Below is a list of key databases and eJournal collections in your subject. They will either provide you with the full text of the journal or they will give you the bibliographic details of an article. If we have access to this item on another one of our subscriptions you will see the 'find@newcastle' option next to the item. Follow this link to find out if we have the full text available.
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L'Année philologiqueClassical bibliography database, indexing scholarly publications about the classical world, going back to 1924. Updated several times a year.
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BCIN ConservationThe Web's most complete bibliographic resource for the conservation, preservation and restoration of cultural property.
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Historical AbstractsHistorical Abstracts is a complete reference guide to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada). This authoritative database provides indexing of more than 2,300 academic historical journals in over 40 languages.
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JSTORJSTOR offers full text, online access to scholarly journals, books and book chapters in the arts, humanities, business, and social sciences, as well as the natural and life sciences. It also includes primary sources focusing primarily in the humanities and social sciences. You can search by subject, title or publisher. Alternatively, you can upload a document to the ‘text analyser’ tool, which identifies the most significant topics in your document and then recommends similar content on JSTOR.
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Literature Online (LION)With over a third of a million full-text works of poetry, prose and drama in English, together with the definitive online criticism and reference library, Literature Online is the world's largest cross-searchable database of literature and criticism. It includes the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL).
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ScopusScopus is a large, multidisciplinary database, which indexes peer reviewed journal articles, books, book chapters, conference proceedings and trade publications. It provides cited reference searching, so you can navigate forward and backward through the literature to uncover all the information relevant to your research and set up citation alerts. Other useful tools include citation overviews, author and affiliation searching, visual analysis of search results and a journal analyser and author identifier tools (if you are interested in publishing work).
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Tables of Contents of Journals of Interest to ClassicistsProvides the tables of contents of a selection of Classics, Near Eastern Studies, and Religion journals. Where possible, links are given with articles of which the full text or an abstract is available online (about 15%).
All databases should have a help section with tips and tricks on how to get the best out of using them, so do make yourself familiar with them. You also may find the following helpful:
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Scopus supportHelp and support on how to access and use Scopus.
Please note, the Classical Studies bibliography, L'Année philologique, changed suppliers in January 2018, and will be provided by Brepols from now on.
The new version contains the same content, and has similar search options to the old version. One major enhancement is that you should now be able to link directly to the full text of online journal articles (where we have access to them): look for 'External links' at the bottom of any record you find.
When searching for modern authors, simply type the author's name in the 'author' box. When searching for ancient authors (e.g. Ovid) or ancient texts, type the name in the 'ancient author and text' box. You can then select the correct form of the author or text name from the drop-down list which appears on screen.
Choose advanced search for the full range of search options, and click the question mark symbol next to any search field to get more search tips.
Try Google Scholar for finding scholarly literature on the internet. Google Scholar is particularly good at finding Open Access (freely accessible) scholarly information but a great deal of important literature is still only available through the databases and electronic journals to which the Library subscribes. You should, therefore, use Google Scholar in addition to (and not instead of) our databases and electronic journals.
