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French and Italian Studies

Online Resources

• General
• Libraries and Collections
• Universities, Institutes, Organizations
• Texts, Sources, Dictionaries
• Politics and Government
• Bookstores and Publishers
• French Discussion Groups
• Web Sources for Immigration Studies
• Web Sources on the XIX century

• General
• Libraries and Collections
• Universities, Organizations, Interest Groups
• Texts, Sources, Dictionaries
• News and Journals
• Politics and Government
• Bookstores and Publishers

Intute - a British portal of Internet resources in the Humanities that have been selected and evaluated by a network of subject specialists.

European Studies

• Portal of European Union
• Historical Research in Europe: A Guide to Archives and Libraries
• Euro Docs. Primary historical documents from Western Europe
• European Navigator (ENA)
• Reference Reviews Europe/IFB Abstracts
• WESSWEB

General History

• Center for Reformation and Renaissance Studies
• H-Net Humanities Online
• Immigration History Research Center
• International Institute for Social History (Netherlands)

Cinema

• Cannes Film Festival.
• Ciné-ressources - le catalogue collectif des bibliothèques et archives du cinéma.
• Cinecittà.

French Studies

General

• Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
• ClicNet - un site culturel et littéraire francophone. (Swarthmore University)
• WESS French Studies Web
• Local Sites
  • La Maison française (Stanford)
  • Stanford in Paris (Overseas Studies Program)
  • UC Berkeley's French Department
  • Alliance Française San Francisco
• Le Ministère de la Culture
• Quid (online summaries and sites related to the yearly almanac)
• Practical Information
  • Les codes postaux des villes françaises
  • Les pages jaunes

Libraries and Collections

See also Archives and Libraries in France

Libraries

• Bibliothèque nationale de France
• Catalogue collectif de France
• Gallica: Bibliothèque nationale de France. A full text and image server for BnF.
• Bibliothèque de l’Institut National de Recherche Pédagogique.
• Système universitaire de documentation ( SUDOC) . Access to collections of university and other higher education centers libraries, directed by Agence bibliographique de l’enseignement supérieur (ABES).

Archives

• Archives de France
• Archives Nationales
• Centre des archives d’outre-mer
• Institut Mémoires de l’édition contemporaine (IMEC)
• Institut National de l’Audiovisuel (INA)
• Service historique de la Défense

Other

• École nationale supérieure des sciences de l’information et des bibliothèques (ENSSIB)

Universities, Institutes, Organizations

• Communauté Juive de France
• École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)
• Guide Nicaise des associations d’amis d’auteurs (Gallimard)
• Maison des Sciences de l’Homme

Texts, Sources, Dictionaries

Also see the Text Collections on CD-ROM section and Databases and Digitalized Texts.

• ARTFL - Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language
• ATILF - Analyse et traitement informatique de la langue française.
• Collections. Image database sponsored by the French Ministry of Culture.
• Le Corpus des oeuvres de philosophie en langue française
• Dictionnaire des synonymes
• FranceTerme -- dictionary of scientific and technical terminology.
• Gallica: Bibliothèque nationale de France. A full text and image server for BnF.
• La délégation générale à la langue française et aux langues de France du Ministère de la culture et de la communication, élabore la politique linguistique du Gouvernement
• Lexique d’ancien français (University of Calgary)
  The on-line version of Altfranzösisches Wörterbuch, by Tobler, Adolf and Erhard Lommatzsch,1915.
• Liverpool Online Series: Critical editions of French texts. A resource-bank of critical editions and/or translations of French texts.
• Mercure François
• Le Musee virtuel des dictionnaires.
• Voltaire electronique
  

The following are just a few examples of sites on specific topics or authors where there are not only references to full texts, but also to research collections and news groups on the topics of interest

• Bayle - The Pierre Bayle Home Page
• Descartes - Oeuvres complètes de René Descartes, part of Intelex Past Masters Collection
• Dix-huitième siècle - Textes Électroniques Clandestins du dix-huitième siècle (University of Turin)
• Edit de Nantes - Edit de Nantes full text and commentary
• Foucault - Genealogy of Foucault
• Marie de France - International Marie de France Society
• May 68 in France - leaflets, pamphlets, and magazines from the Simon Fraser University libraries
• Proust - Kolb Proust Archive, Univ. of Illinois

Politics and Government

See also Contemporary France: Politics and Society

• AdmiNet. Information on French Government and Institutions.
• France Politique.
• INSEE (Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiques)
• Institut de rechereche pour le développement.
• Legifrance - le service public de la diffusion du droit.
• Sciences-Po - The Institut d'Études Politiques, the Fondation Nationale des sciences politiques, and related Centres de recherches, including links to journals and other research materials.
• Service-Public - le portail de l’administration française. Provides information for the French public on various government services and related practical information, but it is also useful for researching current government structure and publications.

Bookstores and Publishers

Also see Books and Publishing.

• Centre national du livre
• Alapage.com
• Chapitre.com
• FNAC
• France Antiques
• Livre-Rare-Book

French Discussion Groups

• H-France
• Francofil
• Francopholistes

  
  

Italian Studies

General

• Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
• Virgilio: guida italiana di Internet
• WESS Italian Studies Web
• H-Italy
• Local sites:
  • Casa Italiana (Stanford)
  • Consolato Generale d’Italia in San Francisco.
  • Istituto Italiano di Cultura di San Francisco
  • Italian Studies at UC Berkeley
  • Stanford in Florence

Texts, Sources, Dictionaries

• Accademia della Crusca. Includes catalogue of publications and offers an online catalogue of its 20th-century archive.
• Bibliografia italiana di studi sull'Umanesimo e il Rinascimento from the IRIS consortium of Florentine libraries.
• Biblioteca italiana. Digital texts assembled by the CIBIT (Centro interuniversitario Biblioteca italiana telematica), a consortium of Italian universities and libraries.
• Casalini EIO (Editoria italiana online) - full text of recently published Italian monographs, serials, and conference proceedings. Help using EIO.
  • I Libri (Casalini) - Italian Books in Print
  • Le Riviste (Casalini) - Italian current serials bibliography.
• Dante
  • DanteNet (Dante Society of America)
  • Dante Online
  • The Dartmouth Dante Project.
  • Princeton Dante Project
  • Renaissance Dante in Print
  • The World of Dante
• Decameron Web
• Duecento -- Italian poetry from origins to Dante
  Florence Renaissance Resources
  • The Online Florentine Catasto of 1427
  • The Online Florentine Tratte of 1286-1532
• The Galileo Project (Rice University)
• Garzanti Linguistica
• Gramsci -- International Gramsci Society
• History of Italy-Primary Documents (Eurodocs)
• Labyrinth Library: Italian Texts
• LiberLiber
• OVI (Centro Studi Opera del Vocabolario Italiano). So far close to 2000 texts are available, the majority of which are pre-1375. The current online texts are more readily accessible for U.S. scholars through ARTFL.

Libraries and Collections

Also see Libraries and Research.

• AIB-WEB - il Web dell'Associazione italiana biblioteche
• Catalogues online
  • Internet Culturale
  • IRIS. Consortium of several Florentine institutions that share one online catalogue (Associazione di Biblioteche Storico Artistiche e Umanistiche a Firenze).
  • SBN - Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale
  • Italian Union Catalogue of Serials
• The Ilardi Microform Collection,Yale University. - Renaissance Diplomatic Documents ca.1450 -- ca.1500)
• The Medici Archive Project - Johns Hopkins University and the Archivio di Stato Fiorentino
• Virtual Library CILEA -Virtual Reference Desk for library operators of universities, research and scholarly institutes

Universities, Organizations, Interest Groups

• L’Isola della Rugiada Divina - network dell’ebraismo italiano
• Italian women:
  • Server donne. A major site for Italian women’s studies, offering access to a variety of databases and publications, such as: Rete informativa Lilith.
  • SdD: Storia delle donne. Produced by SIS, Società italiana delle storiche.
  • IWW: Italian Women Writers Project
  • Il Paese delle donne
• Signum, Centro di Ricerche informatiche per le discipline umanistiche
• SISE, Società italiana degli storici dell’economia
• Università degli Studi di Firenze

News and Journals

• ANSA. Major press cooperative offering summaries of daily news.
• Archivio Luce. Italian newsreels and other historical footage.
• Corriere della Sera

Politics and Government

See also Italian Politics and Government.

• Camera dei Deputati
• Istituto Poligrafico dello Stato. Useful information on publications from the Italian government printing office.
• ISTAT (Istituto nazionale di statistica)
• Ministero della Giustizia
• Palazzo Chigi (Presidente and Consigio dei ministri)
• Political Resources on the Net
• Senato della Repubblica

Bookstores and Publishers

• A.L.A.I. (Associazione Librai Antiquari d'Italia)
• Libriantichi.com
• iBS: Internet Bookshop Italia. Beyond selling Italian books in print, this site provides a good bibliographical source for current publishing.
• Italia Pianeta Libro. Contains directories of Italian publishers, scholarly and cultural journals, and other resources about the Italian book trade.

Last modified: September 29, 2011