Klapp-Online: Bibliographie d’histoire littéraire française

The Klapp-Online is a specialized bibliography in French language literary criticism published for the first time in 1956 by Librarian Otto Von Klapp. It is published by the German publishing house Vittorio Klosterman and is most commonly known as the Bibliographie d’histoire littéraire française. It is often considered to be the premier comprehensive bibliographic resource in French language literary criticism. As of 2013, Astrid Klapp-Lehrmann and her team launched the online version of the bibliography known as the Klapp-Online. This specialized and purely bibliographic database covers multilingual literary criticism published via journals, monographs, and conference proceedings from across the planet. Literary criticism coverage ranges from the Middle Ages to twenty-first century French and francophone literary studies. The online searchable interface of the database covers publication years of the Klapp from 1991 to present day with optical character recognition (OCR) PDF versions of previous years (1991 to 1956) available for download. With 1,420 indexed journal titles and over 95,000 indexed monograph titles and reviews, including both academic and cultural content, the Klapp-Online is an essential resource for all universities with programmes in Francophone literary studies.