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Pamela Harris, Outreach and Instruction Librarian (SC)
Bronwen Densmore, Reference & Instruction Intern (SC)

Sections:

find books
find journal articles
dictionaries
creating a bibliography
getting more help

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FREN 091 : Senior Colloquium (SC)

find books:

Tripod library catalog.

The library catalog of Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges.

WorldCat

Provider: OCLC

A catalog of the holdings of books, journals, and other materials held by OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) member libraries. Includes manuscripts, maps, films and sound recordings. Covers works published before 1,000 BC-present.

E-ZBorrow

EZ-Borrow lets you search the library catalogs of more than 35 Pennsylvania academic libraries and directly request items not owned by the Tri-College Libraries, and items that are currently checked out of the Tri-College Libraries. Use the barcode on the back of your student ID to login to EZ-Borrow. Most EZ-Borrow items circulate for 28 days. Requests for books normally take 2-10 days to fill.

To request books not owned by the Tri-College Libraries and not in EZ-Borrow, use interlibraryloan; follow the directions on the EZ-Borrow/ILL page.

find journal articles:

ProQuest Research Library

Provider: ProQuest

Provides citations and full-text magazine and journal articles in a wide variety of disciplines, both scholarly and popular in scope. Covers 1971-present.

JSTOR

Provides full-text and page images from many of the top journals in most academic disciplines. Coverage is from the inception of the journal through three to five years ago.

Web of science

Provider: ISI

Provides access to the Social Sciences Citation Index, Science Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index. Search for scholarly articles in any discipline, or for articles that cite a known author or work. Coverage varies.

Persee

PERSEE is the website for scientific journals in social and human sciences, established by the Ministry of State Education, Higher Education and Research; the PERSEE website has as its mission the digitisation and online distribution of back collections of a vast corpus of periodicals. Wider availability of this rich scientific heritage will benefit French research by making it freely and publicly accessible.

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dictionaries:

The concise Oxford-Hachette French dictionary

Harper Collins French dictionary plus grammar

Le grand Robert de la langue française.

Author: Robert, Paul, 1910- Rey, Alain. 1910-

Publisher: Paris : Dictionnaires Le Robert, c2001.

creating a bibliography:

EndNote Web

Create a profile to use EndNote to format your bibliography.

Paraphrasing & citations

This page from the Writing Center - if you have any questions about documenting your research, check here. There are good examples of when and how to paraphrase and use in-text citation.

MLA Handbook for writers of research papers

Author: Gibaldi, Joseph, 1942-Modern Language Association of America.

Publisher: New York : Modern Language Association of America, 2003.

getting more help:

Contact Information: Pamela Harris, pharris1, x2056

If you need research assistance, I am at the Reference Desk on Mondays 7:00-10:00. You can also make an appointment and meet with me in my office, which is on Level 1 of McCabe in the far southeast corner, turn right at the French Dictionaries!

Bronwen Densmore, bdensmo1, x8543

I am at the Reference Desk on Tuesdays 7:00 - 10:00 and Fridays, 3:00 - 5:00. You can also drop by my office, near the Food Encyclopedias.