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Arts and Humanities Search Indexes leading arts and humanities journals worldwide. Search by cited author, cited work, or topic, 1980 to current. Previously Arts and Humanities Citation Index.
CAIRN Retrouvez sur ce site 38 908 articles parus depuis 2001 dans 153 revues de recherche et de débat. Les archives sont en accès gratuit, ainsi que les résumés, sommaires et plans d'articles, et le texte intégral de certains articles récents
CIAO - Columbia International Affairs Online A selection of full-text books, conference reports, and working papers on international affairs.
Directory of Open Access Journals This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages. There are now 3303 journals in the directory. Currently 1076 journals are searchable at article level. As of today 175523 articles are included in the DOAJ service.
Dissertation Abstracts For an extensive project or thesis, use this catalog of dissertations and masters' theses published from 1851 to current.
EconLit Index for over 600 journals (400+ full-text), books, documents, and working papers in the field of economics. 1969 - present. List of Econlit Subject Descriptors. Go shortcuts = go/econlit (on campus), http://go.middlebury.edu/econlit (off-campus)
ERIC Database ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) is the world's largest source of education information, containing more than 1 million abstracts of education-related documents and journal articles.
Erudit Erudit covers a wide range of disciplines in the human, social and natural sciences. The search tool allows to look into a corpus comprised of recently published articles and retroactively digitalized articles from past issues. Full-text database in French from Quebec. Covers 2001-
French 17 An annual survey of the work done each year in the general area of seventeenth-century French studies
Historical Abstracts Major index to over 2,000 international journals, book reviews, and dissertations on the history of the world, except United States and Canada. Covers topics from 1450 (i.e. the Renaissance) to the present. Indexes publications published from 1955 to current.
JSTOR Full-text archive of over 700 scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences covering all issues published, except for the last 2 to 5 years. This is a subscription resource; for off-campus access, enter your Middlebury username and password when prompted. Shortcuts: go/jstor (on campus), http://go.middlebury.edu/jstor (off-campus).
Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe Academic Universe provides access to the full text of national and international newspapers, magazines, wire services, and more. It also includes business, financial, and legal information, including laws, regulations, cases, and EU law. The non-English language news link includes news in French, German, Italian, and Spanish. Go shortcut = go/lexis (on campus), http://go.middlebury.edu/lexis (off-campus)
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts Covers all aspects of the study of language, including anthropological and applied linguistics, second language acquisition, philosophy of language, non-verbal communication, and literary theory. Provides abstracts from articles, books, and other publications, 1960-present.
MLA Bibliography The major modern language index for literary criticism, linguistics, film and folklore. 1926-current. This is a subscription resource; for off-campus access, enter your Middlebury username and password when prompted.
PAIS International Indexes journals, books, and documents covering global public policy and social issues in all disciplines. 1972 - current. For 1915 -1976, switch to PAIS Archive (click on Specific Database link to choose PAIS Archive). Go shortcut = go/pais
Periodicals Index Online (PIO) A database of millions of article citations published in the arts, humanities and social sciences, across more than 300 years, from their first issues to 1995 with some to 2000. Includes journals in English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, and other Western languages--with links to full text, when available. Formerly PCI.
Persee PERSEE portal aims at digitalising and publishing online the retrospective collections of a wide corpus of French journals in social and human sciences
Project Muse Offers full-text of over 100 scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics from the 1990s to present. This is a subscription resource; for off-campus access, enter your Middlebury username and password when prompted. Shortcuts: go/muse (on campus), http://go.middlebury.edu/muse (off-campus).
Revues.org Begun in 1999, Revues.org is a portal for full text French journals covering the humanities and social sciences.
Social Sciences Citation Index Indexes core scholarly social science journals worldwide. Search by cited authors or works, or search by words in the bibliographic citations. Go shortcut = go/wos Note: access through Web of Science
WorldCat Use this union catalog of over 40 million books, documents, reports, and media from libraries worldwide to identify books to request via InterLibrary Loan. If we don't own the book and you want to borrow it from another library, click on the ILL icon from the record.
International Geographic Resources
Columbia Gazetteer of the World A database of names, descriptions, and characteristics of over 165,000 places in the world.
Library of Congress Country Studies The Country Studies Series presents a description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of countries throughout the world.
L' album des sciences sociales (WWW Virtual Library-French History) This is a meta-site with categorized links to other sites. Note: French language site
Averroès: Portail documentaire des médiathèques du réseau culturel français au Maroc 
ClicNet (Swarthmore) ClicNet édite et localise des ressources virtuelles en français pour les étudiants, les enseignants de français langue étrangère (FLE) ou langue seconde (FLS), et tous ceux qui s'intéressent aux cultures, aux arts et aux littératures francophones.
Creating French Culture: Treasures from the Bibliotheque Nationale de France Creating French Culture traces the history of this relationship from Charlemagne (b. 742?-d. 814) to Charles de Gaulle (b. 1890-d. 1970), through the prism of more than 200 magnificent "treasures" on loan from the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris. Note: Hosted by the Library of Congress
French Resources (Univeristy of Adelaide) A site created and maintained by the Reseach Librarian for French Studies at the University of Adelaide
Portals to the World Links to electronic resources from around the world selected by librarians at the Library of Congress.
Ressources Electroniques pour les Etudiants,la Recherche et l'Enseignement Ressources Electroniques pour les Etudiants,la Recherche et l’Enseignement Les URFIST (Unités Régionales de Formation à l'Information Scientifique et Technique) ont une double mission: former le personnel des bibliothèques ainsi que le public universitaire (étudiants de 3e cycle et enseignants) à l'information scientifique et technique, et plus généralement les sensibiliser aux nouvelles technologies de l'information.
WESSWEB Web pages selected and maintained by the Western European Studies Section of ACRL.
Yamada Language Guides Web Portal for numerous language related sites
Governments on the WWW Comprehensive database of governmental institutions on the World Wide Web: parliaments, ministries, offices, law courts, embassies, city councils, public broadcasting corporations, central banks, multi-governmental institutions etc. Includes also political parties. Online since June 1995. Contains more than 17000 entries from more than 220 countries and territories as of June 2002.
Europa World Year Book (all countries) In-depth country profiles (summary of history, current events, government directory, statistics, and more).
Choose countries from the drop-down menu at the top.
Older issues available in print: Main Library Reference JN1 E85 (1977 - 2008)
Le Quid Online World Almanac in French
Literature Resource Center The Gale Literature Resource Center provides basic information about an author or a playwright as well as literary criticism from journals. When you do a search on the author's name, the first tab of results will be a link to a biographical profile of his/her life and works, while the second tab will give links to literary criticism and other articles. Other tabs will lead to additional resources.
Europe Endless: Modes of Life and Other Places Blog focuses on European history, particularly France and Germany.
Outils Froids Veille, intelligence économique, organisation personnelle, web 2.0. Des liens et du contenu!
RefWorks RefWorks will automatically generate bibliographies and format your research papers in any of hundreds of styles including MLA, APA, Chicago, and Turabian. Middlebury College students and faculty may use RefWorks by creating a RefWorks account. For more info, follow the RefWorks link or email refworks@middlebury.edu. Middlebury-specific RefWorks Guide located at http://go.middlebury.edu/refworks?midd.
ARTFL Includes the Main ARTFL Database, French Women Writers, Provençal poetry, Journal de Trévoux, full-text dictionary searching and the Opera del Vocabolario Italiano (OVI) Database.
Dictionnaire des synonymes Le dictionnaire des synonymes du CRISCO contient approximativement 49 000 entrées et 396 000 relations synonymiques. La base de départ regroupait sept dictionnaires classiques : le Bailly, le Benac, le Du Chazaud, le Guizot, le Lafaye, le Larousse et le Robert.
MIDCAT List - French Dictionaries Active Catalog search Note: Active catalog search
Oxford Reference Online Premium General reference resources, including encyclopedias, bilingual dictionaries, chronologies, and maps and illustrations.
WordReference.com Language dictionaries
Your Dictionary Portal site for online language dictionaries and grammars.
Dissertation Abstracts Online Dissertation Abstracts Online is a subject, title, and author guide to American doctoral dissertations and masters theses from 1861 to the present, Canadian, British and European dissertations from 1988 to the present. Abstracts are included for entries after 1980
Medieval France: An Encyclopedia Edited by William W. Kibler. NY: Garland, 1995. DC33.2 .M44 1995 Note: Print Resource
MIDCAT List - Encyclopedias, French Active catalog search Note: Active catalog search
Les Pages des Paris Web tour guide for Paris in both French and English
Journals/Magazines of the Period
Periodicals Archive Online (PAO) Searchable archive of hundreds of digitized journals published in the arts, humanities and social sciences from 1665 - 2000. PAO is searchable with the British Periodicals I & ll collection. Formerly called PCI Full-text. Also see Periodicals Index Online for indexing to additional journals titles.
France Maps (UT Austin) Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
EUfeeds News feeds from 300 European newspapers, organized by country
Foreign Language News and Magazines Links to electronic newspapers, journals, and magazines from around the world. Compiled by MIT Libraries.
Imooty
European news navigator
Kidon Media Link Links to 18,776 newspapers and other news sources from almost every country and territory in the world.
Le Monde Microfilm #382 and Current Newspapers section. Print Index. 1944 - . REF AI 21 .M58.
Le Monde (Online) Available through LexisNexis Academic 1987-current.
Newspaper Direct 45 day archive of full-color, full-page scanned images of over 700 newspapers from 76 countries in 38 languages.
Newspapers24 12,000 newspapers, 24 hours news
World News Connection Full-text translations of world press and broadcasting, 1995 to current.
Bibliotheque Nationale de France Online presence for the National Library of France
ATHENA Full text public domain database.
Electronic Text Center (University of Virginia) Digital texts, some restricted to UVA.
French Revolutionary Pamphlets Collection includes papers from wealthy planters,
Gallica Digital books and other documents from the Bibliotheque Nationale
L'Association des Bibliophiles Universels (ABU) Full text books and other resrouces
La Bibliotheque Electronique de Lisieux Une collection de textes littéraires et documentaires du domaine public francophone proposée par la Médiathèque André Malraux de Lisieux
La France en Amerique = France in America Bilingual digital site from the Library of Congress that includes books, maps, prints and other historic documents.
LITAF: Littérature Africaine Francophone LITAF : une référence générale sur les littératures de l'Afrique noire francophone
Littérature Francophone virtuelle ClicNet, full text literature.
Radio-Locator Find radio stations by country
CIA - The World Factbook Produced by the CIA, country information including basic statistics.
External and intra-EU trade Statistical yearbook - Data 1958-2007. Available for download from Eurostat website. Includes partner country data. See EU Statistical Books for monthly updates and additional years and statistical series.
Gender Statistics Website This website aims to bring together both gender statistics and policies. Focus is on the production, dissemination and use of gender related data. In addition to statistics, this site outlines some of the main gender issues relevant to the UNECE region (United Nations Economic Commission for Europe), and provides examples of policies and other initiatives. It also contains thematic pages on topics consisting of important methodologies and examples of survey instruments.
International Historical Statistics: Europe 1750-2000 Main Library Reference HA1107 M5 2003 (earlier editions in stacks) Note: Print Resource
UN Statistical Yearbook Population, social, and economic statistics from the United Nations.
Latest edition in Reference HA12.5 U63. Earlier editions in Oversize Stacks. Statistics also available online from UNData.
International TV Portal site to TV stations from around the world
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