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September 19, 2000

Guide to CD-ROM & Online Resources

Table of Contents

  1. Department CD-ROMs

  2. Wilson Library CD-ROMs

  3. On-line Texts & Special Collections

  4. On-line General Reference

  5. On-line Indices & Abstracts of Books and Dissertations

  6. On-line Indices & Abstracts of Periodicals

  7. Full Text Electronic Journals

  8. Other Web Resources & Finding Tools

I. Department CD-ROMS

  1. Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG) Disk E

  • What: essentially all Greek literature to 600 CE & many texts from 600 to 1453 CE.  Current Version is “TLG Disk E”

  • Where: (1) computer in 309, or (2) borrow the CD from Barbara

  • How: needs a search program—"Pandora" on Macs; "TLG Workbook" (or equivalent) on PCs.  The latter is already installed on the computer in 309

  1. Packard Humanities Institute (PHI)  Disk # 5

  • What: pagan Latin lit. to 200 CE plus Justinian’s Digest;

  • Where: (1) computer in 309, or (2) borrow the CD from Barbara

  • How: needs a search program—"Pandora" on Macs; "TLG Workbook" (or equivalent) on PCs.  The latter is already installed on the computer in 309

  1. Packard Humanities Institute (PHI) Disk # 7

  1. Database of Classical Bibliography (DCB)

  • What: version 2 = l'Année Philologique, vols. 45-60 (1974-89); version 1 limited to vols. 47-58 (1976-87).

  • Where: (1) copy of version 2 in Wilson Reference; (2) copy of version 1 (version 2 on order) with Barbara

  • How: search engine must be installed from the CD-ROM.  It is already installed on the computer in 109. Search tips & guidance for using the CD-ROM may be found at the DCB Web Site.

  1.   Davka Judaic Classics Deluxe Edition

  • What: Tanach & Commentaries, Talmudim, Kaballah (Zohar, Tikunei Zohar), Midrash (Mekhilta, Sifra, Sifrei & aggadic midrashim), other halachic and philosophical works

  • Where: check out from Barbara

  • How: CD-ROM contains its own search engine; needs to be installed on computer in 309

II. Wilson Library CD-ROMs

Room 179, Wilson Library, has an extensive collection of CD-ROMs, including:

  1. The Bibliotheca Teubneriana Latina (Teubner Editions of Latin Texts)

  2. New Testament Abstracts

  3. International Medieval Bibliography

  4. Dyabola (subject catalogs of publications on the history of art and the ancient world. It includes the subject catalogs of the German Archaeological Institute in Rome, the Bibliography of Iberian Archaeology from the German Archaeological Institute in Madrid, and the Archaeology of Roman Provinces from RGK Frankfurt).  An on-line version is also available over the web.

III. Online Texts & Special Collections

  1. Project Perseus

  • What: Major classical Greek and & some Latin texts & translations; a collection of text tools, including parsers, grammars (Smyth, Allen & Greenough), several older commentaries, and dictionaries (‘Middle Liddell”, Lewis & Short)

    • can be used as a reverse index (set search window to “end of dictionary entries”)

    • can be used to find synonyms and semantic groupings by searching in English definitions

  • Also includes: Atlas & Images: landscapes, site plans, architecture, vases, coins, sculpture; and hypertextual Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites

    • Use integrated Lookup Tool to search all databases in one pass

  • Where: free on-line access through Tufts University

  • How: use online help to configure browser for Greek display

  1. Patrologia Latina (ed. Migne)

  • What: Latin Patristic Literature from 2nd cent. CE to 16th cent.

  • Where: on-line at the University of Michigan (w. University of Minnesota subscription)

  • How: must be accessed through the LUMINA interface to use the University of Minnesota subscription 

  1. Inscriptiones Latinae Eystettenses

  • What: Latin Inscriptions (H. Dessau's Inscriptiones Latinae Selectae and a large sample from the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum)

  • Where: free access through Catholic University of Eichstatt

  • How: see on-line search guidance

  1. Epigraphical Databank of Heidelberg (ed. G. Alfoeldy)

  • What: all Latin Inscriptions from l'Année Épigraphique 1894-1990

  • Where: free access through University of Heidelberg

  • How: see on-line search guidance in English

  1. Additional collections and resources may be found by searching Argos, a peer-reviewed Limited Area Search Engine (LASE) of Web content in Classics and related fields—e.g.: 

IV. General Reference Works

  1. The U. of M. Library maintains subscriptions to various reference works including:

V. On-line Indices and Abstracts of Books & Dissertations

  1. For books—union catalogues of major academic research collections are a good place to search for subject bibliography.  The following are also interfaces for locating and requesting books through Interlibrary Loan:

  • WorldCat (accessed through “First Search”)

  • RLIN (accessed through “Eureka”)

  1. For dissertations, including full text of dissertations since 1997, search Digital Dissertations (formerly Disseration Abstracts)

VI. On-line Indices and Abstracts of Scholarly Periodicals (and Books)

  1. General Coverage

  • Current Contents (1994 to present; over 7500 scholarly journals including the arts & humanities,)

  • Expanded Academic Index (1980 to present, includes 3+ years of full text)

  • Ingenta (formerly CARL Uncover) (1988 to present, includes scholarly lit. and document delivery service)

  1. Art History (also see Arts & Humanities)

  • Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA)

  • Art Abstracts (1984 to present)

  • Dyabola (Contains electronic subject catalogs of publications on the history of art and the ancient world. It includes the subject catalogs of the German Archaeological Institute in Rome, the Bibliography of Iberian Archaeology from the German Archaeological Institute in Madrid, and the Archaeology of Roman Provinces from RGK Frankfurt).  The materials are also available on a CD-ROM in Wilson Library Reference.

  1. Arts & Humanities (also see Art History)

  1. Other

VII. Full Text Electronic Journals  

  1. The full text of current and recent articles in the following journals is available to individuals with University of Minnesota email accounts.

  1. Other Electronic Journals can be located through the following catalogs and indices:

  1. Many other journals maintain web sites that display current & recent Tables of Contents and/or subscription & editorial information .

VIII. Other Web Resources & Finding Tools

  1. Peer-reviewed Limited Area Search Engines (LASE):

  • Argos aims to cover the ancient Mediterranean world

  • Hippias aims to cover ancient philosophy

  1. For Reviews of Electronic Resources in Ancient & Medieval Studies:

  1. Useful Collections of Links:

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