Interlibrary loan is a system that allows you to request material from other libraries to be sent to Trent for you to borrow. Normally, there are no costs to use the ILL service. Plan ahead because it can take a few days or even weeks for material to be sent, depending upon availability.
You can find most articles using the Omni search. Enter some keywords, a citation, a DOI, an author - whatever you need.
The link to full text is in the full description when you click the title.
Try these databases to find scholarly articles in French and Francophone Studies beyond what Omni found.
CAIRN.INFO is an indexing and abstracting database that contains academic resources written in French. This collection covers the humanities and social sciences and includes journals, eBooks, and conference proceedings.
Erudit is Canada’s largest digital dissemination platform for journals in the humanities and social sciences. It is an inter-university consortium made up of the University of Montreal, Laval University and the University of Quebec at Montreal, funded by the Canadian Foundation for Innovation. Érudit disseminates 179 scholarly journals, 60 already in full Open access, and 119 journals with a 12-month embargo.
The Modern Language Association (MLA) International Bibliography provides searchable access to bibliographic citations to journal articles, books, dissertations, and scholarly Web sites. It indexes materials from 1926 to the present in academic disciplines such as language, literature, folklore, linguistics, literary theory and criticism, and the dramatic arts. Coverage includes literature from all over the world - Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and North and South America. The MLA currently indexes more than 66,000 new items each year. (from vendor website).
The following databases will be useful to some topics.
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