PSUAD Subscribed Databases

- CAIRN

French speaking academic journals in Human and Social Sciences.

- EBRARY

More than 70,000 e-books from English and American academic publishers spanning all academic subject areas.

- Encyclopaedia Universalis

French-language general encyclopedia published by Encyclopædia Britannica.

- 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.

- JSTOR

The JSTOR archive holds the complete digitized back runs of core academic journals.

- LexisNexis JurisClasseur

- "encyclopédies Jurisclasseur", full text (currently 53 titles).
- articles from 29 journals, full text (from which "La Semaine Juridique/JCP", "La Revue de Droit Fiscal").

- PRESSDISPLAY

Online press. Journals are displayed as fac-similes. 1700 newspapers and magazines, 92 countries, 48 languages..


Open Access Electronic Resources

- 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/

- 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

- 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/

- 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

- 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

- Article@Inist

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

- 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/

- 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

- 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

- Canal U

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

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

- 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

- 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/

- Persée

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/

- 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/

- 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

- 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

- 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/

- The World Bank

Development indicators for the 50 last years. The world at a glance.
http://donnees.banquemondiale.org/

- OECD

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development offers many statistics and publications sorted out by topic and country.
http://oecd.org/

- Legifrance

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/

- 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/

- WORLD TOURISM ORGANIZATION (UNITED NATIONS)

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/

- 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

- 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 (France) Institutes of Political Sciences.
http://doc-iep.univ-lyon2.fr/Ressources/Bases/DP/

- The Terms of Trade and Other Wonders

Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~alandear/glossary/

- 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

- The Great dictionary of terminology

A Quebec French Terminology database, with 3 million English and French technical terms.
http://www.granddictionnaire.com/

- IATE

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/

- 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 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

- L'Encyclopédie de Diderot et d'Alembert

Ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers
Encyclopédie sur fr.wikisource.org

- 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/

- 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 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

- French Accent Magazine

Free Bilingual and Audio E-magazine for expatriates in France, Francophiles and French students.
http://www.frenchaccentmagazine.com/index.html

- 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

- Directory of Open Access Journals, DOAJ

More than 800 scientific reviews in full text, covering every subject.
http://www.doaj.org/

- 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

- 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 Picasso Museum, and many more.
http://www.photo.rmn.fr

- Arcade

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

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

- 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

- 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

- DITL

Le dictionnaire international des termes littéraires
International dictionary of literary terms.
http://www.ditl.info/

- Fabula

News about academic research in literature.
http://www.fabula.org/

- Tout Molière

Information on Molière’s work
http://www.toutmoliere.net/index.html

- Cybergeo

European review in geography.
http://www.cybergeo.eu/

- 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/