French Electronic resources Trinity 2008 Nick Hearn

Three readers

John - undergraduate Les contemplations

Peter - Postgraduate Montaigne

Freda freelance researcher Animals in literature

Structure of the session

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

Plan of campaign
Introduction Anglophone online catalogues Electronic reference sources Francophone online catalogues Looking for articles Internet Corpora etc Exercises 11.30 -11.35 11.35 11.40 11.40-11.45 11.45-11.55 11.55-12.05 12.05-12.10 12.10-12.20 12.20-12.30

Online catalogues

Landscape of Electronic Resources (Online Catalogues) for Anglophone World

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

COPAC to the rescue!

User-friendly 30 million records More than 30 UK and Irish Research libraries including the British 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

OCLC databases relevant to French Studies

Database FRANCIS MLA No. of Records 1.6m 1m+ Time 19841926Material type Subject Articles + Articles + Hums, Social Sc. Lang and lit., Folklore

WorldCat

105m

Monographs All

Types of (advanced) search on WorldCat

Keyword Author Author phrase Personal name Personal name phrase Subject Subject phrase Named person Title Title phrase Avoid any search with the word phrase in it unless you know the exact name of author, exact subject term or exact title!

Structure of LC Subject Headings for 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

Browsing by shelfmark for French authors

L Library of Congress Classification for Individual Authors (By period) 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 2001PQ2700

Electronic resources for Reference in French Studies (Lang. and Lit,)

Wish List

The ideal dictionary Polysemy Opposites Synonyms Hyponyms Idioms Morphology Pronunciation Etymology Definitions Examples

Online dictionaries for French studies

ATILF (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

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Encyclopedias for different information needs

John - undergraduate Les contemplations

Peter - Postgraduate Montaigne

Freda freelance researcher Animals in literature

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 Mundi http://www.cosmovisions.com/ L'encyclopdie Quid http://www.quid.fr French wikipedia http://fr.wikipedia.org Standard non-electronic: Encyclopaedia universalis Paris: Encyclopaedia universalis, 1968-1982 Shelfmark: REF.F.48

Francophone online catalogues for French studies

French electronic resources landscape

Catalogue collectif de France http://ccfr.bnf.fr/portailccfr/pub/fr/welcome.jsp

BN-Opale Gallica SUDOC Base patrimoine CGM Mandragore Palme

Online catalogue of French National library Online digital library Online catalogue of Higher Ed. institutions Special collections Database of manuscripts Database of illuminated manuscripts Database of 20th century manuscripts

Karlsruher virtueller Katalog (KVK)

KVK!
But what about Belgium?...

Electronic resources for locating journal articles in French Studies, Lang. and Lit...

Electronic Resources for Journals mostly non-Francophone

Printed source:

Klapp, Otto Bibliographie der franzosischen Literaturwissenschaft =Bibliographie dhistoire litteraire francaise

Needs to be combined with electronic ones below

FRANCIS MLA JSTOR Web of Science

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 to http://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

FRANCIS
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

Web of Science
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 =H Unlike 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.

Electronic resources for locating Journal Articles in French Studies: JSTOR

JSTOR: Contains 1.8m articles + 1.3m book reviews. If you want to see which articles are covered by the database you don't have to go outside the database to a web-site the information is available as part of the database itself which is as it should be. Subject areas covered: ALL Types of material: As is the case with the Arts and Humanities Index of Web of Science it consists exclusively of journal articles including book reviews. Unlike all of the previous databases, all of the articles on JSTOR are available in full-text. Unlike the previous databases, all searching is by keyword. Unlike the previous databases, JSTOR does not contain current articles but there is an intervalor moving wall between the actual most recent issue of a journal and the last issue that JSTOR is allowed by the publisher to show.

The Internet...

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 Quebec http://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

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/

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

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French keyboards: inputting accents

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Animal hierarchy

The hypothesis: That Victor Hugo's treatment of the animal kingdom is less hierarchical than 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 linguistic rules on a specific universe. What is FRANTEXT? A corpus of some 3700 works from the 16th to the 20th centuries originally developed as a citations database for the Trsor de la langue franaise (roughly equivalent to the OED).

Results (from FRANTEXT)

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of texts 13,491 4224 3194 2933

Other corpora on OxLIP

Voltaire lectronique Le corpus Montaigne Corpus de littrature mdivale des origines la fin du Xve sicle

Conclusion
Many similarities between Anglophone and Francophone electronic resource 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

Nick Hearn French Studies (Lang. and Lit. Subject Specialist nick.hearn@taylib.ox.ac.uk

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