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Department
of Modern Languages: French
Departmental Research Guide
This research
guide relays some basic information on library and information
resources pertaining to the concerns of this department, as
provided by University Libraries and/or sites on the World
Wide Web.
1.
LC Call Nos. - - - 2.
Finding Articles - - - 3.
Reference Collection - - - 4.
French Faculty - - - 5.
Professional Societies - - - 6.
Web Sites
1.
To Shelf-Browse for Books (using main Library
of Congress Subject Divisions)
Books
on subjects associated with this field are shelved under
the call number ranges listed below. Use TOPCAT
to search for specific items in the collection, or more
narrowly-defined subjects.
General
History of France, DC1- DC20.5 ------- Description
and travel, DC21- DC29.3 ------- Antiquities, social
life and customs, ethnography, DC30- DC34.5
------- French, PC2001- PC3761 -------
Dialects & Provincialisms, PC2700- PC3708 -------
Old French, PC2813- PC2898 ------- Provencal (old),
PC3201- PC3366 ------- Modern Patois of South France,
PC3371- PC3420.5 ------- Langue d’oc dialects,
PC3420.8- PC3495 ------- Slang.Argot, PC3721- PC3761
------- French literature, PQ1- PQ3999 ------- History
and criticism, PQ1- PQ771 ------- Folk literature,
PQ781- PQ841 ------- Collections, PQ1100- PQ1297
------- Poetry, PQ1160- PQ1193 ------- Drama, PQ1211-
PQ1241 ------- Prose, PQ1243- PQ1290 ------- Old
French Literature, PQ1300- PQ1595 ------- Modern Literature,
PQ1600- PQ2686 ------- Provincial, local, colonial,
etc., PQ3800- PQ3999
2. To Find Journal and Magazine Articles
(using indexing/abstracting/full-text services)
The
following services are recommended for use by first-year students
and non-majors:
- Academic
Search Premier
and MasterFILE Premier: These two all-subject
WWW-based services (they are part of the EBSCOhost
system) feature indexing and abstracting of many journals
and magazines WKU Libraries receives in hardcopy, plus a
large selection of articles in full-text. EBSCOhost
databases are also available in French.
- MLA
(Modern Language Association): A WWW-based database
available through Literature Online which exhaustively
indexes all literature of the field of Literature, Languages,
Linguistics, and Folklore.
- Literature
Online: Contains full text of over 350,000 works of
English and American poetry, drama and prose, along with
literature journals and other key criticism and reference
resources. Also Indexes scholarly books and articles on
modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics.
Includes a combined search with the MLA International Bibliography.
- Reader's
Guide to Periodicals Literature (Ref. Per. Ind. A13
.R48): Paper index covering articles on all subjects in
magazines since 1904.
- Lexis-Nexis
Academic: Full-text articles from local, national,
and international newspapers.
The
following services are recommended for use by advanced students
and researchers:
- JSTOR:
Provides the full text/full image web access of the complete
archival collections of journals, up to the most recent
three to five years.
- Project
Muse: "provides online, worldwide, institutional
subscription access to the full text of over 100 scholarly
journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences and
mathematics."
- Art
and Humanities Citation Index (AHSearch):
FirstSearch database available to faculty and graduate
students (and to undergraduate students by special permission).
Indexes over 1,300 of the world's leading arts and humanities
journals, 1980 to present.
- ArticleFirst:
FirstSearch database available to faculty and graduate
students (and to undergraduate students by special permission).
Indexes almost 13,000 journals and magazines from 1990 onward,
including some ninety percent of the ones University Libraries
carries in hardcopy.
- PerAbs:
FirstSearch
database available to faculty and graduate students (and
to undergraduate students by special permission).
Periodical
abstracts from general and academic journals, with many
articles in full-text.
- WilsonSelectPlus:
FirstSearch database available to faculty and graduate
students (and to undergraduate students by special permission).
Full-text articles in science, humanities, education and
business.
Special
resource: TDNet
Electronic Journal Finder [use to access Libraries'
electronic journals, magazines, and newspapers, as well as
some indexes and databases containing full-text articles;
includes a comprehensive A-Z listing of titles]
3.
Monographic Reference Works in Helm Library
The following are recommended for use:
- The
concise Oxford-Hachette French dictionary: PC2640 .C55x
1998
- Dictionary
of contemporary French connectors: PC2395 .G75 1996
- French
science fiction, fantasy, horror and pulp fiction: a guide
to cinema, television, radio, animation, comic books and
literature from the middle ages to the present: PQ637.F3
L64 2000
- NTC's
French and English business dictionary: HF1002 .N93x
1992
- Guide
to French literature: PQ226 .L48x 1992
- Guide
to French poetry explication: PQ401 .C65 1993
- Modern
French literature: a library of literary criticism: PQ306
.M57
- Dictionnaire
historique du français québécois: monographies
lexicographiques de québécismes: PC3645
.Q4 D525 1998
- Repère
(French periodicals index): AI7 .P65
4.
Department of Modern Languages: French Faculty
WKU
Modern Languages (French) Department homepage
http://www.wku.edu/modernlanguages/
5. Related Professional Societies (for
professional news, careers/jobs, memberships, etc.)
6.
Web sites Recommended by French Faculty
French,
French Literature, and Teaching French
France
and French History & Culture
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