Free Online Resources

General

Directory of Open Access Books
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Directory of Open Access Journals
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JSTOR
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Google Scholar
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Other Free Online Sources
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WorldCat
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Internet Archive
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“Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.”
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Hathi Trust
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Large Open Access online library. 

Anthropology

Anthropology Collections Database, the California Academy of Sciences, Institute for Biodiversity, Science, and Sustainability
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Anthropology Resources, American Anthropological Association
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The Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (RAI)
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The Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (RAI) is the world’s longest-established scholarly association dedicated to the furtherance of anthropology in its broadest and most inclusive sense.

Archaeology

Abbreviations of Frequently Cited Works in Archaeology 
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List of abbreviations for journals, series, lexica and frequently cited works in the field of archaeological and Classical studies. From the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (DAI).

Archäologische Literatur — digital, UB Heidelberg 
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Within its special subject collection Classical Archaeology the University Library of Heidelberg holds an extensive collection of archaeological literature of the 16th through the early 20th century. Many of these works are now digitized and available on the Internet.

Archivio di Documentazione Archeologica (ADA)
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Archaeological Data Archives of the Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Roma Palazzo Altemps. This offers “Giornali di scavo” of the superintendency until the late 1930s. It further holds many archaeological archives, so it is useful if you study a specific excavation or geographic area and are interested in new finds, projects, etc.

British Museum Collection Database
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British Museum Online Research Catalogues  
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Access to digital catalogs of the British Museum’s collections, among others, “Naukratis: Greeks in Egypt” and “Roman Republican Coins”.

Capitoline Museums Collections
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Searchable database of many digitized images.

Corpus of Ancient Sarcophagi
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The Corpus of Ancient Sarcophagi was determined for collection and publication of sarcophagi of the Roman Empire by the DAI (German Archaeological Institute) in 1870. In cooperation with the DAI, the CoDArchLab (Arachne) takes part in the re-conception of the Corpus of Ancient Sarcophagi.

Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum — CVA online
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This resource contains approximately 250 out-of-print volumes of the CVA in a searchable digital format. New fascicles may be added at the discretion of the publishing museums.

Digital Karnak
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From UCLA.

Encyclopedia of Egyptology
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Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA.

Fasti Online: A Database of Archaeological Excavations since 2000
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Fasti Online provides a searchable database of archaeological excavations since the year 2000.

Instrumentum
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Instrumentum is a working-group that comprises of scholars interested in the crafts and industries of ancient Europe and the Mediterranean. The chronological scope covers the European Iron Age and the eras of Greek and Roman civilization, with some overlap into the late Bronze Age and the early Middle Ages.

Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC)
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Access to the digital resources of the LIMC on ancient iconography: The LIMCicon contains data relating to Greco-Roman monuments and documents. LIMCbiblio contains bibliographic data to complete the bibliographies published in the LIMC volumes.

National Archaeological Museum of Florence: A Digital Archive for the Aegean Collections (DBAS-ACF)
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Nestor: Bibliography of Aegean Prehistory and Related Areas
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Ostia Forum Project
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This is the Website of the ongoing excavations and surveys at Ostia carried out by a team of archaeologists and scientists at the Humboldt-Universität (Berlin) and the continuation of the joint Web blog of the Kent-Berlin-Ostia excavations since 2008, in cooperation with the Superintendency of Rome. Contains much data and up-to-date information regarding Ostia.

Platner’s A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome
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Oxford University Press, 1929.

Pompei: Open Data Grande Progetto Pompei
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Provided by the Soprintendenza Speciale Beni Archeologici Pompei–Ercolano–Stabia. The Project itself aims at the protection and enhancement of the Pompeii Archaeological Area. Its official Website offers much data and several downloadable documents related to the ancient towns in the Vesuvio area.

Prosopographia Imperii Romani
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The official searchable database of “Prosopographia Imperii Romani,” provided by the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften.

Rome: Archaeological Data Archives
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A.D.A. (Archivio di Documentazione Archeologica — Archaeological Data Archives), developed in and by the Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Roma, gives access to document sources on Roman archaeology and history, in particular the excavations in the city of Rome during the 19th and early 20th centuries. The “Giornali degli scavi” archival documents, 1873-1935, are fully digitized and accessible online.

The Last Statues of Antiquity
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The ‘Last Statues of Antiquity’ project (University of Oxford, R.R.R. Smith & Bryan Ward-Perkins) investigates all evidence for new statuary 280–650, as well as the slow decline (and eventual end) of ancient statue-making. The aim of the project is to document and examine the remarkable changes in the way statues were used in Late Antiquity, in the context of contemporary historical and cultural developments.

Vedute di Roma
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Photographs of many sites (ancient and later) in Rome.

ZENON (Systematik der Archäologischen Bibliographie, DAI)
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DAI’s bibliographic database for archaeology.

Archaeology and Ancient Studies: Journals dies

Ancient World Online (AWOL)

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A list of links to open access journals in ancient studies (and also many other links).

Annals de l’Institut d’Estudis Empordanesos

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Aquila legionis

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Aristonothos. Scritti per il Mediterraneo antico

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Arkeoloji Dergisi

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BiASA Periodici Italiani Digitalizzati

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Bollettino di Archeologia

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Caesaraugusta

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Complutum

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Cuadernos de Arqueologia Mediterránea

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Empúries

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Etruscan News

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Fornvännen: Digital Upplaga

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Fòrum: temes d’història i d’arqueologia tarragonines

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Herakleion

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Iberia: Revista de la Antigüedad

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Journal of Open Archaeology Data

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Lucentum 

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MEFRA: Mélanges de l’École Française de Rome

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1881-1999

Mètis: Anthropologie des mondes grecs anciens

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PCA — European Journal of Post-Classical Archaeologies  

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The European Journal of Post-Classical Archaeologies (PCA) is an independent, international, peer-reviewed journal devoted to the communication of post-classical research.

Persée

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A large number of open access journals, several of which are French core journals in various disciplines.

Portugalia

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Radiocarbon

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Revista portuguesa de arqueologia 

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TOCS-IN 

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Tables of contents to classics journals plus a few journals dealing with the Near East and Egypt, and the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

Treballs d’arqueologia 

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Art and Architecture

ArtCyclopedia
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Searchable encyclopedia for artists, works, and museums.

Arthistoricum.net
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Searchable database for the whole subject spectrum of Art History, from the Early Christian era to the present.

Art History Resources
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Art resources for every chronological period and geographic area.

ArtSource
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Lists of Art and Architecture programs, Art and Architecture libraries, exhibitions, projects, events, etc.

ARTtheses
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A database offering a survey of international research projects in art history.

Classical Art Research Center and the Beazley archive

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Offers a large collection of images of ancient figure-decorated pottery.

Contemporary Artists
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This commercial database is one of many online sources for contemporary artists.

International Foundation for Art Research (IFAR), Catalogues Raisonnés
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Antonio Asprucci Architectural Drawings for the Villa Borghese, ca. 1770–ca. 1793
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From the Getty Research Institute. Over 50 architectural drawings and designs prepared for the conversion of the Villa Borghese into a museum.

ART-Guide: Sammlung kunsthistorischer Internetquellen
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ART-guide provides access to art history Web sites, such as subject gateways, image databases, search engines, and mailing lists. The collection covers the full range of European medieval, modern, and contemporary art history, and aesthetics. Provided by the Heidelberg University Library and the Sächsische Landesbibliothek — Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden.

Arthistoricum.com
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Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA)/International Bibliography of Art (IBA) 
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British Museum online research catalogues
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Access to the digital catalogs of the British Museum’s collections, among others, “Drawings by Rembrandt and his school” and “Russian Icons in the British Museum”.

Census of Antique Works of Art and Architecture known in the Renaissance
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Census is an interdisciplinary research project centering on the classical tradition. The Census database aims to register antique monuments known in the Renaissance together with the related Renaissance documents in the form of texts and images.

Census: Corpus Winckelmann

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The Census collection of data — see above — has been extended by the antique monuments known to Johann Joachim Winckelmann and his contemporaries. The Corpus compiles the knowledge of antique works of art in the 17th and 18th centuries in both visual and written form, focusing on the writings of J. J. Winckelmann, the founder of classical archaeology and modern art history. Alongside approximately 9.500 quotations from Winckelmann, the database provides about 5.000 further document entries from the 17th and 18th centuries.

Creative Commons
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Open access to audio, video, images, and texts.

Dictionary of Art Historians
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Grosses Kunstlexikon von P.W. Hartmann
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Catalogo Generale dei Beni Culturali
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The Italian Ministry of Culture’s searchable database of images and catalogue entries of cultural property. The categories covered include art, architecture and landscape, natural resources, archaeology, numismatics, photography, ethnography, science and technology, and music. This database does not have all the records of every agency (soprintendenza) concerned, but there are close to 3 million items.

Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art: Bibliothèque numérique
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Digitized art books from the INHA

Interactive Nolli Map Website
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The Nolli Web Site presents the 1748 Nolli map of Rome as a dynamic, interactive, hands-on tool. The public now has access to cataloged information about the map in both written and graphical form. The map not only provides rich information, but is updated with new data over time to cover expanding knowledge.

Italian Area: Italian Contemporary Art Archive
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Künstlerdatenbank
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Literature on the Theory and History of Art
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Created by the University Library of Heidelberg from their extensive collection of literature of the 16th through the early 20th century. Heidelberg University Library provides digital full-text versions of selected works from its historical collections and makes them available on the Internet at no charge.

Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide: A Journal of Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture
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October
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Revue de l’Art
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Structurae 
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Structurae is a database of works for structural and civil engineering, but it also contains many works of importance or interest to the fields of architecture and public works. The site is mostly concerned with the structural aspects of the works documented here and the technical aspects of their construction and design. At the same time it takes into account the social, historical, and architectural contexts.

Tate
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UCLA Library: Center for Oral History Research 
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Archives of interviews with artists and architects.

Web Gallery of Art 
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The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassicism and Romanticism periods (1100-1850).

Art and Architecture: Journals

Anales de historia del arte

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Apollo

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Cabinet Magazine Online

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CSA Newsletter

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Cuadernos de arte i iconografia

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Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek (EZB)

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Portal to freely available e-journals in many disciplines in the humanities (e.g., art and archaeology), social sciences, and the natural sciences. Issued by the University of Regensburg.

Image Re-vues

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International Journal of Design  

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Locus amoenus

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Metropolis Magazine

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Classics

Ancient Narrative

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Ancient World Online (AWOL) 
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This offers the full-text of open access journals in classical studies from all over the world.

Arachnion: A Journal of Ancient Literature and History on the Web
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Bulletin de correspondance hellénique
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Classics@: An Online Journal
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Center for Hellenic Studies, DC

Cuneiform Digital Library Journal (CDLJ)
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DIKE: Rivista di storia del diritto greco ed ellenistico
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Electronic Antiquity
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Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek (EZB)
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Portal to freely available e-journals in classics, archaeology, and many other disciplines. Issued by the University of Regensburg.

EMERITA: Rivista de linguistica y filología clasica
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Estudios clásicos
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Göttinger Forum für Altertumswissenschaft
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Histos: The Electronic Journal of Ancient Historiography
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Journal of Greco-Roman Christianity and Judaism
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Journal of Late Antique Religion and Culture (JLARC)
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Leeds International Classical Studies
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MEFRA: Mélanges de l’École Française de Rome
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1881-1999

Myrtia: Revista de filología clásica
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New Voices in Classical Reception Studies
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Petronian Society Newsletter 
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1970-2001

Prometheus: Rivista di studi classici
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Revista de estudios latinos
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Studia Humaniora Tartuensia
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Studies in Mediterranean Antiquity and Classics
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Classics

ACL Software Directory for the Classics
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Ancient Jew Review
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The site produces original content pieces, reviews books, interviews scholars of note about past and future projects on Ancient Judaism. It also discusses contemporary issues, and creates a community of engaged readers with digital and in person discussion and book groups.

Année Philologique – Abbreviations
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Abbreviations of cited works in classics.

Aristarchus
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Aristarchus is a Web site which provides access to a set of tools for research and teaching on Greek and Latin vocabulary. University of Genova.

Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt index
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Bibliotheca Classica Selecta (BCS)
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Jacques Poucet’s comprehensive bibliographic guide to classics.

Chicago Homer
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Texts and translations of the Iliad, Odyssey, Works and Days, Shield of Heracles, the Homeric Hymns.

Classics Research Network: Research Paper Series
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Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum: Archivum Corporis Electronicum 
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Corpus medicorum Graecorum / Latinorum
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The CMG, run by the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, features an extensive collection of films and photocopies of ancient medical manuscripts in Greek, Latin and Arabic; these materials have been made accessible to foreign project collaborators for use in preparing their editions. Many of the editions are accessible online; furthermore, there are concordances (to Kühn or Littré), the Diels Manuscript Catalog and up-to-date bibliographies. Additionally, the CMG site offers research tools and news in the field of Ancient Medicine.

Daremberg, Charles & Saglio, Edmond. Dictionnaire des antiquités grecques et romaines 
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The full-text is available and searchable.

eScholarship repository: Classics
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Sponsored by the UC Berkeley Department of Classics.

Gnomon Bibliographic Database
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Bibliographic database for classical antiquity. Selections from the CD-ROM version. By Jürgen Malitz, Katholische Universität Eichstätt.

Internet Ancient History Sourcebook
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Searchable archive of Greek and Roman texts in English translation.

Internet Classics Archive
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Texts from Mesopotamia, Egypt, Persia, Israel, Greece, and Rome.

Loeb Classical Library  
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List of Loeb volumes freely available online.

Online Books in Classics, Center for Hellenic Studies, DC

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Paulys Real-Encyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft
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Some of the entry articles are now available and searchable online.

Perseus Digital Library
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A multimedia database on Ancient Greece and Rome, including literature, history, art, archaeology, texts (the Loebs) in Greek or Latin and English translation, maps, images of pottery, sculpture, sites, coins, buildings, etc.

Propylaeum: Virtuelle Fachbibliothek Altertumswissenschaften
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Theoi, E-Texts Library
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Several ancient Greek and Latin texts with mythological content in English translation (Loeb eds.)..

Conservation of Art and Heritage

Music

Recerca musicològica
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Reviews

American Journal of Archaeology, reviews
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The AJA publishes online-only book reviews, which are freely available, listed by month and volume year. These reviews are posted in tandem with the respective printed issue and are listed in that issue’s table of contents. Prior to 2006, book reviews were published in the printed AJA and are available in JSTOR.

Ancient History Bulletin — reviews 
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Beginning with the publication year 2011, The Ancient History Bulletin publishes all reviews online, in a new online journal entitled The Ancient History Bulletin Online Reviews.

Bryn Mawr Classical Review 
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Bryn Mawr Electronic Resources Review
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The Bryn Mawr Electronic Resources Review was an independent online journal for reviews of electronic resources having to do with the ancient world; it published reviews from 1998-2000.

Gnomon
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H-Net Reviews
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Book reviews covering all areas of the humanities, but the reviews can be searched and limited to, for example, Florence.

H-Soz-Kult Reviews
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Medieval Review 
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Formerly the Bryn Mawr Medieval Review.

Sehepunkte
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Book reviews. History, ancient to modern times.

Wiener Studien
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Book reviews

Conservation

BCIN, the Bibliographic Database of the Conservation Information Network 
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CyArk
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About digitally preserving and sharing the world’s heritage.

Digital Content in the Humanities and other Academic fields

Archivi Digitali del Polo Museale Fiorentino
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Mapping Past Societies
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The Digital Atlas of Roman and Medieval Civilizations (DAMRC), edited by Michael McCormick, Leland Grigoli, Giovanni Zambotti et al., makes freely available on the Internet the best available materials for a GIS approach to mapping and spatial analysis of the Roman and medieval worlds.

Digitale Bibliothek — Münchner Digitalisierungszentrum (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek — Digitale Sammlungen) 
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Directory of Open Access Books
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Similar to the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), the DOAB provides access to books available in Open Access following OAI protocol for metadata harvesting (OAI-PMH).

DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals
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Digitized Journals.

Early European Books: Printed Sources to 1700 

Early European Books traces the history of printing in Europe from its origins through the seventeenth century, offering high-resolution facsimile images of rare books.
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Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek (EZB)
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The EZB (issued by the University of Regensburg) comprises a large number of titles in all areas of research, many of which are available online only. The availability of full-text access is indicated by traffic light symbols (free access; access by license or subscription; no access)

Europeana
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Digital collections from countries in Europe.

Full Text Archive (novels, poetry, drama)
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Gallica
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Over two million documents from the Bibliothèque nationale de France and other contributing French libraries.

The Getty Conservation Institute Newsletter
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Google Book Search
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Google Scholar 
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Harvard Map Collection
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Extensive collection, including many historical maps; links connect to web pages for pictorial maps; scanned maps; and geospatial and mapping data.

IFAR: International Foundation for Art Research
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Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art: Bibliothèque numérique 
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Digitized art books from the INHA.

Metropolitan Museum of Art — Digital Collections from the Libraries
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The Thomas J. Watson Library, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s central research library with over 900,000 volumes. The digitization initiative provides wider access to the Libraries’ rare and unique materials.

Michigan Library Digital Collections
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Publications of the ISAC, University of Chicago.
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Numerous publications, arranged by publication series and by topic, of the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures: West Asia and North Africa (formerly “The Oriental Institute”). Many texts are part of ISAC’s Electronic Publications Initiative.

Oxford Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents
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Project Gutenberg
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Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books.

RIDE: A Review Journal for Digital Editions and Resources
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RIDE is a review journal dedicated to digital editions and resources. RIDE aims to direct attention to digital editions and to provide a forum for experts to discuss digital editions.

The Online Books Page 
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Sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania, the Online Books Page is a website that facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet.

Stanford Digital Forma Urbis Romae Project
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This site is dedicated to exploring the Forma Urbis Romae, or Severan marble city plan of Rome. All surviving fragments (over 1,100) are featured.

Theatrum orbis terrarum, sive, Atlas novus. [Primae partis]: in quo tabulae et descriptiones omnium regionum
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Digital collections from the UCLA Library.

Warburg Institute Library Digital Collection
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World Digital Library
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Zeno.org
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Offers full-text German-language publications in various disciplines.

Education

Chronicle of Higher Education, Facts & Figures

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College and University Rankings, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne

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Digest of Education Statistics

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Offers statistical information on numbers of colleges, teachers, enrollments, and graduates, in addition to educational attainment, finances, federal funds for education, libraries, and international education.

UNESCO, Statistics 

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U.S. News & World Report, Rankings

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Environmental Science

EnviroLink

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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

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Epigraphy

Attic Inscriptions Online

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This is a Website designed to make available the inscriptions of ancient Athens and Attica in English translation.

Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum

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CIL, the primary collection of classical Latin inscriptions, began over two centuries ago. There are close to 180,000 inscriptions from the entire territory of the ancient Roman empire. The website has texts, images, and bibliography and the database (Archivum Corporis Electronicum) is searchable.

Current Epigraphy

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Lists conferences, workshops, and lectures and links to epigraphy databases.

EAGLE: Electronic Archive of Greek and Latin Epigraphy

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This resource documents Roman epigraphy of the Christian era and is based primarily on the corpus of the Inscriptiones Christianae Vrbis Romae septimo saeculo antiquiores, nova series (ICVR), being published by the Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana.

Europeana — Eagle project

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The Europeana network of Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy aims to build a multi-lingual online collection of millions of digitized items from European museums, libraries, archives and multi-media collections comprising inscriptions from the Greek and Roman World

Inscriptiones Graecae 

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Searchable database of some images and texts.

Roman Inscriptions of Britain

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RIB online hosts vol. I of The Roman Inscriptions of Britain, R.G. Collingwood’s and R.P. Wright’s magisterial edition of 2,401 monumental inscriptions from Britain found prior to 1955. It also incorporates all Addenda and Corrigenda published in the 1995 reprint of RIB (edited by R.S.O. Tomlin) and the annual survey of inscriptions published in Britannia.

Searchable Greek Inscriptions 

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Database for Greek inscriptions, a project by the Packard Humanities Institute.

U.S. Epigraphy Project 

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Searchable database of Greek and Latin inscriptions in the United States.

Fashion Design

All Sewn Up: Millinery, Dressmaking, Clothing and Costume

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The Costume Gallery, Pitti Palace

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Fondazione Roberto Capucci

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Metropolitan Museum of Art: The Costume Institute

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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: Textiles and Fashion Arts 

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Victoria and Albert Museum 

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Film

JustWatch

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A search tool for films and television series available in streaming.

Classic Cinema Online

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European Film Gateway

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Access to hundreds of thousands of film historical documents as preserved in European film archives and cinémathèques: photos, posters, programs, periodicals, censorship documents, rare feature and documentary films, newsreels and other materials.

IMDb Internet Movie Database

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Extensive filmography with links to movie reviews.

Movie Image Archive

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Prelinger Archives

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Old movies by subject.

SnagFilms

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Documentary and indie films.

Universal Newsreels

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Food and Nutrition

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

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Grist – Food

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Italian Food Recipes

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Science Daily

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Slow Food

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Vegan Cooking

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VegSource.com

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European Union

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European Union policies on food safety and related matters.

Forensic Psychology

Bureau of Justice Statistics

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Famous Trials

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Collections of primary resources about over 50 famous trials. Information provided includes first hand accounts, government records, transcripts, and other out of copyright materials.

Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics

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History

H-Soz-Kult  
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Forum for historians.

Historiae
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History E-Book Project

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The ACLS Humanities E-Book (HEB) Project provides access to a large number of important books in the field of history, but is not Open Access.

Journal of Interdisciplinary History

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Maps of Rome, 1550-1883

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From the Getty Research Institute. Over 40 printed maps of the city of Rome depicting the ancient, medieval, and modern city by graphic artists such as Etienne Du Pérac, Giuseppe Vasi, and Giovanni Battista Piranesi.

Mediterranea. Ricerche storiche

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Holocaust Studies

Yad Vashem: The Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority

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“Yad Vashem’s task is to perpetuate the legacy of the Holocaust to future generations so that the world never forgets the horrors and cruelty of the Holocaust.” The Yad Vashem Library and Archives have the largest holdings of Holocaust related material in the world. Information about the collection, online exhibits and links to other sites are available on the website.

UNESCO list of Holocaust museums and memorials

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Humanities and Italian Studies

Humanities and Italian Studies

California Italian Studies Journal
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CIS is a new digital, peer-reviewed journal by the University of California in Italian Studies. Issues of CIS are available in Open Access from 1:1 (2010) onward.

Catalogo Italiano dei Periodici (ACNP)
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Catalog of titles, not full-text, but has helpful links to digitized journals or issues of numerous serials in Italian libraries.

Concilium Medii Aevi
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DigiZeitschriften
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DigiZeitschriften provides access to the archives of an important number of German scholarly journals, including in Classical and Medieval Studies, the Arts, History, Philology, and more.

Italinemo: Periodicals of Italian Studies in the World
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The Los Angeles Review of Books
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Fiction and non-fiction book reviews.

MEFRA: Mélanges de l’École Française de Rome 
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1881-1999

Archive of issues of the Mélanges, covering classical antiquity and later periods.

Times Higher Education 
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Important journal; 3 articles per month with free access.

Times Literary Suppplement TLS
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Middle Ages and the Renaissance

Anuario de estudios medievales
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Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies
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Different Visions
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Medieval Philosophy & Theology
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Mediévales
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MEFRA: Mélanges de l’École Française de Rome 
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1881-1999

Archive of issues of the Mélanges, covering classical antiquity and later periods.

Reforme, humanisme, renaissance
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Images

Arachne

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Image database of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (DAI) and of the Archäologisches Institut der Universität zu Köln.

The Beazley Archive

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Open Clip Art

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This site allows you to search clip art images and collections, which are uploaded by various artists. These images may be downloaded and edited. If you choose to edit the image, you can do so at this site – add text, change colors, add shapes and stickers, re-size, enhance, etc. The altered image can then be downloaded onto your computer.

PD Poster

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Collections of public domain posters. The categories include World War, WPA, Graphic Arts, and Performing Arts. You may search by keyword, but the site uses a custom Google search. Thus, browsing by category may be more efficient.

Photos Public Domain

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Search public domain clip art and photos by category. All photos on this site were taken by the author and released as “public domain.”

Public Domain Images

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Browse by category or search for images. Varied categories; the site also includes vintage photography and space images.

The Public Domain Review

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Unusual and interesting images from out-of-copyright sources (magazines, illuminated manuscripts, books, etc.). The content is varied and ranges from Bestiaries to anatomy to futuristic drawings. You may search by category or time period.

Reusable Art

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Images (mostly prints and drawings) from old magazines, books, and other print media, which are all public domain in the United States. Search by category or use the advanced search option.

U.S. History Images

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Around 5,000 images pertaining to the Civil War era (up to the middle of 1862). It is easiest to search images on this site by narrowing down the category. Categories pertain to many topics beyond the actual Civil War, such as transportation during that period, frontier life, and Native American culture.

Italian Language and Literature

Annali d’Italianistica

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This monographic serial discusses all aspects of Italian culture, society, and, especially, literature.

It has been published under the auspices of the U. of Notre Dame (1983-1988) and U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (1989-2016). The main website of the journal is: https://annali.org/

Dartmouth Dante Project

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This database contains the full text of Dante’s Divine Comedy and its commentaries from over 70 authors.

Edulinks.it

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Geared to teachers of Italian language and culture, with links to sites with material on a variety of subjects. In Italian.

Italian Women Writers

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”A long-term research endeavor to preserve and provide access to an extensive corpus of literature written by Italian women authors.”

Princeton Dante Project

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The Princeton Dante Project includes the full edition of Petrocchi’s text of the poem; a new verse translation of the poem; texts of all the minor works (with translation); recitation of the poem in Italian; historical and interpretive notes; direct links to the Dartmouth Dante Project as well as to other relevant Dante sites.

RAI

Rai Play

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Italian and international film and television programs available through the Italian state television and radio network (RAI).

Rai Play Sound

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This page of the Italian state television and radio network (RAI) features a wealth of live transmissions and archived podcasts, audiobooks and more on all topics, from politics to cuisine, language to history, literature to music.

Jewish Studies

The Center for Jewish History

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Searchable digital collections.

The Jewish Museum in Venice – the Renato Maestro Library and Archives

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Jewish Women’s Archive

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The Library of il Centro di Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea in Milan

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Jewish life in modern times

The Medici Archive Project (Florence) — Jewish History, Religion, and Culture

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The Museo Nazionale dell’Ebraismo Italiano e della Shoah

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One of Italy’s newest museums, in Ferrara, a city with an important tradition of Jewish presence, the MEIS explores a millennium of history through exhibitions; the website has links to networks and other locations.

Medieval and Renaissance Studies

An Analytic Bibliography of On-Line Neo-Latin Texts, UC Irvine

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CESG — Codices Electronici Sangallenses (Virtuelle Bibliothek) 

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Corpus Juris Canonici (1582)

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From the UCLA Library.

Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum (1866)

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Dartmouth Dante Project

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Searchable full-text database of commentaries on Dante’s Divine Comedy.

Digital Michelangelo Project

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Digital Scriptorium

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The Digital Scriptorium is an image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts that unites scattered resources from many institutions into an international tool for teaching and scholarly research.

Digitale Bibliothek, Bibliotheca Hertziana 

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The digitized full-text of rare books in the Bibliotheca Hertziana collection, a major library in Rome.

Dumbarton Oaks Hagiography Database 

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Includes information from the Greek vitae and martyria of 119 saints of the 8th-10th centuries, accounts of the translations of their relics, and collections of miracles, as well as notices from the Synaxarion of Constantinople (a 10th-century liturgical collection of brief hagiographical notices).

Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index

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Incunabula Short Title Catalogue

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Medici Archive Project

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Mirabile

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A “knowledge management system for study and research on medieval culture” based in Florence, under the aegis of the Società Internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino [SISMEL] and the Ezio Franceschini Fopundation.

Monastic Matrix 

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Women’s religious communities from 400 to 1600 CE.

Nuovo Rinascimento

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Archives, bibliographies, primary and secondary texts on the Italian Renaissance.

Online Medieval & Classical Library

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Orbis Latinus Online, by J. G. Th. Graesse (1909) 

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Princeton Dante Project

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The Princeton Dante Project includes the full edition of Petrocchi’s text of the poem; a new verse translation of the poem; texts of all the minor works (with translation); recitation of the poem in Italian; historical and interpretive notes; direct links to the Dartmouth Dante Project as well as to other relevant Dante sites.

RenDico: Dictionnaires de la Renaissance 

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Music

Ancient History Bulletin — reviews 
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Beginning with the publication year 2011, The Ancient History Bulletin publishes all reviews online, in a new online journal entitled The Ancient History Bulletin Online Reviews.

Bryn Mawr Classical Review 
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The official digital archive of BMCR (1990-present); the website also aims to archive Bryn Mawr Electronic Resources Review (BMRR), an independent online journal for reviews of electronic resources having to do with the ancient world; it published reviews from 1998-2000

DRM Digital Resources for Musicology

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“This website provides links to substantial open-access projects of use to musicians and musicologists.”

Gnomon
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Bibliographic database of this major Classics journal.

H-Net Reviews
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Book reviews covering all areas of the humanities, but the reviews can be searched and limited to, for example, Florence.

H-Soz-Kult Reviews
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Medieval Review 
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Formerly the Bryn Mawr Medieval Review.

Recerca musicològica
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Reviews

American Journal of Archaeology, reviews
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The AJA publishes online-only book reviews, which are freely available, listed by month and volume year. These reviews are posted in tandem with the respective printed issue and are listed in that issue’s table of contents. Prior to 2006, book reviews were published in the printed AJA and are available in JSTOR.

Sehepunkte
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Book reviews. History, ancient to modern times.

SoundTrack net

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Information, links, and reviews about composers of film and television soundtracks.

Virtual Library of Musicology

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Wiener Studien
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Book reviews

Numismatics

American Numismatic Society (collections database) 

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Münzkabinett Online Catalog 

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The Münzkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin is one of the largest numismatic collections in the world. The site features exhibitions and other holdings.

Portale Numismatico dello Stato

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Issued by the Direzione Generale per le Antichità and the Ministero dei beni e delle attività culturali, focusing on numismatic evidence in Italy. Includes useful links to institutions, catalogs and databases.

Roman Provincial Coinage Online 

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Coins from the Antonine period (CE 138–192).

Roman Republican Coins in the British Museum 

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Descriptions and chronology are based on M.H. Crawford, Roman Republican Coinage (1974). This catalogue brings together over 12,000 coins, aiming to provide an introduction to the coinage, the history of the Museum collection and an aid to the identification of coin types.

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum 

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Searchable database.

Virtual Catalog of Roman Coins

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Papyrus

Duke Papyrus Archive

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Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis der Griechischen Papyrusurkunden Ägyptens

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Searchable database.

Papyrology at Oxford 

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A guide and database for the Oxyrhynchus Papyri and other collections.

Papyrus Portal

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University of Michigan Papyrus Collection

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Philosophy

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (peer-reviewed)

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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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Politics and Government

CIA World Factbook

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UNdata

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Religious Studies

Dumbarton Oaks Hagiography Database

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This is the online version of the Dumbarton Oaks Hagiography Database, originally released in 1998 as a set of floppy disks. The database has two sections: the introduction (containing general information about the project, and biographical and bibliographical introductions to each of the saints of the 8th–10th centuries); and the database itself which in turn is divided into three sections (Saints’ list; Authors’ list; search citations). The Greek texts may be accessed through the Saints’ list (entire texts) or through citations (partial texts). Please note that the interface for this database is under development.

Women’s and Gender Studies

American Women:  A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women’s History and Culture in the United States

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Diotima: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World

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Catalogs

Ambrosia Union Catalogue

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Catalog of the Blegen, Gennadius, and the British School Library in Athens.

American School of Classical Studies at Athens 

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Biblioteca Digitale Italiana: Cataloghi storici

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British Academy Overseas Institutes and Societies

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Centro Studi Americani 

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SBN (Internet Culturale: Cataloghi e Collezione Digitale delle Biblioteche Italiane) 

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The largest online catalog of digitized resources in Italian libraries.