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This list is not exhaustive, but gives details of some of the most useful research resources. All of the printed resources are available in the Arts and Social Sciences Library (use the Library Catalogue to locate them). Please note that the Library subscribes to a range of electronic research resources. Please visit MetaLib to access these.
Research methods
Style
Theses: general
Theses: subject specific
Library catalogues
Manuscripts
Bibliographical handbooks
Abbreviations
Retrospective bibliographies
Current bibliographies
Dictionaries, encyclopedias, handbooks
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Author/editor |
Title, date |
Edition (if applicable) |
Location |
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Richard D Altick, John J Fenstermaker |
The art of literary research (1993) |
4th |
PR 56 ALT |
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Jacques Barzun, Henry F. Graff |
The modern researcher (2004) |
6th |
D 13 BAR |
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Wayne C Booth, Gregory G Colomb, Joseph M Williams |
The craft of research (2003) |
2nd |
Q 180.55.M4 BOO |
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Pat Cryer |
The research student’s guide to success (2006) |
3rd |
LB 2369 CRY |
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Estelle M Phillips & D S Pugh |
How to get a PhD: a handbook for students and their supervisors (2005) |
4th |
LB 2391.G7 PHI |
| Delia da Sousa Correa, W R Owens (eds) | A handbook to literary research (2010) | 2nd | PN 73 HAN |
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Location |
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The Chicago manual of style (2003) |
15th |
Z 253 CHI |
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Joseph Gibaldi |
MLA handbook for writers of research papers (2003) |
6th |
Ref. PN 147 GIB |
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MHRA style guide: a handbook for authors, editors, and writers of theses (2008) |
2nd |
PN 147 MHR |
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R M Ritter |
New Hart’s rules [adapted from the Oxford guide to style] (2005) |
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PN 147 NEW |
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American doctoral dissertations, 1964 - |
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Serial Z 5053.A5 |
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Dissertation abstracts international, A: The humanities and social sciences, 1969 – 1999) |
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Serial Z 5053.D4 |
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Index to theses, 1986 – 2005 [online version with more recent entries is available via MetaLib] |
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Serial Z 5055.G6 |
| British Library EThOS electronic thesis delivery | Online |
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Le catalogue BN-OPALE de la Bibliothèque nationale de France [not comprehensive: see restrictions] |
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COPAC online catalogue [includes the library catalogues of members of the Consortium of Research Libraries] |
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| Institute of Classical Studies Library catalogue home page [University of London School of Advanced Studies] | |||
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Author/editor |
Title, date |
Edition (if applicable) |
Location |
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L D Reynolds, N G Wilson |
Scribes and scholars: a guide to the transmission of Greek and Latin literature (1991) |
3rd |
PA 3013 REY |
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Author/editor |
Title, date |
Edition (if applicable) |
Location |
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Fred W Jenkins |
Classical studies: a guide to the reference literature (2006) |
2nd |
Z 7016 JEN |
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Graham Whitaker |
A bibliographical guide to classical studies, vols 1 to 5 (1997 - ) |
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Z 7016 WHI |
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Author/editor |
Title, date |
Edition (if applicable) |
Location |
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Simon Hornblower, Antony Spawforth (eds) |
Oxford classical dictionary (1996) [see ‘Abbreviations used in the present work’] |
3rd |
PADE 5 OXF |
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Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott |
A Greek-English lexicon (1996) [see ‘Aids to the reader’] |
9th |
Oversize PA 445.E5 LID
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P G W Glare (ed) |
Oxford Latin dictionary (1982) [see ‘Aids to the reader’], |
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Oversize PA 2365.E5 OXF |
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Otto Leistner |
Internationale Titelabkürzungen = International title abbreviations (2005) [3 vols] |
10th |
Ref Z 6945.A2 LEI |
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Jean Susorney Wellington |
Dictionary of bibliographic abbreviations found in the scholarship of classical scholarship and allied fields (2003) |
2nd |
Z 7016 WEL |
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Author/editor |
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Edition (if applicable) |
Location |
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R Klussmann |
Bibliotheca scriptorum classicorum [1878-1896], (1909-13) |
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Z 7016 KLU |
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S Lambrino
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Bibliographie de l'antiquité classique, 1896-1914. 1ère partie: Auteurs et texts, (1951) |
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Serial Z 7016.A5 |
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J Marouzeau |
Dix années de bibliographie classique [1914-1924], (1927) |
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Serial Z 7016.A5 |
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Location |
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L'Année philologique: bibliographie critique et analytique de l'antiquité gréco-latine, (1924 - )
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Online via MetaLib |
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Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt: Geschichte und Kultur Roms im Spiegel der neueren Forschung (1972 - ) |
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PADG 209 AUF |
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Richard J A Talbert […et al] eds |
Barrington atlas of the Greek and Roman world (2000) |
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Folio G 1033 BAR |
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The Cambridge ancient history (1923 - ) |
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PAD 57 CAM |
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Pierre Grimal |
The dictionary of classical mythology (1986) |
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PABL 715 GRI |
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Jenny March |
Cassell dictionary of classical mythology (1998) |
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PABL 715 MAR |
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Simon Hornblower, Antony Spawforth (eds) |
Oxford classical dictionary, 1996 |
3rd |
PADE 5 OXF |
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Lexicon iconographicum mythologiae classicae (LIMC) 8 vols. [in 16] (1981-97) |
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Oversize PAN 7760 LEX |
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Eric Smith |
A dictionary of classical reference in English poetry (1984) |
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PR 508.C68 SMI |
| Robert Beekes, assisted by Lucien van Beek | Etymological dictionary of Greek (2010) | PA422 BEE | |
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Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott (compilers) |
A Greek-English lexicon (1996) |
9th |
Oversize PA 445.E5 LID |
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Charlton C. Lewis and Charles Short |
A Latin dictionary (1879) |
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PA 2365.E5 LEW |
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P G W Glare (ed) |
Oxford Latin dictionary (1982) |
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Oversize PA 2365.E5 OXF |
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Paulys Real-Encyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (1894 –1978) |
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PADE 5 PAU |
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Hubert Cancik and Helmuth Schneider (eds)
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Der Neue Pauly: Enzyklopädie der Antike (1996 – 2003) Also online via MetaLib in German; English translation ongoing |
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Oversize PADE 5 NEU |
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Thesaurus cultus et rituum antiquorum (ThesCRA) 6 vols, (2004 – 2006) |
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Oversize PABL 727 THE
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