French Resources

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Indexes

General

Wilson Web OmniFile
A multidisciplinary database providing abstracts and some full-text. Use SearchPlus to limit to a specific Subject Area or to filter results for peer-reviewed journals only.

Academic Search Complete
Academic Search Complete is a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 9,810 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. Full text coverage of information in: archaeology, area studies, astronomy, biology, chemistry, ethnic & multicultural studies, general science, geography, law, mathematics, music, physics, psychology, religion & theology, women's studies, and other fields. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for nearly 1,000 journals.

Britannica Online
Full-text of the Encyclopedia Britannica including photos, drawings, flags, biographies, and geographical articles. Also includes the Merriam-Webster Dictionary.

For more general sources in the Humanities...

Subject

ARTFL is the American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language Project of the University of Chicago which maintains a database of over 1,800 texts, searchable by word, word root, prefix, suffix and inclusive dates.

Essay and General Literature Index cites essays and articles contained in collections of essays and miscellaneous works published in the U.S., Great Britain, and Canada.

MLA International Bibliography, a database of citations to materials in literature, linguistics and languages.

NOTE: To locate Periodicals in Abell Library, search using the "Periodical Title" field in the online catalog.
Check the record(s) to determine Location.

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E-Sources

Journals

JSTOR is an archive of scholarly journals, including Yale French Studies, The French Review, and MLN (formerly Modern Language Notes ). Current issues are not available through JSTOR; its role is an archive, with new holdings added each year.

Project Muse indexes periodicals published by Johns Hopkins University Press. Most are available in full-text.

Le Monde. Online version of the daily French newspaper.

Le Nouvel Observateur. Online version of the weekly magazine.

Reference Works

GaleNet Databases includes Biography and Genealogy Master Index, Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, Dictionary of Literary Biography.

Literature Resource Center includes contains information on both classical and contemporary authors and their works. Obtain over 130,000 biographies of authors, bibliographies of all they have written, over 40,000 critical essays and more than 6000 work overviews, plot summaries, and explications. Search by the author's name, the title of the work, or even by the title of the periodical or journal that is part of the database.

Books

netLibrary collection of full-text electronic books (ebooks) includes a wide variety of subject content from both popular and scholarly texts. Users can search across the entire eBook collection for authors, titles, or keywords, and they can search within books for keywords and phrases. Users may read or browse through ebooks for an unlimited amount of time. A title may be unavailable temporarily when all NetLibrary copies are in use by other patrons.

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About the Catalog

Search in Abell Library's Catalog
Search for books, journal titles, and other resources in our online catalog.

Some subject headings used for this discipline are listed below. For additional headings, refer to the Library of Congress Subject Headings volumes located behind the Reference Desk.

French fiction French language--Dictionaries French literature--20th century
French poetry

Internet Sites

Association des Bibliophiles Universels Public domain French texts located on a server in France.
ClicNet Site in French providing links to resources on French literature, arts, and society. Maintained by Swarthmore College professor.
French Connection A wide range of resources grouped into 9 catagories, including History, Current Events, Media; Art and Culture; and Language and Literature.
Gallica A wide range of resources from the collections of the Bibliotheque Nationale. Texts, images, sound files, a wealth of information on French language and culture.
Gallica Classique is comprised of over 1,000 of the works of the great writers of France.
WESSWEB - French Studies Web A selective, scholarly collection of web resources which includes literature, history, and culture.
WWW Virtual Library: Littérature Française Links to French literature sites, most in French.
YourDictionary.com - French Links to a variety of French and French-English dictionaries.