Library Resources for French

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Subject Librarian Tim Smith

The Subject Librarian for Modern Languages is Tim Smith. Don’t hesitate to contact him for assistance in finding information on your research topic.

He has written a Research Guide to French Language and Literature that is on the Libraries’ website. The items listed below are a small selection from that Guide. Follow the link above for many more resources about French language and literature.

Please note: some of the resources listed below are available to members of Ohio University only. Off-campus users will be asked to login and identify themselves as part of Ohio University in order to access them.

General Library Tools

French Language

  
The call number range for French dictionaries is PC2601 through PC2699. There are many non-circulating dictionaries in the Reference Collection on the 2nd floor of Alden Library. For volumes which you can check out, try the same call number area on the 7th floor.

 

We have many additional dictionaries. Here are links to listings in ALICE:

 

WordReference Online Dictionary

 

For French grammar books, try these titles from ALICE. 

The Mango Language Learning Center is an online language-learning system that can help you learn languages like Spanish, French,  Brazilian Portuguese, German,   Italian, Russian and more.

iOS and Android Apps

A listing of phrasebooks, dictionaries, vocabulary drills and other apps for both iOS and Android devices. 

Other Language Learning Books

The links below will lead you to other kinds of books, listed in ALICE, on various aspects of learning French:

French Literature

  

Literary Criticism: Journal Citation Databases

The MLA International Bibliographyis the major database for modern languages and literature.

Two other databases:

Literary Criticism: Full-Text Sources

Though not as comprehensive as the MLA International Bibliography (on left), these sources will often help you get a good start at finding literary criticism–and they always have full text!

French Videos and Media

New Library Acquisitions

Alden Library has more than 700 movies in French. This link will take you to a list of them in alphabetical order.

In order to find links to French-language media (newspapers, radio, and TV), go to this page in the French Language and Literature Research Guide.

Books, videos, and other materials recently added to the Library collections. Updated daily.