Electronic
Resources for
Classicists
Lyn Bailey (Librarian)
Sheryl Wombell (Senior Library Assistant)
Classical Faculty Library
University of Cambridge
Research Cycle
Image: http://libraryguides.griffith.edu.au/hdr-guide
ORCID ID
https://orcid.org/
ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier
that distinguishes you from every other
researcher and, through integration in key
research workflows such as manuscript and grant
submission, supports automated linkages
between you and your professional activities
ensuring that your work is recognized.
In-house resources
Faculty of Classics Website
www.classics.cam.ac.uk
Classics Library Website
http://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/library
LibGuides
http://libguides.cam.ac.uk/classics
Social media: Facebook & Twitter
https://www.facebook.com/classicalfacultylibrary
https://twitter.com/cflcam
Catalogues
Cambridge Libraries
http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/libraries
http://idiscover.lib.cam.ac.uk
COPAC
http://copac.ac.uk
Bibliographical Databases
Web of Science
http://libguides.cam.ac.uk/eresources
L’Année Philologique
http://www.annee-philologique.com
Full Text Databases
Perseus
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/
PHI Greek & PHI Latin
http://epigraphy.packhum.org/ & http://latin.packhum.org/about
(CETEDOC) Library of Latin
Texts
http://www.brepolis.net/
Loeb Classical Library
http://www.loebclassics.com/
View just
Latin or
English
Patrologia Latina
http://pld.chadwyck.co.uk/
TLG (Thesaurus Linguae Graecae)
http://stephanus.tlg.uci.edu/
Bibliotheca Teubneriana Latina (BTL) and Thesaurus
linguae Latinae (TLL) Online
Dictionaries / Encyclopaedias
Oxford Reference Online
http://www.oxfordreference.com
Brill’s New Pauly
http://referenceworks.brillonline.com/browse/brill-s-new-pauly
Brill’s New Jacoby
Brill’s Dictionary of Ancient Greek
http://dictionaries.brillonline.com/montanari
Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Images Databases
ARTSTOR
http://www.artstor.org/
Parthenon Search Results
Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum
http://www.cvaonline.org/cva/
Referencing Tool
Mendeley, Zotero & Endnote
http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/search-and-find/library-toolbox/reference-management-tools
Free Courses
https://training.cam.ac.uk/cul/search
Finally
Start that reading!
Thanks for coming
Any questions?
library@classics.cam.ac.uk

2017 Classics Electronic Resources

Editor's Notes

  • #6 Address: www.classics.cam.ac.uk Email contacts for lecturers, Mphil/PhD handbooks
  • #7 Library website (In Faculty Website – Library – Library Overview tab) Ask a Librarian Form (under “Services”)Request a book form (to recommend books we don’t have)(Under “how do I?”) Pay fines online – Min. £1. Only pay Classics fines, not your total please. Links to Moodle (VLE), catalogue all under “quick links”- Faculty forms No E-resources Use lib Guides for everything
  • #8 Up to date electronic resources that the UL subscribes to and also freely available ones. E-journals Moodle (VLE)- Faculty forms Pay fines online LibGuides for other libraries too
  • #9 https://www.facebook.com/classicalfacultylibrary Updates on any new electronic resources. Over 2K likes.
  • #12 http://copac.ac.uk/ All national academic and specialist libraries If you are desperate for something not in Cambridge. UL: Interlibrary loans (cost £)
  • #26 Encyclopaedia of the Classical world + Supplements
  • #27 Revised edition of the Greek texts of Felix Jacoby’s Die Fragmente der Griechischen Historiker Presents English translations of the Greek fragments, a new, critical commentary, and a brief encyclopedia-style entry about each historian’s life and works, with a select bibliography.
  • #29 Collects newly published Greek inscriptions as well as publications on previously known documents.
  • #30 Fully searchable web version of the multi-volume encyclopedia. More than 2000 articles, from Aristotle to Nominalism, and from Personal Identity to Zeno of Elea.
  • #32 1.4 million+ digital images relating to the arts, architecture, humanities and sciences. Better to register as can save images and get more functionality. Copyright cleared for use in presentations and essays (not for publication on the web) Enter “Artstor digital library”
  • #34 An illustrated catalogue of more than 100,000 ancient vases – only the out of print ones so not complete, images of original text Listed by country or museum.
  • #38 Make any book suggestions