1. A Comprehensive Index for Classical Studies
L’Annee philologique
A Comprehensive Index for
Classical Studies
Christy Branston
April 4, 2003

2. philology Study of both language and literature
philology   Study of both language and literature. In addition to phonetics, grammar and the structure of language, philology also includes textual criticism, etymology, and the study of art, archaeology, religion and any system related to ancient or classical languages.
"philology"  World Encyclopedia. George Philip Ltd, Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press.  9 May 2003  <
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3. Modes of Searching in L’annee
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4. Modern Author Search
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5. Full text Search
Searches Keywords within the bibliographic record – the citation – not the full text of the article
Run separate searches for each concept
Truncate words: wom*n, aesthet* etc.

6. Combining Searches
Searches are automatically combined using “AND” in the Search History

7. “Or”ing terms together
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8. Results of the Combination1. 2.

9. Adding Limits You can limit your search by: Words in the title
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A language
Dates can also be applied to your search to limit it.

10. Understanding Citations
Journal
Title of Article
Author
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Pagination
Abstract
Note: Although the abstract is in French the article is English. This is generally determined by the language of the article title.
Volume

11. Book Records
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12. Subjects and Disciplines
The database is searchable using the subject indexes derived from the print version of L’annee
There are two different “Tables of Contents” because the TOC was revamped in 1996
Users can browse this subject list to see how the index was originally organized and also see what is available on a given topic.
There 1214 items indexed under this category (since 1996)