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Subject Librarian: Laura Dale Bischof E-Mail: bisch004@umn.edu This subject covers: the areas of ancient Greek and Latin language and linguistics, and ancient Greek and Roman history, literature, philosophy, art, archaeology, religion, mythology, music, science, and early Christian texts. |
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Article Databases and Indexes
Academic or Scholarly Articles Subject Indexes
Annee philologique Online  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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Anthropology Plus  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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| Art Index Retrospective Art Index Retrospective covers 55 years (from 1929-1984)of art journalism and research from leading English-language sources, plus others published in French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Dutch. Besides periodicals, resources include data from yearbooks and select museum bulletins.
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ATLA Religion Database  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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| Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) The data available on the Getty Web site as of April 1, 2010, comprises two databases: BHA and IBA. BHA (Bibliography of the History of Art/Bibliographie d'histoire de l'art) covers the years 1990-2007; the Getty Web version includes all records with abstracts in French or English and all subject terms in French and English. IBA (International Bibliography of the History of Art) covers 2008 and part of 2009; the Getty Web version includes all records with abstracts in English and all subject terms in French and English. A third database will be added to the Getty Web site during the coming months: RILA (Répertoire de la litterature de l'art), which covers 1975-1989. At present, the Getty has no plans to add RAA (Répertoire d'art et d'archéologie), which covers 1973-1989.
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| Dyabola DYABOLA literature database contains citations from the subject catalog of the German Archaeological Institute in Rome. Click on "With IP-Access" to search Dyabola.
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| Philosopher's Index Provides indexing and abstracts from books and over 270 journals on philosophy and related interdisciplinary fields published in the U.S. and the Western World. Database Fact Sheet available at: http://www.csa.com/factsheets/philosopher-set-c.php
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| TOCS-IN "TOCS-IN provides the tables of contents of a selection of Classics, Near Eastern Studies, and Religion journals, both in text format and through a Web search program. Where possible, links are given with articles of which the full text or an abstract is available online (about 15%).
The project began to archive current tables of contents in 1992, and now contains ca 185 journals, and over 45,000 articles, in a database at Toronto." |
General Indexes to Magazine, Journal & Newspaper Articles
| Academic Search Premier 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 over 4,600 scholarly (peer-reviewed) publications back to 1975. [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
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 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, theses/dissertations, 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. [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
General Reference Sources
Dictionaries
| Greek-English lexicon compiled by Henry George Liddell and
Robert Scott. Rev. and augm. throughout by Henry Stuart
Jones, with the assistance of Roderick McKenzie. With a
supplement, 1968.
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| Oxford Latin dictionary [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft, zweite Reihe [R-Z] and supplements also at Wilson Library Reference DE5 .P33. Der neue Pauly: Enzyklopadie der Antike at Wilson Library Reference Quarto DE5 .N48x 1996.
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Encyclopedias
| Brill's New Pauly: Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World: Antiquity [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Harper's dictionary of classical literature and antiquities [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Oxford classical dictionary |
General Reference Works
| eHRAF Archaeology 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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Handbooks and Manuals
| Crowell's handbook of classical mythology |
Internet Resources
Electronic Texts
| Ancient History Sourcebook The Ancient History Source book organizes and provides access to selected primary texts from the ancient world. It also includes links to visual and aural material.
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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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| Perseus Digital Library: Classics Collection An integrated online collection of texts and images, including primary and secondary texts, site plans, digital images, and maps.
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| Prehistoric Archaeology of the Aegean A comprehensive site about prehistoric Greece until the collapse of the Mycenean civilization. It contains chronology, terminology, Greek environment, discipline history, and 29 chronologically arranged lessons with numerous images and bibliographies.
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Open Access Resources
| Arachne Open-access object database of the German Archaeological Institute.
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Style Manuals and Writing Guides
Bibliography Software
| RefWorks: Personal Citation Manager 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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Style Manuals
| Style Manuals A selected list of sources available in Wilson
Reference Services.
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Writing Guides
| Manual for writers of term papers, theses and dissertations [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
| QuickStudy -- Citing Sources QuickStudy: Library Research Guide from the University of Minnesota provides examples online for APA, MLA and Turabian styles, including how to cite electronic sources.
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