Primary Classical Studies Databases & Article Indexes

L'Annee Philologique
Also Known as: Annee philologique
Current scholarship in Classical Studies (including over 1,500 journals and 500 articles in collections and conference papers)....   [more]
Holdings: 1949-present

Primary Classical Studies Databases & Article Indexes

British Humanities Index: BHI
- from CSA Databases
An abstracting and indexing tool for research in the humanities, BHI indexes over 320 humanities journals and weekly magazines published in the UK and other English speaking countries, as well as qual...   [more]
Holdings: coverage begins in 1962-

Library of Latin Texts LLT-A - (formerly CLCLT)
CLCLT is a major database for Latin texts. It contains texts from the beginning of Latin literature (Livius Andronicus, 240 BC) through to the texts of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965). It cove...   [more]
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    Quick Guide to Searching the Library of Latin Texts (CLCLT)

New Pauly Online
The entire text of Metzler's Der neue Pauly, which was published in 18 volumes (13 on Antiquity, 5 on the Classical Tradition) and one index volume, is available here together with all volume...   [more]

Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
This reference work covers the history of philosophy worldwide. It includes extensive treatment of topics in ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, metaphysics, l...   [more]

Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum - SEG
The Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum systematically collects newly published Greek inscriptions as well as publications on previously known documents. It presents complete Greek texts of all new insc...   [more]

Thesaurus Linguae Graecae: A Digital Library of Greek Literature
Also Known as: tlg
The TLG was founded in 1972 to digitize the entire corpus of Greek literature from Homer to the fall of Byzantium. It now includes over 6,500 works by over 1,800 authors and is fully searchable online...   [more]

Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL) Online
Also Known as: TLL Online, Thesaurus Linguae Latinae Online
Online version of the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL), a comprehensive, ongoing scholarly dictionary of ancient Latin from the earliest times through AD 600. TLL is based on an archive of about 10 mil...   [more]
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TOCS-IN: Tables of Contents of Journals of Interest to Classicists
Provides the tables of contents of a selection of Classics, Near Eastern Studies, and Religion journals. Over 23,000 articles are presently listed in the database, as well as a selection of anthologie...   [more]
Holdings: 1992 to the present comprehensively. Pre-1992 selectively.
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Web of Science
Also Known as: ISI Citation Indexes, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, SSCI, SCI, AHCI, ISI, WOK, Web of Knowledge
Indexes journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Allows for cited reference searching. Includes Science Citation Index, the Social Science Citation Index[more]
Holdings: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED)--1945-present, Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)--1956-present, Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI)--1975-present. Updated weekly.
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Important Classical Studies Databases & Article Indexes

Acta Sanctorum
A collection of documents examining the lives of saints, this database contains the complete printed text of the Acta Sanctorum, from the edition published in sixty-eight volumes by the Societe des Bo...   [more]
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APIS - Advanced Papyrological Information System
APIS, the Advanced Papyrological Information System, is a consortium of American universities intending to bring their papyrus collections online The databases being compiled at each university conta...   [more]
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Archive of Celtic-Latin Literature
Also Known as: ACLL
A full-text database of the corpus of Latin literature produced in Celtic-speaking Europe from the period 400-1200 A.D., spanning the fields of theology, liturgy, computistics, grammar, hagiography, p...   [more]

Aristoteles Latinus Database
Also Known as: ALD
Complete corpus of medieval translations of the works of Aristotle, constituting the main tools for the study of science and philosophy in the Middle Ages....   [more]

Art Index Retrospective 1929-1984
Also Known as: art retrospective
Art. Coverage includes materials in English, French, Italian, German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, and Swedish. Reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed materials are included....   [more]
Holdings: 1929-1984

Arts & Humanities Citation Index: A&HCI (WOK Web of Science)
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ARTstor
The ARTstor collection includes approximately 500,000 images of works of art, architecture and archaeology along with the necessary software to view the images, create personal groups of images and cr...   [more]
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    Browse Penn collections in ArtStor
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Brepolis Latin
Includes a cross-platform search tool to search across the following databases: Archive of Celtic Latin Literature; Aristoteles Latinus Database; Library of Latin Texts A; Library of Latin Texts B; an...   [more]
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Bulletin Analytique d'Histoire Romaine (BAHR)
Indexed by keyword, gods, people, modern authors, sources....   [more]
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Cross Database Searchtool for Latin Databases
This search tool allows the user to search simultaneously various Latin full-text databases, namely the Library of Latin Texts Series A, Library of Latin Texts  Series B, Monumenta Germaniae Histori...   [more]

Database of Latin Dictionaries - (DLD)
The DLD project currently make available ten Latin dictionaries including: Blaise - Patristic (Dictionnaire latin-frangais des auteurs chritiens, 1954, 1967, 2005), Firmini Verris Dictionarius (Dict...   [more]

Dyabola Project
Also Known as: Dyabola Literature Database, Archdologische Bibliographie (aktualisierte Version des Realkatalogs), Datenbank der attischen Grabreliefs des 5. und 4. Jahrhunderts v. Chr., Monographien der Bibliographie zur Vor- und Fr, hgeschichte Europas (RGK), 1992-2006,Eurasienbibliographie des Deutschen Archdologischen Instituts, Projekt Dyabola
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E-corpus
e-corpus is a collective digital library that catalogs and disseminates numerous documents: manuscripts, archives, books, journals, prints, audio recordings, video, etc. This diverse platform present...   [more]
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EBSCO MegaFILE
General, multidisciplinary periodical database, covering all scholarly disciplines, with many general and popular magazines, and news sources. Includes bibliographic citations with indexing and abstra...   [more]
Holdings: Coverage varies: mostly 1990s to present.

Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics Online
Also Known as: EAGLL
- from Brill Online Books and Journals
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Epigraphik-Datenbank (Clauss-Selby)
Adminstered by Prof. Dr. Dr. Manfred Clauss of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitdt in Frankfurt-am-Main, this site includes a database of 164,804 inscriptions from 390 different publications....   [more]
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Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg
Provides revised and corrected versions of the texts published in AE between 1900 and 1990, with abbreviations expanded, fragmentary texts restored, and updated bibliographical references. Also new an...   [more]
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Francis
Also Known as: Bulletin signaletique
Francis covers a wide range of multilingual, multidisciplinary information in the humanities and social sciences. It is strong in religion, the history of art, and literature with emphasis on cur...   [more]
Holdings: 1984 to the present. Updated monthly.
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    FRANCIS via EBSCOhost (closed file)

Index of Medieval Art
Also Known as: Index of Christian Art
Text-only database indexes thematic and iconographic content of early Christian and medieval art. The ICA locates an iconographic subject and provides extensive tabular description of the individual w...   [more]
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Index to Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt
Searchable database of articles in Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt (Van Pelt Library call number: DG209.T36). ...   [more]
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International Medieval Bibliography
Also Known as: IMB
You will need to click on the "enter database" button to get to IMB. The International Medieval Bibliography (IMB), the world's leading bibliography of Medieval Studies and an essential ...   [more]
Holdings: 1967-
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ITER: Gateway to the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Medieval (400-1500) and Renaissance (1300-1700) studies...   [more]

J.-P. Migne's Patrologia Graeca
An electronic version of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologiae Graecae, published between 1857-1866. To access the contents, click on the links on the Tables of Content a...   [more]
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JSTOR
JSTOR specializes in making available the back issues of journals in a wide variety of humanities and social science disciplines. Issues are available both as images and as text, making searching poss...   [more]
Holdings: active
Embargo: 195 month embargo on full-text
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Lacus Curtius: Into the Roman World
A collection of Latin texts and photos of archaeological sites focused on Rome. Includes digitized reference sources for the study of ancient Greece and Rome. ...   [more]
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Library of Latin Texts LLT-B
Serves as a supplement to LLT-A and gathers Latin texts of all genres and periods, such as chronicles, medieval saints lives and travel narratives, legal texts, and theological, philosophical and sci...   [more]

Nestor - Bibliography of Aegean Prehistory and Related Areas
An international bibliography of Aegean studies, Homeric society, Indo-European linguistics, and related fields, from the Paleolithic through the end of the Geometric period, covering the Aegean, incl...   [more]
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Online Egyptological Bibliography (OEB)
Also Known as: AEB Online, Annual Egyptological Bibliography
Published by the International Association of Egyptologists in cooperation with the Netherlands Institute for the Near East, this international index of books and articles covering Egyptological liter...   [more]

Patrologia Latina
The Patrologia Latina Database is an electronic version of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia Latina, published between 1844 and 1855,...   [more]
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Philological Museum, The
A site devoted to Humanistic Letters, principally British, published under the auspices of the Shakespeare Institute of the University of Birmingham. This site consists of two parts: Library of Huma...   [more]
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Project Muse
Also Known as: Muse
Project Muse provides full text access to articles from over 300 scholarly journals in the humanities, arts, social sciences and sciences. Coverage begins in 1995 or more recently and in most cases c...   [more]

Roman Provincial Coinage Online
Database describing Antonine period (AD 138-192) Roman provincial coinage, based upon holdings of major coin cabinets. Searchable by coin type imagery, mint city, minting date, magistrate and other na...   [more]
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Translated Texts for Historians E-Library
Also Known as: TTH E-Library , Translated Texts for Historians
Fully searchable scholarly translations from Greek, Latin, Syriac, Coptic, Arabic, Georgian and Armenian of texts published between 300 and 800 AD; from late antiquity to the early middle ages. ...   [more]
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ZENON DAI : Deutsches Archaologisches Institut catalog
Zenon represents freely available digital access to the complete inventory of the Romisch-Germanischen-Kommission (RGK) . Zenon includes digitized journals, ebooks, databases from the RGK collections ...   [more]
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Related Classical Studies Databases & Article Indexes

Anthropological Index Online
Content is in Anthropology Plus. Index to current periodicals held in the Centre for Anthropology at the British Museum, London. Covers cultural and social anthropology, archaeology, biological and ph...   [more]
Holdings: 1957-.
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ARTbibliographies Modern
Also Known as: ART bibliographies Modern
- from CSA Databases
Indexes material published 1974-present. Art coverage begins with Impressionism in the late nineteenth century and continues up to the most recent works and trends in the twenty-first century. Photog...   [more]
Holdings: 1969-1971 (printed vols. only); 1974-present (online)

ATLA Religion Database
Covers all religious traditions; strongest coverage is for materials dealing with the Judeo-Christian tradition. While about half of the material included is in English. Includes materials published...   [more]
Holdings: 1949 to the present. Updated two times a year.

Bibliography of the History of Art
Also Known as: BHA
- from CSA Databases
Covers European and American art from the fourth century C.E. to 2007. Areas addressed are painting, sculpture, drawings, prints, decorative and applied arts, architecture and industrial design, and...   [more]
Holdings: 1975 to 2007
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Bibliography Of Ugaritic Grammar And Biblical Hebrew Grammar In The Twentieth Century (Mark S. Smith)
Oriental Institute Reaserach Archives, University of Chicago...   [more]
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Conservation Information Network (BCIN)
Conservation and restoration of cultural property...   [more]
Holdings: 1932-
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eHRAF Archaeology
Also Known as: eHRAF Collection of Archaeology
Modeled after HRAFs Collection of Ethnography, the Collection of Archaeology provides access to archaeological materials for comparative studies. Includes general and topical descriptions for a...   [more]
Holdings: Updated in annual installments.
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Global Books in Print
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Holdings: Updated weekly.
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History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Also Known as: HST , Wellcome Bibliography, History of Science, Technology and Medicine
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International bibliography on the history of science and technology from pre-history to the present, describing journal articles, conference proceedings, book...   [more]
Holdings: 1975 to the present. Updated annually.

International Bibliography of Art
Also Known as: IBA
IBA is the successor to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA), and retains BHA's editorial policies. The database includes records created by the Getty Research Institute in 2008-09, plus new r...   [more]
Holdings: 2008 - the present

MLA International Bibliography (EBSCO)
Also Known as: Modern Language Association Bibliography, MLAIB
Covers literature, languages, folklore, and linguistics. Includes English and foreign languages. ...   [more]
Holdings: Covers 1963 to the present. New records are added ten times a year.

Periodicals Index Online
Also Known as: PIO,PCI,Periodical Contents Index,Chadwyck PCI,Periodicals Contents Index
Humanities and social sciences. The scope is international, including journals in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and other Western languages. ...   [more]

Philosopher's Index
Also Known as: Philosophers Index
Provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields. It covers the areas of ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, metaphysics,...   [more]

Proquest Dissertations and Theses Fulltext (formerly Dissertation Abstracts)
Also Known as: Digital Dissertations, Dissertation Abstracts, UMI, DAI, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses (PQDT), Proquest Dissertations and Theses Fulltext
Indexing (since 1861) and abstracting (since 1980) for doctoral-level dissertations completed at North American universities. Page images or fulltext of all available dissertations - including Penn d...   [more]
Holdings: Indexing 1861-present, abstracts 1980-present, page-image or fulltext PDF for available dissertations dissertations from 1997 to the present.
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