French Language and Literature

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Most Useful Databases

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts

A comprehensive index of journals, books, and dissertations in linguistics and related fields. (Citations only).

Literature Criticism Online

Book reviews, drama reviews, film reviews, and literary essays from historical sources. (Full-text).

Literature Resource Center

Biographies and essays on authors of fiction, poetry, drama, journalism, and history. (Full-text).

MLA International Bibliography

The most comprehensive index of journals, books, and dissertations in literature. (Some full-text).

OmniFile

A multi-disciplinary index of journal and magazine articles from 1982 to present. (Some full-text).

Oxford Reference Online -- Bilingual Dictionaries

Bilingual dictionaries in French, German, Spanish, and other languages. (Full-text).

 

Other Databases

Academic Search Complete

A multi-disciplinary database of journals, magazines, book chapters, and government reports. (Some full-text).

ABU: la Bibliotheque Universelle

French-language books and works in the public domain. (Full-text).

ARTFL French-English Dictionary

An online bilingual dictionary. (Full-text).

ClicNet: Litterature francophone virtuelle

Web sites on francophone literature. (Internet links).

ebrary

A collection of electronic books with full-text searching, bookmarks, and personal notes. (Full-text).
Free software is required: download ebrary Reader™

Google Scholar

An Internet search engine for scholarly journals, books, preprints, and theses with links to UHD-purchased content.

JSTOR

Scholarly journals from many fields. Archives go back to 1831, but recent issues (past 3-5 years) are not included. (Full-text).
Purchase made possible by a generous donation from the Rockwell Fund.

L'Express

A well-known French news magazine. (Full-text).

Le Figaro

A well-known French newspaper. (Full-text).

Le Monde

A well-known French newspaper. (Full-text).

LexisNexis Academic

Choose Toute le Presse - Français from the Sources drop-down menu. (Full-text).

MagillOnLiterature Plus

Essays about writers, novels, short stories, plays, literary characters, literary genres, and national literatures. (Full-text).

netLibrary

Electronic books from academic, professional, and popular publishers. (Full-text).

Project Muse

Electronic journals in the humanities and the social sciences. (Full-text).

Le Trésor de la Langue Française informatisé

An online French dictionary. (Full-text).

Web of Science

An index of high impact research journals in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences. (Citations only).

WorldCat

A catalog of 58 million books, dissertations, sound recordings, and videos available in libraries. (Citations only).

 

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