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ARTICLES
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sclinksJournal Locator - Help
Search by journal title or citation, not by subject, for online and print journals.
Scholarly Articles
Humanities Abstracts - 1984 to present
Abstracts of articles, book reviews, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction (including dramas and poems), and reviews of plays and television and radio programs from over 465 sources in the humanities.
JSTOR - Full Text
Complete full text backfiles of over 400 scholarly journals in the Arts & Sciences, General Sciences, Ecology & Botany, Language & Literature, and Music excluding the most recent 2 to 5 years.
L'Année Philologique - 1959 to present - Help
Covers all aspects of classical studies, including history.
Project Muse - Current issues - Full Text
Access to the full-text of over 100 scholarly journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences and mathematics.
TOCS-IN - 1992 to present
(Classics Periodicals Tables of Contents)
Academic Search Premier [EBSCO] - 1965 to present - Full Text
Full-text and indexing for over 4,500 scholarly publications in the social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language & linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and more.
Arts & Humanities Search - 1980 to present
Indexes 1,300 journals covering all arts and humanities disciplines. The database of almost 2.1 million records includes materials published from 1980 to the present as well as older material cited in these publications. Updated weekly.
Expanded Academic Index [GALE] - 1980 to present. MLIN - Full Text
Full text access to scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers. Covers the arts and humanities, the social sciences, science and technology, across all academic disciplines.
Gnomon Online Database - 1997 to present
Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective - 1907-1984
Indexes nearly 1,200 English-language scholarly journals and specialized magazines in the social sciences and humanities; also includes citations to book reviews.
Humanities International Index
Includes data from American Humanities Index plus international journals, books and reference works. Provides citations and abstracts for articles, essays, and original works including poems, fiction, photographs, paintings and illustrations.
NESTOR: Bibliography of Aegean Prehistory & Related Areas - 1957 to 2004
Philosopher's Index - 1940 to present
Indexes books and journals of philosophy and related fields, including ethics, aesthetics, social and political philosophy, epistemology, and metaphysic logic as well as the philosophy of law, religion, science, history, education, and language.
BOOKS AND MEDIA
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Insight - Help
The Smith College image database with 150,000+ digital images covering visual arts and culture. Includes selections from the Smith art department and museum, plus Archivision and AMICA.
Google Books - Full Text
Indexes the full text of a growing number of books. For some books complete text is online; for others only a small portion. Printing and downloading are not available.
Moodle/E-Reserves
Login to course websites to access course readings, syllabi, discussions and more.
Library Catalogs
Five College Library Catalog - Help
Search all Five College libraries at once, or limit to Smith, Amherst, Mount Holyoke, Hampshire, or UMass/Amherst.
WorldCat - all dates
OCLC catalog of books, web resources, and other material worldwide. Contains millions of records.
LibDex
Link to other libraries' Web-based catalogs, listed by country.
Book Purchases and Reviews
Book Review Digest - 1983 to present
Reviews of English-language fiction and nonfiction books from periodicals published in the U. S., Canada, and Great Britain. Includes only reviews that have appeared within 18 months of the book's publication.
Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Times Literary Supplement Centenary Archive - 1902-1990. MLIN - Full Text
More than 250,000 reviews, letters, poems and articles in more than 5,000 issues of the TLS are available.
Times Literary Supplement Subscriber Archive - 1994 to present - Full Text
Access to articles from every issue of the TLS from 1994. (Issues are added to the Archive one week after publication).
REFERENCE TOOLS
Blackwell Reference Online - Full Text
Includes almost 300 titles in the humanities and social sciences, including the Blackwell companions and handbooks. Strengths are psychology, sociology, history, literature, philosophy, and religion.
Cambridge Collections Online - Full Text
Online version of the Cambridge Companions; offers introductions to major writers, artists, topics and periods within the fields of literature, classics, philosophy, religion and culture.
Concise Oxford Companion to Classical Literature [Oxford]
Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization [Oxford]
Addresses, Phone Numbers, Etc.
MLA Directory of Periodicals
Dictionaries
Conjugate Latin Verbs Online
Pocket Oxford English-Latin Dictionary [Oxford]
Pocket Oxford Latin-English Dictionary [Oxford]
Thesaurus Linguae Graecae - 800 B.C. - A.D.1453 - Full Text
Contains virtually all ancient Greek texts from the period between Homer (800 B.C.) and A.D. 600, and a large number of texts deriving from the period between A.D. 600 and 1453. (First-time users required to register a user name and password.)
Thesaurus Linguae Latinae
The major historical dictionary of the Latin language with signed articles describing the grammar, meaning, and history of use of each word. Completed only from A-Ps in 2007.
Perseus Digital Library
Includes full texts of classical sources in Greek, Latin, and English translation. Also contains images, atlases, dictionaries, and grammars.
Style Manuals
Citation Guides & Style Manuals
Documentation Guidelines: Citing Sources Within Your Paper
(Duke University Library) Guides for Turabian, Chicago Manual of Style, MLA, and APA.
MLA Format (Purdue University Writing Laboratory)
INTERNET META-SITES
Electronic Links for Classicists (U. of California Irvine)
INTERNET RESOURCES
Diotima: Women in the Ancient World
Evaluating Internet Resources
University of Maryland, University College.
Perseus Digital Library
Includes full texts of classical sources in Greek, Latin, and English translation. Also contains images, atlases, dictionaries, and grammars.
Classical Mythology
Temple University. Covers Greek and Roman mythology.
RELATED SMITH WEB SITES
Smith College Classics Majors Research Skills - February 2007
Research and information literacy skills identified as essential for majors in Classics at Smith College.
Department of Classical Languages and Literatures
LIBRARY RESEARCH GUIDES
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