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Oxford Scholarship Online Trial

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The library now has a trial for Oxford Scholarship Online, a platform for searching, browsing, reading, and printing chapters from Oxford scholarly books. Each book has abstracts at the title and the chapter level and you can search across books and collections. Faculty can link to individual chapters making it ideal for classroom use. Essentially, Oxford has turned these books into an article database. The trial lasts until February 22, 2008. Give it a try. Let me know what you think. Fred ————————————————————————————————————– Subject Guides Classics // Islamic Studies // Jewish Studies // Philosophy // Religion ————————————————————————————————————–

Abstracts on Oxford Scholarship Online

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Oxford University Press is trying to move its books online using a very user-friendly interface called Oxford Scholarship Online. I’m trying to get a trial for classics, philosophy, and religion, but for now you can search this very rich database and view author-written abstracts at both the book and chapter level. Oxford has more or less turned 1800 books in thirteen broad areas into an article (i.e. book chapter) database, an idea that I think will eventually prove very popular. Search results show up listed on the book/chapter level. For each entry, you can easily view the abstract of the book and the individual chapter, very useful for reviewing and selecting books for courses and research. Check it out and let me know what you think. Fred ————————————————————————————————————– Subject Guides Classics // Islamic Studies // Jewish Studies // Philosophy // Religion ————————————————————————————————————–

Ancient City of Athens

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tacasmall.jpg Check out The Ancient City of Athens on the Stoa.org. “The Ancient City of Athens is a photographic archive of the archaeological and architectural remains of ancient Athens (Greece). It is intended primarily as a resource for students and teachers of classical art & archaeology, civilization, languages, and history as a supplement to their class lectures and reading assignments and as a source of images for use in term papers, projects, and presentations. We also hope that this site will be useful to all who have an interest in archaeological exploration and the recovery, interpretation, and preservation of the past.” ————————————————————————————————————– Subject Guides Classics // Islamic Studies // Jewish Studies // Philosophy // Religion ————————————————————————————————————–

Library of Latin Texts now available!

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From the publisher Brepols, we now have the Library of Latin Texts, a huge database containing major Latin works from 240 BC up through the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965). It’s not on our database lists yet, but you can go here for access: https://libproxy.temple.edu:2343/login?url=http://www.brepolis.net/login/online.xml. ————————————————————————————————————– Subject Guides Classics // Islamic Studies // Jewish Studies // Philosophy // Religion ————————————————————————————————————–

Renaissance of Latin–Go Latin!

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Article on Slate about the Renaissance of Latin: why a dead language is becoming so popular. Thanks to Robin Mitchell-Boyask for pointing this out. ————————————————————————————————————– Subject Guides Classics // Islamic Studies // Jewish Studies // Philosophy // Religion ————————————————————————————————————–

New Titles Added to JSTOR and CREDO Reference

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Some great new titles added to JSTOR Arts and Sciences Collection, including Arabica (from Brill), 1954-2001; Culture, Health, and Sexuality (Taylor and Francis), 1999-2003; Gender and Development (Taylor and Francis) 1993-2003; Iran and the Caucasus (Brill), 1997-2001; and Women’s Review of Books (Old City Publishing), 1983-2003. Here’s the full list. Remember that you can look up any Temple journals on Journal Finder. Here’s a list of new titles from CREDO Reference. CREDO is a large of collection of relatively small (usually one volume) reference works. I’d use this for traditional-type reference questions, people, places, dates, events, definitions and stuff like that. ————————————————————————————————————– Subject Guides Classics // Islamic Studies // Jewish Studies // Philosophy // Religion ————————————————————————————————————–