Research Databases & Digital Collections

The Lexicon of Greek Personal Names (LGPN) was established to collect and publish all ancient Greek personal names, drawing on the full range of written sources from the eighth century BC to the late Roman Empire, plus the supplenent LGPN-Ling. See also the up-to-date site Athenian Onomasticon.

Doctoral dissertations published in Italy since 1995 are included in a special series of the Italian National Bibliography and can be searched in the OPAC of the National Central Library of Florence (using the filter TIPO DI MATERIALE=tesi di dottorato).

The Handschriftencensus provides an inventory of German medieval manuscripts. It contains information concerning more than 20,000 manuscripts preserved in more than 1,200 libraries and archives across the world.

Dissonline provides access to over one hundred thousand dissertations, theses, and Habilitationen held by the German National Library, both in print and in electronic format.

DigiZeitschriften provides access to the archives of an important number of German scholarly journals, including in classical and medieval Studies, the arts, history, philology, and more.

DART-Europe is a partnership of research libraries and library consortia that work toward improving global access to European research theses and dissertations.

The site provides online access to the volumes currently out of copyright of Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (CIL). This digitized version of the CIL will initially comprise the more than fifty parts (vols. I–XVI + auctaria and v. I, editio altera) published before 1940 and be made accessible in Arachne, the central object database of the German Archaeological Institute and the Archaeological Institute of the University of Cologne. Digital CIL is a joint project of the American Academy in Rome, l’École française de Rome, and the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut.

The site Ostia: Harbour City of Ancient Rome offers useful material, clickable plans, images, descriptions, and many more.