Public Services Librarian
Introduction
While OWU does have access to French language resources, particularly valuable for finding newspapers, as a primarily English-language institution, our resources are limited. Below, I've included a handful of potentially valuable French-language resources that should be free to access. If you have any trouble accessing these resources, please let me know!
Websites
- Al ArabiyaDubai-based news site
- Al JazeeraOne of the largest independent news sources in the Arab world.
- France24France24 is a state-run media site. Paywalls shouldn't be an issue here, but keep in mind the limitations of any state-run media.
- GallicaAn archive of digitally preserved historical French newspapers from the early 20th century.
- Le FigaroOne of three major French daily newspapers. As with Le Monde, may of these articles may be paywalled.
- Le MondeMany Le Monde articles may be paywalled. However, there are ways around that, such as OWU's interlibrary loan system, which allows you to request digital access for free.
- LibérationThe final of France's three major daily newspapers. As with the previous two, paywalls are an issue.
- Saudi Press AgencySaudi state-run news
Using Google
Unlike many of OWU's resources, there isn't a particularly easy way to make your Google results predominantly French or Arabic news sources. Even searching google.fr (the French Google portal) or changing my native Google settings to French still gave me primarily English-language resources. I suspect you'll have to turn off geolocation on your account (or use a VPN) if you want to bypass this issue.
That said, you can still search newspaper articles. In Google, if you type:
site:(url)
before your search, you are telling Google to only return results from that page. So, for example, if you google
site:lemonde.fr burkini
then all the results will be from the French newspaper Le Monde.
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