French Studies: Articles & Journals

Library resources for the study of French and Francophone language, literature, and culture.

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MLA International Bibliography
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The most comprehensive source for scholarship in literature, language, linguistics, and folklore.
Gale Literature Resource Center
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Comprehensive database of poetry, drama and prose, literature journals, author biographies, topic overviews, and critical essays.
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
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Scholarly journal articles and more covering all aspects of linguistics.

ARTFL Project
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Collection of classical French writings including literary and political works

Historical Abstracts with Full Text
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Index and full text of scholarly articles covering world history (excluding U.S. and Canada) from 1450 to the present.
PAIS Index
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Social and public policy literature from periodicals, government documents, books, and other sources.
Sociological Abstracts
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Journal articles in the field of sociology, including international literature and other related disciplines.

CAIRN
Index of French-language social sciences and humanities journals, some full text available online.
HAL-SHS
The open archive HAL-SHS is devoted to archiving and dissemination of scientific literature, published or unpublished, from universities or research institutions in all disciplines of human and social sciences.
Isidore
ISIDORE (Intégration de Services, Interconnexion de DOnnées de la Recherche et de l’Enseignement) est une plateforme de recherche permettant l’accès aux données numériques des sciences humaines et sociales (SHS).
Persée
(Portail de revues scientifiques en sciences humaines et sociales). Provides free full-text access to the back files of French scholarly journals in the social science and humanities.
Pascal et Francis en accès libre
Free access to more than 14 million bibliographic references of articles, conference papers and conference proceedings produced by the Inist-CNRS.

ARTFL Project
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Collection of classical French writings including literary and political works

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JSTOR
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Full-text back issues of major journals.
Project Muse
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Full-text collection of humanities & social sciences electronic journals & 20,000+ ebooks.

Google Scholar
Scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources, including theses, books, abstracts and articles.
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