Répertoires de sites (Université de Sherbrooke): A portal to online dictionaries and encyclopedias
Dictionnaires Spécialisés Français(Université de Sherbrooke). A portal to a large number of dictionaries in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
This Collection includes over 650 titles with particular emphasis on subject encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, and reference handbooks. Also included are over 1,000 short reference videos, nearly 300,000 high-resolution art images, and thousands of additional images across all subject areas. Subject coverage is especially diverse and equipped to address all key disciplines.
Oxford Reference contains over 100 general and subject dictionaries, and language reference works published by Oxford University Press. The collection includes quotations, proverbs, place-names and other general reference works. Among the English language reference works are thesauri and a wide variety of dictionaries (e.g. grammar, abbreviations, idioms, eponyms, euphemisms). Foreign language dictionaries include German, Italian, and Spanish. Specialized subject dictionaries are available in a wide range of disciplines.
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Subjects: Archaeology Art & Architecture Bilingual dictionaries Classical studies Encyclopedias English Dictionaries and Thesauri History Language reference Law Linguistics Literature Media studies Medicine and health Music Names studies Performing arts Philosophy Quotations Religion Science and technology Social sciences Society and culture
A collection of over 250 Reference Titles. Sage Reference Online is a social science book platform, where you will find an expansive range of SAGE book and reference content.
Subjects include: Business & Management Communication and Media Studies Counseling and Psychotherapy Criminology & Criminal Justice Education Engineering & Materials Science Geography, Earth & Environmental Science Health and Social Care History Life & Biomedical Sciences Maths, Physics, Chemistry & Computing Philosophy Politics & International Relations Psychology Research Methods & Evaluation Sociology
Developed cooperatively with scholars and librarians worldwide, Oxford Bibliographies offers exclusive, authoritative research guides. Oxford Bibliographies combines features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia, giving researchers scholarship across a wide variety of subjects.
Subjects: African Studies African American Studies American Literature Anthropology Art History Atlantic History Biblical Studies British and Irish Literature Buddhism Childhood Studies Chinese Studies Cinema and Media Studies Classics Communication Criminology Ecology Education Hinduism International Law International Relations Islamic Studies Jewish Studies Latin American Studies Linguistics Literary and Critical Theory Medieval Studies Military History Music Philosophy Political Science Psychology Public Health Renaissance and Reformation Social Work Sociology Victorian Literature
Abbreviation: oxbib Vendor: Oxford University Press Subjects: Religion, Urban and Regional Planning, *General / Multi-Subject, Bibliography Type: Encyclopedias & Dictionaries, Research Starter
Includes Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and Contemporary Literary Criticism Select Provides access to biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline.
Provides a historical survey of figures, schools, and movements and is updated annually. It includes entries and subentries on critics and theorists, critical schools and movements, and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods. Each entry has a bibliography of both primary and secondary sources.
Developed cooperatively with scholars and librarians worldwide, Oxford Bibliographies offers exclusive, authoritative research guides. Oxford Bibliographies combines features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia, giving researchers scholarship across a wide variety of subjects. Includes relevant subjects: Linguistics, Medieval Studies, Renaissance and Reformation, Philosophy, and Cinema and Media Studies.
Subjects: African Studies African American Studies American Literature Anthropology Art History Atlantic History Biblical Studies British and Irish Literature Buddhism Childhood Studies Chinese Studies Cinema and Media Studies Classics Communication Criminology Ecology Education Hinduism International Law International Relations Islamic Studies Jewish Studies Latin American Studies Linguistics Literary and Critical Theory Medieval Studies Military History Music Philosophy Political Science Psychology Public Health Renaissance and Reformation Social Work Sociology Victorian Literature
Abbreviation: oxbib Vendor: Oxford University Press Subjects: Religion, Urban and Regional Planning, *General / Multi-Subject, Bibliography Type: Encyclopedias & Dictionaries, Research Starter
Includes a chronology, introduction, bibliography, and over 400 cross-referenced dictionary entries on authors, trends, genres, concepts, and literary and historical developments in French theater.
Includes a combination of biographies and topical essays that describe the contributions of women to the science, politics, and culture of the Renaissance.
Biography (Gale In Context)This link opens in a new windowGale In Context: Biography is an engaging experience for those seeking contextual information on the world's most influential people. Organized into a user-friendly portal experience, it merges Gale's authoritative reference content, including Lives & Perspectives, with periodicals and multimedia. Users can browse to find people based on occupation, role, or historical period, or search based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender, as well as by keyword and full text.
Biography is built on a foundation of more than 600,000 biographical entries covering international figures from all time periods and areas of study. Providing coverage of the most searched and studied people, Biography includes over 5,000 portal pages on contemporary and historical figures. Reference content is offered alongside videos, audio selections, images, primary sources, and magazine and journal articles from hundreds of major periodicals and newspapers. This resource is continuously updated to ensure users have access to the latest information.
Abbreviation: brc Vendor: Gale Subjects: *General / Multi-Subject Type: Biographies
Biography and Genealogy Master Index enables users to locate biographical entries contained in more than 1,000 volumes and editions of important current and retrospective biographical reference sources. This index contains citations that point to over 15 million biographies on nearly 5 million people, living and deceased, from all time periods, geographical locations, and fields of endeavor.
Abbreviation: biog Vendor: Gale Subjects: *General / Multi-Subject Type: Biographies
Addresses the theoretical and pedagogical implications of redefining French Studies as an interdisciplinary field, while providing practical examples of the kind of criticism that such a shift would entail.
Simultaneously searches Jean Nicot's Thresor de la langue française (1606), Jean-François Féraud's Dictionnaire critique de la langue française (1787-1788), Émile Littré's Dictionnaire de la langue française (1872-1877) and the Dictionnaire de L'Académie française 1st (1694), 4th (1762), 5th (1798), 6th (1835), and 8th (1932-5) editions.
French Reference Works and Resources includes:
Dictionnaire vivant de la langue française (DVLF)[Beta]
ATILF's public digitized version of the Trésor de la Langue Française (TLFi) Dictionary
ARTFL's Dictionnaries d'autrefois dictionary collection.
Robert Estienne, Dictionarium Latinogallicum (1552)
Pierre Bayle, Dictionnaire historique et critique (1740)* (public and subscriber versions)
Louis Moréri, Le Grand dictionnaire historique (1759)*
Diderot and d'Alembert, Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers (1751-72)
The four volume Supplément à l'Encyclopédie (1776-78)
The Journal de Trévoux (1751-58)*
Jean-François Féraud, Dictionaire critique de la langue française (1787-1788)
French-English Dictionary (Open to the public)
French Verb Conjugator (Open to the public)
ARTFL-FRANTEXT is the main ARTFL database, comprising more than 3,500 French language texts from the 12th through the 20th centuries--approximately 215 million words and 675,000 unique word forms
Ce dictionnaire présente une organisation en système d’hypertexte de 3918 expressions idiomatiques (EIs) usuelles (2459 en français de France et 1459 en portugais brésilien)
The dictionary is based on a varied number of texts up to c.1350. Includes variant spellings. Detailed definitions and grammatical functions are provided, together with common phrases with their translations.
For more dictionaries,
Search the library catalog, using the terms French language -- Dictionaries as a subject heading
A project from the Centre de recherche inter-langues sur la signification en context (CRISCO) at the Univeristé de Caen. It contains 49,160 entries and 200,649 .
Three hundred entries by leading scholars in a variety of fields - from anthropology and literary theory to linguistics and philosophy - survey the study of signs and symbols in human culture in this new work. The articles cover key concepts, theories, theorists, schools, and issues in communications, cognition, and cultural theory.