Subject guide: French

Resources for finding books and articles

• Education Collection
  Database for literature on education and teaching. The collection searches simultaneously in the databases Education Database and ERIC.

• HAL-SHS
  HAL-SHS (Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société) is a French open archive containing scholarly literature in the disciplines of humanities and social sciences. 

• JSTOR
  A multi-discipline database that includes scholarly journal articles and books, among other things.

• Linguistics Collection
  Database collection for literature on linguistics and language-related disciplines. The collection searches simultaneously in the databases Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts and Linguistics Database.

• MLA International Bibliography
  Useful for finding research on literature and linguistics, among other things.

• Scopus
  Database for finding research in different subjects. 

• SUDOC
  SUDOC (Système Universitaire de Dokumentation) is a French collective catalogue created by Higher Educational and Research libraries and resource centres. A good resource for finding French books.

• Thèses.fr
  Database for finding French doctoral dissertations.

Resources for finding specific books and articles

• Google Scholar
  Useful for finding specific journal articles, dissertations, and academic books in full text.

• Summon
  Search service for searching in the university library's collection. Useful for finding specific ebooks, printed books, and journal articles in full text.

Resources for finding student theses  

• DiVA
  Find student theses submitted at several Swedish universities.

• Essays.se
  Find student theses in full text submitted at Swedish universities.

Encylopedias and dictionaries

• Britannica Academic
  Source consisting of Encyclopædia Britannica and Merriam-Webster (dictionary and thesaurus), among other things. 

• Encyclopédie Larousse
  Free French encyclopedia.

• Le Grand Robert de la langue française
  French dictionary. Also useful for finding French synonyms.

• NE:s ordböcker
  Includes for example NE's Swedish-English/English-Swedish dictionary.

• The Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary: French-English

• The Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary: English-French

      More dictionaries can be found in section Fj(x) in the library.