Introduction
Logging on and Searching
Index window
Search window
Combining Search Words
Truncation
Saving results
Logging off

Printable version .pdf

Introduction

The Database of Classical Bibliography (DCB) is the electronic equivalent of L'Annee philologique, an international bibliography containing citations of all known scholarly work published in the areas of ancient Greek and Latin language and linguistics, Greek and Roman history, literature, philosophy, art, archaeology, religion, mythology, music, science, early Christian and patristic texts, numismatics, papyrology and epigraphy.

DCB contains almost a quarter of a million records published between the years 1974-1989. The library also has a full set of L'Annee philologique, from 1924 to date. (CentReference Z 7016 .M352)

Logging on and Searching

DCB is only available on the Library computer workstations.

• Press the Windows Start button and move the mouse cursor up to Alphabetic listing of Non-web databases. Choose 'D-E' then 'DBClassical Bibliography'. Click on this and the database will load.
• Click on OK in the Sponsors Index Window.
• For help in using the DCB, pull down the Help menu from the tool bar and click on Contents OR ask Library staff.

Index window

The Authors and Works index will be displayed when you log in. To view all 19 indexes available, click on the arrow to the right of the index name and scroll down the list.

Some of the important Indexes are:

• Authors and Works : Click on an authors name to reveal a list of works. Click on a title to bring its bibliographic entry to the main window.
• Authors Names Index : Alphabetical list of ancient and modern authors.
• Titles Index : All titles of ancient and modern works. Titles beginning with articles are alphabetised under the article, for example The Heroic Paradox is listed under 'T'.
• Word List : All the words in DCB printed in Roman characters. Can be used as a subject index. For example, search for 'chariot', 'hexameter', or 'Mytilene'.
• Greek Word List : Allows for searching of Greek words using Greek characters.
• APh Rubrics Index : Includes all classification headings in L'Annee philologique in alphabetical order.

A drop-down Index Menu will appear when box next to Authors and Works is ticked.

• Select an index by clicking on an index title.
• To search an index, scroll and highlight a term from the list and press Enter. Or;
• Type the first few letters of your search term to reach that part of the list quickly, highlight your term and press Enter.

Results are displayed in the Results Window.

• Click on a Result from the list and press Enter to display the full record in the main window
• If there is only one Result, the full record is displayed in the main window.

Search window

The Search Window allows for searching on more than one index.

• Open the search window by clicking on the search icon on the tool-bar, by selecting search from the tools menu.
• Each index has a separate box in the search window for entering search words.
• Click on an index name to open the edit box.
• Terms can be copied directly from the index to the edit box by using the down-pointing arrow to the right of each edit box to scroll through the index. Highlight the desired term and press Enter to copy it to the edit box.
• See Combining Search Words and Truncation
• When the search statement has been typed in to the boxes press search. The number of records will be displayed at the bottom of the window.
• Click on Results to view the list of records in the results window
• Click on a record to bring the full record to the main window.

Combining Search Words

AND : apple and tree will retrieve records containing both those words.

OR : apple or tree will retrieve all records containing only one or more of those words.

NOT : apple not tree will retrieve only those records containing the word apple but not tree.

Truncation

? -for a single character using - e.g.vase? will find vases, vasen, and all five letter words beginning with vase, but not vase itself.

*- for multiple characters - e.g. vase* will find vase, vases, vasen, vasemaker.

Saving results

Printing

Individual entries can be printed from the main window:

• Either by clicking on the print icon on the tool bar OR by selecting print from the File menu, OR by pressing CNTL+P on the keyboard.
• To print some or all of a results list from the results window, highlight the record(s). If no records are highlighted when print is pressed the whole list will be printed.

Downloading

Records can be downloaded to floppy disc:

• Select records by clicking on the records with the left mouse button while holding down the shift key on the keyboard. If no entries are selected, the entire list will be downloaded.
• Click on the floppy disc icon to open a 'save as' dialog box.

Logging off

• Select exit from the File menu.
• In the close window click Yes.