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    General Resources

    Opportunities in Overseas Careers
    Mortensen Library Shelves HF5549.5.E45 C32 2005 Check Status


    Dictionaries

    Business French Dictionary, Peter Collin Publishing
    Provides a specialist business vocabulary for translators, business people, secretaries, and students. Provides comprehensive coverage of all aspects of business: insurance, stock exchange, accounting, finance, and computing.

    Collins French Dictionary and Grammar
    Complete and up-to-date coverage of all the words and phrases you need in French


    Google Scholar
    Search for scholarly literature across disciplines and sources. Includes peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, etc. Particularly strong in sciences and social sciences. Selected full text. Many links are to publisher's sites which sell access. ON Campus - links to U of H holdings are available. OFF Campus - U of H users should check our holdings and use Interlibrary Services as needed.

    MLA Bibliography
    International index of books and journals. Covers modern languages, literature, linguistics, and folklore. For information about the periodicals included, consult the MLA Directory of Periodicals.


    bab.la (Multi-Language Dictionary)
    Free online platform for language lovers with 40 dictionaries for 28 languages, a language forum, vocabulary lessons, language games, quizzes, verb conjugation for 12 languages, phrase books for university, business or travel, an internship platform and many other language-related products.


    Sections in this category: General Resources | Dictionaries

    General Resources

    ClicNet (Swarthmore College)
    Award-winning site with numerous links to French language, literature, and cultural resources.

    French Language News and Magazines (MIT Libraries)
    Links to a wide variety of French and French Canadian magazines and newspapers.

    French Studies Web (WESSWEB)
    Maintained by the Western European Specialists Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries.

    On-line French Texts (University of Virginia)
    Electronic versions of texts in French; links to many other resources on the Internet.

    Paris
    Classic, award-winning site combining a photographic tour of Paris with historical comments in French and English.

    Tennessee Bob's Famous French Links (University of Tennessee at Martin)
    Second edition of this legendary French links site, with everything from art to business to literature. A Francophone's dream.

    Voice of the Shuttle: French Literature (University of California, Santa Barbara)
    Impressive collection of French literature links from the Middle Ages to contemporary writing and criticism.


    Dictionaries

    WordReference.com
    Collins Dictionaries from HarperCollins, including English and bilingual.