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Electronic Resources for Classics
Lyn BaileyLibrarian
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+ journals related to Classics Equivalent to printed volumes 1-80 (2010),
& 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: [email protected]: 01223 335154