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French Electronic resources
Trinity 2008Nick Hearn
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Three readers
John - undergraduate
Les contemplations Peter - Postgraduate
Montaigne
Freda freelance researcher
Animals in literature
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OLIS (Telnet and web-based)Union Catalogues (COPAC, OCLC FirstSearch)
French online catalogues (BN-Opale, SUDOC, CCFR)
Francophone online catalogues (Karlsruher virtueller
Katalog)
Dictionaries (Le grand trsor; online bilingual
dictionaries) and encyclopedias (Quid, wikipdia)Journal articles (JSTOR, MLA, FRANCIS, WEB OF
SCIENCE)
French studies on the Internet (Portals, discussion lists,
electronic libraries)
French studies and corpora: French keyboard
Corpora (FRANTEXT, Corpus de littrature medivale),Voltaire lectronique
Exercises
Structure of the session
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12.20-12.30Exercises
12.10-12.20Corpora etc
12.05-12.10Internet
11.55-12.05Looking for articles
11.45-11.55Francophone online catalogues
11.40-11.45Electronic reference sources
11.35 11.40Anglophone online catalogues
11.30 -11.35Introduction
Plan of campaign
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Online catalogues
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Landscape of Electronic Resources
(Online Catalogues)
for Anglophone World
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Problems with OLIS
1. Cannot sort more than 500 items (in WebCat)
2. Cannot search by medium ie cannot search for
dissertations in Oxford
3. Cannot input diacritics ie accents and cedillas
4. Does not show all available electronic resources
(or older titles)5. Possible to limit search by library only in Telnet
version of OLIS (two versions of cat. awkward)
6. Not very user-friendly (but allows browsing)
7. HOWEVER, sometimes possible to supplement
OLIS by using COPAC
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COPAC to the rescue!
User-friendly
30 million records
More than 30 UK and Irish
Research libraries including theBritish Library
If item not held by Oxford possible
to get through interlibrary loan from
one of the COPAC libraries
Can be used to search OLIS
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OCLC databases relevant to
French Studies
AllMonographs?105mWorldCat
Lang and
lit.,
Folklore
Articles +1926-1m+MLA
Hums,
Social Sc.
Articles +1984-1.6mFRANCIS
SubjectMaterial typeTimeNo. of
Records
Database
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Keyword
Author
Author phrase
Personal name
Personal name phrase
SubjectSubject phrase
Named person
Title
Title phrase
Types of (advanced) search on WorldCat
Avoid any search with the word phrase in it unless you know
the exact name of author, exact subject term or exact title!
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Structure of LC Subject Headingsfor French Studies
French literature To 1500 History and criticism
French literature - 16th century History and criticism
Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885 Appreciation
Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885 Biography
Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885 Criticism and interpretation
Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885 Homes and haunts
Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885 Contemplations
Animals in literature
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Browsing by shelfmark for French authors
Library of Congress Classification for Individual Authors (By period)L
French literature Modern French Literature Individual authors 18th century
..PQ1947
French literature Modern French Literature Individual authors 19th century
PQ2152
French literature Modern French Literature Individual authors 1900-1960
PQ2251.Z5
French literature Modern French Literature Individual authors 1961-2000
.PQ2660
French literature Modern French Literature Individual authors 2001-
PQ2700
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Electronic resources for Referencein French Studies (Lang. and Lit,)
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Wish List
The ideal dictionary
PolysemyOpposites
Synonyms
Hyponyms
Idioms
Morphology
PronunciationEtymology
Definitions
Examples
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Online dictionaries for French
studiesATILF (Analyse et traitement informatique de la langue francaise)
http://dictionnaires.atilf.fr/dictionnaires/ACADEMIE/SIXIEME/search.form.fr.html
Centre nationel de ressources textuelles et lexicales
http://www.cntl.fr/
Lexilogos
http://www.lexilogos.com/francais_langue_dictionnaires.htm
http://dictionnaires.atilf.fr/dictionnaires/ACADEMIE/SIXIEME/search.form.fr.htmlhttp://www.cntl.fr/http://www.lexilogos.com/francais_langue_dictionnaires.htmhttp://www.lexilogos.com/francais_langue_dictionnaires.htmhttp://www.cntl.fr/http://dictionnaires.atilf.fr/dictionnaires/ACADEMIE/SIXIEME/search.form.fr.html7/31/2019 French Wiser
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Un florilge
Un utilisateur
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Encyclopedias for different
information needs
John - undergraduate
Les contemplations Peter - Postgraduate
Montaigne
Freda freelance researcher
Animals in literature
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Online French encyclopedias
Historical:L'encyclopdie, ou Dictionnaire raisonn des Sciences, des Arts et des Mtiers de
Diderot at d'Alembert
http://portail.atilf.fr/encyclopedie/
Online:
Imago Mundihttp://www.cosmovisions.com/
L'encyclopdie Quid
http://www.quid.fr
French wikipedia
http://fr.wikipedia.orgStandard non-electronic:
Encyclopaedia universalis Paris: Encyclopaedia universalis, 1968-1982
Shelfmark: REF.F.48
http://portail.atilf.fr/encyclopedie/http://www.cosmovisions.com/http://www.quid.fr/http://fr.wikipedia.org/http://fr.wikipedia.org/http://www.quid.fr/http://www.cosmovisions.com/http://portail.atilf.fr/encyclopedie/7/31/2019 French Wiser
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Francophone online catalogues forFrench studies
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French electronic resources landscape
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Catalogue collectif de France
http://ccfr.bnf.fr/portailccfr/pub/fr/welcome.jsp
Database of 20th century manuscriptsPalme
Database of illuminated manuscriptsMandragore
Database of manuscriptsCGM
Special collectionsBase patrimoine
Online catalogue of Higher Ed. institutionsSUDOC
Online digital libraryGallica
Online catalogue of French National
library
BN-Opale
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Karlsruher virtueller Katalog
(KVK)
KVK!
But what about Belgium?...
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Electronic resources for locating
journal articles in French Studies,Lang. and Lit...
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Electronic Resources for Journals
mostly non-Francophone
Needs to be combined with electronic ones below
MLA
JSTOR
Web of Science
FRANCIS
Printed source:
Klapp, Otto Bibliographie der franzosischen Literaturwissenschaft
=Bibliographie dhistoire litteraire francaise
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MLA Bibliography
MLA Bibliography
Contains over 1m records. Subject coverage: Modern
languages
and literatures, folklore and linguistics. To see what
journal/periodicals
are covered go tohttp://www.mla.org/pdf/masterlist07.pdf
Wide variety of formats: not just periodical articles also
books,
working papers and proceedings
Only keywords no abstracts but that is changing.
Should be one's first port of call
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FRANCIS:
Contains 1.6m records. Subject coverage: Humanities and
Social Sciences.
To see what journals/periodicals are covered go to:
http://www.csa.com/factsheets/supplements/francis.php
Like MLA wide variety of formats: not just periodicals but
also books working papers and proceedings
Includes abstracts for better keyword searching
Unfortunately not as many relevant journals as MLA
bibliography
FRANCIS
http://www.csa.com/factsheets/supplements/francis.phphttp://www.csa.com/factsheets/supplements/francis.phphttp://www.csa.com/factsheets/supplements/francis.php7/31/2019 French Wiser
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Web of knowledge (Arts and Humanities)
Contains 2.5m records. Subject coverage:
Arts and Humanities
To see what journals/periodicals are
covered go to:
http://www.isinet.com/cgi-bin/jrnlst/jloptions.cgi?PC
=HUnlike MLA and FRANCIS: ONLY
periodical articles. Ie NO books,
working papers or proceedings
Unlike MLA and FRANCIS: retrospective
and current
Unlike MLA or FRANCIS, possible to
search on references that a given article
cites as well as articles which cite a given
article.
Web of Science
http://www.isinet.com/cgi-bin/jrnlst/jloptions.cgi?PC=Hhttp://www.isinet.com/cgi-bin/jrnlst/jloptions.cgi?PC=Hhttp://www.isinet.com/cgi-bin/jrnlst/jloptions.cgi?PC=Hhttp://www.isinet.com/cgi-bin/jrnlst/jloptions.cgi?PC=H7/31/2019 French Wiser
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JSTOR:Contains 1.8m articles + 1.3m book reviews.
If you want to see which articles are covered by the database you don't haveto go outside the database to a web-site the information is availableas part of the database itself which is as it should be.Subject areas covered: ALLTypes of material: As is the case with the Arts and Humanities Index ofWeb of Science it consists exclusively of journal articles including
book reviews.Unlike all of the previous databases, all of the articles on JSTORare available in full-text.Unlike the previous databases, all searching is by keyword.Unlike the previous databases, JSTOR does not contain current articles butthere is an intervalor moving wall between the actual most recent issue ofa journal and the last issue that JSTOR is allowed by the publisher to show.
Electronic resources for locating JournalArticles in French Studies: JSTOR
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The Internet...
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Portals for French Studies
British Library:
http://www.bl.uk/collections/westeuropean/frenchstu.html
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/oxlip/main.htm
Intute: Arts and Humanities available from:
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/oxlip/main.htm
La toile du Quebechttp://www.toile.com
Oxford University Language Centre
http://www.lang.ox.ac.uk/langlinks/indivlangs/french.html
Taylor Institution Library
http://www.taylib.ox.ac.uk
Search engines for French studies:
Google France
http://www.google.fr/
Voila
http://voila.fr
http://www.bl.uk/collections/westeuropean/frenchstu.htmlhttp://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/oxlip/main.htmhttp://www.toile.com/http://www.lang.ox.ac.uk/langlinks/indivlangs/french.htmlhttp://www.taylib.ox.ac.uk/http://www.google.fr/http://voila.fr/http://voila.fr/http://www.google.fr/http://www.taylib.ox.ac.uk/http://www.lang.ox.ac.uk/langlinks/indivlangs/french.htmlhttp://www.toile.com/http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/oxlip/main.htmhttp://www.bl.uk/collections/westeuropean/frenchstu.html7/31/2019 French Wiser
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French Studies on the Internet:Discussion lists
French mail-lists/discussion lists:
http://jiscmail.ac.uk
FRANCOPHIL: French Studies Electronic Discussion List
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/francofil/
http://jiscmail.ac.uk/http://www.bristol.ac.uk/francofil/http://www.bristol.ac.uk/francofil/http://jiscmail.ac.uk/7/31/2019 French Wiser
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Electronic libraries
Athena
http://un2sg4.unige.ch/athena/html/fran_lng.html
Gallica
http://gallica.bnf.fr/
Patrimoine numerique
http://www.numerique.culture.fr/mpf/pub.fr/index.html
Wikisource
http://wikisource.org/wiki/
FRANTEXT
http://un2sg4.unige.ch/athena/html/fran_lng.htmlhttp://gallica.bnf.fr/http://www.numerique.culture.fr/mpf/pub.fr/index.htmlhttp://wikisource.org/wiki/http://wikisource.org/wiki/http://www.numerique.culture.fr/mpf/pub.fr/index.htmlhttp://gallica.bnf.fr/http://un2sg4.unige.ch/athena/html/fran_lng.html7/31/2019 French Wiser
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Je nommai le cochon par son nom; pourquoi pas?
Guichardin a nomm le Borgia! Tacite
Le Vitellius! Fauve, implacable, explicite,
J'tai du cou du chien stupfait son collier
D'pithtes; dans l'herbe, l'ombre du hallier,
Je fis fraterniser la vache et la gnisse,
Part of a poem for identification
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Desktop instructionsHow to input accents
In each case hold down
the Alt keyand type the number(using thenumeric keypad):
(Alt +133) (Alt +131)
(Alt +132) (Alt +145) (Alt +135) (Alt +130) (Alt +138) (Alt +136) (Alt +137)
(Alt +140) (Alt +139) (Alt +147) (Alt +0156) (Alt +151) (Alt +150) (Alt +129)
Laptop instructions
To type accent grave (, , etc), type ` then the vowel.Accent aigu (), type ' (single quote) then e.Cdille (), type ' then c.Circonflexe (), type ^ (shift + 6) then e.Trma (), type " (shift + ') then o
French keyboards: inputting accents
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Animal hierarchy
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The hypothesis:
That Victor Hugo's treatment of the animal kingdom is less hierarchicalthan that of other French writers.
What is a 'corpus'?A large and structured set of texts (now usually electronically stored and processed)They are used to do statistical analysis, checking occurrences or validating linguisticrules on a specific universe.
What is FRANTEXT?A corpus of some 3700 works from the 16th to the 20th centuries originally developedas a citations database for the Trsor de la langue franaise (roughly equivalent to theOED).
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Results (from FRANTEXT)
Victor Hugo Totality of texts
311 13,491lion 221 lion 4224
104 3194
80 2933
aigle chien
chien aigle
ne ne
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Other corpora on OxLIP
Voltaire lectronique
Le corpus Montaigne
Corpus de littrature mdivale des origines la fin du Xve sicle
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Conclusion
Many similarities between Anglophone and Francophone electronicresource landscape
Anglophone 'landscape' excels at journal articles
Francophone good at online reference, audiovisual (multimedia)
Have not covered: FRANTEXT in depth, Web 2.0, Voltaire, Montaigne
Future developments: Electronic enlightenment project
As for John, Peter and Fred:
John went on to get a good degree in French
Peter still finishing his PhD on Montaigne
Fred about to publish his book La bte noire
Exercises
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Nick Hearn
French Studies (Lang. and Lit. Subject Specialist
nick.hearn@taylib.ox.ac.uk