CLASSICAL STUDIES
E-BOOK COLLECTIONS & DATABASES
The U.C. Library Catalog provides links within individual catalog records to Google Books and the Hathi Trust books. Additional full text books are available on the University of Cincinnati Libraries e-Books link that provides access to around 80 e-book collections and the Electronic Book Center (OhioLINK)
Emphasis on the ancient Near East. Indexes and provides access to e-books, websites, reports on archaeological sites, articles, etc. ETANA Core Texts are also available.
Humanities E-Book is an online collection of over 1500 books of high quality, covering most humanities disciplines and area studies. These are works of major importance, from 250 publishers, that remain vital to both scholars and advanced students, and are frequently cited in the literature. HEB now adds approximately 300 books annually to the collection. Titles come from 250 publishers and have been selected by eleven ACLS learned societies or reviewed by a panel of distinguished scholars. HEB currently works with nearly 80 university presses. Humanities E-Book was formerly known as the History E-Book Project.
Bible in English (Literature online)
Bibliotheca Teubneriana Latina
CLASS Reference CD-ROM Station
Center for Hellenic Studies (Harvard University) Online Books
Provides a wide range of reference materials—encyclopedias, dictionaries, etc.
Duke Database of Documentary Papyri (Perseus Project)
Dumbarton Oaks Online Publications
Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640), Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), and the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661). The Early English Books Tract Supplements will also be added to EEBO soon. Among the thousands of titles featured in EEBO are works by Malory, Bacon, More, Erasmus, Boyle, Newton, Galileo; musical exercises by Henry Purcell and novels by Aphra Behn; prayer books, pamphlets, and proclamations; almanacs, calendars, and many other primary sources.
Eighteenth Century Collection Online
The Eighteenth Century Collections Online provides access to the digital images of every page of 150,000 books published during the 18th Century. With full-text searching of approximately 33 million pages, the product allows researchers new methods of access to critical information in fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, and sermons to advertisements-and works by many well-known and lesser-known authors, all providing a diverse collection of material for the researcher of the eighteenth century. Included are works from women writers of the eighteenth century; collections on the French Revolution; and numerous editions of the works of Shakespeare. Multiple editions of each individual work are offered to enable scholars to make textual comparisons of the works
A developing site, “Europeana enables people to explore the digital resources of Europe's museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual collections. It promotes discovery and networking opportunities in a multilingual space where users can engage, share in and be inspired by the rich diversity of Europe's cultural and scientific heritage.”
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Collection of general reference titles
The U.C. Library Catalog features a Google Books icon on the catalog records for print editions of texts in the Google Books database. However, going directly to Google Books will provide access to full text for titles not owned by our Classics Library. Note that Google has not provided full text for all titles.
Google Books Ancient Greek and Latin Texts
This is about 1,000 works of Greek and Latin, primarily editions, for which Google has begun to make the full scans available. There are limitations because we have to establish the international public domain status for these works but the idea is to release a library of editions. The texts are restricted to authorized users within the United States. For authentication, you will be asked for the username and password of your Gmail account.
Jacoby, Felix. Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker
CLASS Reference CD-ROM Station
“Collection of and commentary on the fragments of 856 Greek historians whose works have survived only in fragmentary form. Includes over 12,000 fragments from sources going up to the Byzantine period.”
Latsis (John S.) Public Benefit Foundation
Electronic versions of the Museums series books that are produced for private distribution are available in the Electronic Library.
LDAB (Leuven Database of Ancient Books)
Library of Latin Texts (Early Christian and Classical authors. Cetedoc/CLCLT)
CLASS Reference CD-ROM Station
Literary Reference Center (EBSCOhost)
“...broad spectrum of reference information from antiquity to the present day. [It] combines information from over 1,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, hundreds of literary journals, and unique sources not available anywhere else. LRC contains detailed information on the most studied authors and their works ….”
Literature Online, is a fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 128 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources.
Individual titles are fully cataloged in the Library Catalog.
OhioLINK Electronic Book Center)
Online Medieval & Classical Library
Oxford Reference Online Premium
The Core Collection is a huge and comprehensive resource that contains over 100 dictionaries and reference titles covering the complete subject spectrum: including General Reference and Language and a Classics category.
Oxford Scholarship Online is a database that contains full-text of over 4,000 scholarly books, including titles in Classical Studies.
ZVDD Zentrales Verzeichnis Digitalisierter Drucke
The ZVDD is a project of the AG Sammlung Deutscher Drucke (SDD), the Verbundzentrale des Gemeinsamen Bibliotheksverbundes (VZG) and the Hochschul-Bibliothekszentrum (HBZ) and serves as a portal to free digitized scholarly materials from numerous German institutions, including Heidelberg University—among many others.
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