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000 : Generalities
100 : Philosophy
200 : Religion
300 : Social sciences
400 : Languages
500 : Sciences
600 : Technology (applied sciences)
700 : Arts
800 : Literature
900 : Geography-History 

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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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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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
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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/
000
 

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 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
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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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Persée
Scientific periodicals 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/

300
 

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/
300 

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
300 

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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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/
300
 

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
300
 

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/

300 

The Terms of Trade and Other Wonders
Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~alandear/glossary/
300
 

The Great dictionary of terminology
A Quebec French Terminology database, with 3 million English and French technical terms.
http://www.granddictionnaire.com/
400 

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/
400 

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
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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/
400 

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
400 

French Accent Magazine
Free Bilingual and Audio E-magazine for expatriates in France, Francophiles and French students.
http://www.frenchaccentmagazine.com/index.html
400
 

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

400 

Directory of Open Access Journals, DOAJ
More than 800 scientific reviews in full text, covering every subject
http://www.doaj.org
500 

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
500
 

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
700

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

700 

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
700 

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 genral 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
700 

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
800 

DITL : Le dictionnaire international des termes littéraires
International dictionary of literary terms
.
http://www.ditl.info/
800 

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
800 

Cybergeo
European
review in geography.
http://www.cybergeo.eu/
900

 

 
 

 

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