French (or Francophone) Topics and French-Language Sources

On French or Francophone Topics

Background

Africana: the Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience / editors, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.  5 vols.

CALL NUMBER: Ref DT 14 .A37435

Annuaire Statistique De La France / République Française, Ministère Des Finances Et Des Affairs économiques, Institut National De La Statistique. Paris : l'Institut, 1953- (Union has 1969-  )

CALL NUMBER : Ref HA 1213 .A4 

Canadian Almanac and Directory. Toronto: Copp Clark Pub. Co., 2001

CALL NUMBER: Ref AY414 .C2  2001 

 Encyclopaedia Universalis. Paris: Encyclopaedia Universalis, 1996.

CALL NUMBER: Ref AE25 .E3 1996 

Encyclopedia of African History and Culture / Willie F. Page.  New York: Facts on File, 2001.  3 vols.

CALL NUMBER: Ref DT 3 .P27

Encyclopedia of Contemporary French Culture. Edited by Alex Hughes and Keith Reader.  London ; New York : Routledge, 1998. 

CALL NUMBER: Ref DC 33.7 .E53 1998

Encyclopedia of Modern French Thought.  Christopher John Murray, editor.  New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2004.

CALL NUMBER: Ref DC 33.7 .E55 2004

European Union Encyclopedia and Directory.  London : Europa Publications, Ltd., 2004.

CALL NUMBER: Ref HC 241.2 .E97 2004 

France.   Melbourne ; Oakland : Lonely Planet, 2007. (Also Lonely Planet's Paris and Out to Eat/Paris guides are in the Reference Collection)

CALL NUMBER: Ref DC16 .F650

France: a Reference Guide from the Renaissance to the Present.  William J. Roberts.  New York : Facts on File, 2004.

CALL NUMBER: Ref DC35 .R64  2004

Francophone Studies: the Essential Glossary. Edited by Margaret A. Majumdar. London: Arnold; New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

CALL NUMBER: Ref DC33.7 .F724 2002

French Culture and Society: the Essentials. Edited by Michael Kelly, et al.  London: Arnold; New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

CALL NUMBER: Ref DC33.7 .F7265 2001

Guide to French Literature.  Anthony Levi.   Chicago : St. James Press, 1992.

CALL NUMBER: Ref PQ226 .L470
 

Insiders' French : Beyond the Dictionary.  Eleanor Levieux and Michel Levieux.  Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1999.

CALL NUMBER: Ref PC2680 .L38 1999 

International African Bibliography.  London: Mansell.

CALL NUMBER: Ref Bibliog Z3501 .I54 

Oxford Reference Online: Modern Languages. [ Online ] Oxford University Press, 2002. Available: http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/SUBJECT_SEARCH.html?subject=s16

A searchable and browsable collection of modern languages dictionaries from Oxford University Press.

Regions of France: a Reference Guide to History and Culture. Wayne Northcutt. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1996.

CALL NUMBER: Ref DC33.7 .N63 1996 

Background Information & Country Studies

Countries and Their Cultures. Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember, editors. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, c2001.

CALL NUMBER: REF ROOM  [Ref] GN307 .C68 2001 — v. 1–4

Craighead's International Business, Travel, and Relocation Guide. Detroit: Gale Research, 2004-05.

CALL NUMBER: Ref HF5549.5.E45 D56 

CultureGrams. Provo, Utah : ProQuest Information and Learning Co., c2005.

CALL NUMBER: Ref GT150 .C85 2006

Encyclopedia of the World's Nations and Cultures / George Thomas Kurian, ed. New York: Facts on File, 2007. 4 vols.

CALL NUMBER: Ref G63 .K874

The Europa World Yearbook. [ Online ]  Binghamton, New York: Europa Publications, 2003. (Scattered earlier volumes from 1926 forward.)  Succeeded by Europa World, an online subscription database to which Union College users have access.

CALL NUMBER: Ref JN 1 .E85 2003

The World Factbook. [ Online ] Washington, D.C. : Central Intelligence Agency : Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., [distributor], 1981-

CALL NUMBER: Reference Desk  PrEx 3.15:    Gov Doc

Worldmark Encyclopedia of Cultures and Daily Life. Detroit: Gale Research, 1998.

CALL NUMBER:  Ref GN333 .W67 1998

Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations. [ Online ] Detroit: Gale Research, 2007.
             6 vols.

CALL NUMBER: Ref G63 .W67

Books and Periodicals Through the Online Catalog

Use Schaffer Library's Online Catalog by either "keyword" or "subject".  Only "subject" searches may be (currently) limited by language.  After your subject search, use the "Limit/Sort Search" button.   Keyword searches have no language limit functionality, but you can try entering French-language keywords to find books written in (or translated from) French.

Book locations: Click on the red hyperlinked word in the box below "Location", and a map showing the book's location by floor and specific area will pop up.

Please note: For books that Schaffer Library does not own, or are checked out, please try ConnectNY, a service offered jointly by the libraries of Union, Vassar, St. Lawrence, Siena, RIT, Colgate, RPI, and others to provide their borrowers with  delivery of most books available in their collections, normally in two business days' time.

Use the Find Journal Titles link on the Library's main Web-page, to find if particular journals are present in any format, paper, film, or electronic.  You must check the link before ordering an article on Interlibrary Loan.

Please note: All links in this section lead to the Modern Languages and Literatures databases and indexes page.  Once arrived there, please look for, and select, these titles.

Artfl
Full text of works from the 12th - 20th centuries in French, with some supplements: French Women Writers, 16th - 19th centuries; Provencal poetry; historical French language dictionaries.

Arts and Humanities Citation Index
Click on "Go" button next to "Web of Science".  Choose "General Search".  Restrict search by languages, etc., by pulling down menu to "French".  Search with English words, because the search engine searches the titles in translation even though the source document is written in French. No full text provided, but there are links to Schaffer Library electronic subscriptions if available.

Humanities Index
Use "Custom" button under "Sort by"--set for "Language of Document".  Consider searching with a French-language term.

JSTOR
Hundreds of academic journals in full text, from their inception to (typically) three years ago.  Choose "Advanced Search" mode, and use "Limit by...Article Language." Narrow by choosing category/ies of periodicals and select article searching only.

MLA Bibliography
Modern language and literature journals, chapters, essays, and books.  Type in the word "french" in the box to the right of "Language" or search with a French-language word.  Some full text; indication of Union-College owned journals.

Project Muse
Hundreds of academic journals in full text, beginning in the 1990s and running to the present issue. Some French-language articles are included.  Choose "Search".  Then (optionally) choose "Advanced Search".  Try to search with a French-language term.

General Purpose

Please note: The links in this section lead to the Schaffer Library databases and indexes page.  The link to Europa World takes you to the list of databases starting with "E", and Europa World is found at the bottom of the list.  The link to NewspaperDirect Press Display takes you to the list of databases starting with "N", and NewspaperDirect Press Display is near the bottom of the list.  The other two (Lexis-Nexis and Wilson Web) are found on the list entitled "Any Topic" on the databases and indexes page's left column.

Europa World
This database is the successor to a series of published volumes in the Reference Collection (described above under "Background Information & Country Studies) and found at CALL NUMBER: Ref JN 1 .E85).  For any country in the world, copious data of an economic, social, and political nature is presented along with scholarly text on public matters historical and contemporary.

Lexis-Nexis
Premier news database, all full text.  Choose "News" tab, then "Select Sources," then "Toute la Presse--Français".

NewspaperDirect Press Display
This file provides up to 60 days' worth of certain newspapers published in France, including Aujourd'hui en France and Le Figaro.  Page images of entire issues are provided.

Wilson Web
Among its subfiles, choose OmniFile, Art Index, and/or Humanities Full-Text.  Use "Sort by"--"Language of Document" option. (Other language articles will appear but French will be among the first to be listed.) Try searching with a French and English terms--results may differ.

 

Important: Evaluating Web-sites before you "trust" them is the point of several guidelines found on Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply and Questions to Ask, a page provided by the library of UC Berkeley. The reference librarians at Schaffer Library would be happy to assist you in this as well.

Selected Sites

[General, popular search engines like Google and Yahoo! but with a French orientation: Yahoo! France and Nomade.  And for Quebec, there is La Toile du Quebec]

Do It Caribbean: Histoire et Culture or Caribbean Online.
These two links differ from the preponderance of Caribbean tourism-oriented sites and offer some cultural, historical, political, etc., information.

La France en Bref
A Ministry of Foreign Affairs production, this four-language site offers content on French history, politics, economics, science, culture, media, and society.

Francophone Africa
A portal site, produced at the University of Portsmouth in the UK, the three directions offered are thematic links, country links, and newspaper links.

The French Connection
A portal site, produced at Howard University, listing of links to sites (in French) on both present-day and historical events, media, language, literature, art, culture, tourism, and commerce.

Tennessee-Bob's Famous French Links
This University of Tennessee portal site offers thousands of links giving access to the Francophone world.  Its free-wheeling approach quickly leads into the wide-open, commercial Internet.

Periodicals in the French Language--Electronic or Print

If you want to find journals in French to examine or browse for relevant material, click here to enter the Millennium catalog and utilize the pull-down menu limiting by language as well as another for choosing "Words in the Title" or "Words in the Subject" so that you may discover, for example, our French-language journals in art.

Books in Schaffer Library are arranged by Library of Congress Class number. Class numbers are searchable in the Web Catalog and browsable in the Stacks and Reference Collection.

DC 1 - 947	France (History)
PC 2001 - 3761	French Language
PQ 1 - 3999	French Literature

Microfiche copies of Senior honors theses are maintained in the Library. For details on the Library's theses holdings, formats, access, photocopying restrictions, and searching for a thesis in the online catalog, see the Thesis Search page.

Style Manuals--The following are shelved at the Reference Desk.  Please ask a reference librarian.

• MLA Handbook
• Chicago Manual of Style
• The Columbia Guide to Online Style
• Electronic Styles: a Handbook for Citing Electronic Information
• Turabian's Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations

Citation Guides
Bucknell University's conveniently organized guide to the MLA, Chicago, Turabian, APA, and ASA styles.  Major examples of how to cite by each format appear with one click, and more comprehensive examples are easily reached at the second level.

Online! Citation Styles
A help specializing in citing Web-pages, emails, postings from newsgroups, listservs, discussion forums, etc.  The full site from which it is drawn is Online! A Reference Guide to Using Internet Sources. [Online] Andrew Harnack and Eugene Kleppinger. http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/

Also a further variety of online style guides, for both print and electronic citing, is found at Writing Resources, posted at the Library's electronic Reference Room page.

PLEASE NOTE: You are reminded that it is required to check the Online Catalog (for books) or the list at the Find Journal Titles link for journals with articles you need) before ordering on Interlibrary Loan. It will save you considerable time for every reference that you find available here on the shelves or in electronic format.

ALSO REQUIRED: For books that Schaffer Library does not own, or are checked out, first try ConnectNY, a service offered jointly by the libraries of Union, Vassar, St. Lawrence, Siena, RIT, Colgate, RPI, and others to provide their borrowers with delivery of most books available in their collections, normally in about two or three business days' time.  Only after trying ConnectNY should you request books on Interlibrary Loan.

Direct Access (CDLC) Card
Follow this link (through the Schaffer Library home page) to get further details. The card is obtained at the Circulation Desk.
 

Hours, Directions, and Maps to Local Libraries 
From the above site through the Library's home page, one can conveniently learn the way to travel to nearby libraries, if necessary.

Schaffer Library's hours, procedures, and services 
(and anything else about the Library you need to know...)

Off-campus access
Access to the paid-subscription sources listed is limited to workstations with Union College IP addresses. Therefore, a student wishing to use all the links on this page from off-campus will need to apply at Information Technology Services for an account on the Virtual Private Network.  Such an account enables off-campus users to have full access, even to the paid subscriptions.

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