Current Awareness

Keeping up to date with new research that becomes available in your discipline is continuous professional acitivity which is good to start while you are studying. This alerts you to new discoveries and innovations in your area of interest. From an employability perspective you can see trends in research and funding that can help you  in your career aspirations.

Set up alerts in journals

You can also set up alerts for new issues of journals are available using BrowZine, the library’s ejournal platform.

You’ll need to create an individual account in Browzine with an email that you would like alerts sent to. You can then add your favourite journal titles to ‘My bookshelf’

You can use the links in the menu bar to browse all the ejournals we have in Classical Studies at Kent.

Scan the sector

These resources listed below are specific classics and archaeology sites to keep informed of recent research and studies:

• Bryn Mawr Classical Review (1990+)
  Full-text book reviews covering all aspects of classical scholarship.
• Digital Classicist: Current projects
  Lists “concise information on projects applying computing technologies to Classical/Ancient Historical research.”
• Eidolon
  Archive Only – last post 2020. “Classics without fragility”. Discussion pieces on the cutting edge of Classical Studies and its connection with contemporary issues.
• ABZU
  Database to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world. Also, follow developments related to the digital humanities at ABZU’s blog, The Ancient World Online (AWOL).
• Archaeology Data Service (ADS)
  The (ADS) aims to collect, describe, catalogue, preserve, and provide user support for digital resources that are created as a product of archaeological research.
• Current Archaeology
• Council for British Archaeology
• PhilPapers – Database
  A “directory of online philosophy articles and books by academic philosophers” in all areas of philosophy. An excellent source for current awareness of what is happening in philosophical research.
• Classical Reception Studies Network (CRSN)
• What’s New in Papyrology (to 2016)
  Blog listing “recent publications of papyri & ostraca 4th BC-8th AD.”
• Current Epigraphy
  Blog publishing “workshop and conference announcements; notices of discoveries, publications and reviews; project reports; and descriptive links to digital epigraphic projects.”
• Guide de l’épigraphiste: Supplements
  Downloadable supplements to the Guide de l’épigraphiste (3rd ed.).
• Byzantine Studies Association of North America
• The Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies