Subject guide: French

Resources for finding books and articles

• Education Collection
  Useful for finding research on language teaching and learning, among other things. 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. 

• Linguistics Collection
  Useful for finding research on literature on linguistics. Also good for locating literature on language teaching and learning. The collection searches simultaneously in the databases Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts and Linguistics Database.

• MLA International Bibliography
  Database for finding research on literature and linguistics. Also useful for locating literature on language teaching and learning. 

• Seeker
  Search service for searching in the university library's collection.

• 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.

• Seeker
  Search service for searching in the university library's collection.

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. You can also try using an AI tool such to find synonyms.