LibGuides: Romance Languages & Literatures: French Studies Databases

Open-Access Databases

Gallica
In association with the Bibliothèque Nationale, this site gives scholars access to over 100,0000 fully digitized volumes (full text) and 300,000 digitized images.
Concentration on the 19th century.
Persée
Provides access to the back files of French journals in the social and human sciences, including history, literature, linguistics, anthropology, etc. (under the heading of Scientific Journals). The interface is available in both French and English.
ABU : la Bibliothèque Universelle
Contains 288 full-text works by 101 French authors, including Balzac, Flaubert, Maupassant, Voltaire, and Zola and Rousseau. These are works that have been in the public domain since 1993.
Revues.org
Full-text access to French journals in the social and human sciences. It is possible to search all journals or a specific title. The entry for each journal title includes a timeline of dates for which only abstracts are available and dates for which full text is available.

Journals
Here you will find the journals to which Hofstra subscribe, both print and online.-+

These databases are available to Hofstra students and faculty both on and off campus through your Hofstra portal.

Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window
Developed to meet the increasing demands of scholarly research, Academic Search Ultimate offers students an unprecedented collection of peer-reviewed, full-text journals, including many journals indexed in leading citation indexes. Includes over 9,000 active full-text journals and magazines
ARTFL This link opens in a new window
North America's largest collection of digitized French resources, including classic works of French literature.

Dictionary of Literary Biography
Systematically presents career biographies and criticism of writers from all eras and all genres through volumes dedicated to specific types of literature and time periods.
FRANCIS
More than 14 million bibliographic references from the Free Access to Pascal and Francis databases
Iter Bibliography (Middle Ages and Renaissance)
Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism
Compiled by 275 specialists from around the world, the Guide presents a comprehensive historical survey of the field's most important figures, schools, and movements and is updated annually.
JSTOR
A digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources.

MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Provides scholarly access to 4,000 journals, also covers relevant monographs, working papers, proceedings, bibliographies and other formats. Contains some full-text articles
Project Muse This link opens in a new window
Full text. Access to over 300 journals in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences.

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