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Organizing Your Research
- Research Project CalculatorThe Research Project Calculator is an online tool that helps you set a schedule for your paper. Enter the day you will start it, the day it's due, and you will get a suggested timeframe for each step. Click on each step (Selecting Your Topic, or Find Articles) and you'll get great tips for using the Binghamton University Libraries to help you write your paper.
- Citation Managers GuideCitation managers help you manage citations and insert bibliographies into your papers. This guide will help you get started with choosing and using the citation manager that works best for you among Zotero, Mendeley, and EndNote Basic.
Binghamton University Libraries Databases for French Language, Literature and Culture
- Find ItSearches the libraries' catalog and article databases at the same time.
See also PLACES TO START databases.
- Literature Resource CenterAccess biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline.Includes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, and journalism.
- MLA International Bibliography with Full TextLiterature, languages, linguistics, and folklore from over 6,500 sources published worldwide. Coverage includes literature from all over the world--Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and North and South America. Folklore is represented by folk literature, music, art, rituals, and belief systems. Linguistics and language materials range from history and theory of linguistics, comparative linguistics, semantics, stylistics, and syntax to translation.
- JSTORPrimarily a journal archive with some current content. If you are looking for current information, you may want to try other databases as well.
- Literature Online (LION)Over a third of a million full-text works of poetry, prose and drama in English, together with the definitive online criticism and reference library.
- FIAF International Index to Film PeriodicalsIndexes over 500,000 articles from academic and popular film journals. Also includes the International Index to TV Periodicals, Treasures from the Film Archives, silent film holdings archives and International Directory of Film/TV Documentation Collections.
- Bloomsbury Medieval StudiesInterdisciplinary combination of primary material and secondary scholarship, providing access to ebooks, the Encyclopedia of the Global Middle Ages, digitized images of primary source materials, and more. Also includes the Medieval Clothing and Textiles Collection - featuring multiple examinations of specific clothing items and studies in the weaving, embroidering, and exporting of clothing and textiles around Medieval Europe.
- Humanities Source UltimateFull text for many of the most important academic sources in the humanities. .
- Literary Reference SourceCollection of author biographies, plot summaries and work overviews, full-text essays from leading publishers, literary reference books and monographs, cover-to-cover full text for literary magazines and journals, book reviews from the most prestigious publications, poems from hundreds of sources, short stories, classic texts, author interviews, and much more.
- Project MuseHumanities, social sciences, and mathematics journals from several university presses.
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Citation Help
When you cite your sources, whether they are books, journal articles, a web site, speeches, television transcripts, etc., you will be expected to use a specific format with regard to order and punctuation. There are a number of style manuals, but most literary papers will tend to follow the Modern Language Association's recommended style. A copy of the MLA Handbook is kept at the Reference Desk in Bartle, Science, and the UDC. An electronic version is available on the web from B.U. Libraries' Citation Help page, which also contains information on APA and Chicago styles.
See also: Academic Honesty and Plagiarism, tips and advice on avoiding plagiarizing sources
For image help and citation see Using Images guide.