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Strictly speaking, a systematic list or enumeration of written works by a specific author or on a given subject, or that share one or more common characteristics (language, form, period, place of publication, etc.). When a bibliography is about a person, the subject is the bibliographee. A bibliography may be comprehensive or selective. Long bibliographies may be published serially or in book form. The person responsible for compiling a bibliography is the bibliographer. The Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) of the American Library Association has developed Guidelines for the Preparation of a Bibliography. Bibliographies are indexed by subject in Bibliographic Index: A Cumulative Bibliography of Bibliographies, published by H.W. Wilson. Abbreviated bibl. Compare with catalog. See also: Bibliographical Society of America, cartobibliography, discography, and filmography.
In the context of scholarly publication, a list of references to sources cited in the text of an article or book, or suggested by the author for further reading, usually appearing at the end of the work. Style manuals describing citation format for the various disciplines (APA, MLA, etc.) are available in the reference section of most academic libraries and online via the World Wide Web.

Also refers to the art and practice of describing books, with particular reference to their authorship, publication, physical form, and literary content. See also: analytical bibliography, annotated bibliography, biobibliography, current bibliography, degressive bibliography, national bibliography, period bibliography, retrospective bibliography, and selective bibliography.

ODLIS —Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science
by Joan M. Reitz
http://lu.com/odlis/odlis_b.cfm#bibliography

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Heidi Madden: heidi.madden@duke.edu

Introduction to the Duke Web Site

A Few Terms for Today's Discussion 

  • Abstract: a summary, a synopsis, or a type of index that includes summaries or descriptions of articles.
  • Article (document): item in a periodical, i.e., a magazine, journal or newspaper. Some online indexes/periodical databases use the word “document.”
  • Article Database: an electronic collection of full text articles pulled from a wide range of periodical titles. You can search article databases for articles by subject, author, or title. Article Databases can be multidisciplinary (e.g. Proquest, Ebsco host, Academic Search Premier), or subject specific.
  • Bibliography: a list of citations for books and articles on the same subject. Bibliography can also be a print or online tool for locating articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations in a specific field. For example the Modern Language Association (MLA), is online, IBZ is in print and electronic format, depending on year.
  • Current Bibliography: a listing of current publications as they appear, ongoing and up-to-date.. Available in print or online, see the listing below.  (Index and Abstracts or links to full text through: GET IT@DUKE)
  • Retrospective Bibliography: listing of publications on a particular subject with a defined time frame in the past. Available in print or online.
  • Bound Periodicals: periodicals in print, will have call number in Duke Catalog, referring you to Perkins Library Levels.
  • Catalog: a computer database (or a card catalog) of all the books (and more) HELD in a particular library or libraries - Note: why would you sonsult WORLDCAT; BNF?
  • Citation: for books includes the author, title, publisher, and date of publication. For articles, a citation includes the title of the article, author of the article, name of the periodical (source), volume (issue) number, date, and page numbers.
  • Descriptors: are the subjects assigned to the item by a cataloger - also called subject heading, see classification system.
  • Index: a  print or online searchable guide that helps users find references to articles in periodicals. 
  • Online Databases (Electronic Databases):  online  tools for locating articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations in a specific field. Modern Language Association (MLA) Bibliography Online - GETIT@Duke
  • Periodical or Serials: a library word used to describe magazines, journals, and newspapers.
  • WWW free on the web; Portal; Open Access

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Finding Articles and Full-text Sources on your Research Topic

>>>Including Encyclopedias and Dictionaries; Navigate to Databases by Subject

  • Area Studies and Cultures
  • >>>French Studies – French language only
  • >>>Western European
  • Arts and Humanities
  • Literature
  • >>>Women's Studies
  • History
  • Reference

Good Starting Points for Articles on Literature [Duke Databases]:

  • Arts and Humanities Citation Index (inside Web of Science)
  • Academic Search Premier (also good for reviews)
  • Choix
  • DIGIZeitschriften
  • FRANCIS
  • Google Scholar (remember to set Google Scholar Preferences to Duke University)
  • Historical Abstracts (for historical background, esp. Clio Notes)
  • Humanities Abstracts
  • Humanities International Complete
  • Info Trac
  • IBZ (includes searching of EZB)
  • Jstore (not the most current editions)
  • Literature Resource Center
  • MLA  (MLA Guide)
  • Periodical Contents Index PCI
  • Repère
  • Project Muse
  • Revues.org

more:

 >>>Browse "Databases by Subject" and identify more for your particular research topic.

How do you identify bibliographies - and why would you want to?

The following are advanced resources which you would want to consult for a comprehensive literature search. More information can be found in the Research Guide: http://library.duke.edu/research/subject/guides/french/index.html

"Thus, an early form of criticism was the bibliothèque, or "library," in effect a bibliography directed at readers and at those who would build up a library. Early examples are Charles Sorel’s Bibliothèque françoise (1664), in effect a survey of books written in French, and his later De la connoisance des bons livres (1671), which establishes a standard of taste. Unlike the poetics, these bibliothèques did not take the form of learned treatises but of bibliographies that introduced the reader to the world of books, discussed the merits of certain works, and held up others for emulation or as examples of good prose. Adrien Baillet’s Jugements des savants sur les ouvrages des auteurs, seven quarto volumes written in the seventeenth century and published from 1722 to 1730, not only surveys the world of the book, outlines a hierarchy of values and genres, and classifies the world of knowledge but also asks the pertinent questions, what makes a good book? what are the implications of writing? and even, what are the characteristics of authors? "
Saisselin, R. G. French Theory and Criticism: 1. Seventeenth Century. In: Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory. 2005 [Duke Database]. 

  • Duke Catalog: Perform a Subject Search on French Literature, and browse entries by century, for example
    French literature -- 16th century -- Bibliography.
    French literature -- 17th century -- Bibliography
    NOTE    : copy and past he subject terms above into the Duke Catalog advanced search. Do you keep or delete "--"?
  • Duke Catalog: Perform a Keyword Search on your topic and add “bibliography," for example:
    add “bibliography” to a search for French poetry, prose, epic, romance, lyric poetry, drama, prose, etc.
    Use the same terms for a search in Worldcat
    Use the same terms in a search of the MLA Database
    Check for lists of bibliographies in the Guides to French Literary Studies

Current Bibliographies

Bibliographie de la littérature française du Moyen Age à nos jours [serial].  (Rancoeur)
Paris, Librairie A. Colin. 
Continues  Bibliographie de la littérature française moderne (XVIe-XXe siécles) 
Continued by  Bibliographie de la littérature française (XVIe-XXe siécles) (1985) 
Perkins/Bostock Library:
Reference | Z2177 .B535  

Bibliographie der französischen Literaturwissenschaft/ Bibliographie d’histoire littéraire française [serial].  (Klapp)
Frankfurt am Main, V. Klostermann. 
Perkins/Bostock Library:
Reference | Z2171 .B56

A Critical bibliography of French literature. [General and Restrospective].
D.C. Cabeen, general editor. 
Published  Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 1947- 
v. 1. The medieval period / edited by Urban T. Holmes, Jr. –
v. 2. The sixteenth century / edited by Alexander H. Schutz –
v. 2. The sixteenth century / edited by Raymond C. La Charité (rev. 1985) –
v. 3. The seventeenth century / edited by Nathan Edelman -- v.
3A suppl. The seventeenth century / edited by H. Gaston Hall –
v. 4. The eighteenth century / edited by George R. Havens, Donald F. Bond –
v. 4. suppl. The eighteenth century / edited by Richard A. Brooks –
v. 5. The nineteenth century. –
v. 6. The twentieth century / edited by Douglas W. Alden and Richard A. Brooks (3 v.) 
Perkins/Bostock Library:
Reference | PC2001 .C2 1947  

Digizeitschriften: Zeitschrift fur Romanische Philologie  (section on bibliography; ceased publication in 1964 and is continued by Romanische Bibliographie listed below).

MLA International Bibliography

French periodical index [serial].  Repertoriex
Published  1973/74-1995. 
Published  Westwood, Mass. : F.W. Faxon Co., 1976-1996. 
Perkins/Bostock Library:
Reference Index Area | z054.1 F877 In process-LC  

IBZ Internationale Bibliographie der Zeitschriftenliteratur

Revue d’histoire littéraire de la France [serial]. 
Published  1. année (jan. 1894)- 
Published  [Paris] A. Colin.  Section “Bibliographie”
Perkins/Bostock Library: Periodicals | R454HL 
Perkins/Bostock Library: Current Periodicals and Newspapers | R454HL 

Romanische Bibliographie [serial] = Bibliographie romane = Romance bibliography.
Tübingen : Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1965-
AT UNC: Davis Library Reference    Call Number Z7032 .Z45

Studi francesi [serial]. 
Torino, Società editrice internazionale. 
Perkins/Bostock Library:
Periodicals | S933F 
Current Periodicals and Newspapers | S933F 

The Year’s work in modern language studies [serial]. 
Published  Vol. 1 (1929/30)- 
Published  London [etc.] Modern Humanities Research Association [etc.]
Duke only1930 - 1994 Available Online
Perkins/Bostock Library: Stacks | PB1 .Y45 

Selection of Restrospective or Period Bibliographies for the 16th 17th and 18th Century.

Bibliographie internationale de l’Humanisme et de la Renaissance [serial]. 
Published  1- 1965- 
Librairie Droz. 
Perkins/Bostock Library: Reference | CB361 .B535  

Bibliographie française du XVe siècle à 2003.
K.G. Saur Verlag.
2003 3. éd. CD-ROM.
English  Book  Computer File 2 computer optical discs ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide (1 v. (various pagings) ; 23 cm.)
Münich : K.G. Saur Electronic Pub., ; ISBN: 3598407890 9783598407895
Not yet available, only held at Berkeley at this time.

British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books. 
A short title catalogue of French books, 1601-1700, in the Library of the British Museum.  1969 
Perkins/Bostock Library: Stacks | Z2162 .B87 1969

British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books. 
Short-title catalogue of books printed in France and of French books printed in other countries from 1470 to 1600 in the British Museum. 
Published  London, Printed by order of the Trustees, 1924. 
Perkins/Bostock Library: Reference | Z2162 .B86 1924  

Cabeen, D. C.
A Critical bibliography of French literature. [General and Restrospective]
Published  Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 1947- 
v. 1. The medieval period / edited by Urban T. Holmes, Jr. –
v. 2. The sixteenth century / edited by Alexander H. Schutz –
v. 2. The sixteenth century / edited by Raymond C. La Charité (rev. 1985) –
v. 3. The seventeenth century / edited by Nathan Edelman -- v.
3A suppl. The seventeenth century / edited by H. Gaston Hall –
v. 4. The eighteenth century / edited by George R. Havens, Donald F. Bond –
v. 4. suppl. The eighteenth century / edited by Richard A. Brooks –
v. 5. The nineteenth century. –
v. 6. The twentieth century / edited by Douglas W. Alden and Richard A. Brooks (3 v.) 
Perkins/Bostock Library:
Reference | PC2001 .C2 1947  

Cioranescu, Alexandre. 
Bibliographie de la littérature française du seizième siècle. Collaboration et Préf. de V.-L. Saulnier.  Paris, C. Klincksieck, 1959. 
Perkins/Bostock Library: Reference | Z2172 .C5 1959  

Cioranescu, Alexandre. 
Bibliographie de la littérature française du dix-septième siècle. 
Paris, Éditions du Centre national de la recherche scientifique, 1965-67. 
Perkins/Bostock Library: Reference | Z2172 .C52 1965  

Cioranescu, Alexandre. 
Bibliographie de la littérature française du dix-huitième siècle ... 
Paris, Éditions du Centre national de la recherche scientifique, 1969.  
Perkins/Bostock Library: Reference | Z2172 .C48 1969  

Conlon, Pierre M. 
Prélude au siècle des lumières en France. Répertoire chronologique de 1680 à 1715. 1970 
Library Service Center: 015.44 C752P LSC

Conlon, Pierre M. 
Le siècle des lumières : bibliographie chronologique. 1983 
Perkins/Bostock Library; Stacks | B802 .C665 1983

Giraud, Jeanne. 
Manuel de bibliographie littéraire pour les XVIe, XVIIe et XVIIIe siec̀les français.
1921-1935. 1939  Perkins/Bostock Library: Reference | Z2171 .G573 1939
1936-1945. 1956  Perkins/Bostock Library: Stacks | z840 G522MB
1946-1956. 1970  Perkins/Bostock Library: Stacks | z840 G522MC

Harvard College Library. Dept. of Printing and Graphic Arts. 
Catalogue of books and manuscripts. Compiled by Ruth Mortimer under the supervision of Philip Hofer and William A. Jackson. 
Published  Cambridge, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1964-
1. French 16th century books. 2 v.--pt. 2. Italian 16th century books. 
Perkins/Bostock Library: Stacks | Z881 .H346 1964  
Perkins/Bostock Library: Stacks | z655.1 H339H  

Lanson, Gustave.. 
Manuel bibliographique de la littérature française moderne, XVIe, XVIIe, XVIIIe et XIXe siècles. 
Edition  Nouv. éd., rev. et cor. 
Paris, Hachette, 1925. 
Perkins/Bostock Library: Reference | Z2171 .L22 1925  

Lanson, Gustave, 1857-1934. 
Manuel bibliographique de la littérature française moderne, 1500-1900. 
Paris, Hatchette, 1909-1914. 
Perkins/Bostock Library: Stacks | Z2171 .L367 1909  
Perkins/Bostock Library:Reference | Z2171 .L367 1909  

Modern Language Association of America, French Group III
Bibliography of French seventeenth century studies [serial]. 
Published  no. 1-25; 1952/53-1977. 
Perkins/Bostock Library: Stacks | z840.903 M689B  

Will, Samuel Frederic, 1900- 
A bibliography of American studies on the French renaissance (1500-1600).
Urbana, The University of Illinois press, 1940. 
Perkins/Bostock Library: Stacks | P25 .I455 v.26