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Multi-Library Catalogs

• WorldCat [Via UofC Proxy]: Now including the records from the RLG Union Catalog, contains over 62 million records for books and other materials in over 10,000 libraries worldwide. Updated daily.
• COPAC: merged online catalogues of major University and National Libraries in the UK and Ireland, including the British Library.
• Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog (KVK): The KVK allows users to search the catalogues of multiple German, Swiss, and Austrian libraries. Other international libraries can be added as well.
• OPAC indice SBN (Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale) Union catalog of over 2,000 Italian libraries.
• SUDOC (Système universitaire de documentation): The combined catalogs of French academic libraries. See also the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.

Classics, Comprehesive

• L'Année philologique on the Internet (1949-2005) [Via UofC Proxy]: Print volumes can be found on the index table in the Classics Reading Room (Z7016.A1A6 RR4Cla).
• DYABOLA: Realkatalog DAI Rom = Archäologische Bibliographie [Via UofC Proxy]: Click on the box labeled "mit IP-Zugang" before beginning. Note: the fields are case-sensitive.
• Gnomon Online: Not as complete as the CD-ROM version, but good from 1997 on. With weekly bibliographic uploads, it is more up to date than L'Année philologique. Gnomon on CD-Rom is located on the first workstation inside the Classics Reading Room, on the 4th floor of Regenstein Library.
• TOCS-IN (Tables of Contents of Journals of Interest to Classicists): Another useful resource for filling in the L'Année philologique publication gap. See the List of Journals Indexed.

General Indexes with Significant Classics Content

• International Bibliography of Periodical Literature (IBZ) [Via UofC Proxy]: 1983 to present.
• Periodicals Index Online [Via UofC Proxy]: (1770-1995) with links to electronic journals in Periodicals Archive Online.
• Web of Science (1975-) with citation linking [Via UofC Proxy]: includes the Arts & Humanities Citation Index as well as Social Sciences and Science Citation Indexes. From the home page, click on "ISI Web of Science" to proceed. It is best to uncheck the Science Citation Index. Though not as complete as other indexes, Web of Science does allow users to see a list of works that have cited an article.
• Wilson Omnifile Full Text Mega Edition [Via UofC Proxy]: includes Humanities Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Humanities & Social Sciences Retro.

Classics, Subject-Specific Indexes

• British & Irish Archaeological Bibliography (BIAB)" Most complete from 1940 on. Print volumes can be found in the Stacks at DA20.B822.
• Bulletin analytique d'histoire romaine Searches records from 1984-present, but most complete from 1990 on. Print volumes (1962-present) can be found in the Stacks at DG11.B85 (Building Use Only).
• Bulletin de Médecine Ancienne = Ancient Medicine Newsletter collects bibliographic information on the study of ancient medicine.
• CLAROS: Concordance of Greek Inscriptions (Diccionario Griego-Español):
  Claros is an electronic database containing the successive publications of epigraphical Greek texts re-edited during the last 125 years (and before). Users of CLAROS can consult the data relative to the edition of Greek inscriptions (name and date of publication, and the editor's name; but not the epigraphic text itself). More interestingly, users can retrieve the concordance among inscriptions, that is, the different editions of the same inscription. In addition to the bibliographical reference to the main editions of an epigraphical text, CLAROS contains the reference to numerous corpora of translations of the same Greek texts. They offer a searchable list of abbreviations as well.
• DRoits ANTiques (DRANT) Database: Full coverage from 1974 on. The focus of the database is ancient legal institutions.
• FoLIVM (Fons Litterarum Iuris Veterum & Medii aevi)
• Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis der griechischen Papyrusurkunden Ägyptens
• History of Science and Technology [Via UofC Proxy] 1975 to the present.
• Leuven Database of Ancient Books attempts to collect the basic information on all ancient literary texts. The user can easily find the oldest preserved copies of each text.
• Monographien der Bibliographie zur Vor- und Frühgeschichte Europas (RGK) [Via UofC Proxy]: from 1992 on. Click on the box labeled "mit IP-Zugang" before beginning. The fields are case-sensitive.
• Nestor: Bibliography of Aegean Prehistory and Related Areas 1957-2003. Print volumes can be found at Z7023.L5N46 RR4Cla.
• Regesta Imperii OPAC
• Subsidia Papyrologica 1.0 Z6604.S8 2000 JMedia, which provides the contents of Bibliographie Papyrologique 1960-1999 and Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten. Version 2.0 (2004) is on order.

Other Resources for Interdisciplinary Research

• Ancient Near East
  • Annual Egyptological Bibliography (AEB) [Via UofC Proxy]: The Web version at present covers volumes 1947 to 2001. The CD-ROM, located on the first workstation inside the Classics Reading Room on the 4th floor of Regenstein Library, covers from 1822-1997. Print volumes can be found at Z3651.I6 RR4.
  • Bibliotheca Phoenicia Z3469.P56A378 JMedia
  • Oriental Institute Online Catalogue for the Research Archives, which indexes journal articles as well as books.
• Art
  • Art Abstracts [Via UofC Proxy] (1984-) electronic version of the more recent volumes of Art Index, which indexes many articles on classical art and archaeology. Earlier volumes can be found in Art Index Retrospective, 1929-1984 [Via UofC Proxy]
  • Bibliography of the History of Art [Via UofC Proxy] includes Répertoire d'art et d'archéologie 1910-1989 (Z5937.R42 Gen), which covers Late Antiquity.
  • Index of Christian Art [Via UofC Proxy] from early apostolic times up to A.D. 1400.
• ATLA Religion Database with ATLA Serials [Via UofC Proxy]: 1949 to present. Full-text to selected articles.
• Eurasienbibliographie des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts [Via UofC Proxy]: Click on the box labeled "mit IP-Zugang" before beginning. The fields are case-sensitive.
• Medieval Studies
  • International Medieval Bibliography (IMB) (1967-) [Via UofC Proxy]: Click "Enter Databases." Primarily articles. Unless you uncheck BCM, the form searches both databases together.
  • Bibliographie de Civilisation Médiévale (BCM) [Via UofC Proxy]: Click "Enter Databases." Primarily monographs. Unless you uncheck IMB, the form searches both databases together.
  • Medioevo Latino:
    Medioevo Latino on CD, located on the first workstation inside the Classics Reading Room, on the fourth floor of Regenstein Library. (CD-ROM Helpsheet)
    Medioevo Latino print volumes: Z5579.5.M4 RR4Cla (index table), 1978 to present.
  • Feminae: the Medieval Women and Gender Index (Haverford College), covers journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages (450 C.E. to 1500 C.E.).
  • The Illustrated ISTC (Incunabula Short-Title Catalogue) on CD-ROM Z240.A1I558 1998 SPCL Reference.
  • Iter: The Bibliography of Medieval and Renaissance Europe from 400-1700 [Via UofC Proxy]
• Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) (1973-) [Via UofC Proxy]: Covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics, as well as descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics.
• MLA Bibliography (Modern Language Association Bibliography) (1926-) [Via UofC Proxy]: The primary resource for modern literatures. Useful for Comp. Lit. and the Classical Tradition.
• The Philosopher's Index (1940-) [Via UofC Proxy]:

Book Reviews
See also the Library's Guide to Book Reviews.

• L'Année philologique [Via UofC Proxy]: Find the record of a book by "Modern Author" or "Other Critera: Word(s) in the title." Book reviews are listed at the bottom of the record.
• Book Review Index Online (1965-) [Via UofC Proxy]: a comprehensive online guide to book reviews with over five million review citations from thousands of publications.
• IBR: International Bibliography of Book Reviews (1985- ) [Via UofC Proxy]: Multilingual interdisciplinary index to book reviews, chiefly in the arts, humanities and social sciences. For 1971-1981 consult the print Internationale Bibliographie der Rezensionen at AI9.I58 (Regenstein Reference). Note: IBR online document ordering system unavailable; if appropriate please request items directly from University of Chicago Interlibrary Loan instead.

Dissertations

• ProQuest Digital Dissertations/Dissertation Abstracts [Via UofC Proxy] Includes citations for dissertations accepted at accredited universities from 1861 to the present. Those published from 1980 forward also include 350-word abstracts written by the author. Abstracts for earlier dissertations are available in Dissertation Abstracts (Z5055.U49M6; Regenstein Reference). Citations for master's theses from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. The full text of dissertations since 1997 is available for free downloading.
• Foreign Doctoral Dissertations Database from the Center for Research Libraries in Chicago. CRL has more than 750,000 uncataloged foreign dissertations, of which approximately 20,000 are included in this database. CRL also maintains a list of universities from which it receives printed dissertations on exchange or deposit and the date when this began. Request items via University of Chicago Interlibrary Loan.
• Index to Theses [Via UofC Proxy] A comprehensive listing of theses with abstracts accepted for higher degrees by universities in Great Britain and Ireland since 1716.
• UK Thesis List at Institute of Classical Studies of the University of London Until 1997/1998 The Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies at University London[PA25.L84] published a list of Classics theses at the back of each volume. A printed version is available on request.
• Sammlung Digitaler Dissertationen in Deutschland: A gateway to online dissertation sites of many German universities.
• Tesionline: provides bibliographic and full text access to over 8,000 Italian theses and dissertations, from the bachelors level to doctoral dissertations.
• Thèses en Ligne (TEL): limited in content, but provides access to the full text of some French dissertations.