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Indexes and Databases

L'Annee Philologique is one of the most important indexes to the literature of Classical Studies. It contains 600,000 bibliographic records for the years 1949 to 2004 with 12,500 new records added each year. The international offices analyze 1,500 periodicals each year, as well as 500 articles in collections and conference papers. Publication information for articles is accompanied by brief abstracts.

Art Abstracts

This database indexes and provides abstract summaries for 313 leading international art publications, including journals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins. It offers broad coverage of art topics, including advertising, archaeology, crafts, folk art, graphic arts, interior design, video, film, architecture, and art history.Entries in the database also cite any art reproductions used to illustrate articles and advertisements, under the artists' names. Includes titles in French, Spanish, German, Italian, Swedish, Japanese, and Dutch as well as English language sources.Updated monthly. Coverage is from 1929-present.

Art and Architecture Database (OhioLINK Digital Media Center)

The Art and Architecture Database is a growing database of art and architectural images. Image collections included: Greek and Roman architecture and sculpture, Minoan Art, Brueghel and Rubens paintings from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, works of Michelangelo, and selected images from the following art history textbooks: Gardner's Art Through the Ages, Stokstad's History of Art, Gilbert's Living with Art, Hartt's History of Italian Renaissance Art. There will continue to be additions to the database when OhioLINK is able to negotiate new image contracts. Late in 1999, images from what was formerly known as the Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) were added, for instance.

Arts and Humanities Citation Index (ISI)

A multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It indexes 1,144 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals.

Avery Index to Architecture Periodicals(FirstSearch)

Indexes more than 1,000 periodicals published worldwide on architecture, archaeology, city planning, interior design, and historic preservation. Coverage is from 1977-present

Bibliography of the History of Art (FirstSearch)

The Bibliography of the History of Art covers European and American art from late antiquity to the present. It indexes and abstracts art-related books, conference proceedings and dissertations, exhibition and dealer's catalogs, and articles from more than 2,500 periodicals. It includes and extends the coverage of its two predecessor art indexes: RAA (Repertoire d'Art et d'Archeologie) from 1973 to 1989 and RILA (International Repertory of the Literature of Art ) from 1975 to 1989. Coverage is from 1973-present.

FRANCIS (FirstSearch)

FRANCIS covers a wide range of multilingual, multidisciplinary information in the humanities (63%), social sciences (33%), and economics (4%). In includes indexing for close to 3700 journals. FRANCIS is strong in religion, the history of art, and literature, with particular emphasis on current trends in European and world literature. Coverage is from 1984-present.

Humanities International Complete (EBSCOhost)

umanities International Complete provides indexing, abstracting, and full text of journals, books, and other important reference sources in the humanities. This database provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracting for over 1,900 titles, and full text of hundreds of journals books and other publications. It includes citations and abstracts for articles, essays and reviews, as well as original creative works including poems, fiction, photographs, paintings and illustration.

MLA International Bibliography (EBSCOhost)

MLA International Bibliography offers a detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association, the electronic version of the bibliography dates back to the 1920s and contains over 1.8 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series and 1,000 book publishers. The indexed materials coverage is international and includes almost 60 titles from J-STOR's language and literature collection as well as links to full text.

Nineteenth Century Masterfile

This growing database indexes by keyword or journal title articles in journals, magazines, and newspapers published in the 19th century and very early 20th century. The indexing originated in a variety of historical, print indexes, including the following:

Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (1802-1906)
Stead's Index to Periodicals (1890-1906)
Richardson's Index to Periodical Articles in Religion (1890-1899)
Cumulative Index to a Selected List of Periodicals (1896-1899)
New York Times Index (1863-1905)
New York Daily Tribune Index (1875-1906)
Palmer's Index to the Times (London) (1890)
(PLEASE NOTE: The College of Wooster subscribes to the journal and newspaper indexing part of this service only.) Coverage is from 1802-1906.

Periodicals Index Online

Indexes journal articles in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and other Western language journals--backfile years only. Currently indexes 1872 journals. Will eventually index 3500 journals.

Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (Univ. of California--Irvine)

This database of Greek literature was conceived and initially funded by Marianne McDonald, a graduate student in Classics at the University of California, Irvine in 1972, and now a Professor of Theatre and Classics at UC San Diego. Today the TLG® Digital Library contains virtually all Greek texts surviving from the period between Homer (8th century B.C.) and A.D. 600 and the majority of surviving works up to the fall of Byzantium in A.D. 1453. The TLG Project center continues its efforts to include all extant Greek texts from the Byzantine and post-Byzantine period. The Online TLG currently provides access to 3,800 authors and 12,000 works, and approximately 99 million words. It is updated quarterly. Information about authors and works included in the TLG may be found in the Canon of Greek Authors and Works

Internet Sites--General Classics

Ancient World Web: Collection of websites on various ancient worlds.
Classical Studies (Iowa State University): Departmental Information and various links.
Classics Collections (University of Florida): Links to Educational Resources, Language info, History, Art & Archaeology, Mythology, Journals, Databases, etc.
Classics Page at Ad Fontes Academy: Departmental Information and links to Greek and Roman Authors [scroll past the Latin].
Classics Resources (University of Chicago): Links to Multimedia, Libraries, Journals and Mailing Lists, Societies, and Miscellaneous.
Electronic Resources for Classicists: The Second Generation (The University of California, Irvine): Links, Classics Department.
Library of Congress Alcove 9: An Annotated List of Reference Websites in Classical and Medieval History: The Main Reading Room of the Library of Congress has eight alcoves. This ninth 'virtual alcove' is a collection of websites selected and annotated by Humanities and Social Sciences Division subject specialists. All of these websites have components that are free and available to the public; some might require user registration, or may have links to fee-based services.
Perseus Digital Library (Tufts University): The Perseus Project is an evolving digital library of resources for the study of the humanities. Collaborators initially formed the project to construct a large, heterogeneous collection of materials, textual and visual, on the Archaic and Classical Greek world. Planning for Perseus began in 1985; the project was formally established in July, 1987. Since then, the Perseus Project has published two CD-ROMs and created the on-line Perseus Digital Library. Recent expansion into Latin texts and tools and Renaissance materials has served to add more coverage within Perseus and has prompted the project to explore new ways of presenting complex resources for electronic publication.
Pomoerium--Classics: Classics journals, resources, new classics books, and virtual library including the Stilus Project. (Stilus Project is available from the "Classics Main" link.)
Resources for Classical Studies (Vanderbilt University): Links to electronic databases, research guides, "mastersites," book reviews, texts, translations, electronic journals, professional associations, listservs and discussion groups, as well as online images.

Internet Sites--Focused areas

Ancient City of Athens: Photographic archive of the archaeological and architectural remains of ancient Athens. All of the images presented on this site, unless otherwise noted, are from the personal photographic collection of Kevin T. Glowacki and Nancy L. Klein. The collection is the result of many years studying, teaching, and conducting archaeological research in Athens.
Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable or Stories of Gods and Heroes.
Didaskalia: Ancient Theater Today: Didaskalia is an English-language publication about Greek and Roman drama, dance, and music as they are performed today. The name Didaskalia is taken from the inscriptions used to record the outcomes of drama and music festivals in Athens.
Greek Grammar on the Web
Medicina Antiqua: Hosted by the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, Medicina Antiqua "is devoted to the study of medicine in the Graeco-Roman world. It is intended to be a useful scholarly introduction and resource. It does this primarily either by including existing resources or linking to other web resources. The site currently hosts a number of essays and translations, which it is hoped will be expanded in the future. It is essentially dependent on submissions by academics or other interested parties."
Oriental Institute at The University of Chicago--Electronic Resources: Descriptions and publications of the projects in ancient Near Eastern archaeology and philology by the faculty and staff of the Oriental Institute and its various units, the Oriental Institute Museum, and the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (NELC), the University of Chicago.
The Philosophy of Aristotle: Essays by Aristotle and Epictetus, and essays about Aristotle and other early Greek philosophers.
Project Libellus (University of Washington): Ongoing attempt to provide a library of classical Latin (and Greek) texts with minimal redistribution restrictions.
The Stoa: A Consortium for Electronic Publication in the Humanities--Metis Project: Bruce Hartzler's collection of interactive QTVR panoramas for ancient Greek archaeological sites. Includes embedded hot links to Perseus materials.

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