www.bnf.fr/

GALLICA
The latest version of the digital library of the Bibliothèque nationale de France.  According to the information available on the English version of the site, "Gallica 2000 is one of the largest digital collections available free of charge on the worldwide electronic network."
http://gallica.bnf.fr/

iLOVE LANGUAGES
Formerly known as The Human Languages Page, iLoveLanguges is a guide to language-related internet resources.
http://ilovelanguages.com/

LANGUAGE LINKS
Materials for use by teachers and learners of languages.
http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/lss/lang/langlink.html

VERBIX: ON-LINE CONJUGATOR
Choose your language, then either one of the top 10 verbs or type in the infinitive of another verb; also has translation of verbs from and to other languages.
http://www.verbix.com/webverbix/

VOICE OF THE SHUTTLE
A collection of resources for humanities research.  Includes links to information on general humanities resources, and to other disciplines among which one may find links to anthropology, archaeology, architecture, area and regional studies, art and art history, classical studies, history, linguistics, literature, music and dance, philosophy, religious studies, and women's studies, for example. http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2719#id961

WESS Web
Focuses on information useful to Western European Specialists.  The French Studies Web provides annotated links to scholarly web resources.
http://lib.virginia.edu/wess/

PRINTED RESOURCES

BIBLIOGRAPHIE DER FRANZOSISCHEN LITERATURWISSENSCHAFT 
PQ51 .K4

BIBLIOGRAPHIE DE LA LITTERATURE FRANCAISE DU SEIZIEME SIECLE 
PQ231 .C5 1959

BIBLIOGRAPHIE DE LA LITTERATURE FRANCAISE DU DIX-SEPTIEME SIECLE 
PQ241 .C5

BIBLIOGRAPHIE DE LA LITTERATURE FRANCAISE DU DIX-HUITIEME SIECLE 
PQ261 .C5

A CRITICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF FRENCH LITERATURE
REF PQ119 .C3

DICTIONNAIRE DES LITTERATURES DE LANGUE FRANCAISE
REF PQ41 .B4 1994

DICTIONNAIRE DES OEUVRES LITTERAIRES DU QUEBEC 
PQ3901 .D5

ENCYCLOPAEDIA UNIVERSALIS
AE25 .E3 1996

THE FEMINIST ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FRENCH LITERATURE
PQ 149 .F47 1999 

FRENCH XX BIBLIOGRAPHY: CRITICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES FOR THE STUDY OF FRENCH LITERATURE SINCE 1885 
PQ94 .M6

FRENCH WOMEN WRITERS: A BIO-BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOURCE BOOK 
PQ149 .F73 1991

GUIDE TO FRENCH LITERATURE
REF PQ41 .L48 1992

A NEW HISTORY OF FRENCH LITERATURE
PQ119 .N48 1989

THE NEW OXFORD COMPANION TO LITERATURE IN FRENCH
REF PQ41 .N48 1995

RESEARCH AND REFERENCE GUIDE TO FRENCH STUDIES 
PC2073 .O8 1981

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