Library Research Guides: French & Italian: Core electronic resources

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ARTFL Project
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The ARTFL Project is a collection of digitized resources on the French language.
ARTFL's main corpus, ARTFL-FRANTEXT, consists of nearly 3,000 texts, ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing. The eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries are about equally represented, with a smaller selection of seventeenth century texts as well as some medieval and Renaissance texts.
Grand Corpus des Dictionnaires [du 9e au 20e siècle]
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French-language dictionaries and encyclopedias of arts and sciences from the 9th to the 20th centuries.
This database includes the most important dictionaries of the French language, representing over 900,000 entries and their definitions. Contents: Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du 9e au 15e siècle / Frédéric Godefroy -- La curne de Sainte-Palaye, dictionnaire historique de l'ancien langage français depuis son origine jusqu'au siècle de Louis XIV -- Dictionnaire de la langue française du 16e siècle / Edmond Huguet -- Dictionnaire Francoislatin, 1549 / Estienne (Robert) -- Thrésor de la langue françoyse, tant ancienne que moderne, 1606 / Nicot (Jean) -- Dictionarie of the French and English tongues, 1611 / Cotgrave (Randle) -- Origines de la langue françoise, 1650 / Ménage (Gilles) -- Dictionnaire françois, 1680 / Richelet (Pierre) -- Dictionaire de l'Académie françoise, 1687 [Avant-Première I] -- Dictionaire de l'Académie françoise, 1687 [Avant-Première 2] -- Dictionaire de l'Académie françoise, 1687 [Avant-Première 3] -- Essai d'un Dictionaire universel, 1687 / Furetière (Antoine) -- Dictionaire universal / Furetière (Antoine) -- Dictionnaire de l'Académie françoise dedié au Roy, 1694 [1st ed.] -- Dictionnaire des arts et des sciences, 1694 / Corneille (Thomas) -- Dictionnaire de étymologique, ou origines de la langue françoise, 1694 / Ménage (Gilles) -- Nouveau dictionnaire de l'Académie françoise, 1718 [2nd ed.] -- Dictionnaire de l'Académie françoise, 1740 [3rd ed.] -- Dictionnaire de l'Académie françoise, 1762 [4th ed.] -- Dictionnaire de l'Académie françoise, 1798 [5th ed.] -- Dictionnaire de l'Académie françoise, 1835 [6th ed.] --Complément du Dictionnaire de l'Académie française, 1842 / Barre (Louis) -- Dictionnaire de l'Académie françoise, 1879 [7th ed.] -- Dictionnaire de l'Académie françoise, 1932-1935 [8th ed.]
Grand Robert de la Langue Française
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The definitive French language dictionary.
Online version of the authoritative French dictionary produced by De Marque.
Oxford Dictionaries
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Bilingual dictionaries of English and French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, and German.

Databases and e-books

Cairn.info
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An online collection of over 600 French language journals in the social sciences and humanities.
Provides comprehensive collection of publications in the French language available online in full text in the disciplines of economics, law, history and geography, literature and linguistics, psychology, education, political science, sociology, and sport.
Launched by the publishing houses Belin, De Boeck, La Découverte, and Erès, with support from Gesval, Université de Liège, Bibliothèque nationale de France, and Centre national du livre, France.
General Info: Availability of full-text varies from journal to journal. Some articles are open access; others are available for purchase.
Google Scholar
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Special version of Google's index to scholarly content on the web. Connects to full-text resources available to IU users.
oogle Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.

Connecting to Google Scholar from off-campus? The IUB Libraries already provide access to many of the journal articles indexed in Google Scholar. Look for IU-Link, which will lead you to information about full-text content you can access via the Libraries' subscriptions.
International Medieval Bibliography
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The IMB indexes articles in journals, conference proceedings, collections of essays and Festschriften. Indexing includes materials worldwide in a variety of languages.
The International Medieval Bibliography covers of the European Middle Ages, including the Middle East and North Africa, in the period 400-1500. Items in the bibliography are taken from some 4500 periodicals and 5000 miscellany volume (conference proceedings, essay collections, Festschriften and exhibition catalogues). Entries include full bibliographical details and subject classifications.
Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
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Interdisciplinary resources pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700).
Access to e-journals, bibliographies, and other content related to the study of the Middle Ages and Renaissance.

Includes access to the following:

Iter Bibliography
Iter Italicum
Milton: A Bibliography
Bibliography of English Women Writers
JSTOR
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Provides searchable full-text of historical runs of important scholarly journals in the humanities, arts, sciences, ecology, and business.
JSTOR, a not-for-profit organization established with the assistance of The Mellon Foundation, provides complete runs of hundreds of important journal titles in more than 30 arts, humanities, and social science disciplines. These scholarly journals can be browsed online and searched, and the page images can be printed for those available in full-text. The IUB Libraries subscribe to current content for only some titles available through JSTOR.

All journals in JSTOR start with the first volume. Many include content up to a "moving wall" of 3-5 years ago, although some journals have a fixed ending date for their content in JSTOR. Please check individual journals for exact dates of coverage.

For information about access to this resource for IU alumni, contact the Indiana University Alumni Association.
MLA International Bibliography
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The MLA Bibliography indexes material in modern languages, literature, linguistics, rhetoric and composition, folklore, and film.
It contains references to scholarly research from journals and series, monographs, chapters of books, working papers, dissertations, proceedings, Festschriften and bibliographies.
Periodicals Archive Online
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Access to backfiles of scholarly periodicals in the arts, humanities and social sciences.
Project Muse
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Provides full text access and indexing for e-journals and e-books from a variety of scholarly publishers. Covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new window
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Comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, including millions of works from thousands of universities. Each dissertation published since July, 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. Simple bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1637.
Includes the following:

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: UK & Ireland
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: A & I
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: CIC Institutions
Torrossa
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Access to articles, chapters, ebooks, and ejournals in Italian and Spanish
Worldcat.org
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WorldCat.org lets you search the collections of libraries in your community and thousands more around the world.

Digital collections

Early European Books
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Digital access to European works printed before 1701. The contents are drawn from major repositories, including the Danish Royal Library, the National Central Library in Florence, the National Library of France, the National Library of the Netherlands, and the Wellcome Library in London.
Includes access to collections 1-10. Religious works dominate, but the resource also includes secular material. Fully searchable pages scanned directly from the original printed sources in high-resolution full color. Each item is captured in its entirety, complete with binding, edges, endpapers, blank pages and any loose inserts.
Electronic Enlightenment
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Full text and searchable correspondence between the greatest thinkers and writers of the "Long Eighteenth Century."
Grand Tour
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Collection of primary and secondary resources, including writings, artworks, photographs, and maps for the study of travel, c. 1550-1850.
The Grand Tour was a rite-of-passage for many aristocratic and wealthy young men of the eighteenth century: a phenomenon which shaped the creative and intellectual sensibilities of some of the eighteenth century’s greatest artists, writers and thinkers. These accounts of the English abroad, c.1550-1850, highlight the influence of continental travel on British art, architecture, urban planning, literature and philosophy.

The Grand Tour includes the travel writings and works of some of Britain’s artists, writers and thinkers, revealing how interaction with European culture shaped their creative and intellectual sensibilities. It also includes many writings by forgotten or anonymous travelers, including many women, whose daily experiences offer an insight into the experience and practicalities of travel over the centuries.
Periodicals Archive Online
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Access to backfiles of scholarly periodicals in the arts, humanities and social sciences.
Revolution and Protest Online
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Primary source documents related to the protest movements, revolutions, and civil wars that have transformed societies and human experience from the 18th century through the present.
Includes personal papers, organizations, government documents, journals, reports, monographs, and speeches, and images. Events covered include: the American and French Revolutions; Fédon’s Rebellion and Toussaint Louverture’s Haitian Revolution; the European revolutions of 1848; the Cuban Revolution; the Boxer Rebellion in China; the Russian, Mexican and Chinese Revolutions; the Arab, Turkish, and Great Syrian Revolts; the Civil Rights Movement in the U.S.; the Nazi Regime in Germany and the fascist regimes of Spain, Italy and Argentina.

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