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    Full-Text Articles on the Classical and Ancient Worlds

    • Academic Search Premier (Ebsco) Provided by the Maryland Digital Library.
      • Multidisciplinary database with indexing for over 3000 journals and magazines and full text for over 1,200 titles (i.e. only some articles are available full text).
      • 1990 to present, but dates vary widely with the journal.
    • Expanded Academic Index ASAP (InfoTrac)
      • Multidisciplinary database indexing about 2000 journals and magazines with about 1000 titles in full text (i.e. only some articles are available full text).
      • 1980 to present, but dates vary widely with the journal.
    • JSTOR
      • Full text of 254 journals in 19 academic disciplines.
      • Consists of first issue of journal up to the most current 2 to 5 years, i.e. 1995 to 1999.
    • Project Muse Provided by the Maryland Digital Library.
      • Search from over 100 journals in the humanities and the social sciences.
      • Only journals from the 45 Johns Hopkins Press are full text.
      • Dates vary widely, mostly 1996 to present.
    • Online Serials (Internet Public Librarian)
      • Links to full-text journals, magazines, etc.. Cannot search for articles.
    • Social Science Online Periodicals (UNESCO)
      • Links to over 426 social science periodicals with full text. Cannot search for articles.

    Individual Classics Journals with Full Text

    Indexes with Citations to Articles on the Classical and Ancient Worlds

      Art Index
      • (Call number: Index 701.6 A784); located in the Index section of the Reference area.
      • Vol. 1 (1929) to present.
    • FirstSearch (OCLC) - includes the following databases:
      • ArticleFirst - index to items from table of contents of journals, 1990 to present;
      • ECO - index to scholarly journals, 1995 to present;
      • UnionList - list of periodicals held by OCLC member libraries;
      • WorldCat - catalog of all items cataloged by OCLC member libraries.
    • Humanities Index (H.W. Wilson)
      • Indexes about 500 journals and magazines in archaeology, area studies, art, classical studies, communications, dance, film, folklore, gender studies, history, journalism, linguistics, literary & social criticism literature, music, performing arts, philosophy, religion and theology.
      • 2/1984 to present.
      • Note: this database allows only 4 users at one time. You could get a message saying the database is busy. In that case, try again later.
      • Paper format:  4/1974 to 12/1991; (Call number: Index 001.3 H918)
    • MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association)
      • Note: This is the main index to literary criticism in English.
      • Covers nearly 4,000 journals and series, as well as monographs, working papers, proceedings, bibliographies, and other formats with scholarly research in literature, language, linguistics, and folklore.
      • 1963 to the present.
      • Note: this database allows only one user at a time. You could get a message saying the database is busy. In that case, try again later.
      • Paper format: 1926 to 1991; (Call number: R801.6 M689)
      • Includes the MLA Directory of Periodicals. Coverage from 1963 to present.
    • ingenta
      • Search article summaries from over 20,000 publications.
      • Searching is free; viewing the article requires a fee.
    • TOCS-IN: Tables of Contents of Interest to Classicists
      • An archives containing citations (with an occasional link to an abstract or full text) to about 160 journals on Classics, Near Eastern Studies, and Religion.
      • Mostly from 1992 to present.

    General Resources

    Archaeology

    Classics Associations and Department