Journals are generally more current than books and more specific in their focus. Many academic journals are peer-reviewed, meaning they are evaluated by other experts in the same field before publication. This makes them a good quality source of academic information.
You can access thousands of journals through the Library, most of these online: we subscribe to over 67,000 journals electronically.
MLA International Bibliography
One of the best databases for indexing secondary literature from books, journals, theses etc in French studies.
JSTOR
A humanities and social science journal archive that has strong coverage in literary studies. Just note that it is an archive and does not contain content from the last 3-5 years
CAIRN.INFO provides a comprehensive collection of French language periodicals in the social sciences and humanities with over 100 titles in full-text.