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 French Language and Literature: 14 Databases

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ARTFL Database
Type: Reference, eBooks & eTexts
Description: Provides full-text of classical French writings, including literary works, political tracts, philosophical writings, and technical treatises.
Concordance de L'Occitan Médiéval
Type: eBooks & eTexts
Mode of access: CD-ROM in Medieval Institute Reference (Rm. 715)
Description: The Concordance of medieval Occitan (COM) brings together the corpus of texts extant in the language from the first attestation to those belonging to the end of the fifteenth century. This first CD-ROM contains the poetry of the troubadours, taken from critical editions.
Contemporary Authors
    (Use Literature Resource Center)
Dictionary of Literary Biography
    (Use Literature Resource Center)
Essay and General Literature Index  
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1985-
Description: Indexes essays and articles contained in collections of essays and miscellaneous works published in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. Areas covered include the humanities and social sciences, with subject coverage ranging from economics, political science, and history to criticism of literary works, drama, and film.
Users: Licensed for one simultaneous user.
Gallica
Type: eBooks & eTexts
Description: Gallica is an experimental server maintained by the Bibliothèque nationale de France which contains numerous electronic texts, images, animation and sound files of French literature.
Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism, John Hopkins
    (Use Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism)
International Medieval Bibliography Online  
Type: Indexes & Articles
* Click on "Enter databases", then select International Medieval Bibliography - online.
Coverage: 1967-
Description: Indexes articles, notes, and similar literature on medieval subjects in journals, Festschriften, conference proceedings, and collected essays. Covers all aspects of medieval studies within the date range of 400 to 1500 for the entire continent of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa for the period before the Muslim conquest and parts of those areas subsequently controlled by Christian powers. Includes more than 300,000 articles published 1967- , all of which are fully classified by date, subject and location.
Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism
Type: Reference
Description: A full-text searchable database of articles and primary source materials on individual critics and theorists and critical and theoretical schools and movements.
Labyrinth
Type: Reference
Description: The Labyrinth provides free, organized access to electronic resources in medieval studies through a World Wide Web server at Georgetown University. The Labyrinth's easy-to-use menus and links provide connections to databases, services, texts, and images on other servers around the world. This project not only provides an organizational structure for electronic resources in medieval studies, but also serves as a model for similar, collaborative projects in other fields of study. The Labyrinth project is open-ended and is designed to grow and change with new developments in technology and in medieval studies.
Lexikon des Mittelalters Online  
Type: Reference
* Click on "Enter databases", then select Lexikon des Mittelalters Online.
Literature Resource Center
Type: Reference
Description: Provides biographical, bibliographical, and critical content on literary figures from all time periods; draws on Gale Group's Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, and Dictionary of Literary Biography; selected full text from Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism; includes full text of numerous literary journals and periodicals.
Users: Licensed for two concurrent users.
MagillOnLiterature
    (Use Masterplots)
Masterplots  
Type: Reference
Description: Includes the complete contents of 31 sets of reference books, including nearly 20 Masterplots and Masterplots II titles, the Cyclopedia of world authors, the Cyclopedia of literary characters, as well as 10 years of Magill's literary annual and Magill book reviews.
MLA International Bibliography  
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1963-
Description: Provides indexing to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore in nearly 2,000 journals and series as well as covering relevant monographs, working papers, proceedings, bibliographies, etc.
Users: Licensed for 4 simultaneous users.
* MLA Directory of Periodicals a guide to journals and series in languages and literatures.
MLN 1886-1961
    (Use Modern Language Notes (JSTOR))
NetLibrary E-book Collection
Type: eBooks & eTexts
Description: A collection of electronic books available for reading and searching via the Internet. Book titles include both those academic titles specifically acquired by Notre Dame and a public domain collection of thousands of works including Project Gutenberg titles.
Users: One concurrent user per title. Preview mode allows access for 15 minutes. Check-out mode allows access for 2 hours at a time.
Nineteenth Century Literary Criticism
    (Use Literature Resource Center)
PCI : Periodicals Contents Index
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1770-1995
Description: Index to millions of articles in thousands of periodicals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences published beginning 1770 or subsequently; scope is worldwide, covering major Western languages.
Users: Licensed for 5 simultaneous users.
Twentieth Century Literary Criticism
    (Use Literature Resource Center)

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