Databases
French Language
Newspapers
Le Monde - http://www.lemonde.fr/
Daily newspaper, Paris, France
Le Figaro - http://www.lefigaro.fr/
Daily newspaper, Paris, France
Websites
Autres.net -- http://www.auteurs.net/
This site is especially useful for locating information on contemporary French/Francophone authors. Covers the current press on French/Francophone authors.
ClicNet: un site culturel et littéraire francophone -- http://www.swarthmore.edu/Humanities/clicnet/ A searchable directory from Swarthmore College dealing with French language, culture and literature. This links to the directory to the French literature section.
Dix-Neuf: Ressources sur le dix-neuvième siècle -- http://www.bristol.ac.uk/dix-neuf/
Major resource for nineteenth-century French literature and culture.
Electronic Text Center -- http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/uvaonline.html
The Electronic Text Center's holdings include approximately 70,000 on- and off-line humanities texts in thirteen languages, with more than 350,000 related images. The French language collection includes Balzac, Descartes, Maupassant, Moliere, Rousseau, and Zola as well as many others.
Electronic Text Collections – Western European Studies Section Association of College and Research Libraries http://www.lib.virginia.edu/wess/etexts.html
Gallica: Images et textes numerisés -- http://gallica.bnf.fr/
The Bibliothèque Nationale's fast-growing collection of digitized materials.
Hapax: French Resources on the Web -- http://hapax.be.sbc.edu/
Directory of French Resources on the web.
île en île: un site pour valoriser les ressources informatives et culturelles du monde insulaire francophone -- http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/ile.en.ile/
Site dealing with literature from the Francophone islands.
Label France -- http://www.france.diplomatie.gouv.fr/label_france/index.html
Quarterly magazine issued by the French Ministry for Foreign affairs. Covers major aspects of France today: society, the economy, arts and show business, tourism, books, co-operation, science and technology, sport, life-styles, etc.
Lexique des Termes Littéraires -- http://www.lettres.net/lexique/
A service of Lettres.Net, this site provides definitions of literary terms dealing with French literature.
Voice of the Shuttle: Literature (Other Than English) -- http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2719
Web guides for the Humanities covering literature in a number of foreign languages including French.
Collins-Robert concise French-English, English-French dictionary by Beryl T. Atkins
Reference: 2640 .C69 1990
Larousse French-English, English-French dictionary
Main Stacks: PC2640 .L3174 2003
Le nouveau petit Robert : dictionnaire alphabétique et analogique de la langue française
Main Stacks : PC2625 .R5546 2004
The Oxford-Hachette French dictionary : French-English, English-French / edited by Marie-Hélène Corréard, Valerie Grundy = Le dictionnaire Hachette-Oxford : français-anglais, anglais-français / sous la direction éditoriale de Marie-Hélène Corréard, Valerie Grundy
Reference: PC2640 .O83 1994
Italian Language
Newspapers
Corriere della Sera - Daily newspaper, Milan, Italy
La Repubblica - Daily newspaper, Rome, Italy
Websites
AIB Web -- http://www.aib.it/ The Website of the Italian Library Association includes their library catalog.
Antologia della Letteratura Italiana -- http://www.crs4.it/HTML/Literature.html The Fragmentary Anthology of Italian Literature includes Poetry, Novels, Theatre, Religious texts, Contemporary Authors and Philosophy.
Biblioteca -- http://www.fausernet.novara.it/fauser/biblio/index.htm Library of the Italian Classics includes Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, and Machiavelli and many others. Created by Professor Giuseppe Bonghi.
Biblioteca Italiana -- http://www.bibliotecaitaliana.it/ Primary Italian texts from the Middle Ages to the 20th century. Search the catalogue for specific texts or authors and view the text in HTML or XML.
Digital Dante Project -- http://dante.ilt.columbia.edu/ Produced by Columbia University this site provides an online, multimedia translation of Dante Alighieri’s works.
Electronic Text Collections – Western European Studies Section http://www.lib.virginia.edu/wess/etexts.html
Association of College and Research Libraries
Italian Studies Web -- http://www.library.yale.edu/wess/italian.html The Italian Studies Web is designed to provide access to scholarly resources in Italian Studies. The resources are organized and have undergone a selection and evaluation process. Some annotations have been provided augmenting the research value of these resources to scholars.
LinguaWeb -- http://www.linguaweb.ndirect.co.uk/pages/whichlan.htm We offer learning and teaching materials in French, Spanish, German and Italian.
Voice of the Shuttle: Literature (Other Than English) -- http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2719 Web guides for the Humanities covering literature in a number of foreign languages including Italian.
The Pocket Oxford Italian Dictionary / edited by Lexus with Debora Mazza
Reference: PC1640 .P64 2000
The Oxford Italian Dictionary: Italian-English, English-Italian = italiano-inglese, inglese-italiano / [edited by] Debora Mazza
Reference: PC1640 .O94 1997
Spanish Language
Newspapers
LANIC Newspapers – http://lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/news/ Spanish language newspapers from around the world organized by country
El Pais Digital -- http://www.elpais.es/ Daily Newspaper from Spain
Directory of Spanish Newspapers in Spanish -- http://www.spanishnewyork.com/spanish-newspapers-in-spanish.html Selection of international newspapers, in Spanish from Mexico, Central and South America, Caribbean and Spain
Tiempos del Mundo -- http://www.tdm.com/
Newspaper, circulating in 16 countries of the Americas including: United States, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Dominican Republic, Columbia, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentina
Websites
Info-Dome Spanish Language Resources – San Diego State University Library http://infodome.sdsu.edu/research/guides/spanish/spanishlanguage.shtml This site provides excellent tools to assist students in learning Spanish or improving Spanish language skills.
http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/lss/lang/langlink.html Annotated list of materials for use by teachers and learners of languages
Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra – http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/ Hundreds of links to Spanish literary sites, libraries, texts, and digital projects
Iberian Studies Web - http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wess/iber/ From the Western European Studies Section of the Association of College & Research Libraries.
Electronic Text Center -- http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/uvaonline.html The Electronic Text Center's holdings include approximately 70,000 on- and off-line humanities texts in thirteen languages, with more than 350,000 related images. The Spanish language collection includes Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, Antonio Hurtado de Mendoza, Lope De Vega, Fernando de Zárate and many others.
Electronic Text Collections – Western European Studies Section
Association of College and Research Libraries
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/wess/etexts.html
Cervantes Project 2001 -- http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/cervantes/english/index.html From Texas A&M University, this site is a comprehensive reference and research site dedicated to the study of Cervantes' works and life. Provides full-text electronic texts of Cervantes' works along with bibliographies, images, study aids, etc.
Conjugation Trainer for Spanish Verbs -- http://www.spaleon.com/index.php Need practice in conjugating Spanish verbs? This free resource provides exercises in conjugating verbs. Covers various tenses.
Poesía Español -- Spanish Poetry -- http://poesi.as/ (Poesia desde el Romancero hasta el siglo XX.) Maintained by Luis Salas, this site has the full-text of poems from various Spanish authors up through the 20th century. Many of the poems contain a link to an English translation of the poem. Poems can be searched by title, author's name and keywords in the poem. Also contains an excellent set of links to other web sites dealing with Spanish language poetry (from all over the world.)
Sí, España -- http://www.sispain.org/spanish/index.html Available in either Spanish or English, this site provides a multitude of information on Spain's culture, language, history, government, political and social conditions.
Sol -- http://www.sol.es/ This Spanish-language search engine will retrieve web pages containing your keywords. It also has a subject directory where you can browse through various listings by subject.
Sonetas de Siglo de Oro: Golden Age Spanish Sonnets -- http://sonnets.spanish.sbc.edu/ Maintained by Alix Ingber, Professor of Spanish at Sweet Briar College, this site provides over 100 sonnets from the Golden Age in Spanish with English translations. Searchable by poet or poems' first lines.
Voice of the Shuttle: Literature (Other Than English) -- http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2719 Web guides for the Humanities covering literature in a number of foreign languages including Spanish.
The American Heritage Spanish dictionary : Spanish/English, inglés/español Reference: PC4640 .A47 2001
The concise American Heritage Spanish dictionary Reference: PC4640 .C553 2001
Diccionario del español actual / Manuel Seco, Olimpia Andrés, Gabino Ramos Reference: PC4625 .S43 1999
New Velázquez Spanish and English dictionary / by Mariano Velázquez de la Cadena, and Edward Gray, and Juan L. Iribas Reference: PC4640 .V55 1999
Random House Spanish-English, English-Spanish dictionary / Margaret H. Raventós Reference: PC4640 .R32 1999
The University of Chicago Spanish dictionary : Spanish-English, English-Spanish / originally compiled by Carlos Castillo and Otto F. Bond Reference: PC4640 .U5 2002
Molly Beestrum, MLS
Subject Bibliographer for Modern Foreign Languages
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