Fall 2010 — Prof. Slawy-Sutton
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Question 1
- Chicago Style
- Chicago Manual of Style. 16th ed. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2010.
Little Library Reference Desk: REF Z253 .U69 2010
Note: up to ten people can search the online version at any one time.
For a basic overview, see the Chicago Citation Quick Guide (use the notes and bibliography version).
- MLA Style
- MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 7th ed. New York: Modern Language Association, 2009.
Little Library Reference Desk: REF LB2369 .G53 2009
- MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing. 3rd ed. New York: Modern Language Association, 2008.
Reference Desk: REF PN147 .G444 2008
A guide for scholars and professional writers.
- RefWorks
Capture, retain, and organize citations, generate bibliographies in Chicago or MLA format, share references, and more.
See also the library's guide to using RefWorks.
Tip: for help in formating a bibliography that contains works in English and in French, see the following:
Biographical Information | Directories of Scholarly Journals | Literary Reference Works
Biographical Information
See also some of the general encyclopedias listed in the Literature and Web sites sections, below.
- African Writers. Ed. C. Brian Cox. 2 vols. New York: Scribner's, 1997.
Reference R 928.6 A258
- Biography Reference Bank. H.W. Wilson, 2003- .
- European Writers. Ed. William T.H. Jackson. 14 vols. New York: Scribner, 1983-1991.
Reference R 809.89 E89
Library has vols. 1-7 only.
- French Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Source Book. Ed. Eva Martin Sartori and Dorothy Wynne Zimmerman. New York: Greenwood, 1991.
Reference R 928.4 F873
- 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. Detroit, MI: Gale: 1962- .
- Dictionary of Literary Biography. Detroit, MI: Gale, 1978- .
- Postcolonial African Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook. Ed. Pushpa Naidu Parekh and Siga Fatima Jagne. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1998.
Reference R 928.96 P857
Directories of Scholarly Journals
Note: you can also use Web of Knowledge to identify journals that have published a number of journals on your topic. Do a search, and then on the search results page, on the left-hand side, under "Refine results," go to the "Source titles" section and then click on "more options/values" to see a list of the journals containing articles.
Literary Reference Works
- 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
- Dictionnaire des lettres françaises. Georges Grente et al. Paris: A. Fayard, 1951- .
Reference R 840.3 D556
- Dictionnaire des littératures de langue française. Jean-Pierre de Beaumarchais et al. 3 vols. Paris: Bordas, 1984.
Reference R 840.3 B378d
- Encyclopedia of African Literature. Ed. Simon Gikandi. New York: Routledge, 2003.
Reference R 896 E56
- Encyclopedia of Contemporary French Culture. Ed. Alex Hughes and Keith Reader. New York: Routledge, 1998.
Reference R 914.4 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
- Guide to French Literature. Anthony Levi. 2 vols. Chicago, IL: St. James Press, 1992-1994.
Reference R 840.3 L664g
- Jean-Paul Sartre: Sartre and Existentialism in English, a Bibliographic Guide. Comp. Allen Belkind. Kent, OH: Kent State Univ. Press, [1970].
Reference R 016.19 S251b
- Jean-Paul Sartre and his Critics: An International Bibliography (1938-1975). François Lapointe and Claire Lapointe. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State Univ., 1975.
Reference R 016.84 S251L
- The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French. Ed. Peter France. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1995.
Reference R 840.3 N532
- Nineteenth-Century French Fiction Writers: Romanticism and Realism, 1800-1860. Ed. Catharine Savage Brosman. Detroit, MI: Gale, 1992. [Dictionary of Literary Biography vol. 119]
Reference R 928.1 D554 v.119
- 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
See also the bibliographies listed in the core indexes & databases for literature, below.
General search tips:
- Use Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT) to connect terms/concepts
- In most databases, the truncation symbol is a *
- Enclose phrases in double quotation marks " "
To find books and videos, search:
- Library Catalog
Lists books, videos, government documents, and journals, magazines, and newspapers available in our Library.
- To locate works about a person, do a subject search for the person's name (last name first).
- To find videos, do a keyword search and limit your search by the format "video materials (VHS/DVD)."
Tip: truncation symbol: $
- ebrary
A collection of over 50,000 e-books published by over 220 academic, trade, and professional publishers; covers all subject areas. Mostly English-language. Also includes tools that allow you to create your own virtual bookshelf, bookmark pages, and add and save notes and highlights.
Note: for full functionality, you need the ebrary Reader. This plugin is on all library and ITS computers, but if you are using your own computer, you can download it from the ebrary home page.
- WorldCat
Lists books, videos, periodicals, and other materials held by North American and some European libraries. You can submit an interlibrary loan request to borrow books that aren't available at Davidson.
- 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.
See also:
- 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. Also includes Voltaire électronique, the full text of all of Voltaire's literary works.
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France
Provides access to the library's catalogs (including the BnF catalogue général and Catalogue Collectif de France (CCFr)), digital collections, and more.
- Google Books
Be sure to limit your search to "Full view only" or "Public Domain only" in order to find books that you can view cover-to-cover and/or download.
For more information about public domain, see our guide to works in the public domain.
- Hathi Trust
A digital collection of works held by a number of major research libraries. Be sure to limit your search to "Full view only" to view works that you can view cover-to-cover.
Note: as of October 2010, only 23% of works in the Hathi Trust are in the public domain. For more information about public domain, see our guide to works in the public domain.
- Library Catalogs Worldwide
Starting Points | Journal Articles | Articles in Newspapers & Popular Magazines
General search tips:
- Use Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT) to connect terms/concepts
- In most databases, the truncation symbol is a *
- Enclose phrases in double quotation marks " "
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.
- 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.
Journal Articles
Core Indexes, Databases, & Bibliographies for Literature
- Bibliographie des auteurs modernes de langue française. Hector Talvart and Joseph Place. 22 vols. Paris: Éditions de la Chronique des lettres françaises, 1928-1976.
Reference R 016.84 T15b
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
For more information, see the MLAIB Search Planner.
- Web of Knowledge
(c. 1900 to present) A multidisciplinary resource that provides citations to articles in thousands of journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Includes Arts and Humanities Citation Index.
Other Journal Databases
See also the indexes and databases pages, including those for French, history, political science, and sociology.
- Annual Reviews
(1932 to present) Contains the full text of review and overview articles on important topics in the Biomedical, Life, Physical, and Social Sciences.
- Anthropology Plus
(Late 19th century to present) Indexes journal articles, edited books, commentaries, and reports in the fields of biological, cultural, linguistic, physical, and social anthropology.
- Bibliographic Index
(1984 to present) A bibliography of bibliographies; indexes bibliographies published in books, pamphlets, and more than 2,800 periodicals. Includes citations to literature reviews and serial bibliographies.
- CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online
(1991 to present) A collection of resources on international affairs. Includes citations to journal articles and books; also includes the full text of over 400 working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, policy briefs, and economic indicators.
- 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.
- Essay & General Literature Index
(1900 to present) Indexes chapters and essays in edited collections.
- Historical Abstracts
(Time period covered: 1450 to present. Publication coverage: 1954 to present). Indexes journal articles, book chapters, doctoral dissertations, and book reviews.
- Humanities Abstracts
(1907 to present [publication date of articles indexed]) Indexes journal articles and some book reviews on all humanities subjects, including history, classics, art, archeology, literature, philosophy, and religion.
- International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance
(c. 1982 to present) Includes citations to journal articles, books, essays, and doctoral dissertations on all aspects of dance, theatre, and the performing arts; international in scope. Includes the full text of 100 periodicals and over 350 e-books.
- JSTOR
A collection of the back issues of over 1,200 electronic journals in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences. Note: JSTOR does not usually contain articles from the most recent 3-5 years.
Tip: truncation symbol: +
- 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.
- Project Muse
A collection of over 400 electronic journals in the humanities and social sciences.
- Sociological Abstracts
(1963 to present) Indexes journal articles in sociology and related fields, including anthropology, economics, education, philosophy, political science, and social psychology.
- Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
(1975 to present) Indexes over 1,000 political science journals. Covers the fields of comparative politics, economic policy, international relations, and political economy, among others. International in scope.
Articles in Newspapers & Popular Magazines
Articles, interviews, reviews, and more.
Be sure to search the two "starting points databases," Academic Search Premier and OmniFile Full Text Mega, too.
For additional sources, see the indexes and databases page for magazines and newspapers.
- LexisNexis Academic
(c. 1980 to present) Provides the full text of articles from local, national, and international newspapers, magazines, and trade journals.
Tip: to find French-language and international newspapers, try the following:
- On the left-hand side of the page, click on "News" and then "All news." On the next page, under "News" on the left-hand side, choose "foreign language." Enter your search terms and limit by language.
- On the left-hand side of the page, click on "Sources," then choose "Browse sources." For step 1, leave the default setting ("publication type"). For step 2 ("filter by"), choose the country you want. When the screen refreshes, click on "News" (step 3). Select the sources you want, then click on the red "OK Continue" button. The search form will be populated with your selections; simply enter your search terms.
- Library PressDisplay
(Current plus most recent 60 days) Full-page, full-color images of over 400 national and international newspapers, including many French-language newspapers.
Note: Up to three people can search this database at any one time; if you are unable to login because this limit has been reached, please wait a few minutes and try again.
- 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.
For tips on finding information on the Web efficiently, see our guide "How to Search the Web.
Be sure to evaluate what you find!
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