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Online Databases and Indexes

Bibliographic Tools for Classical Philology

Major Indexes

L'Année philogique: Bibliographie critique et analytique de l'antiquité gréco-latine (APh, Marouzeau) Stacks Z7016 .M35A 1925-2006
L'Année philologique on the Internet (Société Internationale de Bibliographie Classique with the APA and Database of Classical Bibliography) 1949-2006
http://libproxy.wustl.edu/login?url=http://www.annee-philologique.com/aph/

Marouzeau J.Dix années de bibliographie classique (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1927) 2 vols. Ref. Z7016 .M35 1914-1924
Lambrino, S. Bibliographie de l'antiquité classique , 1896-1914 (Paris: Les Belles Lettres) vol. 1 only Stacks Z7016 L3. 1896-1914
Cousin, Jean. Bibliographie de la langue latine, 1880-1948. (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1951) Stacks Z7026 C6 1880-1948

The most comprehensive index of classical studies, it's published in an annual volume and also available online as a searchable database. It covers both books and periodicals, indexing individual contributions to Festschriften and other collective works as well as articles and book reviews. Brief abstracts in French, German, or English are provided for articles. The online version currently includes material from the 1949 (Vol. 20) to the most recent volume (v. 77 indexing publications from 2006.)

L'Annee is supplemented by Marouzeau's Dix années de bibliographie classique, which covers the decade (1914-1924) before the inception of L'Annee.Lambrino's Bibliographie was intended to extend this coverage further back, to where Klussman's Bibliotheca Scriptorum Classicorumstops (1896, see below). However, only the first volume dealing with ancient authors and omitting many important bibliographic details was completed. For the period, Bursian's Jahresbericht also needs to be consulted (see below). Cousin's more narrowly focused Bibliographie largely duplicates the coverage of L'Annee and Dix Annees, but includes earlier material.

Gnomon: Kritische Zeitschrift für die Gesamte klassiche Altertumwissenschaft (1925-) Stacks PA3 .G6 and Current Periodicals
Gnomon Online: The Eichstätt Information System for Classical Studies 2005(?)-
http://www.gnomon.ku-eichstaett.de/Gnomon/en/Gnomon.html
Primarily a review journal, odd-numbered issues include a Bibliographische Beilage which lists recent publications (books and articles in journals and collections, and sometimes from reference works) in a thematic classification. While not as comprehensive as L'Annee and without abstracts, it is much more current and a useful source of information on new publications. It's subject classification is also much more precise than that of L'Annee. An index to Gnomon, with additional material, is periodically released on CD-Rom, part of which, including everything after 2005, is available freely-online. Gnomon Online is updated weekly, and while it also can be a bit difficult to search efficiently, it is a much more current than L'Annee.


TOCS-IN: Tables of Contents of Journals of Interest to Classicists
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/amphoras/tocs.html
A volunteer project based at the University of Toronto and the Université Catholique du Louvain that provides online access to the table of contents of Classics and related journals, including religious and ancient-near-eastern studies, and some collective works. No abstracts are provided and subject-indexing is minimal; however links are provided to further information and/or full-text resources when available. While coverage begins in 1992 or earlier, it is most useful for current awareness.

Before 1700:
Fabricius, Johann Albert. Bibliotheca Graecae (Hildesheim : Olms, 1966-1970; Reprint of the Hamburg ed., 1790-1809). 12 vols. Stacks Z7021 F1 1966
idem. Bibliotheca latina mediae et infimae aetatia   (Graz: Akademische 1962 reprint ) 6 volumes in 3.  Stacks Z7026 F13 1858a
Extensive bibliographic handbooks on Greek and Latin literature. Arranged largely chronologically. Partially digitized texts of both titles are available from Documenta Catholica Omnia http://www.documentacatholicaomnia.eu/25_90_1668-1736-_Fabricius_JA.html

15th Century to 1820
Dibdin, Thomas Frognall. An introduction to the knowledge of rare and valuable editions of the Greek and Latin classics 4th edition. (London: Harding and Lepard, 1827) Rare Books Reference Z7016 D54 1827
Important source of bibliographic information for early printed editions of classical texts.
Volume 1 from the Internet Archive http://www.archive.org/details/introductiontokn01dibd
Volume 2 from the Internet Archive http://www.archive.org/details/introductiontokn02dibd

1700-1878  
Engelmann, Wilhelm. ed. Bibliotheca Scriptorum Classicorum 8. Aufl., umfassend die Literatur von 1700 bis 1878, neu bearb. Dr. von E. Preuss (Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 1880-1882). 2 vols. Stacks PA29 E6 1700-1878
Volume 1 (Greek) in Hathi Trust Digital Library http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015034801962
Volume 2 (Latin) in Hathi Trust Digital Library http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015011035675
Primary bibliography of philological publications of the 17th and 18th century.

1878-1896  
Klussmann, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Classicorum et Graecorum et Latinorum (Leipzig: Reisland, 1909-1913) 2 vols in 4. Not held by WashU

Halton, Thomas P. & Stella O'Leary. Classical Scholarship: An Annotated Bibliography (White Plains, N.Y. : Kraus International, c1986) Olin Reference Z6207 C65 H34 1986
Annotated bibliography of reference works and some monographic publications.

Jenkins, Fred. W. Classical Studies: A Guide to the Reference Literature 2nd. ed. (Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited, 2006.) Olin Reference Z7016 .J4 2006
Most up-to-date guide for Classical reference works (broadly considered).

Abbreviations

Wellington, Jean Susorney. Dictionary of Bibliographic Abbreviations Found in the Scholarship of Classical Studies and Related Disciplines (Greenwood Press, 1983) Olin Reference  PA 99 W 44 1983

Rounds, Dorothy. Articles on antiquity in Festschriften, an index (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1962) Olin Z6202 R6

Pinax Online: An Annotated List of Web Bibliographies on the Ancient Greek World
http://perswww.kuleuven.be/~u0013314/pinaxonline.html
In addition to the online bibliographies mentioned above, many more-specialized bibliographies are available online. These are of varying provenance and quality. Pinax, maintained by Marc Huys at the Catholic University of Leuven is a decent guide to such bibliographies for ancient Greece.

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