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For the most up-to-date list of databases, please go to the Find Database function of Brandeis Scholar.
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Key Databases

Arts & Humanities Citation Index (Web of Science)
Indexes over 1,000 scholarly journals from the arts and humanities. Unique feature allows access to the indexed articles' cited references (i.e. the bibliographies or reference list). Enables the researcher to see the relationships between the older cited references and the current work, 1975 to present
L'Année Philologique
Indexes publications covering all aspects of Greco-Roman antiquity. Based on L'Année Philologique print volumes 40-70. Supercedes the CD Database of Classical Bibliography and is used in conjunction with earlier printed volumes. Includes Greek and Latin language and linguistics, Greek and Roman history, literature, philosophy, religion, arts, mythology, music, science, archaeology, early Christian texts, papyrology, and epigraphy, 1969-1999
Perseus Digital Library (Fulltext resource)
Perseus is an evolving digital library. Chiefly concerned with Greco-Roman materials, it also has rich resources in Shakespeare and Marlowe, 19th-century London, and Pioneer Upper Midwest materials from the Library of Congress. The site is constantly evolving and being updated with new material

Additional Databases

Bibliotheca Teubneriana Latina (Fulltext resource)
Available at Goldfarb Reserve Desk - Use in Goldfarb Cluster Only
Database of approximately 500 complete Latin literary texts spanning eight centuries (c. 300 BCE to c. 500 CE), complementing the CETEDOC database of Christian Latin texts
CETEDOC (Fulltext resource)
Available at Goldfarb Reserve Desk - Use in Goldfarb Cluster Only
Database of Christian Latin texts from the late second century to the fifteenth century
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