Research Guides: French Resources: Find Articles

Primary Databases for French

ARTFL Project This link opens in a new window
FRANTEXT, the main database, includes 1880 French texts from the 12th-20th centuries. Other parts are French Women Writers, Provencal Poetry, Textes de Francais Ancien, and the ARTFL Encyclopedie (1st edition of Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopedie ).
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
A digital library of academic content in many formats and disciplines. The collections include top peer-reviewed scholarly journals as well as respected literary journals, academic monographs, research reports from trusted institutes, and diverse primary sources. Due to its archival nature, JSTOR does not include current or recent issues of journals.

SLU has access to all JSTOR archival journals and primary source content through the JSTOR Archival Journals and Primary Sources Collection. Click here for a complete list of the included collections...more.
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
It indexes books, book chapters, dissertations and articles from over 4,400 journals in language, linguistics, literature, and folklore. Published by the Modern Language Association
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Full-text access to many French-language newspapers, such as Le Monde
Periodicals Index Online This link opens in a new window
1665-2005. Provides indexing for magazines and journals back to 1665. This database pairs with Periodicals Archive Online (PAO) for its available full text in the social sciences and humanities....more.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Premium collection provides full-text access to 600+ current, scholarly journals from over 200 university and not-for-profit presses primarily in the areas of humanities and social sciences with some in science, technology, and mathematics.....more.
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new window
1861-present. Indexes dissertations and masters theses produced in accredited North American colleges and universities from 1861 forward and from international universities since 1988. Provides full text for over 1.5 million graduate works (and growing), particularly from 1996 to present. ...more.

General Databases

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
1887-present. This multidisciplinary database contains journal, magazine, and newspaper articles from across disciplines. A special feature is the Image Collection where you can see photographs and other images relating to your topic. "Teachers in motion pictures" is a formal subject in this database.

Find it @ SLU

This button provides links from library databases to online full text articles, when available. It also helps you search for a print version of the article in the SLU Libraries Catalog. If an article isn't available online or in print, you may request it via ILLiad Interlibrary Loan.

Find Journals

Search for journals, magazines, or newspapers using the SLU Libraries Catalog.

Dictionaries

Oxford Dictionaries Online This link opens in a new window
Bilingual dictionaries for 6 languages with English.

Useful Websites

Gallica
Website from the BNF, Bibliotheque Nationale de France, with texts of entire French books and some images on a range of subjects, some dating from the Middle Ages.
Browsing Bulletin Baudelairien
Located at W.T. Bandy Center for Baudelaire and Modern French Studies at Vanderbilt Libraries.