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Key Resources

Catalogue and searching - Help:

Use the Library catalogue to find primary resources such as books, exam papers, specific journals and audio-visual items. Use the databases and indexes to identify and locate individual articles in journals.

For advice in using these tools, use the HELP! Link, including the Library Skills Online tutorials

Keywords and descriptors - when searching catalogues and databases, be ready to use a wide range of terms, both general and precise. For example:

Greece	Rome	History	Literature	Art
Philosophy	Ancient	Classical	Philology	Language

If your search returns too many items, use narrower or combinations of terms. If you do not find enough, try broader terms

Dictionaries and Thesauri:

• YourDictionary.com (includes languages and translation)
• Dictionary.com
• Beazley Archive dictionary - illustrated explanations of names, technical terms, and other vocabulary relating to Greek history, myth, geography, art and architecture
• Classical Greek lexicon
• Latin lexicon
• Thesaurus.com

Encyclopedias and Atlases:

• Interactive Ancient Mediterranean
• Perseus Project Interactive Atlas - linked from all the site's texts. Includes a searchable version of The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites
• The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Internet Resources

Databases & Gateways:

• Humanities - Library database menu page
• AcademicInfo - subject menus, and searchable by keyword
• BUBL - subject menus, and searchable by keyword or Dewey number
• Classics Web
• Exploring Ancient World Cultures - textbook project covering the Near East, India, Egypt, China, Greece, Rome, Islam, and medieval Europe
• Intute: classics
• Voice of the Shuttle - subject menus, and searchable by keyword
• WWW-VL - the Virtual Library's humanities section

Online Texts:

• Electronic texts and e-text archives - gateway for e-text libraries, including images
• Internet Classics Archive - classical literature
• The Labyrinth Library - medieval Latin texts
• Literary Resources on the Net - from classical to modern, as well as genre sections
• The Online Books Page - search engine for online editions from the University of Pennsylvania
• Oxford Text Archive - major works of the Western canon
• Perseus Project - ancient Greece , Rome and Renaissance England
• Project Gutenberg - texts from all ages and genres
• Project Gutenberg - Australia - Australian texts on Gutenberg, and other texts available under Australian copyright regulations
• Stoa - current and recent essays and research papers

Topic Resources:

• Abzu - study of the Ancient Near East
• The Beazley Archive - research collection of classical art and archaeology at Oxford University
• Byzantium - Byzantine studies
• De Imperatoribus Romanis - an online encyclopedia of Roman Emperors, searchable by name, era and theme
• Diotima - Women and gender in the ancient world
• Electronic Resources for Classicists - structured menu of links, resources and study materials
• Pomoerium - includes the non-Mediterranean world
• ROMARCH - art and archaeology of early Italy and the Roman world

Societies and Associations:

• Australian Society for Classical Studies
• The Classical Association ( UK )
• American Philological Association (US)
• Institute of Historical Research - UK site with articles, projects and links
• Scholarly Societies Project - Classical Studies - guide to web sites of organizations all over the world