Find Background Information

Encyclopedia of Contemporary French Culture, 1998.

Oxford Companion to French Literature. Clapp Ref PQ 41 .H3.

Historical Dictionary of the French Revolution. Clapp Ref DC147 .H36 2004.

Historical Dictionary of the Third French Republic, 1870-1940. Clapp Ref DC337 .H57 1986.

Historical Dictionary of World War II France: the Occupation, Vichy, and the Resistance. 1938-1946 Clapp Ref DC397 .H58 1998.

Historical Dictionary of the French Fourth and Fifth Republics, 1946-1991. Clapp Ref DC401 .H57 1992.

Find Books

Wellesley College Catalog - Use the Library catalog to find books and other materials (journal titles, NOT journal articles) we have here at Wellesley. Remember to start with "keyword" if you are beginning to research a topic then, when you find something useful, see what subject headings are listed. You can click on these subject headings to find other useful titles. Try the following subject headings:

WorldCat - Use WorldCat to find books and other materials not at Wellesley. Use the suggestions listed above. If you find a book you want that Wellesley does not own, use the ILL link within WorldCat to request the book.

Find Journal Articles

The following databases provide either full-text articles or citations (information about when and where the article was published). Once you have a citation for an article, use the Find It! @ Wellesleylink from each citation to search one or more electronic journal sources through the Wellesley College Library Catalog. Use the name of the journal as the title and make sure you look at the dates covered carefully! If Wellesley does not own the article, you can request it via Interlibrary Loan (ILL).

   Finding Articles:

• Academic Search Complete The world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database. Dates of coverage vary by title. A good starting place for scholarly and popular articles. tip: From the search page under "limit your results" you can check the box to search only Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals. You can also choose to limit your results by language to retrieve articles written in French.
• JSTOR Collection of key scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences & natural sciences, starting from the first issue but not the latest 3-5 years. tip: by clicking on the advanced search link you can limit your search in many ways, including by language, date, discipline, or journal title.
• Project Muse Academic journals in the humanities & social sciences, from the past five years - see JSTOR for prior years. tip: click on "Advanced Article Search" to limit your search by language, date, discipline, or journal title.
• Historical Abstracts Articles on world history from 1450, excluding US & Canada, written since 1954. tip: From the search page under "limit your results" you can use the check boxes to search only Peer Reviewed articles, or you can limit by date or language. tip: You will see abstracts for all articles, but not all of your search results will include full-text articles. Use the Find It! @ Wellesleybutton to link to Wellesley's holdings and to Interlibrary Loan if it is not something owned by Wellesley.
• MLA International Bibliography Articles on literature, linguistics, film, and folklore, from all cultures, 1963 to present.
• Periodicals Index Online Index to articles published in over 4500 journals in the humanities & social sciences in 40 languages, 1665 to 1995. tip: click on Article Search to open an advanced search. Use this to limit your search by language, suject, title, author, etc.