814-865-0660
Arts & Humanities Library
Dawn Childress
Title: Sally W. Kalin Librarian for Technological Innovations and Humanities Librarian
814-865-0660
Arts & Humanities Library
Indexes
The MLA Bibliography (1963-present)
IBZ: Internationale Bibliographie der Zeitschriftenliteratur (1984-present)
Arts and Humanities CitationIndex
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts(1973-present)
Full-text Archives
Print Indexes
Indexes and Archives for Related Disciplines
International Medieval Bibliography
Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages andRenaissance
The CAT - Find Books and Other Materials at Penn State
You can search TheCAT by entering book titles or authors' names. Authors' names should be listed in TheCAT according to standard French usage and titles should be entered without the initial article (le, la, les).
Examples: Gide, Andre -or- retour de l'enfant prodigue
To do a subject search, it is important to know the LC subject headings. You can also "Browse" by subject headings. Examples of useful subject headings:
Numbers in the PC class for language:
PC2001-3761: French
PC2813-2898: Old French
PC3201-3366: Provencal (Old)
Numbers in the PN class for literature:
PN801-820: Romance literature
Numbers in the PQ class for literature:
PQ1-3999: French literature
PQ1-771: History and criticism
PQ1300-1595: Old French literature
PQ1600-2726: Modern literature
ARTFL (french literature)
ARTFL is a cooperative project of the Institut National de la Langue Française (INaLF) of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and the Divisions of the Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Chicago "The American and French Research on Treasury of the French Language" contains approximately 2000 texts. Included are French classics as well as non-fiction prose and technical writing. Small sections are devoted to medieval, renaissance, and seventeenth century texts with larger sections pertaining to the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Topics such as literary criticism, biology, history, economics, and philosophy are also provided. In addition, there is a Provençal database consisting of 38 texts. Most texts are based on standard scholarly editions and include page references It includes several important historical dictionaries
Gallica
This is the multimedia online library of the Bibliothèque Nationale of France Over 80,000 fully digitized texts and 300,000 fully digitized images are available.
Gallica also includes several dossiers, special digitized collections: Gallica Utopie, Gallica Classique, le Dossier Proust, and le Voix sur Gallica, a collection of spoken word recordings.
In its Parcours section, Gallica also provides thematic collections (Thèmes), including its Images of a Century series.
The collection includes the full text of the following periodicals:
Le cantilene de Sainte Eulalie
Troubador and Early Occitan Literature
This resource is a list of links to literature of this era and region.
French Medieval Drama Database Project
Bibliographies of Adam de la Halle, Jour dou jugement, Bibliographie des miracle et mystères français, by Graham A. Runnalls, Le Corpus du théâtre religieux français by Graham A. Runnalls, and the manuscript of Jour dou jugement and Robin et Marion.
Textes de français ancien (TFA)
From the Laboratoire de Français Ancien (LFA) at the University of Ottawa, in collaboration with ARTFL A searchable collection of digitized texts from the 12th to the 15th centuries A complete bibliography of works online at this site is available.
The Charrette Project
"The Charrette project is a complex, scholarly, multi-media electronic archive containing a medieval manuscript tradition--that of Chrétien de Troyes's Le Chevalier de la Charrette (Lancelot, ca. 1180). It is developed and maintained by the Department of Romance Languages, Princeton University."
Textes électroniques clandestines du 18ième siecle
ABU: La Bibliothèque Universelle
"L'accès libre au texte intégral d'oeuvres du domaine public francophone sur Internet depuis 1993." This database, produced by the Association des Bibliophiles Universelles, is searchable by author, title, and keyword. They currently provide 281 texts by 98 authors. It includes a dictionary
Athena: Textes Français.
La C.E.T.E., Centre d'Edition des Textes Electroniques
Hosted by the Université de Nantes, this is a full text database of rare, unpublished, or out-of-print texts. It includes texts from the Middle Ages, the sixteenth century, Africa in the 19th century, memoirs and travel writings.
ATHENA Textes Français
A Swiss database that contains more than 2000 French-language texts in literature, philosophy, and science indexed by author or by title, for texts without a principal author. The site also contains a list of other French literature sites.
Poésie française
A collection of more than 2800 French-language poems from 7 countries, dating from the Renaissance to the beginning of the 20th century. Poems can be searched by author, title, or verse.
Collected French Verse on the Bibliomania sitecontains original French language poetry indexed by author
Théâtrales
"... est une collection de textes et d'hypertextes en français sur le théâtre qui a été fondée le 1er mai 1995 par André G. Bourassa, professeur à l'Université de Québec à Montréal, et par Barry Russell, Visiting Fellow de l'Université Brookes d'Oxford, qui en assument tous deux la direction.
On y trouve:
Voice of the Shuttle Literary Theory Page
A valuable resource for scholarly humanities on the web, this list provides many links to articles about theory, time periods, and thinkers and to works by theoreticians.
PressDisplay
(choose information by country and get the recent newspapers)
LexisNexis Academic
(Select World News under Step One in "Guided News Search". The Source List for each region provides a brief description of each title and coverage details.)
Access World News (Newsbank)
Current issues of key international newspapers in digital format.
World News Connection
Full-text daily summaries translated from many newspapers around the world, provided by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service.
French newspapers available in the News and Microforms Library (Ground Floor, West Pattee)
Le Canard enchaîné (Paris, France, in French)
Le Figaro (Paris, France, in French)
Le Monde (Paris, France, in French)
Le Monde diplomatique (Paris, France, in French)
