Books: Use the Library Catalog

Articles

Academic OneFile

A source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources, with extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects.  Millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text.  Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily.

Anthropological Index Online.
Free database

Art Full Text
Indexes more than 400 key international arts periodicals.   Subject coverage includes, art, art history, archaeology, architecture, design, photography, and other arts related fields.  Full text from 1997 onward is available for select publications.

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Art Index Retrospective
A companion to Art Full Text, this database provides citations to older articles published between 1929 - 1984 in international arts periodicals. 

Humanities Abstracts
Contains citations from more than 600 periodicals in archaeology and classical studies, area studies, communication, folklore, history, language, literature, performing and visual arts, philosophy, religion and theology.

Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective
Indexing of over 1200 periodicals, some going back as far as 1907.  Also has coverage of many important scientific journals up to the 1950s.

JSTOR
An archive of more than 1200 core scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Fulltext back to their date of first publication to within the current 2-5 years.

L'Année Philologique Online
Database published by the Société Internationale de
Bibliographie Classique covering volumes 30 to 73 with more than 480,000 bibliographic records.

MLA Bibliography
A bibliography of scholarship in literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. Contains over 1.8 million citations from more than 4400 journals and series and 1000 book publishers.  About 75% are language and literature journal articles.

MLA Directory of Periodicals
Detailed descriptions of over 7100 journals, including information on editorial contacts, publication frequency, circulation, subscription prices, and submission guidelines.

Essay and General Literature Index,1900-2001.Call Number: Reference AI 3 E752
A detailed index by author, subject, and some titles to essays published in books.

Biographical Information

Who's Who in Classical Mythology.Call Number: General Collection BL715.G68 2002

Who's Who in the Classical World.Call Number: Reference DE 7.W48 2000

Who's Who in the Greek World.Call Number: Reference DE 7.H39 2000

Encyclopedias & Dictionaries

Atlas of the Greek and Roman World in Antiquity.Call Number: Reference Atlases G1033.A84 1981

Credo Reference
Over 360 online reference titles in all subject areas.  Allows cross-referencing between titles and expanding searches into the Truman catalog and other library resources.

Makers of Classical Archaeology.Call Number: Reference DE9.A1 M43 2000

Oxford Companion to Classical Literature.Call Number: Reference PA31 H69 1989

Oxford History of Classical Art. Call Number: General Collection N 5610.O84 1993

Battles of the Greek and Roman worlds. Call Number: Reference D25.A2 M66 2000

Cassell Dictionary of Classical Mythology.Call Number: Reference BL715 M37 1999

Classical Studies: a guide to the reference literature.Call Number: Reference PA 91 J45 1996

Crowell's Handbook of Classical Drama.Call Number: Reference PA 3024. H35

Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities.Call Number: General Collection DE5 S6 1973

Greek and Latin authors, 800 B. C. - A. D. 1000.Call Number: Reference PA 31 G7

Greek and Roman architecture.Call Number: General Collection NA 260 R6 1969

Greek-English Lexicon.Call Number: Reference PA445 E5 L6 1996

Handbook of Greek art .Call Number: General Collection N 5630 R49 1967

Oxford Latin Dictionary.Call Number: Reference PA 2365.E5 O9

Library Catalogs

WorldCat
Combined catalog of thousands of libraries around the world. You can order books online, and they will be delivered usually within two weeks.  This service is available to current Truman students, faculty, and staff.  A modified version of  WorldCat  is also available for free.

Online Book Collection

Internet Classics Archive
Collection of ancient texts, primarily Greek and Latin.

Online Medieval and Classical Library
at Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE

Primary Sources

Perseus Project
Extensive digital library of ancient texts, art catalogs, secondary essays, and more.

Style & Citation Guides

Citation and Writing Guides
Guides for how to use the American Psychological Association (APA) citation style; the Modern Language Association (MLA) citation style; and the Chicago/Turabian citation style.  This page also has information on how to use tools that automatically format bibliographic information for you like: EndNote, Zotero, and EasyBib.com.

Web Sites

ABZU--Guide to Ancient Near Eastern Resources
Resource guide with numerous links about the Ancient Near East.

Ask the Oracle
Answers questions on ancient Greek and Roman literature, history and mythology.  Translates parts of ancient Greek and Latin texts.   Provides information on women in the ancient world, virtual maps and much more.

Classical and Medieval History
An annotated list of reference web sites developed by the Library of Congress

Classics Collections Page
A comprehensive site providing links grouped into categories such as Art & Archeology, Bibliographies, Classical Mythology, Databases, E-texts, Greek/Roman History and Journals.

Diotima
Wonderful interdisciplinary resource for women and gender in the ancient world.

Greek and Latin Language Resources

Greek Mythology Link
The Greek Mythology Link is a collection of myths retold by Carlos Parada, author of Genealogical Guide to Greek Mythology, published in 1993  The GML contains texts, images, tables and maps. The mythical accounts are based exclusively on ancient sources.

Tables of Contents of Journals of Interest to Classicists
TOCS-IN provides the tables of contents of a selection of Classics, Near Eastern Studies, and Religion journals, both in text format and through a Web search program.

VROMA
Vroma is a site developed by teachers and scholars to create a virtual learning environment for classicists. It includes virtual tours of Rome as well as lists of resources.