These searchable online resources provide access to article abstracts or full-text materials on French topics. They are restricted to GMU users.Click on a database below, and then scroll down to its name in the alphabetical list produced. If you are off-campus, you will be prompted to provide your username and password (the same ones you use to access your Mason email account). For a PDF guide to using these databases, click here.
ARTFL
"The American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language Project contains approximately 2,000 French texts (primarily from the 18th through 20th centuries), reference works, and subject bibliographies."
Arts & Humanities Citation Index
"A multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. Indexes 1,100 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals."
EIU (Economist Intelligence Unit) Country Information
"Extensive country information from various Economist Intelligence Unit publications, covering most countries and including politics, economics, business, markets and data."
EIU (Economist Intelligence Unit) ViewsWire
"Timely analysis on key economic, political and business developments around the world."
Europa World Year Book
"Provides lengthy descriptions of countries and international organizations as well as multinational comparative statistics."
Expanded Academic
"Use this database to find journal articles on: Astronomy, Religion, Law, History, Psychology, Humanities, Current Events, Sociology, and the General Sciences."
Film Indexes Online
Scroll down to Film Indexes Online, and within it, click on Search Film Index International for production information, a brief synopsis, and a bibliography of further resources.
Global NewsBank
"An index of several hundred international newspapers, news services and broadcast media."
Historical Abstracts
"Provides English language abstracts of scholarly literature (journal articles, articles in collections, dissertations, book reviews) on world history from 1450, excluding North America." Includes French history. Some of the sources are in French. Some full-text links.
International Index to the Performing Arts (IIPA)
Includes citations and many full text articles on French films, such as criticism and interviews.
ITER - Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
This project from the University of Toronto features a comprehensive bibliography of literature pertaining to the period 400-1700: books, articles, reviews, essays, conference proceedings, and more. Also includes many full-text issues of the scholarly journals Renaissance Quarterly and the bilingual Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme.
JSTOR
"The complete text (full back runs) of core scholarly journals in Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, History, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies and Sociology."
LexisNexis Academic
"Provides access to a wide range of news, business, government, legal and reference information," including information on France and Francophone countries.
Literature Resource Center
"Full-text biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of more than 120,000 writers from a variety of periods and disciplines."
LLBA (Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts)
"A valuable source for the latest in linguistics and its various sub-disciplines. Non-evaluative abstracts of articles from hundreds of serials published around the world, complemented with coverage of books, occasional papers, monographs, & more."
MLA International Bibliography
"Indexes scholarly works (journal articles, monographs, book chapters, dissertation abstracts, and series) on literature, languages, linguistics and folklore."
Oxford Reference Online
Includes electronic versions of The Concise Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary and The Oxford Business French Dictionary. From the list of 'O' databases, choose "Oxford Reference Online," then "Bilingual Dictionaries" and the book you want to search.
Project Muse
"Offers 250 journal titles from 40 scholarly publishers. One of the academic community's primary electronic journals resources, it covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, and others."
World Factbook
"A complete geographical handbook... Each country profile tracks demographic, ethnicity, literacy, political, and economic data." Produced by the Central Intelligence Agency.
World News Connection
"Covers significant socioeconomic, political, technical, and environmental issues. Includes full text summaries of newspaper articles, conference proceedings, periodicals, radio and television broadcasts, and non-classified technical reports."
Saviez-vous? Did you know?
Even French pets have accents! French cats do not purr; non, un chat ronronne. (Roll your r's to appreciate the onomatopoeia.) For more fun foreign animal sounds, check out this site courtesy of Georgetown University.
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