Databases for Classics
Academic OneFile (Thomson Gale)
[Coverage includes a small core collection of peer-reviewed Classics journals]
Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)
[Coverage includes a small core collection of peer-reviewed Classics journals]
JSTOR
[Date coverage varies depending on individual titles, but overall coverage ranges from the late 19th century onward. Note that JSTOR is primarily an archive of back issues and does not cover current journal literature]
Periodicals Index Online
[Coverage varies depending on individual titles. Note that PIO is primarily an index of back issues and does not cover current journal literature]
TOCS-IN
[A searchable index of the tables of contents of over 150 journals of interest to classicists covering the period from 1992 onwards. Has very few full text links]
Web of Science citation database
[Indexes a wide range of journal articles in the sciences, social sciences & humanities. Choose the General Search option to search for journal articles. The Cited reference search option is to find articles that have cited a previously published work]
Other possibilities
Gnomon Online
[Indexes a selection of new publications (books & journal articles) drawn from the GNOMON Bibliographische Datenbank. It includes a full thesaurus as well as the contents of fascicles of the databank and the Zeitschrift fur Papyrologie und Epigraphik. Index only - no full text links]
Nestor
[A bibliography of Aegean prehistory & related areas covering eastern Mediterranean and southeastern European prehistory, Homeric society, Indo-European linguistics, and related fields. Coverage is from 1957. It is searchable by the text in the titles of the books, articles, journals, author names, and by publication dates but not by keyword. Index only - no full text links]
Please note that no one database has comprehensive coverage of Classics, and depending on the depth of your research, you may also need to consult L'Annee Philologique which is the basic tool for research in Classical Studies but only available to us in print format at this time
More specialised databases/bibliographies which focus on individual subjects (such as Military History or Women) are listed in the Subject Guides.
A list of Classics journal abbreviations and their full-title equivalents (sourced from l'Annee Philologique) is available from here
Last update: 29 August 2007. This page is maintained by Helen Attar
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