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Databases
The ARTFL Project is a full-text database containing nearly 2000 French literature texts.
Arts and Humanities Citation Index
Publication coverage: 1975 - present
A multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities.
CAIRN (Cairn.info) offers the most comprehensive online collection of francophone publications in social sciences and humanities. In 2019, more than 500 journals and 10 000 eBooks from major French, Belgian and Swiss publishers can be accessed by students, scholars and librarians worldwide.
Early European Books Collections
Publication coverage: 1450s-1700
EEB is a collection of digitized European books printed in the early modern period (1450s-1700).
Érudit, based in Quebec, publishes Canadian scholarly journals, primarily in French although the collection includes a few bilingual and English titles. It also serves as a publishing centre for journals supported by the Fonds québécois de recherche sur la société et la culture.
Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism
Publication coverage: Classical antiquity - present
A key resource for scholars and students of literary theory and discourse. Includes entries on literary critics and theorists, critical schools and movements, and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods.
Klapp-Online is the most comprehensive bibliography of French literature. The database covers the years from 1991 and is available in three languages: German, English and French.
A bilingual dictionary (English-French, French-English) where users can find detailed definitions, translations, supplemental notes on the language in use, and cultural notes on significant events, traditions, customs and institutions where information is not covered by the dictionary definition. Also includes audio pronunciation.
An online French dictionary that includes detailed definitions with examples, expressions, synonyms, antonyms, etymologies, literary citations, and more. Some entries provide verb conjugations and audio pronunciations.