Research Guide for French Language and Literature
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Linda Absher

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Locating articles in French may take a little extra effort.  Please review the article section of the Research Guide for Vernacular or Non-English Resources for more background and tips on locating and retrieving materials in French.



Electronic Resources

Core Resources
MLA International Bibliography
Citations to journal articles, dissertations, and books in literature, language, linguistics, and folklore from 1963 to the present.  More Info...

Short Story Index (H.W. Wilson)
A digital guide to more than 72,000 stories written in or translated into English from more than 4,200 collections and anthologies, as well as an additional 12,000 stories from periodicals.  More Info...

Grangers World of Poetry
13,000 poems in fulltext, 250,000 poetry citations and commentaries, biographies and bibliographies.  More Info...

Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism
The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism is a full-text, searchable database of articles on individual critics and theorists, critical and theoretical schools and movements.   More Info...

Critical Insights
Provides access and searching capability to the Critical Insights book series comprised of classic and current literary criticism.  More Info...

Literature Resource Center
Provides information on literary figures from all time periods writing in such genres as fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, journalism, and more.  More Info...


Related Resources
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)
Comprehensive resource in disciplines concerned with the nature and use of language. Provides citations to publications.  More Info...

International Medieval Bibliography
Citations to journal articles and books related to the Middle Ages, covering Europe, the Middle East and North Africa from 400-1500.  More Info...

Inter-Play
Indexes plays that appear in collections, anthologies, and periodicals held by the PSU Library.  More Info...

Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective (H.W. Wilson)
Citations to articles from major social science and humanities journals from 1907-1984  More Info...

Historical Abstracts
Principal resource for articles on world history from 1450-present.  More Info...

Caribbean Abstracts
Includes book and article abstracts in the humanities and social sciences written about the Caribbean region since 1989.  More Info...

Arts and Humanities Citation Index
Topic and citation searching identify articles published in high impact arts and humanities journals.  More Info...


Multidisciplinary Resources
JSTOR
Contains historical backfiles of full text articles from major research journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.  More Info...

Google Scholar
Google Scholar is a subset of Google. It allows you to search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from publishers, universities and other scholarly organizations. Google Scholar is currently in beta version, meaning it is undergoing continual improvements and revisions. More details...  More Info...

Biography Reference Center (Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated)
Maintains biographies and obituaries of individuals by name, date of birth, date of death, or country of origin.   More Info...



Additional journals of interest:

  • ARTFL - FRANTEXT Database: Consisting of over 2600 texts, ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing. Genres include novels, poetry, theater, journalism, essays, correspondence, and treatises. Subjects include literary criticism, biology, history, economics, and philosophy.

  • RELIEF-Revue électronique de littérature française: An international peer-reviewed journal aimed at researchers in the field of French literature and culture of the Middle Ages to the present.  Accessible via the Directory of Open Access Journals. 

  • Contemporary French & Francophone Studies:  Focusing on French and Francophone studies, with the aim of reflecting the interdisciplinary direction taken by the field and by the humanities and the arts in general.  From March 1997 to a year from the current day, due to a 12-month embargo on the most recent issues.
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