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Databases useful for background information:

Oxford Reference Online Database -- full text of dictionaries, general reference, language reference, and subject reference works from Oxford University Press

Databases useful for the study of French Literature & Culture:

Academic Search Premier -- scholarly collection provides journal coverage for most academic areas of study

JSTOR -- full text access to scholarly journals in a variety of disciplines

MLA International Bibliography - consists of bibliographic records pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore, and includes coverage from 1926 to the present. The MLA International Bibliography provides access to scholarly research in over 3,000 journals and series.

Project Muse -- access to scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences

Databases useful for the study of French Literature:

ARTFL Project (The Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language) -- consists of nearly 2000 texts, ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing, including works by Voltaire, Moliere, Camus, Balzac and many others. The eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries are about equally represented, with a smaller selection of seventeenth century texts as well as some medieval and Renaissance texts

Bloom's Literary Reference Online -- full-text literary criticism from Professor Bloom and others

Literary Reference Center Plus -- access to reference works, books and literary journals

Twayne's Authors Series -- literary criticism of US, English and World authors

Databases for the study of French Culture:

^*new* Country Watch -- Provides country-specific data including demographic, political, economic, business, and cultural information.

Global Road Warrior -- Cultural, social, travel and business information about countries around the world