French and Francophone Studies
This guide provides a general introduction to Library resources relating to French and Francophone Studies.
Internet resources
As differentiated from our Library licensed databases, the large, curated catalogue of internet resources in the three broad subject sections below are mostly free to access. In some cases users may be required to register or create an account. Every effort has been made by the Academic Support Librarian to ensure that the website content is suitable for academic study, but it is the user's own responsibility to check the authority, currency and accuracy of content.
Learn French
- Duolingo free online language courses including French
French literature and culture
- Cornucopia 16th century French literature resources
- La bibliothèque numérique de TV5 Monde A library of classical literature offering 201 works by 81 French-speaking authors, from the 13th (Le roman de Renart) to the 20th century, with free access.
- Project Gutenberg – French books Hundreds of French texts indexed by author and title
Literary prizes
Francophone Belgian studies
Organisations
- Directory of Open Access Repositories - Belgium Links to 36 institutional repositories in Belgium
- Directory of Open Access Repositories - France Links to 150 institutional repositories in France
- Francofil French Studies discussion list in the Anglophone world hosted by the University of Liverpool
Libraries, catalogues, bibliographies and institutional repositories
- Le Catalogue du Système Universitaire de Documentation (SUDOC) The SUDOC catalogue is the French collective catalogue of higher education and research libraries and documentation centers. It includes more than 13 million bibliographic records that describe all types of documents (books, theses, journals, electronic resources, audiovisual materials, microforms, maps, scores, manuscripts and old books, etc.) The SUDOC Catalogue also describes the collections of journals and newspapers from around 1,500 documentary establishments outside higher education (municipal libraries, documentation centers, etc.)
- theses.fr theses.fr is a search engine to find French doctoral theses.
French book suppliers, book fairs & book associations
Book suppliers
Book fairs
Book associations
RefSeek
RefSeek (https://www.refseek.com/) is a web and document search engine for students and researchers that aims to make academic information easily accessible to everyone. RefSeek searches more than five billion documents, including web pages, books, encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, journals, and newspapers. You can also find a lot of resources relating to French and Francophone Studies.
Virtual Training Suite - Modern languages
Virtual Training Suite is a set of free Internet tutorials to help you develop Internet research skills for your university course. All of the tutorials are written and reviewed by a national team of lecturers and librarians from universities across the UK.
Modern Languages is a free online tutorial to help university students develop their Internet research skills.
Google Scholar
You can use Google Scholar to search for academic resources including journal articles, peer-reviewed papers, books and theses.
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Google Dataset Search
Google Dataset Search is a useful tool for searching through millions of datasets on public websites. Google Dataset Search compliments Google Scholar, the search engine for academic studies.
Search in English, French or other languages.