Databases

Academic Search Premier
An interdisciplinary database that provides full text articles.

Global Reference Center
Britannica's Global Reference Center is the home of comprehensive online content in a variety of global languages, including Spanish, French, Chinese, Japanese and Korean.

Literature Resource Center
Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline.  In English only.

MLA Bibiography
Covers literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore from 4,400 journals and series worldwide. Coverage from 1926 to the present.

Web resources

Alliance Française de Portland

Discover French Culture on the Web
Provides links to French cultural sites. Some newspapers and radio links are included.

Francophone Portals and Search Engines
Provides links to French language search engines

French Culture
Developed by the Cultural Services Office to the Embassy of France to promote the best of French arts, literature, and education to cultural and academic institutions across the United States. The Education section provides an inventory of internship, language and study abroad programs available to American students and teachers.

Le Monde
Direct link to Le Monde newspaper.

Best French Websites (By Professor Emeritus Jim Becker of the U. of Northern Iowa)

Dictionaries

Oxford Business French Dictionary (English-French/French-English) (e-book)

Concise Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary (English-French/French-English) (e-book)

Dictionnaire Etymologique Et Historique Du Français

Le Petit Larousse 2003: En Couleurs

Le Nouveau Dictionnaire Visuel: Français-Anglais

Thésaurus Larousse : Des Idées Aux Mots, Des Mots Aux Idées

5 Language Visual Dictionary

Encyclopedia

Encyclopædia Universalis accessible via the Global Reference Center(online)

Professional organization

American Association of Teachers of French (AATF)

Finding books

By subject search

Below are some links to various subject searches in the catalog. The subject search is a specific and helpful way to find materials about your area of interest. Explore these or try some of your own subject searches using the "Subject" tab in Foxtrax. For more information on "power searching" by subject, ask your reference librarian.

France -- Civilization

France -- Social Life and Customs

French Language -- Readers

National Characteristics,  French 

By call number

If you want to browse for books in the library, use the call numbers below to find the subject areas that are of interest to you. You can use them to browse the reference section or the main stacks. The Library of Congress website may have a more detailed outline of call numbers for your subject area.

Customized search engine

FoxSearch French

This Google Custom Search engine searches quality web sites selected by the library.