Phillips Latin 21

Added by Abigail Cross, last edited by Abigail Cross on Mar 14, 2008 10:25

GENERAL RESEARCH IN CLASSICS: full bibliography

FOR THIS LATIN 21 ASSIGNMENT:

Try l'Année Philologique, bibliographies from the Oxford Classical Dictionary and from Pauly Online, and the Tufts Catalog--all described below

Tufts Catalog

The Tufts Catalog will find you books, video and audio recordings, government documents, journal titles, and other material that is owned by the Tufts Libraries (not just Tisch but also the Music, Ginn, Hirsh, and Webster libraries--so be sure to check the location before you head off to Tisch).

• The Tufts Catalog will NOT locate individual journal articles! Use the Databases and Articles for finding articles.

  HOW TO SEARCH: AND, OR, NOT (Boolean Operators) and keyword versus subject searching

• With each new database, check out the "help" or "search tips" file to find out how that database is best searched!

An essential resource for doing Classics Research is l'Année Philologique.

• Includes scholarly books, book chapters, essays, and articles in multiple languages
• A couple of useful guides on using AP: Vanderbilt ~ Davidson

Do not cite from dictionaries/encyclopedias! – BUT you can look up your topic and check the bibliography at the end of the entry to find useful citations on your topic.

• Pauly Online
• Oxford Classical Dictionary

NOTES ON FINDING/EVALUATING SOURCES

The database only gives me a citation, or just an abstract. How do I find the full text?

Use , OR:
look up the journal title (not the article title) by using the JOURNAL TITLE search option in the library catalog to find out if we own it electronically or in print. Be sure to check the range of dates we own before running to the shelves!

What if we don't have the article at Tufts?

Use ILLiad to request it from somewhere that does. It will be scanned in and emailed to your ILLiad account within a few days (in most cases).

Is a journal I've found scholarly/peer-reviewed/refereed?

Check Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory here.

A note on JSTOR, for those who swear by it:

JSTOR is good for finding Full-Text immediately but usually does not have the most current 5 (or more) years of research! Do NOT rely solely on JSTOR.

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