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  • AATA Online
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    Art and Archaeology Technical Abstracts includes abstracts of over 100,000 articles from about 400 journals as well as book chapters, conference proceedings, and reports on the analysis, examination, excavation, preservation, and restoration of artifacts and monuments; site information.
  • Annee Philologique, L'
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    Article and book review database dealing with all aspects of classical philology. Also covers philosophy, history, religion, science, and social theory of the Greek and Roman world.
  • Arts and Humanities Search
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    Records referencing many of the world's leading arts and humanities journals.
  • Bartleby.com
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    A comprehensive public reference library containing a searchable database of reference, verse, and classic literature. The site is divided into four sections: Reference, Verse, Fiction and Nonfiction. Recently added were the 1914 Oxford Edition of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare and the Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th edition. With the release of five preeminent contemporary reference works, Bartleby.com becomes the most comprehensive reference publisher on the web. Coupled with a completely redesigned web site, Bartleby.com meets the needs of students, educators, and the intellectually curious and forms the preeminent electronic publishing enterprise of the twenty-first century.

    See also: Project Bartleby Arhive

  • Biblical Archaeology Society
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    This site provides an full-text online archive of past issues of the journal Biblical Archaeology Review (1975 to present), Bible Review (1985 to 2005 complete) and Archaeology Odyssey (1998 to 2006 complete), Special Collections assembles articles from BAR on each of several topics (e.g., Dead Sea Scrolls, Temple Mount). Clicking on the BAS icon in the upper right brings up news, online-only features, and several e-books published by the Society.
  • Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA)
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    BHA is the most comprehensive art history bibliography available worldwide, covering European and American art and material culture from late antiquity (4th century A.D.) to the present. It indexes and abstracts art-related books, bibliographies, conference proceedings, dissertations, corpora, festschriften, exhibition and dealers' catalogues, and articles from more than 2,500 periodicals. Abstracts are in English or French. BHA 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. Updated quarterly.
  • Elements of Style
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    This is the digital version of the classic writing manual from 1918 written by William Strunk. The focus is on rules of usage and most commonly violated composition principles. It is often referred to as Strunk and White. Part of Bartleby.com.Several print copies of the 4th ed. (1999/2000) are available at Doheny Reference and Leavey Library.
  • Gnomon Online
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    A database for ancient history, classical philology, and archeology, Gnomon is an international bibliographical index to monographs, journal articles, conference papers, essays in collections and dissertations in many languages. It can be searched from 1990-present by subject, author, keyword, and/or publication. Words within the citation are linked to additional articles.Includes a thesaurus that bridges the gap between English and German terms common to classical studies. In English, French, and German.Produced by the publisher of the journal Gnomon (Doheny Journal Stacks, PA3.G6).
  • Hand Press Book Database
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    The Hand Press Book file includes records for European printing of the hand-press period (c. 1455-1830) from the Consortium of European Research Libraries, whose 51 members represent national and university libraries in 25 countries. The Hand Press Book file currently includes nearly 800,000 records from the: Bavarian State Library (Bayerisches Staatsbibliothek, Munich) he British Library 17th Century German Catalogue (K17) The British Library Incunabula Short-Title Catalogue (ISTC) Institute for Union Catalogue of Italian Bibliographies (Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico, Rome) National and University Library of Croatia (Nacionalna i Sveucilisna Knjiznica, Zagreb) National and University Library of Slovenia (Narodna in univerzitetna knjinica, Ljubljana) National Library of France (Biblioth
  • Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism
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    This guide lists alphabetically key critics and dominant "schools" of critical thought from antiquity to modern times. Descriptive entries include bibliographies and hyperlinked cross references.
  • Literature Criticism Online
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    LCO is comprised of 10 collections of English-language scholarly and popular commentary on literary works in most languages ranging from the classical to Shakespeare to contemporary publications. Covers not only novels but also poetry, short stories, and drama. Entries are in-depth and include bibliographies. Search by key words, author, title, or browse by works, authors, and topics.
  • New Jacoby online
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    Brill's New Jacoby (BNJ)/ is a new edition of the 856 fragmentary historians that comprise F. Jacoby's monumental /Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker Parts I-III/, but with significant additions. Each author has a Greek text (updated from that of Jacoby where relevant); facing English translation; new, critical commentary (for the first time for authors 608-856, on which Jacoby did not write commentaries); a brief encyclopedia-style entry about his life, works, importance, etc.; and a select bibliography. /BNJ/ will also include several new authors and many fragments of existing authors that were either unknown to Jacoby or excluded by him. (Depending on the topic they deal with, new authors will be given the same number as the preceding one followed by an A or B in order to distinguish them.) Jacoby's numbering system has been retained so that readers may also consult /FGrH/ without having to refer to a concordance.
  • New Pauly online
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    The online equivalent of the print edition of both New Pauly and Neue Pauly (available in Doheny Reference/Classics, Call No. DE5.N4813 2002).This work provides authoritative coverage of the ancient world, from the prehistory of the Aegean (2d millennium BCE) to late antiquity, with a special section devoted to the history of the classical tradition and the history of classical scholarship. Scholarly articles, many illustrated with maps, site plans, genealogical tables, and photos.It is automatically updated whenever a new print volume is published.If you need to make extensive use of this database, you should read "Fonts, special characters, and appearance of the text," on the Welcome page.
  • Oxford Art Online
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    Grove Art Online provides web access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art (1996, 34 vols.) with annual additions of new material and updates to the text, plus extensive image links and all the sophisticated search advantages possible with an online reference source.
  • Oxford Text Archive
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    The Oxford Text Archive (OTA) collects, catalogues, preserves and distributes high-quality digital electronic texts and other literary and language resources for research and teaching. It currently holds thousands of texts in more than 25 different language (e.g., Middle High German, Ancient Greek, and Sanskrit).
  • Perseus Digital Library
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    A library of materials pertaining to Ancient Greece, which is expanding to include resources on Ancient Rome. Includes lexica, a morphological database, catalog of hundreds of vases, sculptures, coins, buildings, and architectural sites, an atlas of Greece with satellite maps, a historical encyclopedia, works of literature, and many other resources.
  • Poem Finder
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    Poem Finder indexes 600,000 poems and includes over 50,000 poems in full-text. Covering poetry from antiquity to the present from around the world from 3,000 anthologies, 4,500 single-author works, and periodicals such as The New Yorker. Poems are available only in English translation. Includes full bibliographic information for poem sources. The database is continually updated
  • Project Gutenberg Online Catalog
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    Project Gutenberg was the first producer of free electronic books (ebooks). This is their catalog of what they have digitized and made available. There are presently nearly 30,000 free books in the Project Gutenberg Online Book Catalog. In addition, a grand total of over 100,000 titles are available at Project Gutenberg Partners, Affiliates and Resources.
  • Projekt DYABOLA
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    DYABOLA provides access to subject catalogs of publications on the history of art and the ancient world. The most important is the Realkatalog des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts Rom, the most comprehensive database for classical archaeology, dating back to 1956. Indexes books, festschrift, journals, and collected works on antiquities, art, and archaeology in the Mediterranean world from antiquity through the early Medieval period.
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  • Thesaurus Linguae Graecae
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    The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG®) is a research center at the University of California, Irvine. Founded in 1972 the TLG has already collected and digitized most literary texts written in Greek from Homer to the fall of Byzantium in AD 1453. Its goal is to create a comprehensive digital library of Greek literature from antiquity to the present era.
  • Wilson OmniFile: Full Text Mega Edition
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    Provides access to citations from over 4,000 journals published since 1982, as well as full-text articles and page images (1994 to present), and article abstracts (since 1984).Includes the complete content of 6 individual full-text databases: Education, General Science, Humanities, Readers’ Guide, Social Sciences, and Wilson Business.Also provides limited coverage for an additional 5 databases for which Wilson has full-text rights only (Applied Science & Technology, Art, Biological & Agricultural Index, Index to Legal Periodicals, and Library Literature and Information Science).
    Access is through WilsonWeb(click on the radio button to specifically search this database).