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PAPER STUDENTS
KEY: Before you begin
your information quest, consider
variant spellings such as the
original language spelling,
narrower terms, and related
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Browse the shelves in
the Reference Room.
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- For general information on your
topic refer to the Library
of Congress Classification Outline
available in the Reference Room
guides carousel. Browse the appropriate
call number section in the Reference
Room. Look at the Table of Contents
and Index(es) to find your topic
or subject in the book and to
see how it relates to other topics.
If you need assistance inquire
at the Reference Desk.
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| Find
Books (catalogs and ebooks) |
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See: How
to Find Books
- Start
with a few, key terms.
- Search
the subject fields: Subject keyword,
subject begins with, etc.
- For information
about a book:
- Use
the book's title for a subject
search.
- Search
the title in its original
language and English translation.
- Are
there variant spellings?
- For information
about an author:
- Use
the author's name for subject
search.
- Search
any variant spellings.
- Limit
to a foreign language, if
possible.
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Periodicals and eJournals |
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See: Find
Periodicals (Journals, Magazines,
and Newspapers)
Browse the Languages
and Literature subject list
of full text periodical titles available
at ORU. (Choose a subject, and
then select a title.)
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SR. PAPER STUDENTS
- Browse appropriate subject
fields.
- Search all relevant
fields, such as author,
title, subject.
- If possible, limit to
original language.
- Try another set of searches
using the foreign language
spelling.
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SR. PAPER STUDENTS
Professors are an
excellent resource. Consider
an interview with or email
to someone who has 1) traveled
to your area of interest,
2) researched your topic,
or 3) published relevant information.
Organizations and
associations can
also provide helpful information.
As an example, search france
association in Google,
Teoma.
Ixquick and/or Clusty.
Encyclopedia
Britannica, which
includes biographies, historical
events, timelines, and much
more, may be an excellent
resource for background information.
There are video clips, too!
Browse
media clips by subject. |
See Key Points:
Search
Engines
- ARTFL
- http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/ARTFL/
Cooperative project to digitize
main text of literature. Includes
texts in French,
Spanish
and Portuguese, German.
- Electronic
Text Collections in Western European
Literature
- http://www.lib.virginia.edu/wess/etexts.html
Includes "literary texts
in the western European languages
other than English."
- Embassy
of France in the United States
- http://www.info-france-usa.org/
Features information on current
news about French foreign policy,
magazine articles, numerous fact
sheets, links to French Web sites
and more. Includes free subscriptions
to Daily Press Briefing, Standpoint
(France's official position),
and American Press Review.
- French
Connection
- http://www.howard.edu/library/Assist/Guides/FrenchConnection.htm
By Mohamed Mekkawi, Howard University.
Selective list of links to sites
(in French) about French history,
culture, government, current events,
search tools and more.
- Le
Monde Interactif
- http://www.lemonde.fr/
France's major daily newspaper
- NewsLink
- http://newslink.org/nonuse.html
European newspapers online. Listed
by country.
- Project
Gutenberg
- http://www.gutenberg.net/index/shtml
Contains more than 500 works in
French and over 100 Spanish works
that can be freely downloaded
and read. Choose 'Online Book
Catalog' > 'Advanced Search'
> then set 'Language' limits
to search for works in a particular
language.
- Librarians'
Index to the Internet
- http://lii.org/
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