We now have a subscription to the Classical studies module of Oxford Scholarship Online.

Catalogue records / SFX activations are being worked on currently (so that the item will appear in Explore)

We also have access to Oxford Handbooks Online but as this initial subscription will end in August 2016 and usage is to be reviewed prior to renewal please send any feedback to lib-eresource-help@ucl.ac.uk

UCL now has access to the Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics.

The Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics brings together the latest research from across a range of disciplines which contribute to our knowledge of Ancient Greek. With over 500 entries on all aspects of Ancient Greek, it is a comprehensive research tool for scholars and students of Greek, of Linguistics, and of other Indo-European languages, as well as of Biblical literature.

Features and benefits include:

-Full text search and advanced search options
-Extensive cross-references and navigation via hyperlinks
-Articles covering a wide-range of topics such as the Greek of various sources (texts, manuscripts, inscriptions, reading traditions), major grammatical features (phonology, morphology, and syntax), lexicon, script and paleography, theoretical linguistic approaches, etc.
-All Greek transcribed

If you have any questions about using this resource, please contact your subject librarian.

UCL has trial access to Brill’s Companions in Classical Studies Online Collection I and Brill’s Companions in Classical Studies Online Collection II until 7th June 2015.

Please send feedback on this resource to your subject librarian.

UCL now has access to The Encyclopedia of Ancient History, a comprehensive collection of twenty-first century scholarship available on the entire ancient Mediterranean world. It includes over 5,000 original entries spanning the late Bronze Age through the seventh century CE, which extend to all Mediterranean civilizations including the Near East and Egypt, and represent an unprecedented level of coverage of the ancient world.

UCL now has access to all content within Periodicals Archive Online (PAO).

PAO includes the full text of over 750 historically respected journals in the humanities and social sciences. Content is available from volume 1, issue 1, published from 1802 to 2005, across 37 different disciplines, from over 30 countries and in more than 25 languages.

Please send feedback on this resource to your subject librarian.

UCL has trial access to Routledge Handbooks Online until 31^st March 2015. For off-site access, please use Web WTS or Desktop@UCLAnywhere.

The trial includes access to over 300 handbooks organized into 18 subject collections – including Archaeology and  Classical Studies & Ancient History.  Every chapter acts as a standalone piece of scholarship, complete with its own abstract and metadata, providing a useful research tool.

Please note if using Internet Explorer you will need to scroll down the page or if you cut and paste the link into Firefox you will have a better result.

Please send feedback on this resource to your subject librarian.

UCL has trial access to the The Virgil Encyclopedia until 16th February 2015.

The Virgil Encyclopedia is the first comprehensive reference volume to be published in English on Publius Vergilius Maro, the classical Roman poet whose works and thoughts have been at the center of Western literary, cultural, artistic, and pedagogical traditions for more than two millennia. Through more than 2,200 carefully researched entries, scholars and students alike are provided with an in-depth treatment of all aspects of Virgil’s poetry and his immeasurable influence that continues to the present day.

Please send feedback on this resource to your subject librarian.

Now available online – “Brill’s Encyclopaedia of the Neo-Latin World traces the enduring history and broad cultural influence of Neo-Latin, the form of Latin that originated in the Italian Renaissance and persists to the modern era. Featuring original contributions by a host of distinguished international scholars, this 800,000 word two-volume work explores every aspect of the civilized world from literature and law to philosophy and the sciences.”

Due to a planned ISD datacentre shutdown for maintenance, the majority of library system functions will unavailable between 1700 on Friday 28 Nov and approx. 0800 on Monday 1 Dec.  This places severe limitations on accessing our online resources this coming weekend.

Details below:

We can only issue and return books at the issue desk. We cannot renew books for you or check your library record.

• The Library catalogue – Explore – will not display up-to-date availability details of books – you won’t be able to tell whether items are on loan or not. We will provide instructions within Explore on obtaining a snapshot of holdings and locations information.
• Users will not be able to sign into Explore to access their account, place requests, book rooms or renew their items online.
• Access to Exam Papers and other collections in Digital Collections (e.g. Bentham manuscripts) will not be available.
• Reading lists will not display availability of library items.

Please note: access to eresources (ebooks, ejournals and databases) is unaffected.

Messages will be placed on the UCL Library Services homepages of these disruptions to services.

Apologies in advance for any inconvenience caused.

UCL has trial access to Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics Online until 10^th December 2014.

Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics Online brings together the latest research from across a range of disciplines which contribute to the knowledge of Ancient Greek. It is a research tool for scholars and students of Greek, of linguistics, and of other Indo-European languages, as well as of Biblical literature.

Please send feedback on this resource to your subject librarian.