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No. Access to the TLF database outside of North America is provided by
the
ATILF Analyse et Traitement
Informatique de la Langue Française under
the Frantext system on the World Wide Web or through
Minitel (the French digital network).
ATILF can be contacted at:
ATILF - Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue
Française
WWW: http://www.atilf.fr
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Our agreement with the Institut national de la langue
française specifies that only persons associated
with educational or research institutions may use the
database. Thus, we cannot provide access to the ARTFL
database to individuals who are not students, staff or
faculty at North American research institutions. We have
received many requests from individuals not associated with
appropriate institutions for access to the ARTFL database.
We are actively studying providing ARTFL access to high
schools and individuals with representatives of the French
government. We encourage subscription requests from anyone
interested in ARTFL so that we can further examine our
current subscription policies and make recommendations for
modifying these policies to the Institut national de la langue
française.
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The ARTFL database and search engines are not available on
CD-ROM. The Institut national de la langue française,
in conjunction with Hachette, has released a CD-ROM of more than 300
19th century texts on CD-ROM for MS-DOS computers titled Discotext 1.
It features an easy to use interface and very powerful searching and reporting
capabilities. Further information on Discotext 1 is available from:
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ARTFL charges $500 per year for institutions which have doctoral
programs in the humanities and social sciences, $250 per year for all
other post secondary educational institutions.
An institutional subscription allows
all members of the institution -- faculty, students, staff and other
affiliated members -- unlimited access under any of our access programs.
There are no additional charges for using ARTFL with the sole (and
unused) option of printing search results at ARTFL and having them
sent by surface mail ($0.15 per page).
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Our agreement with the Institut national de la langue française limits the
amount of context we can display (300 characters) for each citation in
works protected by French copyright law. Works protected by French
copyrights are indicated by an asterisk (*) in bibliographic reports
as
well as the bibliographic part of the word search reports. Also, because
we are permitted to display only 3 pages before and after a ³hit² for the
words that are not protected by copyright, the ³part² links that appear in
the philologic word search have not been activated.
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The basic database contains about 115 million words and occupies
about 750 MB. Additional databases contain about 10-15 million
words.
The following tables indicate the composition of the Main ARTFL
database (1,880 texts) by century and genre and show the size of
the database by number of words by century.
Click
here
for a list of the top 100 authors in the ARTFL database by number of
titles
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The best way to contact ARTFL is by e-mail. Send e-mail
mark@barkov.uchicago.edu
which currently goes to Mark Olsen.
You can phone ARTFL at the
University of Chicago (773) 702-8488 or send surface
mail to:
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ARTFL does not currently provide a mechanism, such as a password
protected version of ARTFL, for allowing individuals from
subscribing institutions to connect to the ARTFL databases.
We have adopted this policy because the most effective way for
us to determine who is a legitimate user -- an individual affiliated with
a subscribing institution -- is to restrict access to institutional
network domains, such as *.uchicago.edu. ARTFL does not
have an independent way to determine who is affiliated with an
institution nor when an individual leaves an institution.
There is a very helpful discussion of the problems posed by remote
access by Ira H. Fuchs, Chief Scientist for the
JSTOR Project,
Remote
Authentication and Authorization for JSTOR, in which he concludes
that
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Can individuals or institutions outside of North America
become ARTFL subscribers?
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Tél. +33 3 83 96 21 76
Fax +33 3 83 97 24 56
Can individuals subscribe to ARTFL?
Is ARTFL available on CD-ROM?
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How much does an ARTFL subscription cost?
Why can't I get pages of some modern works?
How large is the ARTFL database?
Table One
Breakdown of 1880 titles in the ARTFL database by
century of publication and type of text.
Type of text 12-16th 17th 18th 19th 20th
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travel accounts 5 7 10 7
novels 31 129 173 199
treatise 61 116 81 73
eloquence 13 6 2 0
memoires 8 9 46 59
correspondance 31 15 40 4
collections 4 32 17 25
pamphlets 4 6 2 0
poetry 1 63 43 79 42
theater 2 114 110 76 103
unclassified 13 15 0 2 2
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Total by Year 16 349 473 528 514 1880
Table Two
Total number of words (tokens) and unique
words (types) in the ARTFL database broken
down by century.
1100-1499 -- TOKENS: 47136 TYPES: n/a
1500-1599 -- TOKENS: 203711 TYPES: 23775
1600-1699 -- TOKENS: 15403287 TYPES: 153419
1700-1799 -- TOKENS: 27739541 TYPES: 159041
1800-1899 -- TOKENS: 39508562 TYPES: 219260
1900-1964 -- TOKENS: 31870355 TYPES: 198192
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TOTAL -- TOKENS: 114772592 TYPES: 439191
How can I contact ARTFL for more information
ARTFL Project
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
1050 East 59th Street
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL 60637
Can I access ARTFL from my Internet Service Provider account?
You can't accomplish this through the ARTFL homepage, but you may be able to do it via proxy server.
Proxy servers are set up through your home institution; check with your library
or humanities computing department to see what's available for dial-up connections to your college or university.
University of Chicago users can use the University's proxy server;
compelete instructions are to be found at
http://www-neteng.uchicago.edu/Docs/web-proxy.html.
Campuses must establish authentication schemes. Without
authentication, even the most straight-forward access schemes
exclude legitimate members of the campus community and run the
risk of jeopardizing site licenses as well as participation in
inter-campus agreements that may offer significant financial benefits.
JSTOR also provides a modified version of Professor Fuchs'
paper,
Options
for Remote Authentication, with examples of proxy servers
running at several campuses in North America.
How can I tell what my IP number or machine name is?
Access to ARTFL is governed by the network name or IP number
of the requesting computer. Typically, WWW browsers send both
a network name, such as barkov.uchicago.edu and
an IP number 128.135.126.76. To determine the
name and number of your computer, please click on:
Mark Olsen, ARTFL, University of Chicago,
mark@barkov.uchicago.edu
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