French Results
* Includes Peer Reviewed Content
CountryWatch
(Provider: CountryWatch)
Description: info on the world's countries.
Ethnic NewsWatch*
(Provider: Proquest)
Description:
Articles published by ethnic and minority presses
Article Databases (multiple subjects)
EBSCOhost*
(Provider: Ebsco)
Description: Combined search of Ebsco’s academic, general, health, business, and vocational journal databases. Includes scholarly and peer reviewed articles as well as general interest magazines and consumer information.
JSTOR*
(Provider: JSTOR)
Description: An archive of full-text articles from over 400 scholarly journals. JSTOR does not include the most recent few years of the journals.
ProQuest Newspapers
(Provider: Proquest)
Description: "offers full-text access to over 850 regional, national, and international newspapers including the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Washington Post, and the Times of London."
ProQuest*
(Provider: Proquest)
Description: Combined search of Proquest’s academic, general, health, business, and vocational journal databases. Includes scholarly and peer reviewed articles as well as general interest magazines and consumer information.
Reference Databases (multiple subjects)
Biography Reference Bank
(Provider: EBSCO)
Description: Covers over 500,000 people and includes over 36,000 images. Includes biographical profiles, feature articles, interviews, essays, book reviews, performance reviews, speeches and obituaries.
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
(Provider: Ebsco)
Description: Basic-level, general encyclopedia.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
(Provider: Gale)
Description: multi-subject reference guides and encyclopedias
Oxford English Dictionary
(Provider: Oxford)
Description: definitions, pronunciation, and history of the English language
Oxford Reference Online
(Provider: Oxford)
Description: contains over 125 reference works published by Oxford University Press
Free Resources on the Web
- Digital Library: Gallica (Digitized materials from the Natl. Library of France)
- Digital Library: La France en Amérique (U.S. Library of Congress)
- Digital Library: Project Gutenberg French-Language E-books
- Digital Library: Public Databases for French Studies (ARTFL Project)
- Digital Library: Ressources de Culture.fr (French Ministry of Culture)
- French /English Dictionary: Reverso Online Dictionary Tools
- French /English Dictionary: WordReference.com
- French Dictionaries (Portal): ARTFL Historical French Dictionary Search
- French Dictionaries (Portal): Dictionary Links from U. of Calgary/REPSIT
- French Dictionary: Dictionnaire des cooccurrences (BtB Canada)
- Grammar: ConjugArt French Verb Conjugation Tool (BtB Canada)
- Grammar: Tex’s French Grammar (UTA Open Ed. Project)
- Grammar: Writing and Grammar Resources @A Vos Plumes (U. of Virginia)
- News: France24 - International News from a French Perspective
- News: Francophone News and Media Links (U. of Calgary)
- News: Gateway to News from the Francophone World (St. John’s Univ.)
- Open Access Journals: Persee - Portal to French-Languge Journals
- Open Access Text/Curric.: Français interactif - French Curriculum (UTA)
- Pronunciation: Fonetik –Concise Intro to the French Sound System (HKU)
- Pronunciation: Introduction to French Phonology (FSI Language Course)
- Pronunciation: Recordings of French Words, Proverbs & Idioms (Shtooka)
- Proverbs/Idioms: French Proverbs (Language Realm compilation)
- Proverbs/Idioms: Trilingual Index of Idiomatic Expressions (with audio files)
- Region Studies: France (CIA World Factbook)
- Region Studies: Francophone World - Interactive Map/Country List (l'OIF)
- Translation Tool: Lexique anologique (For hard-to-translate English words)
- Videos: Chansons françaises – Fun Music Videos for French Learners (UTA)
- Videos: L’Avis Des Artistes – Videos + Listening Comp. Exercises (UTA)
- Videos: Les Conversations Mises à Jour – Conversations in French (UTA)
- Website Links from the Mesa College Dept. of Languages