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ONLINE MONOGRAPHS

Archaeopress: Greece (on campus, once you click on a title you will need to click on the PDF eBook (Institutional Use) Download option on the far right-hand side of the page). 
Archaeopress: Greece (off campus, click on Digital Subscriptions then Browse Library collection [located in the orange bar]).
Biblioteca Digitale Italiana
Bibliotheca Palatina
European Library
Gallica
Google Books (see also Greek and Latin Texts in Google)
HathiTrust
Internet Archive
Internet Culturale: Cataloghi e collezioni digitali delle biblioteche Italiane/Biblioteca Online Books Page (UPenn)
Torrossa Online Digital Library (Italian imprints in archaeology and classical studies; read online or download--the latter requires Acrobat Reader as the default .pdf reader. When a user reads or downloads an ebook in the database, a purchase of permanent access is generated).
Vatican Library Digital Collections
Zentrales Verzeichnis Digitalisierter Drucke

Open Access Monographic Series in Classics (AWOL)

For other ebook and ejournal collections in multiple disciplines to which UC subscribes, see Databases and E-journals in alphabetical order. 

ONLINE JOURNALS

JSTOR
Project Muse

Open Access Classics Journals (AWOL)
Open Access 
Classics Student Journals (AWOL)

ONLINE ENCYCLOPEDIAS

Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics
Oxford Classical Dictionary
 (3rd rev. ed.)
Oxford Classical Dictionary (5th ed.)
Oxford Reference Shelf (Who's Who in the Classical WorldDictionary Plus Classical Studies, Grove Encyclopedia of Classical Art and Architecture, Oxford Classical Dictionary (4th and 5th eds.), Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization (2nd ed.), Oxford Companion to Classical Literature (3rd ed.), Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World, Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome, Oxford Pocket Latin Dictionary (3rd ed.)  
Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft

ONLINE TEXT EDITIONS

Bibliotheca Teubneriana Latina
Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries
Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
Digital Scholarly Editions 
Loeb Classical Library
Loeb Classical Library 
(open access)
Oxford Classical Texts

NB: You can find additional important ancient text databases and indexes in Classics under "Databases" further down on this page.

ONLINE CORPORA

Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum
Corpus Medicorum Graecorum/Latinorum
Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum
Inscriptiones Graecae
PHI Latin Texts
Thesaurus Linguae Graecae

ONLINE INDEXES

Année Philologique
DYABOLA

ONLINE CATALOGS

UC Library Catalog 
WorldCat

Please also note that you can place Interlibrary Loan (ILL) requests for materials not owned by UC through the ILLiad system: Log on to ILLiad.  You can also place requests through OhioLink for items not owned by UC, but also for items currently checked out. 

ONLINE CHECKLISTS

Epigraphy (Peter van Minnen, May 2022; reflects the holdings of the Burnam Library)
Papyrology (Peter van Minnen, May 2022; reflects the holdings of the Burnam Library)
Papyri.info (checklists of editions of Greek, Latin, Demotic, and Coptic Papyri, Ostraca, and Tablets)

ONLINE PAPERS

Academia.edu
Google Scholar
Internet Archive Scholar (BETA version)

ONLINE ABBREVIATIONS

Abbreviations for Materials in Classics
Oxford Classical Dictionary, 4th ed.

Open Access Classics Journals (AWOL)
Open Access 
Classics Student Journals (AWOL)

Acme: Annali della Facoltà di lettere e filosofia dell'Università degli studi di Milano (2013-present)
Aevum: rassegna di scienze storiche linguistiche e filologiche
 (1927-2000)
American Journal of Archaeology (1897-2017); current
American Journal of Philology 
(1996-present; 1880-2017)
American School of Classical Studies: Annual Reports 
(1881-present)
Analecta Bollandiana 
(1882-present)
Anatolian Studies (1951-2019); current
Annual of the British School at Athens (1894- 2019;   2008-present)
Annuario della Scuola archeologica di Atene (1914-present)
Antiquité tardive (1993-present)
Antiquités africaines (2016-present)
Archaeology (1948-)
Archaiologikon deltion (1888-1892; 1915-1926)
Archäologisch-epigraphische mitteilungen aus Österreich (1877-1897)
Archäologischer Anzeiger (2008-present)
Archiv für Papyrusforschung (1995-present)
Arheološki vestnik (1999-present)
Arethusa (1996-present)
Arion (1962-present)
Athenaeum (1913-2000)
Atti della Accademia nazionale dei Lincei (1813, 1976-77, 1902, 1907)
Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission 
(1908-1910, 1912-1913, 1916-1918, 1920-1923, 1925, 1927-1934, 1936-1943, 1951-1954, 1948-1960, 1996-2001, 2003-2006, 2013-2020)
Bibliothèque des Écoles Françaises d'Athènes et de Rome 
(1973-1999)
Bollettino d'arte 
(1907-1920, 1948-1968, 1972-2002)
Britannia 
(1970-)
Bryn Mawr Classical Review 
(1990-present)
Bulletin archéologique du Comité des Travaux Historiques et Scientifiques 
(1883-1928, 1930, 1934, 1936, 1938, 1941, 1942, 1946, 1950)  
Bulletin de correspondance hellénique (1877-2014, supplements are also included)
Bullettino della Commissione archeologica communale di Roma (1872-1930)
Byzantinische Zeitschrift 
(1892-1926)
Cahiers du Centre Gustave Glotz 
(1991-2018)
Chiron (1971-)
Classical Antiquity (1982-2020;  2001-present
Classical Bulletin (1925-)
Classics Ireland (1994-)
Classical Journal (1905-present)
Classical Philology (
1906-1926; 2003-present)
Classical Quarterly (2001-present)
Classical Review (
1887-2018;  1998-present)
Classical World (
1957-2016;  2005-present)
Collection de l’Ecole Française de Rome (1965-2009)
Comptes rendus des séances - Académie des inscriptions & belles-lettres (1857-)
Cuadernos de Filología Clásica (1971-1990)
Cuadernos de Filología Clásica : Estudios griegos e indoeuropeos (1991-present)
Cuadernos de Filología Clásica : Estudios latinos (1991-present)
Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-Historische Classe (1850-1920)
Didaskalia (1994-present)
Dike: Rivista di storia del diritto greco ed ellenistico (2011-present)
Eidola : international journal of Classical Art History (2004-present)
Études Classiques (2002-present)
Fasti Online -- Italy, Excavations (2004-present)
Fasti Online -- Archaeological Surveys (2013-present)
Gallia (1943-1944, 1946-2022; 2015-)
Gerión (1983-present)
Gnomon (1925-)
Göttinger Forum für Altertumswissenschaft (1998-present)
Greece & Rome (
1931-2018;  2001-present
Greek and Roman Musical Studies (2017-present)
Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies (1958-present)
Gymnasium (2008-present)
Harvard Studies in Classical Philology (1890-)
Hermes (
1866-20191866-)
Hesperia (1932-present)
Hesperia. Supplements (1937-) 
Historia : Zeitschrift für alte Geschichte (1950-) 
Illinois Classical Studies (1976-)
Jahrbuch für Antike und Christentum (2001-2006, 2008, 2010, 2019)
Jahreshefte des Österreichischen Archäologischen Institutes in Wien (1898-1929, 2002-2009
Journal des Savants (1909-)
Journal of Hellenic Studies (
1880-2020;  2007-present)
Journal of Roman Archaeology (2013-present)
Journal of Roman Studies (
1911-2020;  2005-present)
Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institute (1939-)  
Kernos (1988-present)
Klio (1901-1913, 1915, 1918, 1920-1923, 1925-1927, 1929-1940, 1942, 1944, 1960-)
Leeds International Classical Studies (2002-2013)
Logeion (2011-)
Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici (2003-present)
Mélanges d'archéologie et d'histoire (1881-1916, 1918, 1920, 1923-1929, 1931-1934, 1940)
Mélanges de l'Ecole française de Rome. Antiquité (1881-2009; 2010-present)
Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome (1915-present)
Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome: Supplements (2002-)
Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin (1905-)
Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts. Athenische Abteilung (1876-1903, 1910-1912, 1915-1925)
Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts. Römische Abteilung (1886-1925) 
Mnemosyne (1948-present)
Museum helveticum (1944-)
Nestor (1957-present)
New England Classical Journal (2013-present)
New Voices in Classical Reception Studies (2006-present)
Numen (1954-)
Orizzonti : rassegna di archeologia (2002-present)
Papers of the British School at Rome (2008-present)
Phoenix (1946-)
Phronesis (1955-)
Poiesis : bibliografia della poesia greca (2003-2005, 2008-2021)
Ramus (2012-present)
Renaissance News (1948-1966)
Renaissance Quarterly (
1967-)
Rendiconti della Reale Accademia dei Lincei, Classe di scienze morali, storiche e filologiche (1892-1893, 1895-1896, 1898-1903, 1905-1910, 1913-1914, 1916-1920)
Revue archéologique (1944-)
Revue de philologie, de littérature et d'histoire anciennes (2001-)
Revue des études anciennes (1899-)
Revue des études grecques (1888-)
Rheinisches Museum für Philologie (1832-)
Rivista di filologia e di istruzione classica (1873-1944, 1946-2000)
Römischen Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts (2021-)
Studi e materiali di storia delle religioni (1925-present)
Studia Humaniora Tartuensia (2000-2013)
Symbolae osloenses (1997-present)
Syria (1920-) 
Tekmēria (1995-present)
Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association (1869-1896)
Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association (1897-1972)
TAPA (
1974-2014;  2000-present)
Vigiliae Christianae (1947-)
Wiener Beiträge zur Alten Geschichte (2019-)
Wiener Studien (2004-present)
Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik (1967-)

l'Annee Philologique, Classics database

Acta Sanctorum
Année Philologique 
Bibliotheca Teubneriana Latina (BTL)
Brill's Companion to Ancient Greek Scholarship
Brill's Greek and Latin Literature 
Brill's New Pauly
Brill's New Pauly, Supplements I
Brill's New Pauly, Supplements II
Cambridge Ancient History
Cambridge Companions to the Ancient World
Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
Cambridge History of Classical Literature
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (CIL)
(a few digitized vols.). (See also, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (CIL) (scanned images of vols. I-XVII of editio maior, minus copyrighted parts and fascicles)
Corpus Medicorum Graecorum/Latinorum
Corpus Medicorum Graecorum -- Supplementum Orientale
Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum (CVA) 
(open access, searchable images, not complete)
Dāmos (open access, Linear B corpus)
Dictionary of Classical Greek Quotations
DYABOLA
Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics
Gnomon 
(bibliographic database with review references, open access)
Google Books 
(open access)
Google Scholar 
(open access, articles)
Griechischen christlichen Schriftsteller der ersten Jahrhunderte (GCS) (much open access, but not all)
HathiTrust 
(some open access; much is accessible and downloadable for UC)
Inscriptiones Graecae (IG) 
(open access, see also, PHI's Searchable Greek Inscriptions)
Internet Archive (open access)
Itinera Electronica Greek (open access, word frequencies and attestations in authors, full text)
Itinera Electronica Latin 
(open access) 
Jacoby Online
JSTOR
Library of Latin Texts
LIMC-France 
(open access, searchable images of Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae, not complete)
Loeb Classical Library
Musisque deoque 
(open access, Latin poetry)
Nestor 
(Aegean bibliography)
Open Greek & Latin 
(open access, see also, First 1000 Years of Greek) 
Oxford Bibliographies
Oxford Classical Texts (OCT)
Oxford Handbooks
Patrologia Graeca
Patrologia Graeca
(open access, Roger Pearse)
Patrologia Latina
Perseus Digital Library 
(open access, literary texts and artifacts)
PHI Latin Texts 
(open access)
Project Muse
SigLA
(open access, Linear A corpus) 
Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG)
Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL)
Tesserae (open access, intertextual phrase and word searches, Greek and Latin)
Torrossa Online Digital Library (Italian imprints in archaeology and classical studies; read online or download--the latter requires Acrobat Reader as the default .pdf reader. When a user reads or downloads an ebook in the database, a purchase of permanent access is generated).
Wiley-Blackwell Companions
Zenon DAI (open access, the OPAC of the DAI, much overlap with the commercial non-DAI database Dyabola, but not entirely)

Brill's Greek lexicon

Albanian (Albanian-English, English-Albanian, Lexilogos)
English-Greek (Ancient, Woodhouse)
French (Pocket Oxford, UC authentication)
German (Pocket Oxford, UC authentication)
German (PONS)
German (dict.cc, English-German)
German (linguee.com)
Greek (Ancient, Brill, UC authentication)  
Greek (Ancient, to/from English, French, German, Spanish, Lexilogos)
Greek (Ancient, to/from Italian, Glosbe)
Greek (Modern, Lexilogos)
Greek (Modern, Triantafyllidis)
Italian (Pocket Oxford, UC authentication)
Latin (TLL, UC authentication)
Latin (OCD now as a widget, see video instructions)
Latin (Pocket Oxford Latin-English, UC authentication)
Latin (Pocket Oxford English-Latin, UC authentication)
Russian (Russian-English, Lexilogos)
Russian (English-Russian, Cambridge)
Spanish (Pocket Oxford, UC authentication)
Turkish (Turkish-English, English-Turkish, Lexilogos)

UC Library Catalog

UC Library Catalog (Books+) (open access, use this advanced search module for the easiest and most focused way to locate materials in the Classics Library)
OhioLINK 
Interlibrary Loan (ILLIAD) 
WorldCat (catalog of libraries worldwide)
Library of Congress Classification System
Greek Transliteration in the UC Library Catalog
Pay Library Fines
My Library Record
UC Campus Map
Online Access FAQ
(by the CCM Library) 
Canopy & Canvas
Catalyst
Meta (formerly Facebook)
Instagram
X (formerly Twitter)
Wordpress

Guides & Tours

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These resources offer links to both printed and electronic items, many open access, digitized materials by the classics library, and tours. Please contact the classics librarian for help using these or to recommend additional resources. 
lindaura@ucmail.uc.edu

Classical Studies: Sources 
Useful Links in Classics
Digitized Modern Greek Journals 
(19th century, by the Burnam Library)
Digitized Choir Psalter 
(15th century, by the Burnam Library)
Digitized Venetian Legal Manuscripts (13th-18th century, by the Burnam Library)
Digitized Mediterranean Maps (20th century, requires UC authentication, by East View)
JSTOR (Burnam Library Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments, by the Burnam Library)
JSTOR (Historical Modern Greek Journals, by the Burnam Library)
Fragmentarium.ms (Burnam Library Manuscript Fragments, by the Burnam Library) 
Interactive 3D Library Tour 

Virtual Department Tour 
Virtual Library Tour


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Contact & Address

Homer as seen in mirror in the Reading Room

The John Miller Burnam Classics Library
417 Blegen Library Building
2602 University Circle 
Cincinnati, OH  45221-0191
Email: 
braunlml@ucmail.uc.edu (Mike Braunlin, collections)
morri4ju@ucmail.uc.edu (Julie Morris, circulation)
shionoyo@mail.uc.edu (Yo Shionoya, web, libguides, blog)
Phone: 513-556-1315 (circulation desk)