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Subscription Details
The ARTFL Project originally provided subscribing
universities with access only to FRANTEXT, the Main
ARTFL Database, comprising 2,635 French texts from the 12th to
the 20th centuries. In the last few years ARTFL has expanded into
a wide variety of other research areas. Your subscription to the ARTFL
Project provides access not only to the main ARTFL database, but also
several other collections of texts and reference works that are available to subscribers only at no
additional cost (See Current Databases below). Access to the databases is provided under
PhiloLogic
via the World Wide Web.
ARTFL Sustaining Memberships: Thanks to a collaborative effort with CIFNAL
(Collaborative
Initiative for French and North American Libraries), the ARTFL Project is happy to announce the launch of the Sustaining Member Program. For
information about becoming an ARTFL Sustaining Member Click Here.
Subscriptions to the ARTFL databases are available only to
universities, colleges, high schools, and other research institutions
within the United States and Canada. Access to the ARTFL database
outside of North America is provided by 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
44, avenue de la Libération
B.P. 30687
F 54063 NANCY CEDEX
Tél. +33 3 83 96 21 67
Fax +33 3 83 97 24 56
contact@atilf.fr
At this time, we cannot permit individual
subscriptions.
Our agreement with ATILF
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 working with representatives of the French
government to provide ARTFL access to high
schools and individuals.
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 ATILF.
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The following databases are available only to institutions subscribing to ARTFL.
- FRANTEXT: Main ARTFL Database (TLF), nearly 2000 texts ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing from the 16th to the 19th century.
Encore: New Additions to the Main ARTFL Database, 128 additional works.
- French Women Writers, 99 works by French women authors from the 16th to the 19th century.
- Provençal Poetry, 38 collections of texts from the 12th and 13th centuries.
- Textes de Français Ancien (TFA), 65 works from the 12th through 15th century.
- The ARTFL Encyclopédie, a complete on-line version of the first edition
of Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie.
Robinet's 4-volume Supplément à
l'Encyclopédie
- The Journal
de Trévoux, ou Mémoires pour l'Histoire des
Sciences & des Beaux-Arts.
- Louis Moréri,
Le
Grand dictionnaire historique,
ou le Mélange curieux de l'Histoire sacrée et profane, etc.
- Opera
del Vocabolario Italiano (OVI) Database, 1,780 vernacular texts dated prior to 1375, including Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, as well as many lesser-known texts.
- Only ARTFL subscribers may search the following dictionaries by headword and full-text entry.
Please consult our
What's
New page for announcements of new additions or improvements to
ARTFL databases.
In addition, the ARTFL Project has agreements with certain publishers to offer Web-access to their products for free to its subscribers provided the institution has purchased the CD-ROM version of the product. Champion électronique, for example, has worked with the ARTFL Project to develop a Web-version of B.A.S.I.L.E.: Le Corpus de la littérature narrative
du Moyen Age au XXe siècle: Romans, Contes, Nouvelles.
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The ARTFL Project is a not for profit organization and, as such, charges a
very modest subscription fee. Institutions which have doctoral programs in
the humanities and social sciences pay only $500 per year; all other post-secondary institutions pay $250 annually. High Schools can now subscribe to ARTFL for $150 a year. An annual subscription allows all members of an institution (faculty, students, staff
and other affiliates) unlimited Web access.
A quick look at subscription costs and access policies for other electronic
databases reveals what a bargain an ARTFL subscription is. InteLex
Corporation requires institutions to purchase a database and offer an
option to pay an additional annual fee for Web access. For British
Philosophy, 1600-1900, a database of 57 titles, an institution must pay
$1,850 up front and between $300-$1,500 annually for Web access, depending
on the number of philosophy faculty at the institution. Chadwyck-Healey,
Inc. lists the Patrologia Latina Database (a database of similar size to
the Main ARTFL Database) at $45,000. Should an institution prefer not to
buy the database, but subscribe to Web access only, the subscription fee
costs between $4,500-$11,250 a year depending on the number of simultaneous
users. In contrast, ARTFL charges a mere fraction of the cost for more
databases and freer access. Our flat subscription rate guarantees
limitless access to the databases by all members of a subscribing
institution.
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Any authorized representative, such as a departmental chair or librarian, can request a subscription to ARTFL. Students should
contact either a faculty member or librarian if they are interested in
a university subscription. This representative will serve as
the liaison between ARTFL and your institution.
In most cases, an institution's account will be activated the same day. The Institutional User Agreement form,
which details the terms and conditions of your subscription to the ARTFL
databases, will need to be filled out and submitted by regular mail to
the address listed below.
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For more information about a subscription to the ARTFL databases, please
contact Mark Olsen at mark@diderot.uchicago.edu or
Mireille Dobrzynski at mdobrzyn@uchicago.edu. Or contact the ARTFL Project at:
The ARTFL Project
University of Chicago
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
1050 East 59th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
Phone: 773-702-8488
