Background Research
- Google Advanced SearchThis Google feature allows you to set search parameters such as phrase searching, language, internet domain, etc. It's really useful for targeted searching.
- Credo Reference This link opens in a new windowSearch the full-text of encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, and other full-text reference books. Access to individual reference titles is also available from the Bertrand Library catalog.
Suggested Credo articles:
- French Caribbean - from Encyclopedia of Free Blacks and People of Color in the Americas
- Slavery and Abolition (in French Caribbean) - from A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures: Continental Europe and its Empires
- Francophone Black Atlantic - from A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures: Continental Europe and its Empires
- French Empire: 8. Caribbean - from The Encyclopedia of Empire
- Caribbean, French - from Latin American History and Culture: Encyclopedia of Early Modern Latin America (1820s to 1900)
- France - from Encyclopedia of Free Blacks and People of Color in the Americas
This list is by no means complete or exhaustive, just given to demonstrate how valuable these full-text reference resources can be!
Official Tourism Websites
Recommended Databases
- WorldCat Library Catalog This link opens in a new windowSearch for books, articles, and more that are held by Bucknell and beyond.
- Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new windowOne of the most comprehensive databases in the social sciences, Sociological Abstracts includes coverage of fields including anthropology, economics, education, medicine, community development, philosophy, demography, political science, and social psychology. Includes abstracts of journal articles, conference papers, dissertations, books, and book reviews.
- Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new windowContains citations, abstracts, and some full text of scholarship on the history of the world from 1450 to the present.
- Global Issues (Gale in Context) This link opens in a new windowAn excellent resource for beginning to develop a topic, GIC organizes its content around specific topics. "Browse Issues and Topics" to access multimedia portal pages on some of the world's most important issues.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowAn archive of core, scholarly journals from a variety of subject areas. Coverage begins with the very first issue through all but recent years.
- Project Muse This link opens in a new windowProvides full text to nearly 200 scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.
Limiting to French Resources
Some of our resources are exclusively in English (like Credo). Others, like WorldCat, Nexis Uni, and subject-specific databases will allow you to filter your results by language after searching. You can also search using French keywords.
Remember names don't always translate literally. For example, The French West India Company = La Compagnie française des Indes occidentales.
Librarian
Mary Broussard
she/her/hers
Contact:
570-577-1140
Subjects: Africana Studies, Animal Behavior, Art and Art History, Biology, Chemistry, Classics, Comparative & Digital Humanities, Critical Black Studies, East Asian Studies, Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, Latin American Studies, Medicine, Philosophy, Physics and Astronomy, Religious Studies, Theatre and Dance