LibGuides: Classical Studies Guide: Finding Articles

Dealing with Abbreviations

Journal names are often abbreviated in bibliographies, and deciphering them can be quite a chore.

Below are online abbreviation lists from the American Journal of Archaeology and L'Année Philologique as well as a more comprehensive print resource in our reference collection.

Databases for Finding Scholarly Articles

JSTOR Archive: eBooks, Journals, & Primary Sources This link opens in a new window
Digital library containing over 10 million academic, full text online resources.
Off Campus Access: Authenticate with your MyDenison login.

The JSTOR Archive is a digital collection of eBooks and academic journals, which extend back to the first volume published. This digital library is particularly strong in the humanities, but covers all subject areas. The database itself supports data and text mining as well. For additional information, visit the JSTOR Research Guides.

Format: Full Text
Dates of Coverage: Vary by title
Update Schedule: Annual
Database Distributor: JSTOR
Perseus Digital Library This link opens in a new window
Primary and secondary sources covering the history, literature and culture of the Greco-Roman world.
Off campus access: free resource, open for everyone.
The Perseus Digital Library provides online collections covering the history, literature and culture of the Greco-Roman world.

Collections Include:
- Greek and Roman Materials
- Art & Archaeology Artifact Browser
- Arabic Materials
- Germanic Materials
- 19th-Century American
- Renaissance Materials
- Richmond Times Dispatch
- Humanist and Renaissance Italian Poetry in Latin

Format: Full Text and Images
Database Producer: Tufts University
Philosopher's Index This link opens in a new window
Provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields, 1967 to present.
Off Campus Access: Authenticate with your MyDenison login.

Subject Areas: Philosophy, People, Religion, Asian Studies, Classics

The Philosopher's 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, and metaphysics, as well as material on the philosophy of law, religion, science, history, education, and language.

Format: Index to Journal Articles
Dates of Coverage: 1967 to present
Database Producer: EBSCO
Project Muse This link opens in a new window
Digital humanities and social sciences books and journals, from university presses and scholarly societies.
Off Campus Access: Authenticate with your MyDenison login.

Subject Areas: General

Project MUSE is an online archive of digital humanities and social sciences content; since 1995, its electronic journal collections have supported a wide array of research needs at academic, public, special, and school libraries worldwide. Project MUSE contains Open Access (OA) content. To see the title list of OA books and journals, click here.

Format: Full Text Journals and eBooks
Database Producer: Johns Hopkins University Press
Please Note: Project MUSE provides access to alumni as well as current members of the Denison community.
TLG: Thesaurus Linguae Graecae This link opens in a new window
Full text database of literary texts written in Greek from Homer to the fall of Byzantium in AD 1453. Users must create an account to access the Full Corpus and content.
Off Campus Access: Authenticate with your MyDenison login.

Subject Areas: Classics, History, Religion, Greek literature

Thesaurus Linguae Graecae is a full text database of literary texts written in Greek from Homer to the fall of Byzantium in AD 1453. Users may search on author, title, publication or text string. Site structure in English; searching and retrieval in several Greek fonts (available via download), Beta code and Latin transliteration.

Please Note: users must create an individual account to access the Full Corpus and all content.

Format: Full Text
Database Producer: University of California, Irvine, Thesaurus Linguae Graecae Project

Google Scholar
Google database focusing on scholarly research.

Freely Available Sources for Finding Scholarly Articles

Gnomon Online
Online supplement to Gnomon Bibliographische Datenbank: indexes books, book articles, and some journals, 1997 onwards.
Zenon DAI
Part union catlog and part index; Zenon contains the holdings of the 9 libraries of the German Archaeological Institute. It contains journal articles, conference proceedings, book chapters and Festschriften in addition to books.

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