{"id":5523,"date":"2014-04-07T08:38:49","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T13:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/woodruff\/?p=5523"},"modified":"2014-04-07T12:42:51","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T17:42:51","slug":"oboclassics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/woodruff\/news\/oboclassics","title":{"rendered":"Oxford Bibliographies Online (OBO) Classics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Several years ago, when Zotero <\/a>was young, scholars recognized open citation software\u2019s potential to create online, sharable, free subject bibliographies that could aid students and\u00a0 scholars across the globe.\u00a0 One such endeavor was Ancient World Open Bibliographies<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 The blog supports their project to collect bibliographies about subjects relevant to studies of the ancient world (as NYU defines it \u2013 \u2018from the Pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, from the beginnings of human habitation to the late antique \/ early Islamic period.\u2019)\u00a0 The bibliographies are found on a\u00a0 dedicated wiki site<\/a> and at the online platform Zotero<\/a>.\u00a0 AWOB still offers a wealth of\u00a0 knowledge for classics scholars, but it has not been updated regularly.<\/p>\n

On to the landscape appears Oxford University Press, with their own subscription-based bibliographies.\u00a0\u00a0 Oxford Bibliographies Online: Classics i<\/a>s a guide to scholarly literature in the field, covers major categories of research with bibliographies and recommended resources. Articles are written by established scholars.<\/p>\n

\"Screen<\/a>Can\u2019t think of a good paper topic?\u00a0 Click on the \u201cLearn more about this subject\u201d link and scroll to the bottom for a list of articles that include Contributor information.\u00a0\u00a0 Here you may learn that you want to research Plato\u2019s Apology of Socrates<\/a>.\u00a0 The article entry was composed by Charles Platter from the University of Georgia.<\/p>\n

Platter\u2019s entry includes an introduction and a list of titles called \u201cGeneral Overviews\u201d\u00a0 You can find the recommended resources in Worldcat<\/a> (free version)\u00a0 or Google Books<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 If you used the former, a few more clicks will get you to the title.\u00a0 First, try the \u201cSearch discoverE (Emory University Library Resources)\u201d LINK to locate the call number.\u00a0 If that search is unsuccessful, use the OCLC FirstSearch link (Emory-only,\u00a0 subscription version), click the FindIt@Emory button, and finally, use the Request document via ILLiad<\/em> (Interlibrary Loan)<\/em><\/a>, to order a loan of the book.<\/p>\n

This entry also includes information about bibliographies, editions, translations, and commentaries on the canonical Apology. <\/i>\u00a0Not least, you can use the right sidebar to find other relevant articles.<\/p>\n

Oxford University Press and the Editorial Board of the Oxford Bibliographies Online. Classics <\/a>are frequently updating and adding additional contributions (50-75 articles per year), so the usefulness of this online resource should continue to grow.<\/p>\n

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Several years ago, when Zotero was young, scholars recognized open citation software\u2019s potential to create online, sharable, free subject bibliographies that could aid students and\u00a0 scholars across the globe.\u00a0 One such endeavor was Ancient World Open Bibliographies.\u00a0\u00a0 The blog supports their project to collect bibliographies about subjects relevant to studies of the ancient world (as Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":194,"featured_media":5524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/woodruff\/files\/2014\/04\/Screen-Shot-2014-04-03-at-11.06.49-AM.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8NNKS-1r5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/woodruff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/woodruff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/woodruff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/woodruff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/194"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/woodruff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5523"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/woodruff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5533,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/woodruff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5523\/revisions\/5533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/woodruff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/woodruff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/woodruff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/woodruff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}