Research Guides: FREN 492: French Senior Seminar: Articles/Databases

How To Find Articles

Use the databases listed on this page to find articles.
If it isn't available in full-text, click the "Find It!" button. We might have e-access another way or have it in print.
If we don't have it, order the article through Interlibrary Loan (ILL).

If you're off-campus, you will be prompted for your Willamette username & password.

Searching the MLA Int'l Bibliography

MLA International Bibliography
Indexes critical material on the modern languages, literature, linguistics, and folklore. Provides access to 3,000+ journals, as well as to book chapters, proceedings, etc.
Keyword Search vs. Subject Search in the MLA International Bibliography on EBSCO
A short tutorial about search strategies.

Finding Book Chapters and Articles in the MLA Bibliography

Google Scholar

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. You can customize Google Scholar to recognize Willamette-owned materials (visit our Google Scholar page for more info).

Databases Everyone Should Use

MLA International Bibliography
Indexes critical material on the modern languages, literature, linguistics, and folklore. Provides access to 3,000+ journals, as well as to book chapters, proceedings, etc.
Project Muse
Provides online access to the full text of over 100 journals in the disciplines of literary studies, classics, history, philosophy, political science, and the history of science and medicine.
JSTOR
Provides access to the complete back files of more than 1300 cross-disciplinary academic journals in digital format, some of which date from the 1800s.
Persee: portail de revues scientifiques en sciences humaines et sociales
Established by the French Ministry of State Education, Higher Education and Research, this website contains back collections of scholarly periodicals.
Academic Search Premier
Provides full text for more than 4,450 academic, social sciences, humanities, general science, education and multi-cultural journals.
Historical Abstracts
Provides access to international scholarly literature on the history of the world, excluding the United States and Canada, from 1450 to the present. Indexes and abstracts journal articles, books, and dissertations.
Google Scholar (France)
French language Google Scholar from France.

Specialized Databases for this Course

America History and Life
Provides access to scholarly literature on the history and culture of the U.S. and Canada from prehistoric times to the present. Indexes and abstracts journal articles, book and media reviews, and dissertations.
Political Science Database
Provides articles on international relations and political science.
Religion and Philosophy Collection
Provides extensive coverage of such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy.
Sociological Abstracts
Provides citations to articles in over 3000 journals covering sociology, social work and other social sciences.

Useful Websites for this Course

Gallica
is a platfom Bibliothèque nationale de France that provides access to public domain and copyrighted digital material.

FREN 492: French Senior Seminar: Articles/Databases