French Studies: Find scholarship in the field

Learn about the main discipline-specific primary and secondary source resources, select the most appropriate one for their research question, do simple searches, and access the desired content

Starting out - periodical literature

Historical abstracts with full text
Full text database of scholarly journal articles on the history of the world (excluding the US and Canada). Provides selective indexing of historical articles from more than 1,800 journals in over 40 languages back to 1955 as well as the full text of more than 300 journals and over 130 books.
MLA international bibliography
The MLA international bibliography is the standard bibliographic citation index for research in literary and cultural studies. It is maintained by the Modern Language Association and is international and interdisciplinary in scope. It offers direct links to the cited materials, if Stanford has digital access to them.
Cairn.info
Full text articles and now ebooks online from French academic journals in the humanities and social sciences. Includes "Que sais-je" and "Repères" series as well as over 10,000 other academic monographs.
PERSEE portail des revues scientifiques en sciences humaines et sociales
Full text articles online from French academic journals in the humanities and social sciences.
OpenEdition. Journals catalogue
Full text articles online from French academic journals in the humanities and social sciences.

Ebook collections

Hathi Trust
Digital repository and access platform created from contributions of large academic libraries, allowing full-text searching of the entire corpus. It currently provides full-text access to materials in the public domain only. Login as Stanford.

OpenEdition. Books
French and other international humanities and social sciences books, full text, fully searchable. Primarily French publishers, but also includes books from publishers from MENA, Africa, and Latin America, as well as other European countries.
Cairn.info
Cairn offers French academic ebooks in the humanities and social sciences. Includes "Que sais-je" and "Repères" series as well as over 10,000 other academic monographs.
Oxford scholarship online
Cross-searchable library containing the full text and abstracts of classic and newly published Oxford books in the areas of Biology, Business and Management, Classics, Economics and Finance, History, Linguistics, Literature, Math, Music, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Psychology and Religion.
Cambridge core
Cambridge Books Online offers access to eBooks from our world-renowned publishing programme, covering subjects from all disciplines including humanities and social sciences. Includes Cambridge Companions and Cambridge introductions, as well as Cambridge Histories.
Cambridge histories online
Including New Cambridge Modern European History, Cambridge Economic History of Europe which both cover France. You can download individual chapters as PDF's.
EBSCOhost
Stanford Libraries' largest collection of English language academic ebooks.
Ebook central
Another big collection of academic (mostly) ebooks

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