We’re thrilled to announce an upcoming webinar introducing the brand-new interface of Sources Chrétiennes Online (SCO)! Following last year’s major upgrade of the Library of Latin Texts and related databases, SCO has now received a complete interface overhaul—making your research experience smoother, faster, and more intuitive than ever.
Webinar Details
To accommodate different time zones, we’re offering two sessions on Wednesday, April 29, 2026:
Morning Session: 11:00 AM (CEST)
Afternoon Session: 5:00 PM (CEST) / 11:00 AM (EDT) / 8:00 AM (PDT)
Each session will last 15 minutes, followed by a live Q&A where you can ask questions and explore the new features with our team.
Who Should Attend?
This webinar is ideal for researchers, librarians, and students who want to make the most of SCO’s enhanced capabilities.
How to Register
To register for the webinar, please complete the registration form. Once registered, you’ll receive a confirmation email with further details.
Following last year’s major overhaul of the Library of Latin Texts and related databases, Sources Chrétiennes Online now also benefits from a fully renewed interface. While the underlying data structure remains unchanged, the research experience has been significantly enhanced: smarter search tools, richer metadata exploration, improved filtering, and new vocabulary analytics make navigating SCO faster and more intuitive than ever.
Below we highlight some of the new features, with more details available in the database manual and our recent blog posts on innovations in the BREPOLiS full-text databases.
Searching and filtering
Search in the original and/or translation
You can search for a term or phrase in the original text (first box) or translation (second box), or query both at the same time to find where the term has been translated in a specific way.
Filter your results
The new interface makes it much easier to filter your results and see the occurrences for one specific person (i.e. author, translator, etc.), work, style, genre, topic, or area of origin.
Compose your custom corpus
By combining various search criteria, you can also finetune the corpus you are searching before performing the query itself.
Persons and their features
Enhanced metadata
Learn more about the person. When were they active? Which works are attributed or otherwise linked to them? Which other persons are associated with them? In which online resources can we discover more about them?
Discover the person’s vocabulary
Discover how often a lexical item is used throughout the works related to a person. By dividing these lists into the different roles in which the person occurs, discussions on authorship are being taken into account.
Works and their features
Enhanced metadata
Learn more about a work and how it can be contextualized: its author and other related persons, its date of composition, its genre, its topic, and its area of origin. Find out more about the work in the Sources Chrétiennesvolume and in various reference works.
Navigate through the work
Browse the table of contents of the work, either by structural elements or by the descriptive subdivisions added by the translator.
Discover the work’s vocabulary
Get an overview of which words (and inflected forms) are used throughout the work and their frequency. This feature works both for the edited original text and for the translation.
Volumes and their contents
Use the “Volumes” tab to browse through the volumes published over the years in the Sources Chrétiennes series and discover which works were published in each volume.
Reference works
Focus on a specific reference work (CPG, CPL, BHG, or BHL) to get a domain-specific overview of (e.g. hagiographical) texts.
Database statistics
Using the “More > Statistics” tab, you can browse through the more than 30 million words (original + translation) available in Sources Chrétiennes Online and focus on specific lexical items you are interested in.
Questions or feedback?
We welcome any questions or feedback on Sources Chrétiennes Online! Simply go to “More > Feedback” in the database and leave us a note.
We are pleased to announce a new update to Clavis Clavium, the open-access reference database maintained by Corpus Christianorum. This release brings the Open Access platform fully in line with the most recent data updates and introduces substantial additions and refinements across the Latin and Greek sections, enhancing reliability and discoverability for patristic research.
The update also improves the links with the Library of Latin Texts, ensuring closer alignment with its nomenclature and reference structure, and facilitating smoother navigation between both resources.
The MARC records for our Latin full-text databases – the Library of Latin Texts (LLT), the Archive of Celtic Latin Literature (ACLL), the Aristoteles Latinus Database (ALD), and the Electronic Monumenta Germaniae Historica (eMGH) – are now available for download directly from the databases.
As a result, the old Marc Records application will soon be removed from the BREPOLiS website.
As we have recently completed the data restructure of all four of these databases (see our previous blog post for more info), new sets of MARC records have been created to replace all previous ones. Institutional subscribers should update the links in their library catalogue accordingly if they haven’t done so already.
The new MARC records are available for download directly from the databases under the menu item “MORE” > “MARC”.
The Marc records for the online database Sources Chrétiennes Online (SCO) had already been available for download in the database itself under the menu item “More” > “Marc records”. A new set of Marc records for SCO will become available for download as soon as the SCO has received a new interface and data structure (scheduled for this spring).
On 13 March, the Society of Classical Studies will host a dedicated webinar on L’Année philologique (APh).
This session is designed to introduce participants to the effective use of L’Année philologique, the authoritative and comprehensive bibliographic database for Classical Studies. The webinar will focus in particular on its application to undergraduate research, while remaining relevant to faculty and librarians supporting students in the field.
You can find more information and register on the website of the Society of Classical Studies:
Over the past year, we have been implementing major enhancements across our bibliographic and full-text databases—improvements designed to make the use of our databases more accessible, intuitive, and efficient. In 2026, you will experience the full impact of these developments: redesigned interfaces and improved data models are now available for all bibliographies and will become available for all full-text databases. The citation plugin will establish itself as an essential benefit for users of our bibliographies, while the number of citations will increase significantly in the course of 2026. These upgrades, combined with further updates planned for selected Latin databases this year, ensure that our platform sets the standard for innovation and user experience.
Stay tuned—this newsletter will provide detailed insights into what’s new and how you can make the most of these enhancements. Download the Newsletter here.
Our goal is simple: make research on Latin literature in all its aspects faster, easier, and more intuitive. By restructuring the databases, we have:
simplified navigation across these large corpora of texts;
enhanced search functionality with new filters and perspectives;
added direct links to authoritative (online) resources for deeper exploration.
For a detailed look at the philosophy behind these changes, see our series of blog posts “Enriching the LLT”.
What’s New in Each Database
Most structural changes and additions to metadata have already been explained in these previous blog posts on the LLT. However, some database-specific features were added to the ACLL, ALD, and eMGH to better suit the needs of their specialist users.
Archive of Celtic-Latin Literature (ACLL)
We have integrated Lapidge & Sharpe numbers from the Bibliography of Celtic-Latin Literature (Dublin, 1985) as a dedicated reference work.
More detailed geographical filters based on Lapidge & Sharpe’s divisions help researchers focus on specific regions during their research.
Aristoteles Latinus Database (ALD)
In an enhanced form, we have maintained the navigation by Bekker columns, allowing direct access to translations or commentaries on specific Aristotelian passages.
Using the source language filter, users can quickly identify the original language behind each Latin translation.
Electronic Monumenta Germaniae Historica (eMGH)
Since texts in the MGH are often cited by their sub-series and volume (e.g. LL nat. Germ. 4,1), we have integrated the collection’s structure under “Reference Works”.
The redesigned interface works seamlessly on desktop and mobile, offering an intuitive search experience. This interface will also allow us to meet WCAG 2.1AA standards, ensuring accessibility for all users.
Looking Ahead
We are not stopping here: our CTLO team will continue to refine these databases and expand their corpora, while introducing new features as our platforms will continue to evolve. Our mission: enrich your research experience and broaden the panorama of (Latin) texts you can find in our databases.
The Library of Latin Texts (LLT) has been updated. After the database’s major overhaul earlier this year, a second content update has been completed. The addition of 42 new works brings the total number of words in the database to over 170 million.
For a detailed list of the texts added to the database, click here (PDF file).
The Database of Latin Dictionaries (DLD) was updated. This year’s update includes the Lexicon etymologicum by Giovanni Alessio (Napoli, 1976), a supplement to existing Latin and Romance etymological dictionaries, including the REW (Meyer-Lübke) already available in the database.
Starting December 2025, Brepolis Bibliographies include citation information through a new citation plugin. This tool is available in the hitlist and on the record page, providing the total number of citations along with the bibliographical details of the citing publications.
Although the number of citations included in this initial release is still limited, this is expected to increase significantly in the coming months. For now, most citations will be drawn from journals and books published between 2020 and 2024. Newly registered citations will be added monthly.
For a short presentation of the plugin:
The citation data are sourced from Perspecti, Brepols’ upcoming database on research in the Humanities. For more information on Perspecti, see Perspecti plugin – Perspecti
Since the launch of the citation plugin in December 2025, the number of citations included in Brepolis bibliographies has increased by 76%.
