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Welcome to the French Research Guide. This guide is designed to support your research process. In this guide, you'll find:

subject-specific materials and resources, such as books, articles, and databases
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Arts & Humanities Full Text
Academic and popular titles covering Art, Architecture, Design, History, Philosophy, Music, Literature, Theatre and Cultural Studies.
JSTOR
Scholarly books and journals in all disciplines.
Modern Language Association (MLA) International Bibliography
Literature, languages, linguistics, folklore, drama and film (1963-)
Project MUSE
Full text of current content from scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences.

HathiTrust
Digital library of books and journals scanned by a partnership of major research institutions and libraries. Log in to access the largest number of volumes and features.

Internet Archive
Includes digitizations of millions of digitized texts. (Less well-organized than HathiTrust.)

Library of Congress Digital Collections
Primary sources like maps, photographs, letters, diaries, newspapers, audio of personal accounts of events, sound recordings & historic films.
Making of America
Primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.
Digital Public Library of America
Digitized collections from libraries, archives, and museums around the country. Find primary sources in the forms of images, documents, film, sound recording, and other mediums.

ARTFL
Collection of classical French writings including literary and political works, focusing on 18th-20th century, with some coverage of 17th century, medieval, and Renaissance texts.
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Gallica and Europeana digital libraries as well as the catalog of the National Library of France, the Union Catalog of France, and other resources.
Joconde: Catalogue des collections des musees de France
Digitized museum collections of France

Digital Library of the Caribbean
This site provides access to digitized versions of Caribbean cultural, historical and research materials currently held in archives, libraries, and private collections.

Kanopy Videostreaming
Streaming documentaries and feature films
Films on Demand
Content is provided by the BBC, the Canadian Broadcast Corp, Films for the Humanities & Sciences, PBS, and others.

Nexis Uni
Formerly LexisNexis. Full text access to news, business, and legal sources, including federal and state court cases from 1790-present.

Guide Presse -- Annuaire francophone de la presse en ligne
This site links to lists of French national and regional newspapers, magazines, and popular and business-related periodicals.

Banque de dépannage linguistique
The Banque de dépannage linguistique is a constantly evolving pedagogical tool that provides clear answers to frequent questions about spelling, grammar, syntax, punctuation, vocabulary, typography, signs, abbreviations and symbols, proper names, pronunciation, and writing and communication. It deals with general language questions rather than specific terminology (see the Grand Dictionnaire terminologique).

Credo Reference
Reference sources for all subjects, including encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, quotations, and subject-specific titles.
Dictionnaire historique et critique de Pierre Bayle (17th century)
Facsimile of 1740 edition.
Dictionnaires d'autrefois
Search across seven different French dictionaries published from 1606 to 1935.
Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers (18th century)
Grand dictionnaire terminologique
An online terminological database containing nearly 3 million French, English and Latin technical terms in 200 industrial, scientific and commercial fields.
Trésor de la Langue Française
Etymological and historical dictionary of the French language
Ultralingua Larousse
Dictionary, encyclopedia, and other resources
UXL Graphic Novelists
Encyclopedia of graphic novel authors and illustrators.