Research Resources for French
Journal Articles
A multidisciplinary database with full-text articles. You can find scholarly articles by checking the box to the left of the option, "Scholarly (Peer-Reviewed) Journals". Academic Search Premier contains many major peer-reviewed journals about France and the French language, including: Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, French Historical Studies, French Politics, Culture, and Society, and many others.
Identifying Books in the
library catalog
To find items written in French, to a Word search for the following keywords:
- french language materials
Reference Books
Available online through Oxford Reference Center
The Concise Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary. Ed. Jean-Benoit Ormal-Grenon and Natalie Pomier. Oxford University Press, 2004. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press.
With 175,000 words and phrases, 270,000 translations, and completely updated to include the very latest vocabulary, the Concise Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary offers authoritative coverage. Brand-new features include cultural notes on life in the French-speaking world.
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