French Results
* Includes peer reviewed content
- CountryWatch
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Information on the world's countries. (Provider: CountryWatch)
- Ethnic NewsWatch*
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Articles published by ethnic and minority presses. (Provider: ProQuest)
- National Geographic Magazine Archive
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Cover-to-cover access to the entire run back to 1888, including illustrations. (Provider: Gale)
Article Databases (multiple subjects)
- EBSCOhost*
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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. (Provider: EBSCO)
- JSTOR*
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An archive of full-text articles from over 400 scholarly journals. JSTOR does not include the most recent few years of the journals. (Provider: JSTOR)
- Newspaper Source Plus
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Over 1000 local, national, and international newspapers in full-text. Also includes news transcripts from ABC, CBS, CNN, PBS, and more. (Provider: EBSCO)
- ProQuest Newspapers
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Full-text access to the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Christian Science Monitor. (Provider: ProQuest)
Reference Databases (multiple subjects)
- Biography Reference Bank
- 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. (Provider: EBSCO)
- CQ Researcher
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Special reports, published weekly, on current controversial topics. (Provider: CQ Press)
- Gale Virtual Reference Library
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Multi-subject reference guides and encyclopedias (Provider: Gale)
- Opposing Viewpoints in Context
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A multimedia database with in-depth analysis of thousands of social issues. Includes essays, journal articles, images, videos, podcasts, and more. A companion to the Opposing Viewpoints book series. (Provider: Gale)
- Oxford Reference Online
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Contains over 250 reference works published by Oxford University Press. (Provider: Oxford University Press)
- Points of View Reference Center
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A database of resources that present multiple sides of a current issue. Includes point/counterpoint essays, videos, primary source documents, news transcripts, and more. (Provider: EBSCO)
- Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
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Basic-level, general encyclopedia. (Provider: EBSCO)
Recommended Free Websites
- 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-Collins Online Dictionary Tools
- French Culture: A Division of the French Embassy
- French Dictionary: Dictionnaire de français (Larousse)
- French Dictionary: Dictionnaire des cooccurrences (BtB Canada)
- French Dictionary: Le grand dictionnaire terminologique (Quebec)
- Frency Dictionary: Le trésor de la langue française informatisé
- 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: RFI – Radio France Internationale
- Open Access Journals: Persee – Portal to French-Languge Journals
- Open Access Text/Curric.: Français interactif (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
