Francophone Studies : Web Sources
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This guide was created by Kirstie Yu. It is managed by Kimberly Rooney and Emilie Songolo. For questions, please contact at emilie.songolo@wisc.edu.
Scope Note
Web-sources may be:
- Digital libraries
- Free databases
- Independent webpages with helpful links
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Digital Collections
- African Commemorative FabricsA sub-collection of African Studies. Features machine-made textiles commemorating people and events of cultural, social, and political importance. Many textiles in French.
- EuropeanaEuropeana is a union catalog of digital resources that provided one-stop shopping for academically-oriented digitized materials from European museums, galleries, libraries, archives and audio-visual collections. The digital resources include images, texts, audio and video. (Updated every 2 months)
- GallicaDigital collections from the Bibliothèque nationale française. Materials are largely historical; materials about former colonies can be found.
- MANIOC: Bibliothèque numérique Caraïbe, Amazonie, plateau des GuyanesDocuments textuels, sonores, iconographiques et des références concernant l'histoire culturelle, sociale, économique ou politique de ces pays.
- OAIsterOAIster is a union catalog of digital resources that provides "one-stop shopping" for academically-oriented digitized materials. OAIster provides access to the resources in nearly 900 collections world-wide by harvesting their descriptive metadata using OAI-PMH (the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting). The digital resources include digitized (scanned) books and articles, born-digital texts, audio files, images, movies, and datasets. (Updated approximately twice a month)
- UWDC African Studies CollectionThis collection includes published materials as well as archival documents in a variety of formats including books, manuscripts, sound recordings, photographs, maps, and other resources. Not restricted to French-language materials.