Electronic Resources for Classics

Lyn Bailey

Librarian

Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge

Websites/Catalogues LibrarySearch+ - combined catalogue

http://searchplus.lib.cam.ac.uk/ Newton – library catalogue

http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/newton/ Faculty of Classics Website

http://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/ Cambridge Libraries Gateway

http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/libraries/ COPAC: http://copac.ac.uk/

A brief look at the electronic databases

Bibliographical Resources

Web of Knowledge – citation database http://wok.mimas.ac.uk/

Includes Arts and Humanities Citation indexes

L’Année Philologique Bibliographical Database

http://www.annee-philologique.com/aph/ Indexes 1500+ journals related to Classics Equivalent to printed volumes 1-80 (2009),

& interim records for latest print volume

Databases of Texts

Perseushttp://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/

Packard Humanities InstituteCD-ROMs available at Faculty of Classics,

Library Office – Gk online at http://epigraphy.packhum.org/inscriptions/

LLT Library of Latin Textshttp://www.brepolis.net/

Patrologia Latinahttp://pld.chadwyck.co.uk/

Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG)

Database of most literary texts written in Greek from Homer to the fall of Byzantium in AD 1453

Updated quarterly List of authors and works included in

database available on the website Links to Perseus for translations and

dictionaries

Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG)

Available via the web at http://www.tlg.uci.edu/

Thesaurus Linguae Latinae

Available via De Gruyterhttp://refworks.reference-global.com/

Xaver/start.xav?col=Coll_BTL-TLL

Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum

Collects newly published Greek inscriptions, same information as printed SEG

http://referenceworks.brillonline.com/browse/supplementum-epigraphicum-graecum

Dictionaries/Encyclopaedias

Oxford Classical Dictionaryhttp://www.oxfordreference.com/

Brill Online http://referenceworks.brillonline.com/browse/brill-s-new-pauly including:New Pauly (German and English)New Jacoby: new ed. Of 856

fragmentary historians that comprise F. Jacoby's Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker Parts I-III

Images

ARTstorhttp://www.artstor.org

More than one million digital images including pots, archaeological sites, paintings, sculpture and manuscripts

Further Help

The main University Library (UL) runs induction tours, and training sessions.

See

http://training.cam.ac.uk/cul

Contact Details

Lyn BaileyLibrarian

Faculty of ClassicsSidgwick Avenue

Cambridge CB4 3LE

Email: library@classics.cam.ac.ukTwitter: @lettylib Tel: 01223 335154