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The following online databases are good sources for finding journal articles and other publications about science and technology in the ancient Greek and Roman world.
This index is a comprehensive guide to the books, journal articles, and other publications that have been published since 1924 on all aspects of Greco-Roman antiquity and the early Christian world, from 2000 BCE to 800 CE. Some of its annotations are in French, but don't let that scare you. It is searched in English, and it will alert you to the existence of many publications written in English.
This database is an excellent source for finding scholarly articles. These are in the publications labelled as "academic journals." It also tells where to find non-scholarly articles published in popular magazines. These are labelled as "periodicals." It covers over 3,500 different publications published since 1982 across a wide range of subject areas, including ancient studies, history, science, and technology. The full text of articles published since 1994 is often available online.
This index tells what articles have been published since 1984 in the most important scholarly journals in many fields in the humanities, including history and ancient studies.
The full text of many of the articles is available online from 1995, or later, to the present. For indexing of articles in humanities journals prior to 1984, use Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective.
This database indexes articles published in the most important journals in many fields in the humanities and social sciences, including history and ancient studies, from 1907-1984.
For coverage of articles published from 1985 to the present, use Humanities Full Text and/or Social Sciences Full Text.
This database is a good place to look for articles published since 1984 in nearly 300 scholarly, professional, and popular periodicals in all scientific fields. While most of the articles deal with the sciences in more recent times, scientific topics in the ancient Greek and Roman world are well represented.
This index is a good source to find articles in academic, professional, and technical society journals, as well as conference proceedings, in a variety of applied science and technology fields, such as engineering and applied mathematics.