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Academic Search Premier: A multi-disciplinary index to periodicals that covers over 8,000 scholarly and popular periodicals, and includes full-text for more than 4,500 of these. Designed specifically for academic institutions, ASP spans most areas of study. Coverage varies, but most titles begin in the late 1980's and early 1990's.
L'annee philologique: Contains citations and abstracts covering all aspects of Greco-Roman antiquity. Covers ancient Greek and Latin language and linguistics, Greek and Roman history, literature, philosophy, art, archaeology, religion, mythology, music, science, early Christian texts, numismatics, papyrology, and epigraphy from the second millenium BC through the early middle ages (c 500-800 AD). Material comes from over 1500 periodicals, plus essay collections and conference proceedings. Coverage is from 1959 to the present.
NOTE: Contact a Reference Librarian to use this database.
JSTOR: Full-text back files of core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. JSTOR includes several journals in classical studies.
NOTE: coverage varies by title, but the most recent 2-5 years is not available.
OmniFile Full Text Mega: Collection of Wilson full-text databases, including Humanities Full Text, a good resource for finding scholarly journal articles. Indexing begins in 1984; full-text of selected articles in 1995.

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Arts & Humanities Citation Index: An international interdisciplinary index to the literature of the arts and humanities. Although this is a citation database, there are links to Centre's e-journal holdings to locate the full text if available. Coverage is from 1980 to the present.
Essay and General Literature Index: Indexes essays and articles contained in collections of essays and miscellaneous works published in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. Subject coverage includes criticism of literary works, drama, and film. Coverage is from 1985 to the present.
Grove Art Online (now Oxford Art Online): Electronic version of the most comprehensive English language art encyclopedia. The articles range from brief entries to articles of several hundred pages, each accompanied by scholarly bibliographies. All aspects of the visual arts are covered, including painting, sculpture, architecture, graphic and decorative arts, and photography, from prehistory to the present.
Oxford Reference Online: Classics: Offers complete content of more than 125 titles from Oxford University Press. The collection includes dictionaries, encyclopedias, and reference works in more than 20 subject areas, including classical studies. Sources can be searched collectively or searched within an individual title.
Project Muse: Collection of full-text journals in the humanities and social sciences including coverage of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and economics.

Last updated August 28, 2008