Liaison
This Subject Guide contains links to a few key indexes in French and Francophone Studies plus significant online resources and print materials housed in the Library's first floor reference section. Web Resources below contains links to sites with substantial academic content. These may assist you on research papers and other class assignments as well as lead to additional useful sites. Look at the Library's Databases for many other valuable scholarly databases in the social sciences, arts, and humanities. For more web resources, try a Google Scholar search with appropriate keywords for your specific needs.
Liaison in charge: Cathy Reed
Research: Getting Started @ Swem
Database/Article Indexes
- General OneFile
- Covers a selection of news and scholarly journals in many academic disciplines, many are full text.
- MLA: Modern Language Association International Bibliography
- MLA is the most comprehensive database available for the study of language, literature and folklore. Coverage includes books, dissertations, journal articles, and essay articles in book collections.
- Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)
- Covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics.
- Periodicals Index Online Online
- This index is unique in its extensive retrospective and international coverage of the humanities and social sciences.
- WorldCat
- This catalog of the holdings of thousands of libraries world-wide is the most comprehensive database of book titles ever created.
- JSTOR
- Full text access to core journals in numerous academic disciplines, including language and literature. For each journal, coverage begins with the first issue.
- LEXIS-NEXIS
- Academic Universe provides full text access to a wide variety of news sources around the world. The Non-English Language part of the World News section is especially useful for reviews of modern novels, films and theater productions.
- Historical Abstracts
- This database of modern European and world history can provide many studies relevant to the context and development of important cultural and literary movements.
Print Resources
General Encyclopedias
Research and Writing Guides
Dictionaries
Literary Guides
History
Web Resources
- The ARTFL Project
- The College of William & Mary subscribes to the ARTFL Project, a research tool for all areas of French Studies. Almost 2000 texts, dating from the 13th to the 20th centuries, are available. This full text database is searchable for specific words or phrases. Subjects include: literary criticism, biology, history, economics and philosophy.
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France
- Access BNF's online catalog, the Gallica digitized collections which contain multimedia documents from the Middle Ages to the early 20th century, and BNF's virtual exhibitions.
- César
- César is the calendrier électronique des spectacles sous l'ancien régime et sous la révolution. Search by people, places, titles or dates to see details of plays, operas, ballets, and performers from the 17th and 18th centuries.
- Joconde
- Database includes information on artists and their drawings, prints, paintings, sculptures, photographs and objets d'art. Coverage includes more than 138,000 works (with 24,000 images) dating from the 7th century to the present.
