Where do you get your reference material?

[damianlz]

This may sound simple enough but for someone who is stuck in Oz I am constantly hearing about amazing papers, discoveries, sources etc that go into far greater depth than the annual 'generic book about the roman army'.

Id love to know where you guys get your sources from, papers, theories, news, I am subscribed to several news feeds and a few libraries that only seem to post their students works up on board and I really want to expand my horizons. So many people here know about the variance in finds, the latest helmet fragments, marching theories etc and I'd absolutely love to draw knowledge from these sources. So my question is; where do you go for your resources?

Regards
Damian

[jvrjenivs]

-Bookshops (given an ISBN you can order almost every book online)
-Specialist bookshops (Oxbow and Antikmakler are two important ones in this field of interest)
-Scirus.com is a good online scientific search engine.
-Ethos: online english thesis collection (PDF's are available for free download of most of the thesisses
-Academic library (where you can get articles from the most important magazines, like JSTOR, etc.)

[Vindex]

Shame I can't just link you to my Favourites folder! :wink:

Tends to be Roman Army specific:

http://www.csun.edu/~hcfll004/armybibl.html

http://jubal9.tripod.com/RomArmyBibliog.html

http://www.dur.ac.uk/archaeology/researc...ect&id=485

http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/

http://www.romansociety.org/imago

http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.co.uk...ccess.html

http://www.hs-augsburg.de/~harsch/Chrono..._pe00.html

http://vindolanda.csad.ox.ac.uk/

http://www.roman-britain.org/index.htm

I'll stop now as a lot of this is UK based (although not all) only which may or may not be of any use to you! But the last site has a LOT of information, including the Roman Inscriptions in Britain (RIB) which another RAT member kindly reminded me of!

And of course http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/home.html

Favourite book sources (when Amazon isn't really competitive!)

http://www.abebooks.co.uk/

http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/welcome.jsp

http://www.oxbowbooks.com/

Have fun

[jvrjenivs]

Don't forget http://www.livius.org

[Epictetus]

If you are looking for the newest studies, here is what I do to stay informed: every year I check which books the Journal of Roman Studies and Britannia have reviewed.

Note they don't review everything, and are perhaps not as military-centric as most people here, but the Roman Society is an excellent source of information.

[damianlz]

Thank you all soo much! I'm going to be dug into these for days. I hope i cna contribute to this list one day

[caiusbeerquitius]

Very helpful:
http://www.gnomon.ku-eichstaett.de/Gnomon/Gnomon.html

http://www.ubi-erat-lupa.org/

[Robert Vermaat]

Simple searches in Google also help. You come across the strangest pdf's on the strangest websites. Plus, each day there's a lot of older material being scanned by a great number of people.

[D B Campbell]

http://www.gnomon.ku-eichstaett.de/Gnomon/Gnomon.html

I'd forgotten about the Gnomon web site. Another one I used to use is the Berlin Alte Geschichte web portal: http://ag.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/ (also available in English) -- especially the "Links" page.

[S. Marcer]

Good Day to everybody!
I used to use the web portal Persee, where you can get articles in french (but not only) from the most important french scientific journals (organized by discipline).
Almost all the articles are free download PDF up-to-date 2007/2008.
I use a lot the archeology section, you can find the principal territorial archaeological journals of France (ex. Revue Archéologique de l'Ouest, Revue archéologique de Narbonnaise, Revue archéologique de Picardie, Revue archéologique du Centre de la France, etc)

http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/pre...discipline

[Vindex]

Good topic, Damian! I'm getting some good info too :wink: