classics electronic resources

Electronic Resources for Classics

Lyn BaileyLibrarian

Alicia Periel

Senior Library Assistant

Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge

Where you might start…

Websites/Catalogues Newton – library catalogue http://

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

www.classics.cam.ac.uk/ University Library (UL) Website http://

www.lib.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+ periodicals related to Classics Equivalent to printed volumes 1-79 (2008), &

interim records for latest print volume

Other Databases

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

Packard Humanities Institute CD-ROMs available at Faculty of Classics,

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

LLT Library of Latin Texts http://www.brepolis.net/

Patrologia Latina http://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 Gruyter http://refworks.reference-global.com/Xaver/start.xav?col

=Coll_BTL-TLL

Dictionaries/Encyclopaedias

Oxford Classical Dictionary http://www.oxfordreference.com/

Brill Online http://www.brillonline.nl/ including: New Pauly (German and English) New Jacoby: a new edition of the 856

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

Contact Details

Lyn BaileyLibrarian

Faculty of ClassicsSidgwick Avenue

Cambridge CB4 3LE

Email: library@classics.cam.ac.ukTel: 01223 335154