French and Francophone Studies 

Database and Article Indexes (Access to W and M students and faculty only)

Academic Search Complete Scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 4,600 peer-reviewed journals.

ARTFL Project Nearly 2,000 texts in French from the 13th to the 20th C., including novels, non-fiction works, technical essays, travel accounts, pamphlets poetry, drama, journalism, correspondence, and treatises.

CIAO Columbia International Affairs Online:Working papers from universities, foundation-funded research projects, conference proceedings, books, journals, policy briefs,and case studies by international affairs experts.

Factiva Business news and information. More than 9,000 authoritative sources including French newspapers and periodicals from around the world.

Film Index InternationalA comprehensive filmography from 1900 to the present that offers international coverage of over 120,000 films and 735,000 film personalities from over 180 countries.

Historical Abstracts World history since 1450. Periodical articles, books, reviews, collections, and dissertations.

International Medieval Bibliography With many articles in french, and about the French Middle Ages; covers Europe, the Middle East and North Africa in the period 400-1500.

JSTOR Almost 800 multidisciplinary and subject-specific full-text, scholarly journals, including French Review, Yale French Studies and French Historical Studies as well as many others.

LexisNexis Academic General interest, current events, business, legal issues, politics, economics, religion, entertainment, social, cultural, etc. Non-English language section is especially useful for reviews of modern novels and films.

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts Covers all aspects of the study of language including phoentics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics.

MLA International Bibliography Literature, language, linguistics and folklore. Journal articles, series, monographs, dissertations, bibliographies, and proceedings.

PAIS International International public affairs, current events, issues, and foreign and domestic policies including French journals.

Project MuseArts, humanities, and social sciences including the journals French Colonial History, French Forum and French Studies.

World News Connection Current events and issues from non-U.S. media sources from around the world.

French History DC 1-947

French Language PC 2001-3761

French Literature PQ 1-3999

French Political Institutions JN 2301-3007