Databases
- Articles (Journals & Magazines)
- Primary Sources
- Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, etc.
- Related Resources (Humanities, Ancient Authors, Philosophy)
- Dissertations
- Library Catalogs
Articles (Journals & Magazines)
- Online version of the definitive index to Greco-Roman antiquity.
- Covers 1959-2002 (vols 30-73 of the print edition)
- No abstracts or full text
TOCS-IN
(Tables of Contents of Journals of Interest to Classicists)
- Tables of contents of approximately 160 Classics, Near Eastern Studies, and Religion journals
- Coverage is from 1992 to the present with some earlier material for certain journal titles
Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)
- Our largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary, full text database.
- Abstracts and indexes over 7,900 journals (over 6,175 of those are peer-reviewed).
- Provides the full text of over 4,500 journals (over 3,600 of those are peer-reviewed).
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- Covers over 10,000 periodicals and scholarly journals.
- Provides the full text from over 5,000 titles.
- Provides some full text of history journals and includes many book reviews
- 1980 to present
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- Provides full text and full image of some major history journals
- 1986 to present
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- Provides the complete digitized text of about a dozen classical studies journals
- Coverage begins with the first issue and does not include the last 3-5 years
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- Provides full text of several classical studies journals, including Arethusa, Classical World, Classical Bulletin and Mnemosyne.
- Coverage begins with the first issue and does not include the last 10 years.
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- Index over 1,000 journals, as well as many essays and books, covering European history from 400-1700.
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Primary Sources
Bibliotheca Teubneriana Latina
- the complete Teubner editions of works in Latin, in full text
- Note: BTL is available on a CD-ROM which you can obtain at the Circulation Desk.
- Provides the works of the Church Fathers from Tertullian in 200 AD to the death of Pope Innocent III in 1216
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- Includes most literary texts written in Greek from Homer to the fall of Byzantium in AD 1453.
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Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, etc.
The Concise Oxford Companion to Classical Literature (Oxford Reference)
- Biographical information about classical authors, information about their characters and plot summaries of their works.
- Also offers discussion of specific literary forms, and coverage of the historical, political, social and artistic background of the period.
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- Full text of the print encyclopedia plus more up-to-date articles not yet available in the printed version.
- Also includes Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (Tenth Edition), the Britannica Book of the Year, and thousands of WWW links selected by Britannica editors.
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Who's Who in the Classical World (Oxford Reference)
- A dictionary of ancient biography, covering Greek and Roman history and politics, literature, philosophy, science, and art.
- Search all Classics sources from Oxford Reference
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Related Resources: Humanities, Ancient Authors, Philosophy
- A citation index to 1,300 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, used to trace references as cited by later authors
- Covers 1980 to the present. No full text.
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Humanities and Social Science Retrospective
- Indexes the core scholarly, English-language journals published between 1907 and 1984.
- Includes citations to more than 1 million articles, including book reviews.
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- Provides the fulltext of biographical and critical materials from Contemporary Authors and Dictionary of Literary Biography and portions from Contemporary Literary Criticism and other Gale literary criticism sets covering the classical period to the present; also provides links to author websites.
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- The most famous index to philosophical research, good source for materials on ancient philosphy and philosophers
- Covers journal articles, books, contributions to anthologies, and book reviews.
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Dissertations
- Lengthy abstracts of dissertations in all disciplines
- Citations 1861-present, abstracts 1980-present.
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Library Catalogs
- Union catalog of materials held in 18,000+ libraries world-wide
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Classical Studies Resources
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Mark
Schumacher
Classical Studies Librarian
