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Academic Search Elite
Contains full text for more than 2,000 journals, including more than 1,550 peer-reviewed titles. This multi-disciplinary database covers virtually every area of academic study.
MLA Bibliography
A bibliography of scholarship in literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. Contains over 1.8 million citations from more than 4400 journals and series and 1000 book publishers. About 75% are language and literature journal articles.
MLA Directory of Periodicals
Detailed descriptions of over 7100 journals, including information on editorial contacts, publication frequency, circulation, subscription prices, and submission guidelines.
Persée
Established by the ministère de l'éducation nationale, Persée provides full-text access to the back files of French journals in the social and human sciences. The interface is available in both French and English.
Revues.org 
Full-text access to French journals in the social and human sciences. It is possible to search all journals or a specific title.
ARTFL Project,
Over 2000 French texts from the 13th-20th centuries are included, ranging from classical works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing.
Humanities Abstracts
Contains citations from more than 600 periodicals in archaeology and classical studies, area studies, communication, folklore, history, language, literature, performing and visual arts, philosophy, religion and theology.
Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective
Indexing of over 1200 periodicals, some going back as far as 1907. Also has coverage of many important scientific journals up to the 1950s.
L'Année Philologique Online
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Bibliographie Classique covering volumes 30 to 73 with more than 480,000 bibliographic records.
Arts and Humanities Search
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JSTOR
An archive of more than 1200 core scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Fulltext back to their date of first publication to within the current 2-5 years. JSTOR allows you to limit searches by English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, and Spanish language.
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Project MUSE
Full-text titles from over 100 scholarly journals in the Basic Undergraduate Collection. There is no way to limit to language on Project Muse searches.
Credo Reference
Over 360 online reference titles in all subject areas. Allows cross-referencing between titles and expanding searches into the Truman catalog and other library resources.
Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue française.Call Number: General Collection PC2580 .B55 2002
Encyclopedia of contemporary French culture. Call Number: Reference DC33.7 .E53 1998
Le Grand Robert: Dictionnaire Alphabetique et Analogique de la Langue Francaise.Call Number: CD-ROM workstation across from Reference Desk.
Guide to French literature. Call Number: Reference PQ 41 L48 1992
Oxford-Hachette French desk dictionary. Call Number: Reference PC2640 .O937 1996
The new Oxford companion to literature in French. Call Number: Reference PQ41 .N49 1995
ABU: La Bibliothèque Universelle
a digital library of French texts in the public domain. It includes 288 texts by 101 authors. Access to specific works is available through a keyword search as well as alphabetical author and title indexes.
Athena
Provides full-text access to works in French by French and Francophone authors, and translations of foreign works into French.
Electronic Text Center
digital collection of publications in about 12 languages at University of Virginia, part of it is freely accessible
Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature
Lists internet sources for literary texts in the western European languages other than English
Gallica (Bibliothèque Nationale de France)
access to 90,000 texts and hours of audio files, covering a time period ranging from the Middle Ages to the 19th century
World Digital Library
The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.
Citation and Writing Guides
Guides for how to use the American Psychological Association (APA) citation style; the Modern Language Association (MLA) citation style; and the Chicago/Turabian citation style. This page also has information on how to use tools that automatically format bibliographic information for you like: EndNote, Zotero, and EasyBib.com.
American Association of Teachers of French
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)
The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) is the only national organization dedicated to the improvement and expansion of the teaching and learning of all languages at all levels of instruction. ACTFL is an individual membership organization of more than 9,000 foreign language educators and administrators from elementary through graduate education, as well as government and industry.
American Translators Association
ATA is a professional association founded to advance the translation and interpreting professions and foster the professional development of individual translators and interpreters.
Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition at the University of Minnesota
Center for Applied Linguistics
a group of scholars and educators who use the findings of linguistics and related sciences in identifying and addressing language-related problems
Center for Language Education and Research at Michigan State University
The Center of Language Education and Research (CLEAR) at Michigan State University was established in 1996 as a Language Resource Center (LRC) through a Title VI grant from the U.S. Department of Education. As an LRC, CLEAR strives to promote and support the teaching and learning of foreign languages in the United States through its various projects and outreach activities.
Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center
The acknowledged leader in all aspects of culturally based foreign language education, DLIFLC is an innovative and continuously adapting organization, operating on the cutting edge of language instruction and technology."
Ethnologue
a catalogue of more than 6,700 languages spoken in 228 countries
Foreign Language and Culture Page
offers easy access to hundreds of language-related sites, easily organizing them by language. In addition, you can find links to everything from the CIA World Factbook to crossword puzzles in Dutch.
iLoveLanguages
a comprehensive catalog of language-related Internet resources; it has over 2,400 of the best language links the Web has to offer. Whether you're looking for online language lessons, translating dictionaries, native literature, translation services, software, language schools, or just a little information on a language in which you are interested, this site probably has something to suit your needs.
International Language Testing Association (ILTA)
Language Acquisition Resource Center at San Diego State University
Learn French - Language Learning Library
Lexicool
This web site provides a searchable directory to over 6000 freely available online bilingual and multilingual dictionaries and glossaries. Searches may be entered by language(s), subject, or title/keyword. Search results provide the number of entries and links to the online dictionaries. The site also provides a directory of translation and interpreting courses, a listing of translator and interpreter associations worldwide, language resources, freeware to download and links to sites for currency conversion, text analysis and language identification. Language-related software and products may be purchased at the website.
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Modern Language Association Language Map
The MLA Language Map uses data from the 2000 United States census to display the locations and numbers of speakers of thirty languages and three groups of less commonly spoken languages in the United States.
National Capital Language Resource Center
NFLRC at the University of Hawaii
Portals to the World - France
links to Web sites covering a wide range of subject areas (maintained by the Library of Congress)
radio-locator
A list of radio stations on the internet
UCLA Language Materials Project
provides learning resources for less commonly taught languages of the world, ranging from Armenian to Zulu.
Word Reference.com
Superior translation dictionaries for French, Italian, and Spanish
Yamada Language Center at the University of Oregon
guide to language resources on the World Wide Web.
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