French, German, Italian & Spanish

Useful links

For quick access to high quality information for your assignments, try the links on these pages.

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Reading Lists

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Key Starters for Essays and Dissertations/Research Projects

Identify different sources of information and link to ebooks and other top sources

Dictionaries

Finding Articles

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Sometimes you may want to try specific databases or journals - perhaps your lecturer has recommended particular sources as a good way of finding articles. This section lists key sources for French, German, Italian and Spanish.

• Databases

• Journals about France and the Francophone World

• Journals about Germany

• Journals about Italy

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• Journal of Modern Italian Studies

A very popular peer-reviewed journal covering a broad range of Italian topics.

• Modern Italy

A key peer-reviewed journal whose focus is the history, politics and social, economic and cultural studies of Italy, Italian affairs and the Italian peoples from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century.

• South European Society and Politics

A good source of peer-reviewed articles covering social and political topics across Spain, Italy, Greece, Turkey and Cyprus.