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  • Librarian: Catherine Minter
  • Location: Herman B Wells Library E960
  • Phone: (812) 855-1702
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French & Italian

Pertains to the study of French and Italian language, literature, linguistics, culture and history. It has particular links with African Studies, West European Studies, Comparative Literature, and History.


For information on doing research in French or Italian, go to the home pages of the French Collection or the Italian Collection.


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Database available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)
- about - Full-text coverage of magazines, newspapers, and scholarly journal articles in almost every academic discipline.
  • Coverage: Varies by title

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=4

Database available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)
ARTFL - about - Electronic text collections in French from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century, plus a search engine that simultaneously searches four historic French dictionaries.
  • Coverage: MIddle ages to the twentieth century

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=28

Database available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)
- about - Search citations from arts and humanities journals published from 1975 to the present. In-library access is available for the years 1975-1994 on a networked CD-ROM.
  • Coverage: 1975-

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=29

Database available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)
Book History Online - about - Titles of books and articles on the history of the printed book worldwide.
  • Coverage: 1990- , with some earlier items

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=6750818

Database available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)
- about - Caribbean literature in fiction, poetry, manuscripts, archival content, interviews, photographs and other formats.
  • Coverage: 1900 - present

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=2856031

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Chicago Manual of Style Online - about - The electronic version of the classic guide to documentary style.

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=2384486

Database available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)
Electronic Enlightenment - about - Full text and searchable correspondence between the greatest thinkers and writers of the long eighteenth century.
  • Coverage: 18th century

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=7420538

Database available without restriction
European Library (Formerly Gabriel: European Libraries) - about - Gateway to European national libraries.
  • Coverage: Varies

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=38589

Database available without restriction
Film Literature Index - FLI (with access to fulltext articles) - about - Covers the film and television industry, including movie and television reviews, book reviews, and scholarly articles.
  • Coverage: 1976-2001

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=1535862

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FRANCIS - about - An international, multilingual, multidisciplinary humanities and social sciences database.
  • Coverage: 1984-

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=96

Database available without restriction
- about - A tool produced by the Google search engine that searches the contents of books that they have scanned.
  • Coverage: Varies

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=2918985

Database available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)
Grand Robert Dictionary Online - about - The definitive French language dictionary online.
  • Alternate Title: Grand Robert de la langue francaise

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=4126945

Database available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)
- about - Index to journals, chapters and theses about world history, 1450 to present. Consult America: History and Life for coverage of U.S. and Canada.
  • Coverage: 1954-present

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=109

Database available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)
Humanities and Social Sciences Retrospective - about - Bibliographic database providing access to scholarly journals in a broad array of the humanities and social sciences.
  • Coverage: 1907-1984
  • Alternate Title: Humanities & Social Sci Retro

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=976208

Database available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)
International Medieval Bibliography - about - The IMB indexes articles in journals, conference proceedings, collections of essays and Festschriften.
  • Alternate Title: IMB Online

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=976209

Database available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)
Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance - about - Bibliographic database of interdisciplinary journal literature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700).
  • Coverage: Varies: 1859-present

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=137

Database available without restriction
- about - The Indiana University online catalog.
  • Coverage: Varies

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=38591

Database available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)
Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism - about - Survey of prominent thinkers, schools, and movements in literary criticism and theory.

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=3045975

Database available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)
- about - Provides searchable full text of historical runs of important scholarly journals in the humanities, arts, sciences, ecology, and business.
  • Coverage: From the first issue of each journal up to 3-5 years ago

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=141

Database available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)
- about - Organized into 5 categories, LexisNexis includes articles from international newspapers, magazines, transcripts, legal research and medical journals.
  • Coverage: varies

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=145

Database available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)
- about - Covers all aspects of the study of language and contains non-evaluative abstracts of articles from over 1,200 international serials as well as other resources.
  • Coverage: 1973 - current

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=149

Database available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)
Literature Criticism Online - about - Online compilation of Gale literary criticism series.

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=3457829

Database available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)
- about - Indexes material in modern languages, literature, linguistics and folklore. Major bibliographic tool for French Studies researchers.
  • Coverage: 1963-

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=159

Database available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)
Oxford Language Dictionaries Online - about - Bilingual dictionaries in English and French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, and German.

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=3240512

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Periodicals Archive Online - about - Previously known as PCI Full Text, Periodicals Archive Online offers backfiles of over 400 humanities and social sciences journals.
  • Coverage: 17th century to the present

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=1854914

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Periodicals Index Online - about - Citations to articles in scholarly journals in a variety of languages, from their first issues through 1995.
  • Coverage: First issues to 1995

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=170

Database available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)
- about - Full-text access to the contents of scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences across over more than 300 years.
  • Coverage: Varies, mostly from 1995 onward

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=173

Database available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses - about - Comprehensive source for information on doctoral dissertations from universities in the United States and Canada. It also indexes a small number of master's theses.
  • Coverage: Citations only from 1861- present; from 1980 to present, 350-word abstracts are included on dissertations; from 1988 to present, 150-word abstracts are included on Master's theses; full text is available from 1997 to the present.
  • Alternate Title: Dissertations and Theses

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=73

Database available without restriction
Union Catalogue of France - about - Gateway to material in French libraries.

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=2273839

Database available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)
- about - An interface that allows cross-searching of Web of Science, BIOSIS Previews, Medline, Zoological Record, and JCR. Not all fields from individual databases are included.
  • Coverage: 1955-

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=203

Database available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)
- about - Thousands of libraries may be searched from this one catalog; interlibrary loan requests can also be made.
  • Coverage: Varies; 33+ million records

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=38599

Database available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus)
Dictionary of Literary Biography - about - Complete text of Gale's DLB series.
  • Alternate Title: DLB

  • To link to this resource use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=7992179