French Libraries Online
Vladimir Vrabec
vrabec at cs.felk.cvut.cz
Thu Feb 3 14:28:50 CET 1994
Vazeni,
prikladam e-dopis upresnujici francouzske informacni zdroje, predevsim
knihovni zdroje. Zdravi
Vladimir Vrabec
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Date: Mon, 17 Jan 1994 12:15:02 ITA
From: Fabio Metitieri <METITIER%ITOCSIVM.CSI.IT at earn.cvut.cz>
Subject: French Libraries Online
FYI FRANCE: French Libraries Online -- January, 1994 update
French Libraries Online
by: Jack Kessler
kessler at well.sf.ca.us
(Thanks to many friends -- many of them French -- for much help in what
follows, although any inaccuracies are my fault or that of the networks'
incredible rate of change. Suggested additions, deletions, and
corrections will be gratefully received. The term "opac" used here means
"Online Public Access Catalog": the library catalog and, increasingly --
as with those on the Internet -- more. Standard networking caveat:
trying to keep track of Internet resources with a list is like fitting
round pegs into square holes -- navigating tools keep multiplying, as do
the resources, and combinations and permutations of alternative search
strategies begin to make a flat - file list resemble a standard
hypertext plate of spaghetti. French network use is growing, rapidly.
The list which appears below becomes, increasingly, only an indicator --
of extent and of possible points of entry -- for someone new to
networking or new to French online resources. It is a "selected" list:
only items of general interest are shown -- no computer specialist
files, of which France has many -- and nearly everything has been
tested, recently, to make sure that it "works".)
As of end - January, 1994, "at least" the following French library
resources may be found online, accessible via the following online
techniques:
a) Minitel "kiosk" Libraries. These now may be reached from nearly
anywhere via Minitel. Minitel is generally available in Europe. In the
UK, Minitel just has acquired the Prestel service. Free MAC or DOS
diskettes for Minitel -- some downloading capacity now is available --
may be obtained in the US and Canada from voice telephone 914-399-0800.
Access policies do change from time to time. Access to all this is very
IN-expensive:
3614 BMLYON Bibliothe`que Municipale de Lyon (info.+ opac)
3614 BMDIJON Bibliothe`que Municipale de Dijon (info.+ opac)
3614 BIB Bibliothe`que Municipale de Grenoble (info.+ opac)
3614 MADOC Bibliothe`que Professionelle de France Te'le'com (opac)
3614 MEDVIL Me'diathe`que, Cite' des Sciences et de l'Industrie
(info.+ opac)
3614 NANCY Bibliothe`que Municipale de Nancy (info.+ opac)
3614 VDP14 Vide'othe`que de Paris (info.+ opac)
3615 ABCDOC Archives, Bibliothe`ques, Centres de Documentation
(directory)
3615 BIBNAT Bibliothe`que Nationale (info. -- no opac, yet)
3615 BPI Bibliothe`que Publique d'Information (Centre
Pompidou, Paris) (info.+ opac)
3615 BRISE Bibliothe`ques de St. Etienne (opacs)
3615 DASTUM Photote`que Dastum, Breton culture (info.+ opac)
3615 MIRADOC Bibliothe`que Universite' de Metz (info.+ opac)
3615 VDP15 Vide'othe`que de Paris (info.+ opac)
3617 BIUP Bibliothe`que Inter-Universitaire de Pharmacie (opac)
3617 CCN Catalogue Collectif National des Publications en
Se'rie (national union catalog project, serials)
3617 PANCA Pancatalogue (national union catalog project, books)
b) Minitel "V23" Direct-Dial Libraries. The following French library
services may be reached by a telephone call, either from a Minitel
which can do so (European terminals can, but US Minitel service
distributed per the above cannot), or using a V23 modem, available in
European computer stores:
22.97.11.11 Amiens, Bibliothe`que d' (info.+ opac)
90.49.38.88 Arles, Bibliothe`que Municipale d'(info.+ opac)
31.86.14.14 Caen, Bibliothe`que Municipale de (info.+ opac)
50.53.28.70 Chamonix, Bibliothe`que Municipale de (opac)
16.1.64.48.60.07 Chilly-Mazarin, Bibliothe`que de (info.+ opac)
16.1.42.77.19.16 IRCAM, Centre de Recherche Musicale, Centre
Pompidou, Paris (opac)
49.73.23.30 Niort, Bibliothe`que de (info.+ opac)
50.58.57.85 Sallanches, Bibliothe`que Municipale de (opac)
20.25.43.50 Tourcoing, Me'diathe`que de (info.+ opac)
c) telnet (ie. from the Internet)
192.33.163.200 Bibliothe`que Universitaire de Caen (login as
BUSCIENCES)
FRMOP22.CNUSC.FR Centre National Universitaire Sud de Calcul,
Montpellier -- provides access to PANCATALOGUE and
SIBIL and numerous other French services -- account
required (fax -- in French -- to 67-52-37-63, at
Montpellier) -- also available via Minitel (see
above) or French Transpac #134022271494 (account
required)
IFBIBLI.GRENET.FR Institut Fourier -- Saint Martin d'Hye`res (opac)
LIMVX4.UNILIM.FR Universite de LIMOGES, user id: GRACE
STROPH.UNIV-ST-ETIENNE.FR
Universite' de St. Etienne; Username: brise; At %PAD-
I-COM, enter <return>
CRISV2.UNIV-PAU.FR
Universite' de Pau; login: grace
BPU.UNINE.CH Bibliothe`que Publique et Universitaire de
Neucha^tel, Switzerland
SIBIL.SWITCH.CH Swiss-French Network Catalogue, Switzerland
132.207.4.15 Ecole Polytechnique (Montre'al); At "classe de
service" enter biblio96
ARIANE.ULAVAL.CA Laval University, Canada; Username: ARIANE
139.103.2.2 Universite' de Moncton - Bibliothe`que Champlain,
Canada; At the SERVICE? prompt, enter champ
d) WAIS
Generally, search the directory of servers under "bibliotheque" or
"France":
bib-dmi-ens-fr.src Ecole Normale Supe'rieure, Paris, Dept. de
Mathe'matiques et Informatique
bib-ens-lyon.src Ecole Normale Supe'rieure de LYON
bib-math-orsay-fr.src Universite' Paris-Sud
bibs-zenon-inria-fr.src INRIA / Institut de Recherche en
Informatique et Automatique, Sophia
Antipolis (Documentation Center / Library)
cirm-books-fr.src CIRM / Centre International de Rencontres
Mathe'matiques, Marseille (library)
directory-zenon-inria-fr.src
INRIA / Institut de Recherche en
Informatique et Automatique, national
imag.ouvrages.src IMAG / Institut d'Informatique et de
Mathe'matiques Applique'es de Grenoble
(me'diathe`que)
e) electronic conferences
BALZAC-L "French literature and culture"; subscribe to balzac-1-
request at cc.umontreal.ca; in French and English; 250
subscribers.
BIBLIO-FR "Bibliothe'caires Franc,ais"; subscribe to biblio-fr-
request at univ-rennes1.fr; in French; 400 subscribers.
FRANCEHS "List for French history scholars"; subscribe, saying
(only, without the quotes), "subscribe francehs
<yourfirstname> <yourlastname>", to
francehs-request at uwavm.bitnet or
listserv at uwavm.u.washington.edu; in French and English;
275 subscribers.
f) anonymous ftp sites
ftp.inria.fr INRIA/Institut National de Recherche en Informatique
et Automatique
zenon.inria.fr INRIA in Sophia Antipolis
ftp.cicb.fr Univ. Rennes1 ("gopher" in French!?)
ftp.sunet.se /pub/etext/ota/french// contains Molie`re's _Don Juan_
fulltext (OTA version) and Queneau's _Exercices du
style_ fulltext (OTA version)
epas.utoronto.ca /pub/cch/french// contains Molie`re's _Don Juan_
fulltext (Oxford Text Archive version) and a French
wordlist in ascii
ftp.cnam.fr "Association des Bibliophiles Universels" files,
including fulltext (sgml marked - up?) of texts by St.
Augustine, Plutarch, Jules Verne, Th. Moreux, and E.
Dubreucq, and other things relevant to fulltext.
g) gophers -- (there are others, but the following have more than
just hi - tech and scientific content, ie. the humanities)
IMAG..itut d'Informatique et de Mathe'matiques Applique'es de Grenoble/
INRIA..titut National de la Recherche en Informatique et Automatique/
Ministe`re de la culture et de la francophonie (St Quentin en Yveli../
Universite' de Lausanne (Suisse)/
Universite' de Lyon I/
Universite' de Montre'al (Que'bec, Canada)/ GOPHER LITTERATURES
(Note: GOPHER LITTERATURES is a relatively recent effort to
establish a truly comprehensive gopher devoted to online
humanities resources in French. It has an ambitious structure,
not yet filled, but at the least is a very promising effort to
follow for anyone interested in the humanities online.)
Universite' de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour/
Universite' Jean Monnet (St-Etienne)/
USHS (Universite' des Sciences Humaines de Strasbourg)/
and, in particular, one very good, very French, French gopher:
gopher.grenet.fr -- (Grenoble - net), which gives you a software
package entitled "G.R.A.C.E (Gestion du Reseau Automatise' de
Catalogues En-ligne )", and a "help" feature wonderfully -
entitled, for a "help" feature, "B.I.P.E.D. (BULLETIN
d'INFORMATION pour ETUDIANTS En DETRESSE)". The "grenet" gopher
contains, among many other things:
in path -- 8. Catalogues de Bibliothe`ques (OPAC) et Autres
Serveurs Documentaire../ 1. Catalogues des Bibliothe`ques de
la Region Grenobloise/
2. Catalogue Collectif SIBIL (SICD Grenob. 1 et 2 et IEP Grenob.
<TEL>
4. CICG (ouvrages) <?>
5. Bibliothe`que Centrale du CNRS <?>
6. CRISS (Informatique en Sciences Sociales) Catalogue General
<?>
7. ENS Hydraulique et Me'canique (ouvrages) <?>
8. ENS Hydraulique et Me'canique (the`ses) <?>
9. IREPD (UFR DGES Univ Pierre Mendes France) (ouvrages) <?>
10. Institut Fourier (ouvrages) <TEL>
11. Me'diatheque IMAG (ouvrages) <?>
12. Me'diatheque IMAG (periodiques) <?>
13. Me'diatheque IMAG (rapports de recherche) <?>
14. Me'diatheque IMAG (vide'os) <?>
15. Publications "Online" de l'IMAG/
in path -- 8. Catalogues de Bibliothe`ques (OPAC) et Autres
Serveurs Documentaire../2. Catalogues des Bibliothe`ques
Franc,aises/
1. Bibliothe`que Interuniversitaire Jussieu (Section Maths) <?>
2. CIRM (Marseille) (Collections) <?>
3. CIRM (Marseille) (ouvrages) <?>
4. Caen (Sciences, Etudes Anciennes, Normandes, Muse'e) <TEL>
5. Catalogue SIBIL (Plusieurs BU dont les SICD Grenoble 1 et 2)
<TEL>
7. ENS DMI Paris Publications Scientifiques <?>
8. ENS Lyon (ouvrages) <?>
9. ENS Paris Dept Math et Info (ouvrages) <?>
10. Equipe de The'orie des Groupes (Paris 7) <?>
11. INRIA (Rocqencourt) (ouvrages) <?>
12. INRIA (Sophia Antipolis) (ouvrages) <?>
13. INSA LYON (ouvrages et the`ses) <?>
14. IRISA (Rennes) (ouvrages) <?>
15. IRMAR (Univ Rennes 1) (ouvrages) <?>
16. Institut de Me'canique des Fluides de Marseille (ouvrages) <?>
17. LIMOGES (Catalogue Collectif des Ouvrages) <TEL>
18. Laboratoire de Biome'trie (Publications Scientifiques) <?>
19. Laboratoire de Biome'trie Genetique Lyon (Ouvrages et
The`ses) <?>
20. Laboratoire de Me'canique et Acoustique Marseille (ouvrages)
<?>
21. Mathe'matiques-Informatique Universite' de Provence
(ouvrages) <?>
22. Maths Orsay (ouvrages) <?>
23. Olfaction (Labo de Physiologie Neurosensorielle Lyon) <?>
24. PAU (Catalogue Collectif des B U) (par WAIS) <?>
25. PAU (Catalogue Collectif) (par OPAC) <TEL>
26. ST ETIENNE (Catalogue Collectif, BU et BM) <TEL>
and, (still in path -- 8. Catalogues de Bibliotheques (OPAC) et
Autres Serveurs Documentaire../,
3. Serveurs Documentaires Divers (NAG, ACM, ...)/
4. Archives de la Liste de Discussion "Biblio-Fr"/
5. Recherche de mail dans biblio-fr.archive <?>
6. Autres Catalogues de Bibliothe`ques/
7. Serveurs Commerciaux (RESERVE AUX ABONNES)/
As with BITNET and particularly the Internet, it is nearly impossible
to keep up with the phenomenal growth of French online resources. The
Minitel's own "Guide de Services" lists only 15,000 services, while
published accounts claim more than 17,000 currently in operation; and
these numbers don't begin to account for the many online services which
rely on the omnipresent Minitel "boxes" found throughout France -- and
Minitel "V23" norm emulation software now found throughout France and
increasingly elsewhere -- to act as simple terminals for their
connections. Many new library services (see the list at item b),
above), use this latter function: un-tabulated and un-indexed, so that
until libraries go into the marketing business no one really knows how
many online French library services there are.
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