General Research in Classics

Contents:

1. Finding items in other libraries
2. General and interdisciplinary sources
3. Classics-specific sources

First: your last resort! (finding items in other libraries when Tufts doesn't have what you need)

ILLiad
Tufts' online Inter-Library Loan request system for all items (anywhere in the world) not available through the BLC, and for all journal articles.

Virtual Catalog of the Boston Library Consortium
An online inter-library request system, involving just the libraries part of the Boston Library Consortium (BLC)--the advantage is that it can deliver items sooner than an ILLiad request. Use your library barcode number (on the back of your ID) to access the database. NOT for article requesting (use ILLiad).

WorldCat
A catalog of materials held by libraries worldwide, including books, periodicals, sound recordings, musical scores, videos, manuscripts, and maps. Search this if you are looking for a specific item not available at Tufts; it will show you the libraries that own the item and will help you choose between using the BLC Virtual Catalog and ILLiad.

Dissertation Abstracts (1861-present)
Selectively covers masters theses and dissertations including dissertations from Canada, Great Britain, and Europe.

General Reference and Interdisciplinary resources

Search for books and articles using the Tufts Library Catalog

Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press, c.2002-
Provides web access to 100 major Oxford University Press dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference works in the humanities, social sciences, foreign languages, science, technology and medicine, the performing arts, and religion. Works can be searched separately or across the entire databases. Includes over 1.5 million entries. Classics-specific titles include:
The Pocket Oxford Latin Dictionary (English-Latin)
The Pocket Oxford Latin Dictionary (Latin-English)
Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World
The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization
The Oxford Classical Dictionary
The Concise Oxford Companion to Classical Literature
Who's Who in the Classical World

Credo Reference
Provides access to 162 online reference resources from numerous publishers. The collection features over 2 million entries; 180,000 audio pronunciation files; 66,000 art, science, and medical images; and 90,000 atlas images of places and geographic features throughout the world.

Expanded Academic ASAP (1980-present)
Articles from more than 1,500 scholarly, trade, and general-interest publications, including national news and commentary. Coverage is from 1980 to current and is updated daily. Some full text is available.

Lexis-Nexis
Major full-text resource including articles from major American newspapers, in addition to many periodicals and regional papers, among other sources.

Art Abstracts
More than 250 key international, English-language arts publications. Includes periodicals, yearbooks, museum bulletins, competition and award notices, exhibition listings, interviews, film reviews, and more.

ARTstor
ARTstor is an image database of architecture, painting, photography, sculpture, decorative arts and design, and archaeological and anthropological objects - with associated catalog data - from many major collections.

BHA: Bibliography of the History of Art
Covering European and American art from late antiquity to the present, the Bibliography of the History of Art indexes and abstracts art-related books, conference proceedings and dissertations, exhibition and dealer's catalogs, and articles from more than 2,500 periodicals. The Bibliography of the History of Art is updated quarterly and covers 1973 to the present.

Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1974-present)
Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It covers 1,144 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, and it indexes individually selected items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals.

FULL-TEXT JSTOR Warning: JSTOR's most recent articles are normally 5 years old or older; go elsewhere for the very latest research!
For a list of Classical Studies and Archaeology journals covered in JSTOR, click here.

FULL-TEXT Project MUSE
Classical Studies journals found in Project MUSE:
American Journal of Philology (1996-)
Arethusa (1996-)
Classical World (2005-)
Helios
Hesperia (2005; archive only)
Transactions of the American Philological Association (2000-)

Classics-specific sources

Woodhouse: English-Greek Dictionary

L'Année Philologique
Online version of the annual bibliography for all areas of classical studies, from 1959-2002. Contains citations of all known scholarly work published in any language on ancient Greek and Latin language and linguistics, Greek and Roman history, literature, philosophy, numismatics, papyrology and epigraphy, in the period from the second millennium B.C. to 500-800. Future updates will add both more recent entries as well as earlier volumes.

New Pauly
The standard encyclopedia of the ancient world. Online includes the entire text of Metzler's "Der neue Pauly", together with Brills "New Pauly."

Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
An index of interdisciplinary journal literature on the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Includes citations for articles, books, bibliographies, catalogues, abstracts, and discographies. Useful for studies concerning the transmission of classical texts.

TOCS-IN
Provides searchable tables of contents of 160 journals in Classics, Near Eastern Studies, and Religion. Complete coverage from 1992 to present, with earlier contents from some journals.

In Principio
Features over 1 million incipits, covering Latin Literature from its origins to the Renaissance. It is an inevitable research tool for scholars interested in the writers, texts and manuscripts of Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

FULL-TEXT Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG)
Virtually all ancient Greek texts surviving from the period between Homer (8th century B.C.) and A.D. 600, and a large number of texts from the period between A.D. 600 and 1453. Log-in allows searchers to set up personal accounts, in part to save researchers' font preferences for later searches.

FULL-TEXT Patrologiae Graecae
The most comprehensive record of Greek patristic material in existence, comprising digital images of more than 160 book volumes.

FULL-TEXT Patrologia Latina
Covers the works of the Church Fathers from Tertullian in 200 A.D. to the death of Pope Innocent III in 1216, including all prefatory material, original texts, critical apparatus and indexes.

FULL-TEXT Perseus Project
Academic site containing a selection of Greek and Latin texts with translations, dictionaries and morphological tools for word analyses.

The following three resources are CD-ROMS. Come to the Tisch Reference Desk to request them and use them in the library.
FULL-TEXT Bibliotheca Teubneriana Latina (CD-ROM and Guide: Request from Tisch Reference Desk, PA6101.C48)
Stuttgart: B.G. Teubner; Turnhout: Brepols, 1991-<2002>
A database comprising all the Latin texts which have appeared in the Bibliotheca Teubneriana since its foundation. The database contains over 600 works from almost 300 authors, providing access to all the Latin texts of Antiquity from the beginning until the end of the second century A.D.

FULL-TEXT Cetedoc Library of Christian Latin Texts, CLCLT (CD-ROM: Request at Reference Desk, BR60 .C4)
Universitas Catholica Lovaniensis Lovanii Novi.
Full-text database of Christian Latin texts, covering the late second century to the fifteenth century.

Gnomon bibliographische Datenbank: Internationales Informationssystem für die klassische Altertumswissenschaft. (CD-ROM: Request from Tisch Reference Desk. Call number: PA3 .G62 ed.13 Apr 2007). Verlag, C.H. Beck, 1994-
Database covering all areas of classical studies; main areas are Ancient History and Classical Philology, with Archaeolgy in third place. Good index for reviews; also includes bibliographical listings from the journal Gnomon from 1990-.
Also online, BUT the online version contains only 15% of the content available on the CD-ROM.