This subject guide lists selected print and electronic sources available to UBC faculty, students, and staff. Check the library catalogue to find additional information. For further reference assistance contact Keith Bunnell, keith.bunnell@ubc.ca.
An annual critical review of the international publications dealing with North Antique Africa, from the protohistoric to the byzantine and Muslim period.
DYABOLA provides citations to books, articles, and essays on classical, early Christian, Byzantine, early Medieval, and ancient Middle Eastern antiquities, art, and archaeology
Indexes journals in classical philology, ancient history, and archaeology. Based on the journal Gnomon: Kritische Zeitschrift fur die gesamte klassische Altertumswissenschaft.
Searches a wide variety of sources across many disciplines: articles, theses, books, abstracts, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. The 'cited-by' feature helps identify recent scholarship. Entering UBC under 'settings' gives one-step access to resources not in the public domain.
An international bibliography of Aegean studies, Homeric society, Indo-European linguistics, and related fields. Currently has over 53,000 bibliographic entries and over 15,000 reviews. The database is updated monthly.
The largest available collection of references to Egyptological literature. Comprises the Annual Egyptological Bibliography (AEB) for 1947 to 2001, the Bibliographie Altägypten (BA) for 1822 to 1946, the Aigyptos database, and many thousands of more recently added records. Updated nearly every day.
TOCS-IN provides the tables of contents of a selection of Classics, Near Eastern Studies, and Religion journals, both in text format and through a Web search program.
Compiled by the American Theological Library Association. Covers Biblical studies, world religions, church history, and religious perspectives on social issues.
World's largest academic search engine providing free searching to a full range of scholarly literature (ie. peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, pre-prints, abstracts, technical reports).
In addition to fully-searchable journal backfiles, also includes current issues for some titles as well as collections of primary-source documents such as their '19th century British pamphlets'.