French History

Local Databases

The following represent some of the most important electronic resources of particular interest to French History. Some are only available to UF affiliated users. They have not been separated by format and include full-text databases, indexes, abstracts or dictionaries.

1. Historical Abstracts: http://serials.abc-clio.com/

The major indexing and abstracting tool of historical literature from 1450 to the present. Used primarily for advanced research. Also available in print.

2. Francis on Eureka, produced at the CNRS and available through the Eureka gateway, combines 19 indexes in the humanities and social sciences in one large database covering ca. 6000 journals. It can be used as a supplement to Historical Abstracts especially for French History.

3. ARTFL: American Research on the Treasury of the French Language: http://humanities.uchicago.edu/ARTFL/ARTFL.html(Access restricted to UF affiliated users.)

The most important French textual database, comprising some 2000 text of literary and historical material and still expanding. It is fully searcheable by specific text or the entire database. It also provides word frequency lists. The database also provides a complete online version of Diderot's and D'Alembert's Encyclopédie, a number of historical French dictionaries, as well as the French Bible of Louis Segond and Parallel Bibles in German, Latin and English. Among the resources of interest to French history are:

• The Image of France, an index of the printed imagery in France from 1811.
• University of Chicago Electronic Text Services
• The Parisian Stage during the French Revolution

Also links to:

• Chicago Group on Modern France
• French Revolutionary Pamphlets, digital facsimiles of Revolutionary documents.
• Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry
• French Illuminated manuscripts from the Bodleian Library.

4. Arts and Humanities Citation Index on FirstSearch

Indexes about 1000 periodicals in a variety of fields, including history. It should be used for specific purposes not as a general index, like Historical Abstracts. Contents are indexed in four ways, allowing user to identify "scholarship relevant to a topic by locating studies that cite pertinent book or article."

5. Dissertation Abstracts International on FirstSearch

Abstracts most American and Canadian dissertations and some British ones. Online version allows keyword searches of titles and of abstracts since 1980. Keyword of abstracts is very useful because of the sometimes imprecise subject classification.

6. Periodicals Contents Index (PCI): http://pci.chadwyck.com

Indexes over 2000 journals worldwide in the humanities and social sciences from 19^th century to 1993. For advanced research.