000 :
Generalities
100 : Philosophy
200 : Religion
300 : Social
sciences
400 :
Languages
500 :
Sciences
600 : Technology
(applied
sciences)
700 : Arts
800 :
Literature
900 :
Geography-History
L'ENCYCLOPAEDIA UNIVERSALIS
Available only from the PSUAD campus.
www.universalis-edu.com
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How to use the
Encyclopaedia
Universalis
Encyclopaedia
Universalis is a
vital authoritative
encyclopaedia for your education.
Each entry, very developed, presents the
knowledge in progress on the concept
considered. The author gives an overview
with the contemporary
problematics, and submits his
personal theories on the matter. A
bibliography ends the entry. Its use
requires some explanations that Paris 3
Sorbonne Nouvelle University has put on
line.
http://www.scd.univ-paris3.fr/Guides/Methodo/UNIVERSALIS.HTM
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JSTOR
The JSTOR archive holds the complete digitized back runs of core academic journals.
Access available only from the PSUAD campus.
http://www.jstor.org
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FACTIVA
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.
Access available only from the PSUAD campus. Do not forget to log out when you have finished.
Access to Factiva
On the site, select "Support" for tutorials
How-to guide by the library of Tours University (France)
Tutorials on the ProQuest Website
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EBRARY
60,000 e-books from English and American academic publishers spanning all academic subject areas.
Access available only from the PSUAD campus.
http://site.ebrary.com/lib/psuad
Tutorial "Quick Start"
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UAE
INTERACT
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/
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CERISE
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
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Gallica :
The French National Library on line
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/
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Europeana :
European
National Libraries
on line
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/
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French Universities' bookmarks
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
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Article@Inist
In
this multidisciplinary database you will
find all about the newspaper press and
monographs available at the
http://services.inist.fr/public/fre/conslt.htm
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Le
Quid
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/
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Aux
portes du monde
artabe
(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
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Les
dossiers pédagogiques de la Bibliothèque
nationale de France
(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
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Canal U
Canal-U is the web TV of higher education in
http://www.canal-u.education.fr/canalu/
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Project Gutenberg
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
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Lectures of the Ecole Normale Supérieure de
la rue d’Ulm,
Paris
Web portal intented
to broadcast video recordings of lectures in
science, literature and sociology
http://www.diffusion.ens.fr
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Lectures of the École normale supérieur
lettres et sciences humaines de Lyon
(France)
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/
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Revues.org
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/
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LexisNexis JurisClasseur
Law
- "encyclopédies Jurisclasseur", full text (currently 53 titles)
- articles from 29 journals, full text (from which "La Semaine Juridique/JCP", "La Revue de Droit Fiscal")
Information: http://www.lexisnexis.fr/pdf/pdf_brochures/LexisNexis_JurisClasseur.pdf
http://www.lexisnexis.com/fr/droit
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CEPII.
« 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
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INSEE
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
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UNdata
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/
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The World Bank
Development indicators for the 50 last years. The world at a glance.
http://donnees.banquemondiale.org/
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OECD
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development offers many
statistics and publications sorted out by topic and country.
http://oecd.org/
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Legifrance
Distribution
service of the French
law : the constitution, legislative
codes, laws and rules, official bulletin of
the
http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/
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Jurisguide
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/
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Audio-visual
archives of the research in social sciences
« 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
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Web doc of
Lyon and Grenoble Institute of Political
Sciences
Articles of 10 national and daily French
newspapers, since 2000. This
database
is the result
of the collaboration between
Grnoble and Lyon
(
http://doc-iep.univ-lyon2.fr/Ressources/Bases/DP/
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The Terms of
Trade and Other Wonders
Deardorff's
Glossary of International Economics
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~alandear/glossary/
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XMLLittré
"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
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The Great
dictionary
of
terminology
A Quebec French Terminology database, with 3
million English and French technical terms.
http://www.granddictionnaire.com/
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IATE
IATE (= Inter-Active Terminology for
http://iate.europa.eu/iatediff/
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ATILF
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
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
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L'Encyclopédie de Diderot et d'Alembert
Ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers
Encyclopédie sur fr.wikisource.org
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Dictionnaire
du moyen
français
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/
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The CRITER
database
of the DGLF (French
Language
General
Delegation)
presents
every new word published by the general
commission of terminology and neologism in
the official bulletin of the
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/dglf/terminologie/La_base_de_donnees_CRITER.htm
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French Accent
Magazine
Free Bilingual and Audio E-magazine for
expatriates in France, Francophiles and
French students.
http://www.frenchaccentmagazine.com/index.html
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Apprendre
TV
(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
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Directory of Open Access
Journals, DOAJ
More than 800 scientific reviews in full
text, covering every subject.
http://www.doaj.org/
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Lectures at
La Cité des sciences
et de l'industrie de La Villette,
Paris
http://www.cite-sciences.fr/francais/ala_cite/college/v2/index.htm
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Photographic agency of
the Réunion des
musées
nationaux
(French museums agency)
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
http://www.photo.rmn.fr
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http://www.culture.gouv.fr/documentation/arcade/pres.htm
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Atlas :
Atlas is a
database where you can consult the 35,000
work of art exhibited in the
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Architecture and heritage
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
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Le Français dans le monde :
Une histoire langagière de la
littérature.
(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
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DITL :
Le dictionnaire international des termes
littéraires
International dictionary of literary terms.
http://www.ditl.info/
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Fabula
News about
academic research in literature.
http://www.fabula.org/
800
Tout Molière
Information on
Molière’s work
http://www.toutmoliere.net/index.html
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Cybergeo
European
review in
geography.
http://www.cybergeo.eu/
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Cafés géographiques
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/
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