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French and Francophone Studies

This is a guide to research in the language, literatures, and cultures of the French-speaking world.

E-Journal Finder

If you have a journal title or a reference from an article or bibliography, check for an online version in Journals A-Z or the online catalog:

Journals A-Z

Journal Collections

Directory of Open Access Journals
Directory of scientific and scholarly journals freely available via the Web

Duke University Press Journals Online
JSTOR
Backfiles of selected electronic journals in economics, finance, language, literature, mathematics, population/demography, philosophy, political science, history, sociology, ecology, higher education, and Asian studies.
Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University Press)
Provides access to full text of scholarly journals in arts and humanities, social sciences and mathematics.

French Studies: a Quarterly Review

This is an RSS feed of recent articles from the journal French Studies.

Key Databases

MLA International Bibliography
Index to scholarly resources on language, literature, film, theater, and folklore
Literature Online (LION)
American and English literature and criticism
Arts & Humanities Citation Index
Index of articles from scholarly journals spanning the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Provides cited reference searching capability.
JSTOR
Provides full text online access to back issues of selected scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, architecture and art history and other fields. Consult the online tables of contents for holdings, as coverage varies for each title, but usually ends several years before the current year.
Project MUSE
Covers literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, etc. Contains current full text scholarly journals which cover these fields and a significant collection of recent scholarly books.
Periodicals Index Online
Indexes scholarly journals in humanities and social sciences from their first issues to 1995. A sister database, Periodicals Archive Online, provides a full-text archive of some 475 journals published between 1802 and 1995.
Periodicals Archive Online
Archive of hundreds of digitized journals published in the arts, humanities and social sciences. A sister database, Periodicals Index Online, provides additional indexing for articles in over 4,700 periodicals.
Scopus

Index of articles from scholarly journals spanning the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Provides cited reference searching capability.

French Journals Online

Vassar may have print versions of some of these journals as well. Check the online catalog for the journal title.

French Review
French Review. Special Issue
Yale French Studies
Canadian Journal of Linguistics
Canadian Modern Language Review
Contemporary French and Francophone Studies
Francophone d'Amerique
French Colonial History
Covers all aspects of French colonization and the history of all French colonies
French Forum
Journal of French and Francophone literature and film.
Esprit createur
Studies on French and Francophone literature, film, criticism, and culture.
French Historical Studies
Articles, commentaries, and research notes on all periods of French history from the Middle Ages to the present
French Studies: a Quarterly Review
Articles and reviews on language and linguistics (historical and contemporary), all periods and aspects of literature in France and the French-speaking world, thought and the history of ideas, cultural studies, film and critical theory.
Journal of Canadian Studies
Canadian history, culture and society.