French and Francophone Linguistics Guide

1. Set up the UF VPN: When you're off campus, you will need to use the UF VPN software to access electronic databases, journals and books.
2. Use a Proxy Server: This option is great if you are only doing a fast search.
3. Search the library catalog for books or journal titles: Links to online books and journals are also contained within the catalog.
4. Search subject databases to find articles in journals: If you are trying to decide which database is appropriate for your research, look at the list of databases listed on the Databases and Journals Tab.

• Course Reserves 

Access required reading, viewing, or listening made available by your professors through the Smathers Libraries!

• Interlibrary Loan 

Interlibrary Loan is a free service which provides materials to patrons, that are not available in the UF library collections. This can include either loans (books, dissertations, microfilm, etc.) or copies of articles and book chapters.

• UBorrow 

UBorrow lets you request (print) books directly from participating Florida state university libraries when the item is not available at UF.

• FLARE 

Guide on how to request items from the Florida Academic Repository (FLARE).

• Language Studio

The Language Learning Center is dedicated to providing multimedia support to language students at the University of Florida.

• French and Francophone Studies Research Guide

This research guide will have information on general French and Francophone Studies research.

• Linguistics Research Guide

This research guide will have information on general linguistics research.