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- 1. Electronic Resources for Classicists 25 resources in 25 minutes Lyn Bailey & Alicia Periel Classical Faculty Library
- 2. Very fast intro Top 25 e-resources for Classicists
- 4. 1. Faculty of Classics Website
- 7. Catalogues
- 8. 2. Cambridge Libraries Gateway
- 9. 3. Newton
- 16. 6. COPAC
- 18. 7. Web of Science
- 22. 9. Perseus
- 23. 10. PHI Greek & PHI Latin
- 24. 11. Database of Latin Dictionaries
- 25. 12. LLT (Library of Latin Texts)
- 29. 14. TLG (Thesaurus Linguae Graecae)
- 33. 15. Bibliotheca Teubneriana Latina (BTL) und Thesaurus linguae Latinae (TLL) Online
- 36. 16. Oxford Reference Online
- 38. 17. Brill’s New Pauly
- 39. 18. Brill’s New Jacoby
- 40. 19. Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum
- 41. 17-19. BrillOnline Reference Works
- 42. 20. Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- 43. Images Databases
- 44. 21. ARTSTOR
- 47. 22. Visual Arts Data Service
- 48. 23. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum
- 49. 24. Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum
- 50. Referencing Tool
- 51. 25. Zotero
- 52. 26. Free Courses
- 53. Time is up Thanks for coming Any questions? library@classics.cam.ac.uk
Editor's Notes
- Very quick intro. Not going into usage instructions. If interested on a particular one we can do one-to-one or group workshops. Some Instructions leaflets in the Computer Room. 25 e-resources. Some you WILL use, some you MIGHT use and some you will NEVER need.
- Address: www.classics.cam.ac.uk Email contacts for lecturers, Mphil/PhD handbooks
- 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?”)
- https://www.facebook.com/classicalfacultylibrary Updates on any new electronic resources. Please Like us!
- http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/libraries/ Gateway to all the Libraries in Cambridge eresources@cambridge: best way to access ejournals, databases etc that the university subscribes to. All resources we are going to talk about can be found here. Except the freely available ones, for which I have added the web address in the handouts. Library help feature.
- http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/newton/ Traditional library catalogue interface Be sure to select the right one: Dept. A-E for Classics. No e-books
- Good for Searching collections in one specific Library (Limit to)
- http://search.lib.cam.ac.uk/ LibrarySearch offers a quick intuitive way to search library collections across the University from a single place ideal for quickly locating a copy of a book anywhere in Cambridge. Can also limit search by library.
- Keyword search i.e. “beard pompeii”
- Select item to see availability in all the libraries in Cambridge.
- You can renew your books, recall books on loan and place UL stack requests Log into “my account” University card barcode
- http://searchplus.lib.cam.ac.uk/ Electronic collections of the University as opposed to collections ‘on the shelves’ Covers the online article and database collections of the University, useful for locating articles quickly. Limit to ‘articles’
- http://copac.ac.uk/ All national academic and specialist libraries If you are desperate for something not in Cambridge. UL: Interlibrary loans (cost £)
- Find all the databases through the Libraries Gateway. Raven needed. Has citations: shows when an item is cited in another work, so you might find other references. Up to date. Social Sciences journals.
- Search “Pompeii” Function available to find full text in Cambridge.
- Current content v. 1 (1924) to 83 (2012). Not as up-to date as web of science (updated daily) but more Classic specific journals included. Includes some edited works. Contains list of Journal Abbreviations (very useful!) You can register to save searches and customize your experience.
- Includes texts and translations of many core ancient authors. Dictionaries, grammars, translations, art images (all out of copyright) Good for copying and pasting Greek text into essays etc.
- Latin: http://latin.packhum.org/about Latin – Word Search or Browse by Author. Greek: http://epigraphy.packhum.org/inscriptions/ Searchable Greek Inscriptions (In progress). Greek - allows searching or browsing by region. Greek PHI: You need to have the search box at the left bottom of the screen. Otherwise you need to update Java.
- Cross search Latin dictionaries I searched “amor”
- Tool for searching Latin texts from 240 BC to the present day. Covers nearly all Latin texts, including those of Classical antiquity. This is probably the best search tool for Latin available. Most Classical authors in Series “A”. Used authorised forms of authors in Latin, or you won’t get any results. I.e. Liuius and not Livy.
- Search results for Livius (author) + amor (full text)
- Previous 2 databases and some others can be found under Brepolis publisher package
- Full text database. Comprises the works of the Church Fathers from Tertullian (c. 200 A.D.) to the death of Pope Innocent III in 1216.
- One of our most popular resources. BEWARE of copyright restrictions. Click on “Subscribers - Institutions” to enter.
- Best to enter via B option and choose Greek font (can be changed once in it if font not right). Allow pop-ups.
- “textual search” Find “monkeys” (πιψηκο-) in all the plays in Aristophanes.
- Find “bright-eyed” monkeys “πιψηκο” and within 5 words near “ξαροπο” You can do very sophisticated searches i.e “monkeys” in Demosthenes and Aristotle. Find monkeys in all 5th and 4th century writers, etc. You can print and save lists of results. You can link to Perseus for translations. You can have your own user profile. Please follow the TLG leaflet in the Computer Room if you want to become familiar with TLG
- The two databases of (BTL) and (TLL) are linked, so that the Thesaurus and the Latin texts of the Bibliotheca Teubneriana can be accessed through one panel. Electronic access to all editions of Latin texts published in the Bibliotheca Teubneriana.
- Search results for “amor” in Cicero. Can open each result and the full text.
- Oxford Reference Online brings together many of OUP's most popular reference titles into a single, cross-searchable, collection. “Browse a list of the titles on the site” – Classical Studies.
- Classical Studies: It includes the Oxford Classical Dictionary, the Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization, Who's who in the Classical World, the Pocket Oxford Latin Dictionary and more.
- Encyclopaedia of the Classical world + Supplements
- 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.
- Collects newly published Greek inscriptions as well as publications on previously known documents.
- The previous 3 databases can be found under BrillOnline Reference Works
- 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.
- http://www.artstor.org/index.shtml 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).
- Results for “Parthenon” search
- Results for “Venus”
- http://www.vads.ac.uk/ Online resource for visual arts. Image catalogue of some important collections. Interesting for Classical themes in Modern Art.
- http://www.cvaonline.org/cva/ An illustrated catalogue of more than 100,000 ancient vases. Listed by country or museum.
- http://cil.bbaw.de/cil_en/dateien/datenbank_eng.php Allows access to the collection of squeezes, photographs and bibliographical references maintained by the CIL research centre. Sorted by inscription-number.
- http://www.zotero.org/ Referencing tool. Zotero takes a lot of the hard workout of referencing leaving you more time for the writing. Very easy to use. University Computing Service Training runs a free course on Weds 30th Oct 14.00-16.00. To register go to: http://training.cam.ac.uk/ucs/event/721912
- Managing Bibliographic Information session at see: http://training.cam.ac.uk/cul/event/1242125 It is being held in English 28 October 2.30 to 3.30 and repeated in Classics Thursday 30 same time. Book online from libraries gateway to the training. Research skills programme Managing Online presence Also UL Orientiation Tour. Zotero for graduates
- Remember: Instructions in the Computer Room, including Greek Fonts.