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Article databases

NameDescription
Academic Search CompleteMulti-disciplinary coverage. Over 5,500 full text periodicals, including more than 4,600 peer-reviewed journals. PDF content going back to 1887. Searchable cited references for nearly 1,000 journals. EBSCOhost
Cambridge Journals OnlineOnline content delivery service for Cambridge University Press' collection of nearly 200 leading journals across the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Full text coverage. Cambridge University Press
Essay and General Literature IndexCitations for essays and chapters contained in books. Click "Library Owns?" icon to search for call numbers and availability of books. Coverage in the humanities and social sciences. H. W. Wilson
Humanities Full TextCitations, abstracts, and full text for articles, interviews; original works of fiction, drama, and poetry; reviews of books, ballets, dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, operas, plays, radio and television programs; biographies, and more. H. W. Wilson
Humanities International CompleteMore than 2,000 journals and 2 million records, plus unique full text content, much of which is not found in other databases. Full text for more than 730 journals. EBSCOhost
JSTOR Access to Arts & Sciences I, II, III, IV, and VII, as well as the Ecology & Botany collection. Full text.
MLA International BibliographyMore than 1.7 million citations to journal articles, books, and dissertations from 1963 to the present. Coverage in language, literature, folklore, linguistics, literary theory and criticism, and the dramatic arts. Gale Group/Modern Language Association
NetLibraryAccess to more than 50,000 digitized books. Search by title, author, keyword, Library of Congress subject heading, publisher, or ISBN. Full-text searching is also available. OCLC
OmniFile Full Text MegaCitations, abstracts, and full text for thousands of popular and scholarly sources, including articles, reviews, books, and more. Multi-disciplinary coverage. H. W. Wilson
Project MuseBasic Undergraduate Collection. Full text access to 125 peer-reviewed journals in the humanities and social sciences. PLEASE NOTE: not all titles are available in full text. Check "Only content I have full access to" for full text access only.
WorldCatSearch for materials in hundreds of libraries. Books, websites, computer programs, films, slides, journals, magazines, papers, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, newspapers, sound recordings, videotapes. Coverage from before 1000 BC to the present. OCLC

LC classification system

BL - Religions. Mythology. Rationalism DE - Greco-Roman World
DF - Greece N - Visual Arts
NA - Architecture PA - Classical Languages & Literature [Greek & Latin]

Reference books

BookCall number
A Companion to the Hellenistic WorldREF DE86 .C65 2003
A Dictionary of World Mythology (online book)A Dictionary of World Mythology
Oxford English Dictionary (also online)REF PE1625 .M7 (also OED online)
Oxford Latin DictionaryREF PA2365.E5 O9 1982
The Oxford Classical DictionaryREF DE5 .O9 2003
The Oxford Companion to World Mythology (online book)The Oxford Companion to World Mythology
The Pocket Oxford Latin (English-Latin) Dictionary (online book)The Pocket Oxford Latin (English-Latin) Dictionary
The Pocket Oxford Latin (Latin-English) Dictionary (online book)The Pocket Oxford Latin (Latin-English) Dictionary
Who's Who in the Classical World (online book)Who's Who in the Classical World

Web resources

Classics Web Resources
Electronic Text Center
Library of Congress resources
Perseus Digital Library
The Internet Classics Archive
The Latin Library
The Online Medieval and Classical Library
Voice of the Shuttle: Classical Studies