Library Guides: French and Francophone Studies: Books & eBooks

Books & eBooks

How to find materials NOT at Penn State:

Interlibrary Loan (ILLIAD)
Interlibrary Loan (ILL) allows you to request materials not available at Penn State. Faculty, staff, and currently enrolled students are eligible to use the service.

WorldCat (OCLC FirstSearch)
WorldCat is a union catalog that contains over 43 million records from libraries around the world.

OCLC WorldCat database is the OCLC online union catalog. It contains over 43 million records describing library holdings around the world.
HathiTrust (Public Domain within US only)
A digital catalog and online repository of books, journals, and other content from research libraries. Includes millions of full view items, while others are search only.

Sponsored by the libraries of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, the University of California, and other partners, HathiTrust is a repository of digitized materials in all disciplines. Its content--primarily scanned books and journals-- may be searched via authors, titles, subjects, and other data elements.

Gallica Ebooks
This is the multimedia online library of the Bibliothèque Nationale of France Over 80,000 fully digitized texts and 300,000 fully digitized images are available.

Catalogue collectif de France
Searches the BnF catalogue général, municipal library catalogs and academic library catalogs (SUDOC).
SUDOC (Système universitaire de documentation)
Searches French academic library catalogs, including dissertations.

ARTFL (American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language)
a cooperative project containing approximately 2000 French texts.

Full text database ranging from classic works in French literature to nonfiction prose and technical writings. Mostly 18th-20th century texts. Coverage: about 2000 texts in the French language.