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Foreign Lang. & Lit. Librarian: Elin O'Hara
Phone: 564-5187
Email: oharaea@plattsburgh.edu
Office: Feinberg Library 247


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http://web.plattsburgh.edu/library/instruction/files/mla_citation_guide_quick_guide.pdf

APA:
http://www.library.cornell.edu/newhelp/res_strategy/citing/apa.html


French & Canadian Reference Books
FREE photocopying of reference books!

Oxford Hachette French Dictionary                 Ref. PC2640 .G684 2001

Using French Synonyms                                  Ref. PC2591 .B37 1993

Dictionnaire Québécois Français                     Ref. PC3643 .M45 1999

Guide to French Literature                              Ref. PQ41 .L48 1992

Guide de la Littérature Québécoise                 Ref. PQ3901 .F67 1988

The Canadian atlas: our nation, env & people  Ref. G1115 .C65 2004

Encyclopedia of literature in Canada                Ref. PR9180.2 .E53 2002

100 livres québécois pour la jeunesse qu’il       Ref. PN1009.A1 M32 1998
faut lire

French-Canadian authors : a bibliography of     Ref. PQ3901.K36 1990
their works and of English-language criticism          

Dictionnaire des écrivains québécois                 Ref. PF3640 .C68 1993
contemporains

Encyclopedia of Canada’s peoples                  Ref. F1006 .E66 1999

The Canadian encyclopedia                             Ref. F1006 .C36

 Reference Books Available Online

Countries and Their Cultures              (via Virtual Reference Library database)

American History Through Literature  (via Virtual Reference Library database)


Finding Foreign Language Books

The Feinberg Library Catalog can lead you to books published in other languages.  First, click the Advanced Search tab.  Then, in the Language field (the third box down), click the drop-down arrow.  Now you can limit your search to one of 8 languages including French.  The search will only retrieve books in the language you have selected.  Back in the search box at the top of the screen, you can type a specific title or author such as:
La Symphonie Pastorale            Saint-Exupéry                          

or by choosing subject from the drop-down menu at the top you can search for a specific subject such as:
Quebec                         Indigenous Peoples                   Referendum

or click the Advanced Search tab and in the Limit by Collection field (the sixth box down), click the drop-down arrow.  You can limit your search to Canadian government documents by choosing Document Coll. - Canada.

If our library doesn't have what you want, go to WorldCat to search a worldwide library catalog of over 50 million books.  Our new ILLiad system lets you borrow anything you find in WorldCat.  Your request is delivered to you usually within 2 weeks for free!


Finding Journal and Magazine Articles

Try these Foreign Language databases to find articles on subjects related to Foreign Languages & Literature.  You can also go to the subject database menu on the library homepage and click on Foreign Languages or Canadian Studies.

Government of Canada Publications: Covers all types of Canadian federal government documents, some in full-text or French.

Canadian Periodicals Index: Full-text to many articles covering all of Canada, some available in French.

ProQuest Research Library: Information from over 2,600 periodicals and newspapers on a wide range of topics including the arts, business, humanities, health, social sciences, sciences.  You can choose Location or Document Language from drop-down menu.

MLA Bibliography: Massive bibliography from the Modern Language Association.

Project Muse: 250 journal titles from 40 scholarly publishers covering many fields in the humanities and social sciences.

Lexis-Nexis Academic: Full-text access to non-English language news sources. (Note: To search for foreign language articles you must first click the Guided News Search tab at the top.  Then, in the Step One box select Non-English Language News.  Next, in the Step Two box select French.)


Top French & Quebec Web Sites

Try the metasearch engine Vivisimo !

BBC World News in 43 Languages!

Quebec/Canada:

Portail Quebec: Votre porte d'entrée au gouvernement du Québec

National Assembly of Québec

Government of Canada site: Official site for the federal government in Canada. Offers information on Canada, its government, and federal programs and services

Dictionary of Canadian Biography online (Thanks to James Duprey for recommending this site!)

National Library and Archive of Quebec (Thanks to Marc-André Gosselin for recommending this page!)

French:

La France en Amérique (bilingual digital library exploring the history of the French presence in North America from the first decades of the 16th century to the end of the 19th century)

Délégation Générale à la Langue Française et aux Langues de France (French government's governing agency on the French language)

ABU: la Bibliothèque Universelle (Online works of French literature including Hugo and Molière)

Gallica: Bibliothèque Nationale de France (Digitized texts through the French National Library)

Voilà (French search engine)


This page created by: Elin O'Hara
Last Updated:
 March 7, 2008