Research Guides: Languages: Online Resources

Selected HPU Online Resources

Europeana
Provides open access to more than 15 million digital objects, including film material, photos, paintings, sounds, maps, manuscripts, books, newspapers and archival papers from more than 1500 European institutions. Europeana -- the European digital library, museum and archive -- launched in 2008 and is funded by the European Commission and its member states. This current prototype is one of many parallel projects of The European Library.

France Today
Features different regions of France with practical travel tips & suggestions for where to eat & stay, where to shop & play, as well as features on food & wine, cinema, culture & French products available in the U.S.A.

Project Muse
Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities and social science content for the scholarly community. MUSE is the trusted source of complete, full-text versions of scholarly journals from many of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies, with over 120 publishers currently participating.

L'Obs - Actualité
L’Obs, previously known as Le Nouvel Observateur (1964–2014), is a weekly French news magazine. Based in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris, it is the most prominent French general information magazine in terms of audience and circulation. Its current editor is Matthieu Croissandeau

Le Monde
Published/Created: 1944. Le Monde is the premier center-left newspaper in France. It was founded under Charles de Gaulle after WWII and is the most widely-read paper, especially outside of France.

Gallica : la bibliothèque numérique
Gallica is a digital library of French and francophone culture maintained by the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Contains numerous electronic texts, images, maps, animation, and sound files of French and other publications in history, literature, science, philosophy, law, economics, and political science.

France-Amérique
Published/Created: 1941. This long-standing completely bilingual publication looks like a high-end magazine in its current iteration but has origins in the French Resistance and was endorsed by Charles de Gaulle as a way to build popular support for France from America during WWII (under Nazi rule). France-Amérique has easy to read and entertaining bilingual articles on cultural icons (think Simone de Beauvoir, who also wrote for F-A, or Albert Camus), gastronomy, publishing and literature, travel, the arts and politics. It is an exceptionally helpful publication for Francophiles and language learners.

Paris Match
Full text articles available in Gale database.
Paris Match (website)
In French, from France. Paris Match is one of the most widely read magazines in France. With its combination of news, current affairs, celebrity interviews, and great photography, this magazine is also a favorite of Francophones (and Francophiles) all over the world. There is a stylish web site where one can find a number of articles from the current and past issues in full text without a subscription.