Online Databases
The University of Texas at Austin libraries subscribe to numerous online databases, some specifically for Classics and others of a more multidisciplinary nature. Below are a few which might help you with your research. Just follow the link in the database title. You will need a valid University of Texas student, faculty or staff EID to be able to utilize these resources from off campus.
Classics
L'Annee Philologique sur L'Internet
1949 - present. (Les Belles Lettres)
Updated annually. Corresponds to the printed L'Annee Philologique , the international critical and analytical bibliography of ancient Greek and Latin languages, literature and classical studies. Provides 350,000 bibliographic records for the years 1949 to present, with 12,500 new records added each year. The international offices analyze 1,500 periodicals each year as well as 500 articles in collections and conference papers.
Bibliotheca Teubneriana Latina (BTL)
Most current edition. (CETEDOC)
Available only in the University of Texas Libraries on library work stations.
Provides access to Teubner's Latin text editions. The aim of this new electronic edition of the well known Teubner texts is to offer new and advanced research facilities to the classicists. Includes the complete texts (other than the prefaces or critical apparatus) from the standard editions (editiones maiores) of more or less 500 works spread over eight centuries (c. 300 B.C.E. to c. 500 A.D./C.E.), from Plautus to Martianus Capella, and it includes technical texts. Two future updates are planned which will extend the coverage to over 700 texts. Once complete, will contain all the editions of the "Bibliotheca Teubneriana" up to and including those published in 1997. It will contain both editions of the last 40 years which are out of print and standard editions of the 19th or early 20th century which have been neither updated nor replaced by new editions.
The link above will lead you to the UT Libraries Remote Desktop server. After accessing the desktop, click on the icon for Bibliotheca Teubneriana Latina (BTL).
DYABOLA
1956 - present (Biering & Brinkmann)
Some files updated annually. DYABOLA (Dynamically Accumulating Database on Objects and Literature About Antiquity) provides citations to books, articles, and essays on classical, early Christian, Byzantine, early Medieval, and ancient Middle Eastern antiquities, art, and archaeology. To access the database, check the box marked "IP-Zugang" and click the Start button from the web site. Select British flag of "Realkatalog..." for English-language search interface and largest selection. There is no way to limit results to English language.
Gnomon Online
1925 - 2006 (Verlag C. H. Beck)
Available only in the University of Texas Libraries on library work stations. Updated annually. Produced by the publisher of the journal Gnomon, this database covers references to "all aspects of classical studies", and includes reviews, notes, and obituaries from the printed volumes of v.1 (1925) through v.78 (2006). The annual bibliographies appearing in printed volumes from 1990 on are also included, as well as selected coverage of major journals from 1987 on, and indexing to "old" Pauly and Neue Pauly. This database complements L'Annee Philologique sur L'Internet.
The link above will lead you to the UT Libraries Remote Desktop server. After accessing the desktop, click on the icon for Gnomon.
International Medieval Bibliography Online (IMB)
1967 - present. (Brepols Publishers)
Updated quarterly. Provides a current bibliography for over 4,500 journals (as well as conference proceedings, essay collections, Festschriften, and exhibition catalogs) used for research and teaching on the Middle Ages (c. 400-1500).
To access the database, choose the "Enter databases" button and then the "GO" button.
Patrologiae Graecae
Dates of coverage vary. (J.-P Migne)
Contains more than 160 volumes of Greek material (with Latin translations) relevant to the study of the history of the Christian Church from its beginnings through the Council of Florence in 1439. Collects the writings of the church leaders who wrote in Greek, including both the Eastern "Fathers" and those Western Christians who wrote before the Latin takeover of the West in the third century.
200 A.D. - 1216 A.D. (Chadwyck-Healey) Updated quarterly. Covers philosophical and theological writings from Latin Christianity up to the year 1216. Includes bibliographic information from works concerning patristic and monastic thought as well as philological and theological learning, humanistic and ecclesiastical thinking. Contains 221 volumes (the complete electronic version) of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia Latina, published between 1844 and 1855, and the four volumes of indexes published between 1862 and 1865. Includes all prefatory material, original texts, critical apparatus and indexes. Migne's column numbers are also there.
Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG)
8th century B.C. - 1453 A.D. (University of California)
Updated quarterly. Contains virtually all ancient Greek texts surviving from the period between Homer (8th century B.C.) and A.D. 600, plus historiographical, lexicographic, and scholastic texts from the period between 600 and 1453. The canon amounts to approximately 80 million words of text. A polytonic Greek font must be installed on your computer in order to view some work titles that appear in Greek.
Inter-related Databases
Art Abstracts / Art Index Retrospective
1929 (abstracts from 1994) - present. (Wilson)
Updated monthly. Indexes and abstracts articles from journals published throughout the world. Includes English-language journals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as journals published in French, Italian, German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, and Swedish. Also indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals. Provides the most up-to-date coverage of art, architecture, archaeology, design, planning, and museum studies.
ARTstor
Dates of coverage vary. (ARTstor Inc.)
Updated regularly. Comprised of approximately 300,000 digital images of visual material encompassing artistic and historical traditions across many time periods and cultures. Focuses on, but is not limited to, the arts. Includes architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design as well as many other forms of visual culture. Designed to be used by researchers in fields that do not traditionally use images as well as by art historians.
Can be searched by keyword, or, through the advanced search, by creator, title, location, repository, subject, material, style or period, work type, culture, description, technique, and number.
DASE (Liberal Arts Digital Archive SErvices)
Dates of coverage vary. (Liberal Arts ITS)
Updated daily. DASE is a collaborative digital media repository/search engine/slide show maker/rss feed creation tool. Material on this site may be used for educational purposes by current faculty, students, and staff of the University of Texas at Austin. Provides access to materials, licensed or otherwise, for which the copyright is held by owners other than the University of Texas at Austin.
Grove Art Online
Most current edition. (Grove)
Updated daily. Provides Web access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art (1996, 34 vols.) with annual additions of new material and updates to the text, plus extensive image links. Grove Art Online is an encyclopedia that covers the artistic traditions of the world's leading cultures, countries, cities, towns, and regions as well as important archaeological sites, monuments, and buildings. Includes over 45,000 signed articles on every aspect of the visual arts from prehistory through the present as well as over 40,000 web links to important art images in galleries and museums around the world and links to more than 100,000 color images from The Bridgeman Art Library . Both the fine arts (painting, sculpture, and architecture) and the decorative arts (ceramics, textiles, jewelry, interior design, furniture, glass, metalwork, and more) are included.
Linguistics Abstracts Online
1981 - present. (Blackwell)
Updated annually. Provides indexing and abstracting for more than 300 journals in linguistics studies. Its focus is the theory and practice of general linguistics, not the various applications of the subject, nor the descriptive or historical study of individual languages or dialects, unless the study bears on some general issue in linguistic theory. Topics includes European, North American, Chinese, Hebrew, Indian and Oceanic linguistics. Topics covered include: Comparative Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Educational Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Linguistics Historiography, Linguistic Theory, Mathematical Linguistics, Neurolinguistics, Phonetics, Phonology, Pragmatics, Psycholinguistics, Reading and Writing, Semantics, Sociolinguistics, Stylistics, Syntax and Morphology.
LLBA (Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts)
1973 - present. (CSA)
Updated five times a year. Contains more than 244,000 citations with abstracts to the world's published literature on the nature, use, and teaching of language as well as linguistics, speech, communication, and related topics. Includes citations to book reviews appearing in serials abstracted for the print Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts .
MLA International Bibliography
1963 - present. (EBSCO)
Updated ten times per year. Indexes critical materials on literature, criticism, drama, languages, linguistics, and folklore. Provides access to citations from over 3,700 journals, series, books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies. Produced by the Modern Language Association.
Periodicals Archive Online
1770 - 1995. (Chadwyck-Healey)
Formerly PCI Full Text. Updated annually. Indexes over 10.75 million articles in 3,142 journals. The scope is international and multi-disciplinary, including journals in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and other Western languages. Includes full image of over 350 journals and the archive will continue to grow each year.
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
1861 - present. (ProQuest)
Updated monthly. Contains more than 2 million doctoral dissertations and master's theses. Provides full text for many dissertations and theses, including most done after 1997. All subject areas are covered. The database includes more than 90 percent of the doctoral dissertations accepted each year in North America with selective coverage for other parts of the world. Each dissertation published since July 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. Only bibliographic citations are available for earlier years. More than 55,000 new citations are added to the database every year. Many dissertations from The University of Texas at Austin are included in the database, though theses from the University are only rarely included.
Miscellaneous
Style Guides
Citing the sources you used when writing a paper or other assignment helps to avoid plagiarism and allows others to quickly identify and locate your sources. Click the link above for some useful tools.
Citing II
As well as being a useful source for finding full bibliographic records for books, particuarly if we don't own a copy and you need to request an interlibrary loan, the database OCLC WorldCat cites just about every book ever written. Just click on the link not far below the title and you'll see various different style guide for citing the book. Copy and paste in the paper you are writing.
Peer Reviewed Journals
How do you know if a journal is peer reviewed? Sometimes it's obvious, but not always. We subscribe to a database called Ulrich’s Periodical Directory Online which tells you whether or not a journal is peer reviewed (or refereed as they call it). The symbol to let you know that the journal has been peer reviewed looks like this 
. Follow the link to read more about it.
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