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Electronic Resources

Electronic Resources

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/

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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 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

http://www.persee.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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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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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/

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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 (France) Institutes of Political Sciences.

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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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 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/

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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 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/

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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 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

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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 Picasso Museum, and many more.

http://www.photo.rmn.fr

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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

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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

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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 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

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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/