Subject guide: French

Resources for finding books and articles

• Education database
  Full-text database for literature on education and teaching.

• ERIC
  ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) is a database of education research and information (sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences of the U.S. Department of Education).

• 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.

• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Citation Index (in Web of Science)
  Contains information on dissertations and student theses from universities around the world. You can limit the search to "Doctoral" if you only want to find dissertations.

• Scopus
  Scopus helps users find trusted 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.

• 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.