WELLESLEY COLLEGE LIBRARY

LIBRARY RESEARCH GUIDE

Always start by using the Wellesley College Online Catalog
To find books written about your subject, do a keyword search --- world war II france
To find critical books written about a writer, add criticism to the author's name in a keyword search. Jean Renoir criticism
To find chapters in anthologies about your writer, do a keyword search with parentheses. "charles de Gaulle"

Databases A-Z. An alphabetical listing of the College's database titles covering all disciplines.

E-reference Books Now listed under the Articles & more heading. There is a growing list of electronic encyclopedia and dictionary titles, and this is a good resource for background information. For this course, try Britannica Online and check the alphabetical listing of all e- ref holdings by clicking on Full list of our e-reference works.

Citing sources, under the Get assistance column. There are links for electronic citation styles. For Print version citation information, go to the main desk in the Ref Room. Copies of Kate Turabian's Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, & Dissertations, (6th ed.), MLA Handbook, (6th ed.), and Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA), (5th ed.) are kept there for the convenience of students working on papers in the library.

Borrow from elsewhere ILL under the Borrowing & ordering heading for titles that are not available here at Clapp. NExpress is the fastest service, but if your title is not available there, please request via ILL.

Check out our newest feature, "what is Encore?"

As you work on your paper and look for resources, you will find there are basically four options available to you ---

Our libraries own a print copy.

Our libraries have the journal title on microfilm.

The article you need is in full text in one of our databases (See the Databases A to Z list).

Our libraries do not have access to the book or journal title. Request via ILL or NExpress.

For Background Reading:

Cambridge Companion To Modern French Culture - Clapp Lib DC33.7 .C27 2003

Charles de Gaulle - Clapp Lib DC420 .L3 1984

Charles de Gaulle: the Crucial Years, 1943-1944 - Clapp Lib DC373.G3 F8 1959

Children of World War II: The Hidden Enemy Legacy - Clapp Lib D810.C4 C527 2005

Collaboration & Resistance: Images of Life in Vichy France, 1940-1944 - Clapp Reserve qDC397 I46 2000

France and the United States: the Cold Alliance since World War II - Clapp Lib E183.8.F8 C68 1992

France During World War II: From Defeat to Liberation [electronic resource]

France: the Dark Years, 1940-1944 - Clapp Reserve DC397 .J18 2003

Historical Dictionary of World War II France: the Occupation, Vichy, and the Resistance, 1938-1946 - Clapp Ref DC397 .H58 1998 (Also available electronically)

Jews in France During World War II - Clapp Lib DS135.F83 P7913 2001

Petain - Clapp Lib DC342.8.P4 A9 1998

Vichy Syndrome: History & Memory in France Since 1944 - Clapp Lib DC397 .R7314 1991

French Press Resources (including titles for newspaper titles [la presse, la journal] & periodical tiitles [le revue]:

Wellesley databases:

LexisNexis Academic - This resource provides full-text articles from Le Monde & L'Express. We also receive both titles in paper. Once microform arrives, the paper copies of Le Monde are discarded and patrons must use that format or search in LexisNexis.

PressDisplay  Archived issues of over 200 newspapers from over 55 countries in their original format from the past 45 days. French titles include, Le Figaro, Le Journal du Dimanche, Les Echos, Liberation.

Westlaw Campus Research   Legal encyclopedias & legal analysis, federal & state court cases and statutes, and law reviews, 1789 to present. Also includes current and archival newspapers, magazines, broadcast transcripts, wire services and trade journals, plus translations of foreign news broadcasts.

Other Internet Resources:

Giga Presse lists more than 800 online magazine and journal sites in French. It is excellent for finding free access to full-text periodicals.

Le Monde Diplomatique has articles dealing with political science topics from around the world.

French Journals Available at Wellesley:

To find books not at Wellesley College: Use WorldCat (via FirstSearch) to find books audio, DVD titles and other materials not here at Wellesley.

Other Possible Databases for French Topics:

Academic Search Premier The world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database. Dates of coverage vary by title

ATLA Religion Database Index to articles, books, and essays on all aspects of religion, 1949 to present, with full text of more than 80 major religion and theology journals.

Historical Abstracts Articles on world history from 1450, excluding US & Canada, written since 1954.

Infotrac General OneFile: Expanded Academic ASAP or General Reference Center Gold are the two databases in this product that provide artiles on current events, popular culture, the arts, social science, and sciences.

JSTOR - A collection of humanities, social sciences, & natural science journals from the earliest issues but NOT the latest 5 years. A full-text source.

MLA International Bibliography This database covers topics in international literature, linguistics, film, and folklore.

New York Times is an historic database of the newspaper with exact replicas dating from 1851-2003.

PAIS International -Public Affairs Information Service has articles which cover political, public affairs, social and economic issues.

Periodicals Index Online is an index to articles published in over 4,500 periodicals, in as many as 40 languages, and covering topics in the humanities and social sciences.

Project MUSE - This database has the latest 5 years of academic journals in humanities and social sciences. This source will bring up articles dealing with French politics and culture, but in English, not French.

SocINDEX with Full Text (replaces Sociological Abstracts) Index to articles on all aspects of sociology and other social science articles, with full text from 400 core sociology journals

Free Internet Databases:

There is a great deal of information in OU Call, & Tennessee Bob's Famous French Links--- especially "Finding New Francophone Sites" at this latter address. Please note: Ou Call, Ohio University's French language and culture site, has not been updated since 1998, so some addresses may no longer be valid.

If there are further questions on this material, or if anyone would like to have a one-on-one session, please feel free to contact me via e-mail (see link below) or by phone

Jacqueline B. Fitzpatrick x3497 - email address: jfitzpat@wellesley.edu

Wellesley College Library

October 29, 2008

For: Venita Datta