Annapolis Greenfield Library

Online Resources

Library Links

The Greenfield Library subscribes to a number of scholarly online resources which are listed below. These online resources can be accessed from the public computers located on the first floor of the library, from one's dorm room, and in the faculty and student computer labs. ARTstor and JSTOR can be accessed by St. John's faculty, students and staff from home via remote patron authentication.

If you would like assistance on how to use the online resources, or how to connect to these resources, please speak with the reader services librarian at 410.295.6928, or email at cara.sabolcik@sjca.edu

ARTstor
ARTstor is an electronic database that contains over 750,000 high-resolution digital images, descriptive data for all images, and software tools to enhance the use of the digital collections. Images from a variety of cultures, time periods, and subject areas are available on ARTstor. Main subject areas include: architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, anthropology and archeology. Users can search by keyword, date range, object classifications, and geographical area and can browse by collection, object classification, and geographical location. The software tools allow users to pan and zoom images, to save images online for later retrieval, and to create presentations.

Access ARTstor from off-campus. (St. John's faculty, students, and staff can input their library barcode in the Borrower ID field to gain access to this resource.)

ArticleFirst
ArticleFirst provides article citations in over 16,000 journals in a vast array of subject areas, ranging from the sciences, arts, and humanities, to technology and popular culture. Article citations in this online resource are from 1990 to the present. Full text articles are not available on ArticleFirst. Interlibrary loan requests can be placed for articles in journals that the library does not own.

Encyclopedia Brittanica
An online version of the Encyclopedia Brittanica, with over 100,000 articles on history, arts, sciences, and more. This resource contains thousands of photographs, illustrations, videos, sound files, timelines, a World Atlas, and links to approximately 300,000 websites in select subject areas. Other features included are the Gateway to the Classics with 225 short stories, plays, and essays by 140 authors, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Merriam Webster's Thesaurus and over 4,000 quotations from the Merriam Webster's Dictionary of Quotations.

JSTOR
JSTOR is an electronic digitization project that provides access to high-resolution full-text articles from hundreds of scholarly journals. Articles are available from journals in several subject areas including: philosophy, political science, language and literature, general science, history, and mathematics. Users can search by keyword, author, title, date range, and browse by subject and journal title. Articles can be printed or downloaded to one's desktop for later viewing.

Access JSTOR from off-campus. (St. John's faculty, students, and staff can input their library barcode in the Borrower ID field to gain access to this resource.)

Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the authority for the meaning, history, usage, and pronunciation of over half a million words in the English language. The online version is an updated version of the twenty-volume Second Edition and three-volume Additions Series. The online OED is updated quarterly with over 2,500 new and revised entries. A word lookup tool is available to help find definitions, pronunciations, variant spellings, and the etymology and history for any given word.

Perseus Project
Sponsored by Tufts University, the Perseus Project is an excellent resource for the classics. Perseus contains hundreds of primary full-text Greek and Roman works, and secondary Greek and Roman resources. Various word reference tools are available on Perseus, including: a Greek/Latin/English lexicon, English to Greek word search, English to Latin word search, word lookup tools (the lookup tools help find an instance of a word throughout a text or several texts), an ancient world atlas, and nearly 75,000 classical art images. (You do not need to be connected to the campus network to use this source).

Philosopher's Index
Philosopher's Index is a comprehensive online index from 1940 to the present in the following subject areas: philosophy, ethics, aesthetics, political philosophy, epistemology, logic, metaphysics, and the philosophy of law, religion, science, history, education, and language. Philosopher's Index is updated quarterly and includes abstracts for books and journal articles, book reviews and citations from over 560 journals in 30 different languages. One can browse by subject and author indexes, or perform basic keyword and advanced keyword searches.

Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG)
Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG) is a digital library that provides access to over 3,800 authors 12,000 texts in Greek, from the time of Homer, 8th century B.C, to the fall of Byzantium in 1453 A.D. Textual searches can be performed to find instances of Greek words or phrases. Users can save their searches and view them later by setting up a user profile. The TLG is updated quarterly with new authors and works.

WorldCat
Worldcat is a combined catalog containing over 98 million bibliographic records from 60,000 individual library's holdings around the world. This resource contains records for a variety of items in over 400 languages from 1000 B.C. to the present. Items included in WorldCat are as follows: books, journals, articles, audio-visual materials, theses, musical scores, electronic books, cultural artifacts, websites and more. Interlibrary loan requests can be placed for books that the library does not own.

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