19th Century French Civilization

Resource Guide for "Projet de Recherche"

 

Elisabeth Remak-Honnef

1368 McHenry Library

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remak@ucsc.edu 

 

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Getting Started 

 

The library's research page serves as a useful point of departure.

• Before starting your search, take a look at the "How to Get Started" page.

Especially useful for this assignment are the sections on:

• evaluating information on the web
• distinguishing between primary and secondary sources
• citation styles
• How to Distinguish Between Popular & Scholarly Sources
• How to Write an Annotated Bibliography

 

Using CRUZCAT 

A keyword search is probably the easiest way to get started. Once you find some titles that are useful, click on the Library of Congress subject headings to search further. 

 

For this assignment, the following subject headings might be useful -- they are just a sample of relevant subject headings that you might want to look at:

 

France- bio- bibliography

France-Civilization-19th century

France-Civilization-1830-1900

France-Intellectual life-19th century

France-Social conditions-19th century 

 

You also might want to browse the following call number areas both in McHenry Reference and in the general stacks:

DC (French history), N (art), PQ (French literature), GT (manners and customs), M (music)

 

After working with Cruzcat and browsing print resources, take a look at the full-text and bibliographic online databases, and then move outwards to generalized web searches. The better defined your search vocabulary, the better chance you have of finding good and reliable materials via a google search.

 

In addition to print and electronic textual resources, don't forget about visual resources like digital images, slides, films and maps as well as audio resources for music.

 

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

 

Dictionnaire de biographie française

the ARTFL Project

Gale Virtual Reference

 

Full Text Image and Sound Databases

 

maps 

Project Muse

JSTOR

LION

Oxford Art Online

Grove Dictionary of Music

ARTSTOR

Timeline of French Art from the Met

Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries

Accunet

Using Digital Images for Teaching and Research

WESSWEB: French Studies Web

Gallica

e-chronolgie.org

 

Bibliographic Databases

 

Bibliography of the history of art 

Historical Abstracts

Sociological Abstracts

MLA

Francis

PAO