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Frequently Asked Questions
- How can I contact ARTFL ?
- Can individuals in North America subscribe to ARTFL?
- How much does an ARTFL subscription cost?
- Can I obtain copies of texts from ARTFL?
- Why can't I get pages of some modern works?
- How large is the ARTFL database?
- Where can I find a complete listing of all databases made available by ARTFL?
- Can I access ARTFL from home?
- What technical information do I need to provide in order to gain access to ARTFL?
- What should I do if I find errors in the text ?
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.
For more information about ARTFL subscriptions, please click
here.
Click here for more information
- Can I obtain copies of texts from ARTFL?
No. We do not distribute any texts from our databases to individual users or
institutions under any circumstance. ARTFL is strictly prohibited from
distributing texts under the terms of our collaboration with the
Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Française.
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 hit for the words that
are not protected by copyright, the partial links that appear in the
philologic word search have not been activated.
The Main ARTFL-FRANTEXT database contains 2,934 individual titles, and ARTFL
subscribers are also granted full-text access to various other research
texts and historical dictionaries.
You can find a complete list which includes permalinks to all our
collections and titles at
https://artfl-permalink.uchicago.edu.
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.
The University of Chicago users should access ARTFL via the
UofC proxy server
by following
these instructions. 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.
EZproxy users should configure their servers as follows:
Title ARTFL Project
URL
https://artfl-project.uchicago.edu
Host
artflsrv01.uchicago.edu
Host
artflsrv02.uchicago.edu
Host
artflsrv03.uchicago.edu
Host
artflsrv04.uchicago.edu
Domain uchicago.edu
Access to ARTFL is governed by the network name or IP number of the
requesting computer. Typically, 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 visit
http://www.getip.com/, and e-mail your IP address and Hostname to artfl [dot] project [at] gmail
[dot] com.
If you should come across an error of any kind in one of the texts, please
report it by clicking on the Report Error link on the top right hand side of
the page. We will make every effort to include your corrections in our next
update. Thank you for helping out.