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Databases for students

  • Academic Search Complete Best Bet
    The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database. Provides full text access to over 4,600 full text and 3,600 peer-reviewed journals across a broad range of subjects areas.
  • JSTOR Best Bet
    Comprehensive multidisciplinary and discipline-specific collections digital archive.
    Access to the following collections: Ireland Collection, Arts and Sciences I to VIII, JSTOR Arts & Sciences XII Collection, Global Plants and the Life Sciences Collection.
  • Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts Best Bet
    Abstracts and indexes the international literature in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences.
    Covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Documents indexed include journal articles, book reviews, books, book chapters, dissertations and working papers.
  • MLA Best Bet
    Bibliographic records relating to: literature, language, linguistics, and folklore.
    Coverage from 1963 to the present.
    Provides access to scholarly research in over 3,000 journals and series. It also covers relevant monographs, working papers, proceedings, bibliographies, and other formats.
  • Oxford Dictionary French/English Best Bet
    French language dictionary.
  • ProQuest Social Science Premium Collection (1914-current) Best Bet
    This collection provides access to databases covering international literature in social sciences, including politics, public policy, sociology, social work, anthropology, criminology, linguistics, library science, and education. Featured databases include IBSS, Sociological Abstracts and Worldwide Political Science Abstracts. Together, they provide abstracts, indexing and full-text coverage of journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, and more.
  • ACLS Humanities eBook
    ACLS Humanities E-Book (HEB) is a digital collection of over 5,400 books in the humanities and related social sciences.
  • ARTFL
    The ARTFL Project is a consortium-based service that provides its members with access to North America's largest collection of digitized French resources.
  • Autrement Mêmes Collection
    Consists of 51 titles from the Autrement Mêmes Collection, published by L'Harmattan, Paris.
  • Bibliothèque Nationale de France
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    Located in Paris, the website for this collection is trilingual in French, Spanish, or English. The Union Catalog of France (Catalogue Collectif de France/CCFr) provides a single search interface for more than 15 million documents in the three major French catalogs.
  • CAIRN.info
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    This is the Open Access version of CAIRN with access to 35 Journals. Founded in 2005 by Belgian/French academic publishers, Cairn.info offers an online collection of key francophone publications in social sciences and humanities.
  • Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur la litterature et la culture quebecoises
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    It offers online and downloadable access to publications such as monographs, research papers, essays and theses relating to Quebequoise Culture, Literature and Poetry including representation of the North and cultural forms originating from the Northern territories of French and English speaking Canada.
  • Coptica
    French language Coptic Studies portal providing digital access to resources for Egyptian language and Coptic literature. Includes texts, indexes, dictionaries and other key resources, some in full text format.
  • Directory of Open Access Journals
    The primary aim of DOAJ is to increase discoverability of Open Access Journals.
    DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.
    This is a free electronic resource and TCD cannot guarantee the stability of the connection.
  • Ebook Central
    The Library has purchased a number of individual e-book titles on the ProQuest Ebook platform.
    Books published by a variety of publishers in a number of subject areas are available to browse and search. You may check the Library Catalogue for specific titles.
  • Edmond Huguet, Dictionnaire de la langue française du 16e siècle
    The essential reference for the language of the Renaissance (the 15th and 16th centuries).
  • Frantext
    Comprises approximately 4000 French texts, from classic works of literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing.
  • Gallica
    Digital library from the Bibliotheque nationale de France. Includes both digitized texts and images. Focuses on French culture and life, including science and the history of science, economics, law, politics, philosophy, literature, history and ethnology. Most texts are in image (facsimile) form, although some are in fully searchable text.
  • INA.fr
    The French National Audiovisual Institute (INA) database. Free access to the French audiovisual (radio and television) archives. 80% of the video and sound material on this site is free. The content consists mainly of extracts, shorts, playlists, and other multimedia items.
  • Larousse
    Access to the free content on the Larousse portal. Resources include Encyclopaedia, French Dictionaries, Bilingual Dictionaries, Conjugation tool, Games and Archive
  • Open Book Publishers
    A non-profit organisation established, by academics in Cambridge, to publish rigorously peer reviewed Open Access monographs.
  • Oxford Dictionaries Premium
    Offers searchable, comprehensive bilingual dictionaries, and acts as a point of reference and guide for language learning.
  • Oxford Reference Online
    Contains over 240 titles including dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press.
  • Persée
    French-language scholarly journals, established by the Ministry of National Education of France.
  • Poésie Francaise
    Recueil de poésies des meilleurs poètes français et étrangers d'hier à aujourd'hui.
    Masterpieces of French poetry and the world classified by authors and by themes, to discover or reread. Over 5800 entries.
  • Portail Calvin et Genève 16
    This portal presents all the texts by or about John Calvin which have been published by the Librairie Droz from 1960 to the present, with an initial focus on Geneva, Calvin, and the beginnings of the French evangelical movement with Lefèvre d’Etaples and Marguerite de Navarre.
  • Project MUSE
    Covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.
    TCD does not have access to Project Muse books
  • RASCAL
    RASCAL is an electronic gateway to research resources relating to Ireland. The site can be used to search or browse information about a wide range of research and special collections held in libraries, museums and archives in Ireland and abroad.
  • Samuel Beckett Digital Manuscript Project
    A collaboration between the Centre for Manuscript Genetics (University of Antwerp), the Beckett International Foundation (University of Reading) and the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (University of Texas at Austin).

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