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    Classics Resources Guide

    This guide provides you with easy access to classics and related resources. Use the tabs towards the top of the page to go to the relevant section. Please contact me if you need further assistance, I'm here to help!

    To find sources for journal and newspaper articles in print and online, select the Articles/Databases tab.  If you have a citation and need to know if the library subscribes to the journal, search the title on the journals page (http://library.gc.cuny.edu/home.php?q=jour#journals).

    To search for print and electronic books select the 'Books' tab

    To search archival collections and primary source databases select the 'Primary Sources' tab

    For information on bibliographic citation styles and citation managers such as Zotero select the 'Citing Sources' tab

    For information on grants and fellowship opportunities select the 'Funding' tab

    Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, etc.

    • Aristotle Bibliography  
        
      Bibliography of more than 50,000 books, articles, book reviews, and disserations dealing with Aristotle and related topics from 1900 to the present.
    • Cambridge Histories Online  
        
      250 Cambridge University Press reference works published since 1960. Titles include: Ancient History; Economic History of Europe; History of Classical Literature; History of Early Christian Literature; History of Literary Criticism; History of Hellenistic Philosophy; History of Philosophy in Late Antiquity; and History of Political Thought.
    • Gale Virtual Reference Library  
        
      Reference books published by Gale, Brill Academic, Cambridge University Press, Elsevier, Greenwood, Sage, Salem Press, Wiley, and others. Titles include: Ancient Greece; Classical Rhetorics and Rhetoricians: Critical Studies and Sources; Ancient Europe, 8000 BC to AD 1000; Early Civilizations: Prehistoric Times to 500 C.E.; Gale Gale Encyclopedia of World History: Governments; Gale Encyclopedia of World History: War; and Women in World History.
    • Humanities International Complete  
        
      Indexes reference works.
    • Nineteenth Century Masterfile  
        
      Also known as Poole's Plus, this database includes over eight million citations to periodical articles, books, patents, and American and British government documents before 1925.
    • Oxford Bibliographies Online  
        
      Bibliographies in classics and philosophy.
    • Oxford English Dictionary  
        
      The complete contents of the second edition of The Oxford English Dictionary.
    • Oxford Handbooks Online  
        
      Various Oxford handbook titles dealing with philosophy and religion.
    • Oxford Language Dictionaries Online  
        
      Translations of over 2,000 French, German, Italian, and Spanish words and phrases.
    • Oxford Reference Online
      More than 100 Oxford University Press reference works. titles include: Companion to Classical Civilization; Companion to Classical Literature; Who's Who in the Classical World; Pocket Oxford Latin Dictionary; Dictionary of the Classical World; Dictionary of World History; Dictionary of World Mythology; Companion to World Mythology; Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church; and Companion to Philosophy.

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