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School of Classics | Information for Current Postgraduate Students

Postgraduate Studies

 

E-Resources & E-Learning

 

What are E-Resources?

E-Resources are teaching and learning resources available electronically, either through the World Wide Web or through the University residential network. These include academic books, academic journals, photos and videos relating to the ancient world, as well as course materials, such as PowerPoint presentations and audio-recordings of lectures.

What is E-Learning?

E-Learning is the evolution of traditional teaching and learning techniques in the technological age. The Department of Classics is committed to providing face-to-face teaching of high quality and a supportive and caring environment for all its students. At the same time, E-Learning provides opportunities for learning and interactive pursuits that enhance the students’ experience and provide them with valuable skills for the future.

Why should you use E-Resources?

Teaching and learning materials available electronically provide you with a more enhanced experience of university education.

Books and journals are available 24 hours a day every day of the year for you to access from the library, from university accommodation or from home.

Electronic materials provide you with the opportunity to learn interactively beyond the lectures and seminars.

E-Resources Available to Students

There are several E-Resources that are available to Lampeter Classics students.

Here is a list with links:

NetLibrary     E-Book Provider
Moodle The University's Virtual Learning Environment
Oxford Reference Online   Major reference resource
Oxford Scholarship Online E-Book Provider
ACLS E-Book Provider
JSTOR  Journal Storage Online
Classics E-Resources Links page by the Classics Department
Encyclopaedia Britannica Online Edition of the EB
Cambridge Journals Online Online Editions of Journals by Cambridge University Press
Periodicals Archive Online  Journal Storage Online
TLL Thesaurus Linguae Latinae

          

Moodle

Moodle is the university’s Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). A VLE provides students and staff with an online space for course presentation, storing and presenting course materials, presenting and submitting assessed and unassessed coursework, as well as a space for discussion for all students taking a course and the staff responsible for it.

From 2009-2010, all of our undergraduate teaching will become available through Moodle. In addition, all language courses, including their assessment, will be available through Moodle.

The department is fully cognisant that this new platform for course presentation and assessment will come as a surprise to many students. However, the university has committed to a high-class and quality VLE experience for all students. Undergraduate students will find all the necessary course materials and assessment materials for the modules they are taking on Moodle from October 2009. Course materials include handouts, assignments, lecture and seminar reading and lecture podcasts.  Students taking language courses will find all the necessary course materials and assessment materials on Moodle from October 2009. Course materials include grammar and literature handouts, exercises independent of the course book (for Beginners and Intermediate), as well as secondary reading for those courses using a set text.  Assessment materials include mock timetests and examinations so that students can get used to the new assessment formats before they have to take an assessed test or examination.

Further, Moodle will provide students a common online space to discuss the course and its content, ask questions of the module tutors and receive guidance on their work (assessed and unassessed). The department is committed to providing its students at all levels with excellent quality teaching and a great learning experience. Help for accessing and using the university VLE will be provided; for any questions or help, please contact your module tutor or the Moodle co-ordinator for the department (Dr Errietta Bissa).

 

Moodle Practicalities

You can access the University of Wales Lampeter Moodle space here.

You should not try to access any courses before the beginning of term.

You will need to sign in with your university username and password. If you do not have these, please contact the University Computing Service. If you have problems logging on to Moodle, please contact Dr Errietta Bissa.

 

JSTOR

JSTOR is the greatest electronic archive of academic journals. It has extensive Classical Studies and Archaeology collections, as well as collections of Women Studies, History, Anthropology, Art History, Education, History of Science & Technology, Linguistics, Philosophy and Religion journals.

All journals on JSTOR are academic journals and they appear in printed form as well. JSTOR has a moving wall, so journal volumes published in the last three years will not appear on JSTOR.

JSTOR is accessible through University computers in the Library, the UCS Computer Rooms, as well as remotely via Athens. If you do not have an Athens account, then please contact the University of Wales Lampeter Library Services here.

Classical Studies journals on JSTOR:

American Journal of Archaeology 1897-2003

The American Journal of Archaeology and of the History of the Fine Arts 1885-1896  

The American Journal of Philology 1880-2003

The Athenian Agora 1953-1998

Britannia 1970-2005

Classical Antiquity 1982-2005

California Studies in Classical Antiquity 1968-1979  

The Classical Journal 1905-2005

Classical Philology 1906-2003

The Classical Quarterly 1907-2003

The Classical Review 1887-2003

The Classical World 1957-2005

The Classical Weekly 1907-1957  

Corinth 1932-2003

Greece & Rome 1931-2003

Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 1890-2004

Hermes 1866-2004

Hesperia 1932-2005

Hesperia Supplements 1937-2005

Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte 1950-2004

The Journal of Hellenic Studies 1880-2005

The Journal of Roman Studies 1911-2005

Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome 1915-2003

Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome. Supplementary Volumes 2002-2003

Mnemosyne 1852-2003

Phoenix 1946-2005

Phronesis 1955-2003

Supplementary Papers of the American School of Classical Studies in Rome 1905-1908

Transactions of the American Philological Association (1974-) 1974-2003

Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association 1897-1972   Transactions of the American Philological Association (1869-1896) 1869-1896

For a quick introduction to using JSTOR, please see the presentation in the P:drive (E-Resources folder under Classics).

 

NetLibrary

NetLibrary is an e-book provider for the University of Wales Lampeter. It has extensive Classical Studies and Ancient History collections.

All books in NetLibrary are books published by known publishers in printed format.

NetLibrary is accessible through University computers in the Library, the UCS Computer Rooms, as well as remotely via Athens. If you do not have an Athens account, then please contact the University of Wales Lampeter Library Services here.

For a list of e-books available freely to students, please see the Lampeter E-Books section in the Departmental E-Resources page.

For a quick introduction to using NetLibrary, please see the presentation in the P:drive (E-Resources folder under Classics).

Cambridge Journals Online

Cambridge Journals Online is an important resource, since it provides access to a number of journals published by Cambridge University Press. You have access to the recent years’ online editions of journals the library subscribes to.

List of Classics Journals Available from CJO

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 2003, 2002, 2001

Cambridge Archaeological Journal 2009, Vol.19 ; 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001

Greece & Rome 2007

The Classical Quarterly 2006

 

Periodicals Archive Online

Periodicals Archive Online is a Journal storage facility similar to JSTOR (although with very different format). All articles are available as PDF files.

List of Classics Journals Available from PAO

Arethusa  1968-1995

Bulletin of the history of medicine 1933-1995

Classical antiquity 1968-1995

Classical world 1907-1996

Greek, Roman and Byzantine studies 1958-1995

History of science 1962-1990

History today 1951-1995

The Classical bulletin  1925-1995

 

Thesaurus Linguae Latinae

The TLL (Thesaurus Linguae Latinae) is the comprehensive scholarly dictionary of ancient Latin from the earliest times down to AD 600. The dictionary articles result from a critical inspection and interpretation of surviving material. They allow the user to follow the development of meaning and usage in each word. The Online Edition includes all the printed volumes of the TLL (A-P). At this stage, the TLL is available only to students in campus, but it will become available to students at a distance later this year.

Updated: 07/10/09

If there is something you think should be added or changed in these pages, please contact Errietta Bissa.

 

 

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