French speaking academic journals in Human and Social Sciences.
More than 70,000 e-books from English and American academic publishers spanning all academic subject areas.
French-language general encyclopedia published by Encyclopædia Britannica.
Online press. Factiva is one of the biggest database providing general, economic, and financial news. Factiva offers the articles of major national and international newspapers and magazines (for example, Le Monde, les Echos, Le Figaro, La Tribune, The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, etc.) More than 10,000 sources, from 152 countries, in 22 languages.
The JSTOR archive holds the complete digitized back runs of core academic journals.
- "encyclopédies Jurisclasseur", full text (currently 53 titles).
- articles from 29 journals, full text (from which "La Semaine Juridique/JCP", "La Revue de Droit Fiscal").
Online press. Journals are displayed as fac-similes. 1700 newspapers and magazines, 92 countries, 48 languages..
A daily updated website of the National Media Council, which gives information about the UAE.
It also offers a PDF version of the “UAE Yearbook”, and “UAE at a glance”, in French, English, and Arabic.
http://uaeinteract.com/
How to start a research in a library? What is the
difference between a dictionary and an encyclopedia? What is the best way to
make an efficient research? “Cerise" website is a teaching aid addressed to the students to achieve their degree.
http://www.ext.upmc.fr/urfist/cerise/index.htm
Gallica offers an access to 90,000 digital books and newspapers,
to more than 80,000 pictures and dozens of sound archives. This collection gathers famous
editions, dictionaries and periodicals. It mainly concerns history, literature, sciences,
philosophy, economy, political sciences and law.
http://gallica.bnf.fr/
Europeana is a prototype of « online library « developed
by the French National Library. It gathers the collections of several European
national libraries as: The Széchényi Hungarian National Library, The Portuguese
National Library, and French National Library.
http://www.europeana.eu
The Web site www.signets-universites.fr is a list of
bookmarks selected by French academic libraries. Bookmarks are links to online
resources which are relevant in addition to the libraries holdings.
http://www.signets-universites.fr
In this multidisciplinary database you will find all
about the newspaper press and monographs available at the Institute of Science
and Technology Information of Nancy (France).
http://services.inist.fr/public/fre/conslt.htm
A French encyclopedia addressed to a general public which
gathers many factual information and figures. More than 6,000 geographic maps
are also available
http://www.quid.fr/
(Gatewey to the Arabic world) More than 3,000 links to
websites dedicated to the Arabic world and selected by The Institut du monde
arabe in Paris (Arabic World Institute).
http://www.imarabe.org/portail/main.php
(The teaching aid files of the French National Library)
Beyond the traditional mission of a national Library, The French National
Library offers teaching aid files. Several cultural themes have been classified
(literature, arts and architecture, iconographic history) to introduce you a
very complete selection of famous French novelists, painters, scientists and so
on.
http://classes.bnf.fr/classes/pages/inddoss.htm
Canal-U is the web TV of higher education in France. A
multichannel package which gives access to audiovisual programmes enriched with
teaching aid documents in every subject.
http://www.canal-u.education.fr/canalu/
Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single
collection of free electronic books, or eBooks. A Library on line, which
collects electronic books, in English, French, German, Spanish and Portuguese
also
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
Web portal intented to broadcast video recordings of
lectures in science, literature and sociology
http://www.diffusion.ens.fr
The web portal « École Ouverte » gives access to the
documents published by the researchers, teachers and students of the Ecole
normale supérieure Lettres et Sciences humaines de Lyon : for instance, on line
courses and videos.
http://ecole-ouverte.ens-lsh.fr/
Academic journals in human sciences and social sciences.
Annales
Annales de géographie
Archives de Sciences Sociales des Religions
Bibliothèque de l’École des chartes
Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique
Cahiers d’Études africaines
Dialogues d’histoire ancienne
Langages
Langue française
Année psychologique
L’Homme
Matériaux pour l’histoire de notre temps
Mélanges de l’école française de Rome
Paléorient
Politique étrangère
Politix. Revue des sciences sociales du politique
Population
Revue d’économie industrielle
Revue de l’Art
Revue de l’OFCE
Revue économique
Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales
Revue française de science politique
Revue internationale de droit comparé
Romantisme
Vingtième Siècle. Revue d’histoire
http://www.persee.fr/
A selection of journals in social sciences and human
sciences. Access to the table of contents, and sometimes to the previous issues.
http://www.revues.org/
La lettre du Centre d’études prospectives et
d’informations internationales (Paris, Prospective Studies and Information
Center)
Each month the CEPII’s bulletin presents a concise analysis of the economic
news.
http://www.cepii.fr/francgraph/publications/lettre/lettre.htm
Institut national de la statistique et des études
économiques (National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies)
Many on line publications: INSEE PREMIERE, ECONOMIE ET STATISTIQUE.
http://www.insee.fr
The United Nations Statistics Division offers the
database UNdata which put together statistics from most of the UN agencies
(UNESCO, ILO, FAO, and so on) with a search type as google. For instance, you
cas search "gdp argentina" or "literacy rates africa" and download results (xml,
xls, txt).
http://data.un.org/
Development indicators for the 50 last years. The world
at a glance.
http://donnees.banquemondiale.org/
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and
Development offers many statistics and publications sorted out by topic and
country.
http://oecd.org/
Distribution service of the French law : the
constitution, legislative codes, laws and rules, official bulletin of the French
Republic, European treaties, official bulletin of the European Union.
http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/
Intended to students in Law. Offers an overview of
available resources in Law, and guidelines for finding information and
documents.
http://jurisguide.univ-paris1.fr/
The e-unwto is a fully cross-searchable interactive
database offering a vast number of high-quality UNWTO publications including
books, journals, and statistics in their respective languages. In addition to
more than 900 books in English, French, Spanish, Russian or Arabic, the e-unwto
also provides access to a growing number of documents which can be defined as
“Gray Literature”.
The latest statistical information and aggregated data on inbound and outbound
tourism are very conveniently presented within the “Tourism Factbook”.
Access available only from the PSUAD campus.
http://www.e-unwto.org/
« La maison des sciences de l’Homme » present sound
archives of their seminaries about languages, texts, and communication.
http://semioweb.msh-paris.fr/AAR/default.asp
Articles of 10 national and daily French newspapers,
since 2000. This database is the result of the collaboration between Grnoble and
Lyon (France) Institutes of Political Sciences.
http://doc-iep.univ-lyon2.fr/Ressources/Bases/DP/
Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~alandear/glossary/
"Le dictionnaire de la langue française" d'Emile Littré
published in 1863. Second edition in 1872-1877.
http://francois.gannaz.free.fr/Littre/accueil.php
A Quebec French Terminology database, with 3 million
English and French technical terms.
http://www.granddictionnaire.com/
IATE (= Inter-Active Terminology for Europe) is the EU
inter-institutional terminology database system. IATE has been used in the EU
institutions and agencies since summer 2004 for the collection, dissemination
and shared management of EU-specific terminology. IATE incorporates all of the
existing terminology databases of the EU’s translation services into a single
new, highly interactive and accessible interinstitutional database.
http://iate.europa.eu/iatediff/
Conceived by ATILF (Analyse et traitement informatique de
la langue française), a Research unit for analysis and data processing of the
French language, the CNRS (centre for the national scientific research)
proposes:
Le Dictionarium latinogallicum by Robert Estienne, 1552
Le Thresor de la langue françoyse : by Jean Nicot, 1606. Ancient and moderne
french
The historical and critical dictionary of Bayle, 1740
The historical and critical dictionary of the French language: by Jean-François
Féraud, 1787-1788
The dictionary of the French Academy
1ère édition, 1694
4ème édition, 1762
5ème édition, 1798
6ème édition, 1835
8ème édition, 1932-1935
9ème édition, 1992-
Le Trésor de la langue française: a nineteenth and twentieth centuries 1000 000
terms dictionary, with their history, etymology and 270 000 definitions, 430 000
examples.
http://www.atilf.fr/dictionnaires.htm
Ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des
métiers
Encyclopédie sur fr.wikisource.org
Conceived by the ATILF, a unity of Research in the
Analysis and data processing of the French language, the CNRS (centre for the
national scientific research) also proposes: 70,000 articles related to the
French language between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries.
http://www.atilf.fr/blmf/
Presents every new word published by the general
commission of terminology and neologism in the official bulletin of the French
Republic. It means 3,000 new words with their meaning and equivalents in foreign
languages.
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/dglf/terminologie/La_base_de_donnees_CRITER.htm
Free Bilingual and Audio E-magazine for expatriates in
France, Francophiles and French students.
http://www.frenchaccentmagazine.com/index.html
(Learning TV) Practice the French language with
interactive exercises of TV5 Monde: the worldwide French speaking TV channel
http://www.tv5.org/TV5Site/enseigner-apprendre-francais/accueil_apprendre.php
More than 800 scientific reviews in full text, covering
every subject.
http://www.doaj.org/
http://www.cite-sciences.fr/francais/ala_cite/college/v2/index.htm
More than 200,000 pictures of works of art preserved in
the French museums: The
Louvre, The Orsay museum, The Centre Georges Pompidou or the Picasso Museum, and
many more.
http://www.photo.rmn.fr
This website goes back over the genesis and history of
the works of art purchased and preserved by the French government and the French
local authorities between 1800 and 1939.
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/documentation/arcade/pres.htm
Atlas is a database where you can consult the 35,000 work
of art exhibited in the Louvre Museum
http://cartelfr.louvre.fr/cartelfr/visite?srv=crt_frm_rs&langue=fr&initCritere=true
Base Merimée: French monumental heritage
Base Mémoire (Memory database): catalogue of photographs from the Architecture
and Heritage Library, and from the “Inventaire général” (“heritage general
inventory”).
Base Thésaurus : Architecture ‘s thesaurus, 1135 terms used for the denomination
of the architectural works of art.
Base Archidoc : information about architectural works of art, furniture or
heritage sites.
Base Palissy : French furniture
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/inventai/patrimoine
(a linguistic history of literature) a radio broadcast
from France Culture, from 1989 to 2003 (30 x 29 mn).
http://www.fdlm.org/fle/hll.html
Le dictionnaire international des termes littéraires
International dictionary of literary terms.
http://www.ditl.info/
News about academic research in literature.
http://www.fabula.org/
Information on Molière’s work
http://www.toutmoliere.net/index.html
European review in geography.
http://www.cybergeo.eu/
Website by the Association des Cafés géographiques which
contains the report of the debates held during meetings in cafés in France and
some other countries (not just bar-room philosophizing !). All fields
of Geography are present : physical, political, economical, cultural and urban
matters. Book reviews, exhibitions, movies can be found.
http://www.cafe-geo.net/