FRENCH 225: The French Press/La Presse Francaise
RESEARCH RESOURCES:
Wellesley College Online Catalog is a great place to start.
Click on Databases A-Z under "Articles & More" to find a specific database.
Citing sources, under "Get assistance." 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.), Chicago Manual of Style, 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.
Other pages of interest would be E-reference books under "Articles & more," Borrow from elsewhere ILL under "Borrowing & ordering," and checking out our newest feature, "what is Encore?"
If you need up-to-date information on France (or any foreign country), go to the CIA World Factbook (the online electronic version). Another source for country profiles, under its Special Features heading, is Facts on File World News Digest. This database also contains some full-text historical documents, election results, and selected editorials from 1940 to the present.
FindIt! @ Wellesley is a feature that helps retrieve more full-text articles than ever before. It will also link you to NExpress or ILL if our libraries do not have access to the title.
French Press Resources :
Wellesley databases:
LexisNexis Academic News - This resource provides full-text articles from Le Monde (1987-), L'Humanite (2002-), Le Point (1995-), L'Express (2002-) and many others. tip: select "toute la presse-Francais" under Sources, and then select the news sources you'd like to include in your search.
PressDisplay Archived issues of over 200 newspapers from over 55 countries in their original format from the past 45 days. French titles include, Aujourd'hui en France, L'Equipe, La Tribune, Le 10 Sport, Le Figaro, Le Journal du Dimanche, Les Echos, and Liberation. tip: click the drop down arrow on the green search button to select an "advanced search." This will allow you to customize your search (search the same topic across multiple specified titles, during a specific range of dates, etc.)
Other Internet Resources:
Giga Presse (www.giga-presse.com) lists more than 800 online magazine and journal sites in French. It is excellent for finding free access to full-text periodicals.
Informations francaises sur Google (http://news.google.com/news?ned=fr)
Le Monde Diplomatique (http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/) has articles dealing with political science topics from around the world.
Tetu (www.tetu.com/) Online magazine for gays and lesbians with some archived files and interviews.
Wikipedia francaise (http://fr.wikipedia.org)
To find English news resources, check out the library's News Research Guide.
For background reading:
Cambridge Companion To Modern French Culture - Clapp Lib DC33.7 .C27 2003
Declining the Stereotype: Ethnicity & Representation in French Cultures - Clapp Lib PQ307.S73 R67 1998
Dictionary of Twentieth Centure Culture: French Culture 1900-1975 - DC33.7 .F726 1995
Encyclopedia of Contemporary French Culture - Clapp Ref DC33.7 .E53 1998
Encyclopedia of Modern French Thought - Clapp Ref DC33.7 .E55 2004
French Culture - Clapp Ref DC33.7 .F726 1995
French Cultural Studies: Criticism at the Crossroads - Clapp Lib DC33.9 .F76 2000
Handbook of French Popular Culture - Clapp Ref DC33.7 .H29 1991
Newspaper French: a vocabulary of administrative and commercial idiom, with english translations - Clapp Ref PC2460 .R57 1990
Other databases for researching French topics:
Academic Search Complete 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.
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.
SocINDEX with Full Text Index to articles on all aspects of sociology and other social science articles, with full text from 400 core sociology journals
I can help you find what you need!
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Danielle L. Boulay x3107 - email address: dboulay@wellesley.edu
Wellesley College Library
Date created: September 24, 2009