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- Key databases
- Worth a look
- Encyclopedias and dictionaries
- High impact journals
- Web sites and Internet resources
Key databases
JSTOR Full Text
JSTOR contains the full-text of hundreds of journals across the disciplines from archaeology to zoology. Many journal backsets begin in the nineteenth or early twentieth century, however most publishers included in JSTOR have negotiated 3-5 year embargoes, so the latest issues are not included.
BAHR: Bulletin Analytique d'Histoire Romaine
Covers ancient Roman civilisation and Christianity. Contains European, North African and near Eastern journals.
Nestor
Bibliography of Aegean studies, Homeric society, Indo-European linguistics, and related fields.
RHS: Royal Historical Society Bibliography
Provides an authoritative guide to modern works on the history of Britain and Ireland for the period from 55 BC to the present.
TOCS-IN
Provides tables of contents for a selection of academic journals in Classics, Near Eastern Studies, and Religion.
Gale Databases Full Text
These cover the arts and humanities, social sciences, science and technology. Includes peer-reviewed articles, ebooks and online encyclopedias.
ProQuest Full Text
ProQuest has 8,000 magazines and newspapers, 30,000 theses and 4,500 market reports in full text. Other content includes Hoover’s Company Records and 25,000 working papers from the Social Science Research Network (SSRN).
Worth a look
Anthropological Index Online
Indexes periodical literature on languages, linguistics, culture, archaeology, ethnography, religion and civilisation.
Web of Science
Access scholarly literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Includes cited reference searching.
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Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Oxford Reference Online
Search Oxford dictionaries and encyclopedias listed by subject.
Useful titles include Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization, Concise Oxford Companion to Classical Literature, Who's Who in the Classical World, Pocket Oxford Latin Dictionary (English-Latin), Pocket Oxford Latin Dictionary (Latin-English) and Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World.
High impact journals
The following Classics journals are held at UNE and have a high ranking in Journal Citation Reports and ERA's listings for Historical Studies:
Annual of the British School at Athens is in print at Call Number P938.005/BRI
Athenaeum: Studii Periodici di Letteratura e Storia is in print at Call Number P880.5/ATH
Cambridge Classical Journal is in print at Call Number P480.6/CAM
Classical Antiquity 2002- and in print at Call Number P938/C154
Classical Philology 1906-2003
Classical Quarterly 1907-2003, 2001- and in print at Call Number P880.5/CLA
Glotta: Zeitschrift fur Griechische und Lateinische Sprache is in print at Call Number P480.05/G563
Gnomon: Kritische Zeitschrift fur die Gesamte Klassische Alterumswissenschaft is in print at Call Number P880.5/GNO
Greece & Rome 1931-2003, 2001- and in print at Call Number P880.5/GRE
Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 1995-2005 and in print at Call Number P938.005/GRE
Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 1890-2004 and in print at Call Number P480.5/HAR
Journal of Hellenic Studies 1880-2005 and in print at Call Number P913.05/JOU
Journal of Roman Studies 1911-2005 and in print at Call Number P913.05/JOU
Museum Helveticum is in print at Call Number P880.5/MUS
Rheinisches Museum fur Philologie is in print at Call Number P880.5/RHE
Revue des Etudes Greques is in print at Call Number P880.5/REV
Tyche: Beitrage zur Alten Geschichte Papyrologie und Epigraphik is in print at Call Number P938/T978
Web sites and Internet resources
Classics at Oxford - Web Resources Contains links to online fulltext journals, e-text collections, bibliographies, software for classicists and more.
Greek and Latin Classics Internet Resources A portal page which forms part of the Library of Congress' Internet Resources Section.
Greek and Roman History: Links, Documents, Notes California State University's Prof John Adams' suggestions. Resources for other topics such as Greek Mythology, the Roman Army and Ancient Sparta are here.
Greek Mythology Link is a collection of myths retold by Carlos Parada and contains texts, images, charts and maps.
Internet Classics Archive MIT's website with over 400 classical texts translated into English.
Internet Ancient History Sourcebook Access to online primary source texts for the Classics.
Latin Library at Ad Fontes Academy, a collection of texts in Latin (not translated).
Museum of Antiquities UNE's own museum of antiquity, the only archaeological museum in inland Australia.
Perseus Project An extensive digital library of resources for the study of the ancient world.
Resources for Classical Studies from the University of Pennsylvania.
Stoa Consortium Classical images, digital documents, links and blogs.
Voice of the Shuttle: Classical Studies A portal site which contains links to general classical history web sites, online journals, listservs and newsgroups.
VROMA: A Virtual Community for Teaching and Learning the Classics has an index to ANRW (Aufsteig und Niedergang der Romischen Welt) in English. You can also login to the website for free as a guest or permanent character.
Journals
Bryn Mawr Classical Review Publishes reviews of current scholarly work in classics. Articles date from 1990 to present
Forum Archaeologiae - Zeitschrift fur klassische Archaeologie Full text e-journal with articles from 1996 onwards. In German only
Histos A journal of ancient historiography from the University of Durham's Classics Department. Articles date from 1997 to 2000
Retarius A Latin e-journal dating back to 1998, hosted by the University of Kentucky's Classics Department