Guides: French (Modern Languages): Books, Theses & More

Le Grand Robert & Collins

Le Grand Robert & Collins This link opens in a new window
Le plus grand dictionnaire bilingue. L'integralite du Robert & Collins et du Grand Robert & Collins dans sa toute derniere edition. 425,000 mots et expressions donnant acces a plus d'un million de traductions. 100,000 prononciations; 45,000 mots composes.

Erudit: Promoting and Disseminating Research (CRKN) This link opens in a new window
Note: You may need to request document delivery for some items.
A bilingual gateway to Canadian journal articles, e-books, and theses on the social sciences, humanities and natural sciences.
Canada Commons This link opens in a new window
Formerly the desLibris collection, contains 8,000+ English and French ebooks from 47 Canadian publishers including the major Canadian university and scholarly presses.
Music Online: Smithsonian Global Sound (CRKN - Alexander Street Press) This link opens in a new window
An international collection of musical and aural traditions.
Europeana This link opens in a new window
Europe's multilingual library of 4.6 digitized books, maps, film clips, and newspapers, the majority in the public domain. French materials are well represented.

Lexilogos
The Lexilogos portal provides access to language resources including many types of dictionaries for a multitude of different languages and dialects. Go to http://www.lexilogos.com/francais_langue_dictionnaires.htm to access French resources directly.
Reverso
Reverso provides access to translators, dictionaries, conjugators and other language resources for French, Spanish, German, Italian, Russian, Portuguese and Chinese.
WordReference.com
Multi-lingual dictionary that contains an English dictionary as well as dictionaries and translation to and from English dictionaries for French, Italian and Spanish.

Collins French - English English French Dictionary
Lexilogos French resources
Direct access to the Lexilogos directory of resources on the French language. Includes many types of dictionaries such as historical, etymological and dictionaries of synonyms and antonyms.
La Grammaire Interactive
This is a direct link to Reverso's interactive French grammar, a most useful tool for students of the French language.
Grand dictionnaire terminologique
Published by Office Québécois de la langue française, this comprehensive dictionary is useful for rapid translations from English to French and vice-versa. It contains many technical terms and expressions not found in conventional dictionaries.
Le Conjugueur
This very practical web site provides proper conjugations for any French verb.
Le Trésor de la Langue Française
Online version of this well-established reference dictionary. A valuable resource for translators.

Phonétique
This web site has many useful resources both for the study of French phonetics or simply for learning proper French pronunciations.

Etait-il Une Fois ? litterature de jeunesse : panorama de la critique (France - Canada)

A bibliography compiled by Danielle Thaler (1989)

Call Number: Ref. Z 1037.2 T43 1989

Theatre in Video (CRKN - Alexander Street Press) This link opens in a new window
Video performances of plays and video documentaries from classic theatre (Moliere, Racine) to the present.

ATHENA: AUTHORS & TEXTS
Directory of online French language literary texts organized by author.
Le site de poésie de Marie...
Online anthology of classic French poems.
Fabula, atelier de théorie littéraire
Expansive website dealing with French language literature and literary theory.
L'ILE
Alphabetical directory of French-Canadian author biographies and bibliographies. Administered by UNEQ (Union nationale des écrivains québécois).

Theses Canada Portal This link opens in a new window
Full text electronic versions of Canadian theses and dissertations that were published since 1998.
MSVU e-Commons: MSVU Graduate Theses This link opens in a new window
Full-text versions of graduate theses produced at MSVU since 2006. Includes theses from Education, Family Studies & Gerontology, Applied Human Nutrition, Women and Gender studies, Child and Youth Study, and Public Relations.
Open Access Theses and Dissertations This link opens in a new window
An index providing access to over 1 million full-text open access graduate theses and dissertations from institutions in Canada, United States, and all over the world.
EBSCO Open Dissertations This link opens in a new window
OpenDissertations is an open-access database built to assist researchers in locating both historic and contemporary dissertations and theses.
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations This link opens in a new window
The NDLTD Union Catalog contains more than one million records of electronic theses and dissertations. For students and researchers, the Union Catalog makes individual collections of NDLTD member institutions and consortia appear as one seamless digital library of ETDs.

Subject Databases
Many of our subject databases (including ERIC, PsycInfo, Ageline, MLA, SocIndex, Historical Abstracts/America: History & Life, Child Development & Adolescent Studies, Gender Studies) provide indexing of select dissertations.

Degree-granting institution
Check the home institution for an online repository/archive. More and more theses and dissertations are being made available in open access format.