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This guide covers a set of high-quality sources of information for French language & culture that can be a good starting point for your research. You can also take a look at the resources suggested in the guide European languages and cultures.
In the library guide Information literacy you will find all the information you need to successfully search for academic literature in the resources mentioned in this guide.
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Bibliographies
- Bibliographie Nationale Française This link opens in a new windowThe Bibliographie nationale Française (BnF) records all publications printed and/or published in France.
- Klapp Online - Bibliographie d'histoire littéraire française This link opens in a new windowBibliography of French Literature
- Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) This link opens in a new windowBibliography containing references and abstracts on language and linguistics
- MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association) This link opens in a new windowLiterature, language, linguistics, and folklore. Online bibliography on language and literature.
- Linguistic Bibliography Online This link opens in a new windowBibliography for linguistics focusing on the lesser known and extinct languages
- Communication & Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new windowBibliographical and full-text database on communication and mass media
General bibliographies
- Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new windowMultidisciplinary bibliographic and full-text database
- Web of Science core collection This link opens in a new windowSearch the world’s leading scholarly journals, books, and proceedings in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities and navigate the full citation network
- Scopus This link opens in a new windowCovers a large part of the English-language literature in science, medicine and parts of the social sciences and arts and humanities.
Dictionaries
- Van Dale Woordenboeken This link opens in a new windowIncludes French-Dutch and Dutch-French dictionaries
- dictionaryportal.euGuide to online dictionaries of European languages, curated by experts in the European Network of e-Lexicography.
Reference
- Encyclopedia of language and linguistics This link opens in a new windowReference work on language teaching and learning
- Oxford Bibliographies Online This link opens in a new windowEncyclopedic reading guides for various subjects, including linguistics and literary/critical theory
- Ethnologue : Languages of the world This link opens in a new windowResource on the more than 7100 languages spoken in the world.
Newspapers
- Historic European newspapers This link opens in a new window
French films on DVD
Text corpora
- Autour du Romantisme This link opens in a new windowFrench literary works (1892-1886) (full-text on cd-rom)
- Littérature de l'Afrique noire This link opens in a new windowCorpus of French literature from Black Africa (± 1800-1960)
- Corpus de la littérature médiévale This link opens in a new windowFrench literary corpus; prose, poetry, drama (on cd-rom)
Streaming video (internet)
- tv replay This link opens in a new windowTelevision programmes can be viewed up to 7 days after they were broadcast.
- EUscreen This link opens in a new windowEUscreen offers free online access to videos, stills, texts and audio from European broadcasters and audiovisual archives. Explore selected content from early 1900s until today.
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