Classics

The queen of databases for all fields in Greek and Roman studies. Run by a team of scholars from six countries, L’Année indexes over 1,000 journals, contains entries for more than 800,000 books and articles. Perhaps its most useful feature is an abstract for each article. Serious researchers start here because you get fewer but higher quality results than searching in Google Scholar or the library database.

A digital repository rather than a database, JSTOR’s main advantage is that if you find something in JSTOR one click takes you to a PDF. It currently includes 78 journals in classical studies, including many of the top journals in English. It can do full-text searches. The “Text Analyzer” is an experimental feature that allows you to use your own document to find related articles.

Citations to books, articles, essays, and conference proceedings on classical, early Christian, Byzantine, early Medieval, and ancient Middle Eastern antiquities, art, and archaeology. Based on the holdings of the German Archaeological Institute.

A growing collection of online, annotated bibliographies, including both print and online resources, compiled by experts in the field and providing descriptions of the key literature on a topic. The library subscribes to the classics module, among others.