FYS 251: Library Research

Research:

The places you will look depend on the type of question you pose, but all research papers require that you consider primary evidence and secondary scholarship:
Primary Evidence:
- Perseus:
- Ancient History Source Book:
- The Internet Classics Archive
- Google Searches

Secondary Scholarship: Database/Indexes (think about search terms before you start!)
- Gnomen
- TOCS-IN
- Ingenta
- JSTOR
- L'Annee Philologique/Database of Classical Bibloiography
  - DCB - cd-rom
  - L'Anne Philologique

Web Gateway pages
- The Library of Congress Classics Alcove
- TLG's Electronic Resources for Classicists
- Jim O'Donnell's web page (early Christian, late classical)
- Diotima (women in antiquity)
- VROMA
- Ancient World Web
- LacusCurtius
- Google (Danger Will Robinson!)
Encyclopaedia
- Britannica
- Paully-Wissowa; der Neue Paully
- ANRW (Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt)
- Princeton Encyclopaedia of Classical Sites
- "Blue Guides"

Books

Criteria for evaluation:
- language
- date
- reviews
- topicality
- quality (especially for web sites)

Annotated Bibliographies as a research tool

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