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Reference Sources
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Art | Film | History & Culture | Literature
- Biographical Works
- Biography Reference Bank. H.W. Wilson, 2003- .
- Contemporary Theatre, Film, and Television. Detroit, MI: Gale, 1984- .
Reference R 927.9 C761
- International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers. Ed. Tom Pendergast and Sara Pendergast. 4th ed. 4 vols. Detroit: St. James Press, 2000.
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- Literature Resource Center
Contains full-text biographies, critical essays, journal articles, and excerpts of criticism and reviews about over 130,000 literary authors and their works; covers dramatists, essayists, novelists, poets, and other writers from all time periods.
Note: Includes Contemporary Authors, the Dictionary of Literary Biography, and Scribner's African Writers.
- Postcolonial African Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook. Ed. Pushpa Naidu Parekh and Siga Fatima Jagne. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1998.
Reference R 928.96 P857
- Art
- ARTstor
A digital collection of over 500,000 images covering art, architecture, and archaeology from a wide range of cultures and time periods as well as tools to manipulate and analyze those images.
- Dictionary of Art. Ed Jane. Turner 34 vols. New York: Grove’s Dictionaries, 1996.
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- Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art. Ian Chilvers. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1998.
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- Encyclopedia of World Art. 17 vols. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1959–1983.
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- International Dictionary of Art and Artists. Ed. James Vinson. 2 vols. Chicago: St. James Press, 1990.
Vol. 1 (Artists): Reference R 927 I61
Vol. 2 (Art): Reference R 709.2 I61
- Nineteenth-Century European Art: A Topical Dictionary. Terry W. Strieter. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1999.
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- Oxford Companion to Art. Ed. Harold Osborne. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984.
Reference R 703 O98
- The Oxford Dictionary of Art. Ed. Ian Chilvers and Harold Obsorne. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1988.
Reference R 703 O981
- Film
- Critical Dictionary of Film and Television Theory. Ed. Roberta E. Pearson and Philip Simpson. New York: Routledge, 2001.
Reference R 791.43 C934
- The Film Studies Dictionary. Steve Blandford et al. London: Oxford Univ. Press, 2001.
Reference R 791.43 B642f
- Francophone Women Film Directors: A Guide. Janis L. Pallister and Ruth A. Hottell. Cranbury, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press, 2005.
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- French-Speaking Women Film Directors: A Guide. Janis L. Pallister. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press, 1997.
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- International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers. Ed. Tom Pendergast and Sara Pendergast. 4th ed. 4 vols. Detroit: St. James Press, 2000.
Reference R 791.43 I611 2000
- International Film Guide. New York: A.S. Barnes, 1966-1989.
Library has 1966 to 1989
Reference R 791.43 I61
- The Oxford Companion to Film. Ed. Liz-Anne Bawden. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1976.
Reference R 791.43 O98
- History & Culture
- Africa since 1914: A Historical Bibliography. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1985.
Reference R 016.967 A258
- Algeria. Comp. Richard Lawless. Rev. ed. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1995.
Reference R 016.965 L418a
- Encyclopedia of Contemporary French Culture. Ed. Alex Hughes and Keith Reader. New York: Routledge, 1998.
Reference R 914.4 E56
- Encyclopedia of Modern French Thought. Ed. Christopher John Murray. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2004.
Reference R 944.08 E56
- Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century African History. Ed. Paul Tiyambe Zeleza. New York: Routledge, 2003.
Reference R 960.3 E56
- Femmes, famille, société au Maghreb et en émigration. Aline Tauzin and Marie Virolle-Souibès. Paris: Karthala, 1990.
Reference R 016.3054 T229f
- French Culture and Society: The Essentials. Ed. Michael Kelly. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2001.
Reference R 944 F873
- Gale Virtual Reference Library
A collection of over 120 electronic reference works. Includes:
- Historical Dictionary of Algeria. Phillip C. Naylor. 3rd ed. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 2006.
Reference R 965 H463h3
- Historical Dictionary of Civil Wars in Africa. Guy Arnold. 2nd ed. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 2008.
Reference R 960 A752h2
- Historical Dictionaries of French History
- Historical dictionary of France. Gino Raymond. Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 1998.
Reference R 944 R269h
- Historical Dictionary of the Third French Republic, 1870-1940. Ed. Patrick H. Hutton. 2 vols. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1986.
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- Historical Dictionary of the French Fourth and Fifth Republics, 1946-1991. Ed. Wayne Northcutt. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1992.
Reference R 944.082 H673
- Historical Dictionary of Morocco. Thomas Park and Aomar Boum. 2nd ed. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 2006.
Reference R 964 P236h2
- Historical Dictionary of Tunisia. Kenneth J. Perkins. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1989.
Reference R 961.1 P449h
- Women of Northern, Western, and Central Africa: A Bibliography, 1976-1985. Comp. Davis A. Bullwinkle. New York: Greenwood, 1989.
Reference R 016.3 B938w
- Literature
- Bibliographie de la critique sur les litteratures Magrebines. Charles Bonn. Paris: Harmattan, 1996.
Reference R 016.8 B716d
- Colette: An Annotated Primary and Secondary Bibliography. Comp. Donna M. Norell. New York: Garland, 1993.
Reference R 016.84 C694n
- The Companion to African Literatures. Ed. Douglas Killam and Ruth Rowe. Oxford: James Currey, 2000.
Reference R 928.96 C737
- A Critical Bibliography of French Literature. Ed. D.C. Cabeen, 1947-1983.
Reference R 016.84 C11c
Note: Vol. 6 covers the twentieth century.
- Encyclopedia of African Literature. Ed. Simon Gikandi. New York: Routledge, 2003.
Reference R 896 E56
- Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century. Ed. Steven R. Serafin. 5 vols. Farmington Hills, MI: St. James Press, 1999.
Reference R 803 E562 1999
- The Feminist Encyclopedia of French Literature. Ed. Eva Martin Sartori. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1999.
Reference R 840.9 F329
- Feminist Writers. Ed. Pamela Kester-Shelton. Detroit, MI: St. James Press, 1996.
Reference R 928 F3291
- Francophone Studies: The Essential Glossary. Ed. Margaret A. Majumdar. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2002.
Reference R 944 F826
- The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French. Ed. Peter France. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1995.
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- Nineteenth-Century French Fiction Writers: Romanticism and Realism, 1800-1860. Ed. Catharine Savage Brosman. Detroit, MI: Gale, 1992. [Dictionary of Literary Biography vol. 119]
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- The Oxford Companion to French Literature. Ed. Paul Harvey and J.E. Heseltine. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1959.
Reference R 840.3 H34o
- Reference Guide to Short Fiction. Ed. Thomas Riggs. 2nd ed. Detroit, MI: St. James Press, 1999.
- Reference Guide to World Literature. Ed. Sara Pendergast and Tom Pendergast. 3rd ed. 2 vols. Detroit, MI: St. James Press, 2003.
Reference R 809 R332
Books
- ARTFL
(1700 to approx. 1960) Provides the full text of nearly 2,000 French literary, philosophical, scientific and technical texts; most are from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, although there are some medieval, Renaissance, and seventeenth-century texts. Includes novels, verse, essays, correspondence, treatises, journalism, and theatrical texts.
- Library Catalog
Includes information about books, government documents, and journals, magazines, and newspapers in the Library.
- To locate appropriate Library of Congress Subject Headings, start with a keyword search and then browse records.
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- WorldCat
Indexes books, periodicals, and other materials held by libraries around the world. Search WorldCat to identify additional books on your topic and then order the books on interlibrary loan.
Note: It can be helpful to identify relevant Library of Congress Subject Headings in the Library Catalog first; you can then do a subject search in WorldCat to find additional items with these subject headings.
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Articles
Starting Points | Art | Film | History & Culture | Literature
- Starting Points
- Academic Search Premier
(1975 to present) Indexes popular and scholarly articles in a broad range of subject areas; also includes citations to book reviews and citations to articles in several national newspapers.
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- LexisNexis Academic
(Approx. 1980 to present) Includes the full text of articles from local, national, and international newspapers, magazines, and trade journals as well as articles from law reviews and federal and state cases.
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- Library PressDisplay
Contains full-page, full-color images of over 400 national and international newspapers, including many foreign-language newspapers; includes the current day's papers as well as a 60-day archive.
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- OmniFile Full Text Mega
(1982 to present) Indexes articles from over 3,000 scholarly and popular periodicals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences; also includes the full text of selected articles from over 1,650 of these periodicals.
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- Westlaw Campus Research
Includes the full text of national and international news articles as well as federal and state court cases.
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- Art
- Art Abstracts
(1929 to present). Indexes over 370 periodicals, including journals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins. Subjects covered include art history, archaeology, architecture, decorative art, film, folk art, graphic art, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, museology, photography, and sculpture.
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- ARTbibliographies Modern
(c. 1960s to present) Indexes articles, essays, exhibition catalogs, books, and doctoral dissertations on topics related to modern and contemporary art. Covers traditional media such as paintings and sculpture as well as photography, artists' books, ceramics, body art, electronic art, ethnic arts, fashion, performance art, and video art. International in scope.
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- Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA)
(1973 to present) Includes citations to journal articles, books, conference proceedings, essays, exhibition catalogues, and other materials on the history of art in Europe and North America from antiquity to the present. BHA covers both the fine and the decorative arts. Contains records from RILA (International Repertory of the Literature of Art) and RAA (Repertoire d'Art et d'Archeologie).
Note: BHA uses Library of Congress Subject Headings.
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- Film
For film reviews, consult the guide to Film Review Sources
- Film & Television Literature Index
(c. 1937 to present) Indexes articles, film reviews, and book reviews from over 300 film and television periodicals; international in scope..
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- Film Indexes Online
(1893 to present) Contains both Film Index International (FII) and The American Film Institute Catalog (AFI). Includes full production and cast information for films from over 170 countries as well as plot summaries, production notes, and citations to reviews, criticism, and articles on film and film personalities.
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- MLA International Bibliography
(1926 to present). Indexes journal articles, books, and doctoral dissertations in the fields of English, American, European, Asian, African, and Latin American linguistics, modern languages and literatures, film studies, and folklore.
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- History & Culture
- ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts
(1987 to present) Indexes articles on topics related to health, economics, education, psychology, race relations, social services, and sociology. International in scope.
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- Contemporary Women's Issues
(1992 to present) Indexes popular articles, scholarly articles, books, newsletters, and reports on all aspects of women's studies, including gender, sociology, education, political science, and health.
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- Historical Abstracts & America: History & Life
(Time period covered: 1450 to present [world history]; prehistory to present [U.S. and Canadian history]. Publication coverage: 1954 to present). Indexes journal articles, book chapters, doctoral dissertations, and book reviews. (Each database can also be searched separately.)
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- Humanities Abstracts
(1907 to present). Indexes articles in over 500 English-language journals in the fields of archaeology, art, classics, communication, film, folklore, history, languages and literatures, music, philosophy, religion, and theatre. Also includes citations for book, theatre, and film reviews as well as interviews, obituaries, and some original creative works. Includes the full text of selected articles from 1995 to the present.
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- Index Islamicus
(1906 to present) Indexes articles from over 3,000 journals as well as books, conference proceedings, and book reviews. Covers a wide variety of subjects and topics related to Islam, the Middle East, and the Muslim world including history, political science, art, economics, law, literature, philosophy, and religion.
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- International African Bibliography. London: Mansell, 1971- .
Reference R 016.96 I61
Library has: 1974 to present
Provides citations to books, articles, and conference papers on a wide range of topics related to Africa; each issue contains sections on "Literature," "North Africa" and "History," among others.
- Periodicals Index Online
(c. 1665-1995) Indexes journal and magazine articles as well as book reviews in a broad array of humanities, social sciences, and science subjects.
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- Social Sciences Abstracts
(1907 to present) Indexes journal articles and some book reviews on all social sciences subjects, including history, political science, international relations, law, economics, area studies, gender studies, anthropology, psychology, and sociology.
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- Sociological Abstracts
(1963 to present) indexes journal articles in sociology and related fields, including anthropology, economics, education, philosophy, political science, and social psychology.
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- Web of Knowledge
(c. 1900 to present) A multidisciplinary resource that provides citations to articles in thousands of journals in the social sciences, humanities, and sciences.
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- Women Studies Abstracts
Reference Index Area R 050 W872
(1972 to present) Indexes popular articles, scholarly articles, and books on all aspects of women's studies, including history, education, gender, literature, religion, and art.
- Literature
- Print
- French XX Bibliography: Critical and Biographical References for the Study of French Literature since 1885. New York: French Institute-Alliance Française, 1969- .
Reference R 016.84 F877
- Online
- Literature Resource Center
Contains full-text biographies, critical essays, journal articles, and excerpts of criticism and reviews about over 130,000 literary authors and their works; covers dramatists, essayists, novelists, poets, and other writers from all time periods.
Note: Includes Twentieth-Century Literature Criticism, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Short Story Criticism, and much more.
- MLA International Bibliography
(1926 to present). Indexes journal articles, books, and doctoral dissertations in the fields of English, American, European, Asian, African, and Latin American linguistics, modern languages and literatures, film studies, and folklore.
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- Humanities Abstracts
(1907 to present). Indexes articles in over 500 English-language journals in the fields of archaeology, art, classics, communication, film, folklore, history, languages and literatures, music, philosophy, religion, and theatre. Also includes citations for book, theatre, and film reviews as well as interviews, obituaries, and some original creative works. Includes the full text of selected articles from 1995 to the present.
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- Index Islamicus
(1906 to present) Indexes articles from over 3,000 journals as well as books, conference proceedings, and book reviews. Covers a wide variety of subjects and topics related to Islam, the Middle East, and the Muslim world including history, political science, art, economics, law, literature, philosophy, and religion.
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- Web of Knowledge
(c. 1900 to present) A multidisciplinary resource that provides citations to articles in thousands of journals in the social sciences, humanities, and sciences.
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Web Sites
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