Journal articles are
not listed in QCAT. Use an index to find
magazine and journal articles. Articles are important in your
research as they contain the most-up-to-date research in a given
field and often focus on a particular aspect of a topic. There
are different types of articles: scholarly, popular or trade.
Tip: Remember to search
journal title and not article title in QCAT
Key Indexes
Publication coverage: 1924 - present (excluding most recent 2-3 years)
Print holdings: REF PA2 .A613 (v.1-72; 1924-2001)
- Database of Classical Bibliography. Includes journal citations, book reviews, and books.
Publication coverage: 1990- (updated weekly)
- Indexes books, book articles, and some journals. A more
up-to-date bibliography of publications not yet indexed in
L'Année philologique.
Publication coverage: 1956-2006
- Subjects: classical archaeology, etruscology, minoan archaeology and prehistory. You require a key to access.
Publication coverage: 1992-
- Tables of Contents of Journals of Interest to Classicists.
Other Useful Indexes
Publication coverage: 1975 - present
- Indexes both scholarly articles, including journals from the United Kingdom, United States, Australia, and Canada.
- A group of citation, abstract and some full-text databases,
covering literature published in many different disciplines. Each
database can be searched separately (click 'Specific Databases')
but they also can be searched as a group, such as Arts and
Humanities, from this starting point.
British Humanities Index
REF AI3.B86 from 1962-
- General index that indexes over 300 journals published in Great Britain.
Publication coverage: 1940-
- Indexes articles published in more than 480 journals, as well as for books and anthologies.
Online Reviewing Tools
- Publishes reviews of current scholarly work in classical
studies (including archaeology). This site is the authoritative
archive of BMCR's publications, from 1990 to the present.
- Grew out of the listserv IOUDAIOS-L, a scholarly list
focusing on Judaism in the Greco-Roman age. Both tools serve
professional scholars of early Judaism and related fields. Some
knowledge of classical Hebrew and hellenistic Greek is
assumed.