Selected Resources for: Ancient Near East


Subject Librarian: Laura Dale Bischof
E-Mail: bisch004@umn.edu
Subject Description:The subject covers the languages, literature, history, and material culture of the Ancient Near East.


Abstracts and Indexes

Academic or Scholarly Articles Subject Indexes
Annee philologique Online Authentication Required
The most comprehensive index to Classical Studies. It is an index of citations to books and articles in all areas of ancient Greek and Latin studies. Print index available at WILSON Reference PA29 .A5x.
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Anthropological Index of the Royal Anthropological Institute
The Libraries will no longer subscribe to this resource effective October 1, 2007. The contents of this database are now included in Anthropology Plus. Please use Anthropology Plus. The Anthropological Index Online is based on the journal holdings of The Anthropology Library at the The British Museum (Museum of Mankind) which receives periodicals in all branches of anthropology, from academic institutions and publishers around the world. During 2000 and early 2001 a retrospective conversion was undertaken which has added some 100,000 records going back to 1957. These were originally published on paper as vols 1-22 of the Anthropological Index. As part of this work we have modified the existing data to enable searching by the language of the article.
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Anthropology Plus Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Anthropology Plus brings together into one resource the highly respected Anthropological Literature from Harvard University and Anthropological Index, Royal Anthropological Institute from the UK. Anthropology Plus provides extensive worldwide indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies. The index offers excellent coverage of all core periodicals in the field in addition to local and lesser-known journals. Coverage is from the late 19th century to the present.
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ATLA Religion Database Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
ATLA lists journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion. Some listings link to full text of articles. More about ATLA
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Humanities & Social Sciences Retrospective Authentication Required
Humanities & Social Sciences Retrospective searches nearly 1200 of the most important journals in these subject areas. Updated, uniform subject headings facilitate your search, with the original subject headings also provided.
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General Indexes to Magazine, Journal & Newspaper Articles
Academic Search Premier Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education.
The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.
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Catalogs and Bibliographies

Catalogs
MNCAT Classic
Search with MNCAT Classic to find books, journals, etc. owned by the library. Search by keyword, subject, title, or author for materials on your topic. MNCAT Classic lacks the faceted searching of MNCAT Plus, but can be easier to use if you already have a good idea of what you're looking for.
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WorldCat Authentication Required
This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education
Covers all subjects. Provides bibliographic citations of books, serials, manuscripts, maps, music scores, sound recordings, films and machine-readable data files published worldwide. Provides holdings information for nearly 30,000 libraries. Producer/Publisher is OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.

The Libraries' subscription to this resource allows for 65 users at any one time. If you get a busy signal, please wait a few minutes and try accessing the site again.


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General Reference Sources

Encyclopedias

General Reference Works
eHRAF Archaeology Authentication Required
The eHRAF Collection of Archaeology covers the prehistory of the world with a growing collection of full-text information (e.g. books, journal articles, and dissertations) on archaeological traditions.The collection is unique in that the text is subject-indexed to the paragraph level for quick retrieval of information.
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Internet Resources

Electronic Texts
Electronic Full-Text Sources: Ancient Near Eastern Languages
From the University of Chicago Library: a collection of primary texts in Ancient Near Eastern languages and in translations. Also includes a reference section.
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ETANA Core Texts
ETANA Core Texts is a list of digitized texts selected as valuable for teaching and research in Ancient Near Eastern studies.
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Gateways & Megasites
ABZU: A Guide to Information related to the Study of the Ancient Near East on the Web
From Abzu: "Abzu is a guide to the rapidly increasing, and widely distributed data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East via the Internet."
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Web Sites
Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative
The Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI) represents the efforts of an international group of Assyriologists, museum curators and historians of science to make available through the internet the form and content of cuneiform tablets dating from the beginning of writing, ca. 3350 B.C., until the end of the pre-Christian era.
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Style Manuals and Writing Guides

Bibliography Software
RefWorks: Personal Citation Manager Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
RefWorks is a web-based citation manager that allows you to create your own databases of citations by importing references from MNCAT and other databases, and then in seconds automatically generate bibliographies in all major styles (MLA, APA, Turabian, Chicago, etc.).
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Library Information

Primary Subject Location


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