L’Année Philologique (APh)

The Database in Numbers

1.480.00+

Records

With 1,480,000+ entries, our bibliography covers a wide array of subjects related to ancient Greek and Roman civilizations.

1.000+

Journals Covered

We index over 1000 journals, providing a comprehensive resource for academic publications on ancient Greek and Roman civilizations.

14.000+

New Records/Year

more than 14,000 references are added annually.

Reasons to subscribe

Broad Coverage

L’Année philologique (APh) covers a wide array of subjects, including Greek and Latin literature and linguistics—which includes early Christian texts and patristics—Greek and Roman history, art, archaeology, philosophy, religion, mythology, music, science, and scholarly subspecialties such as numismatics, papyrology, and epigraphy.

An International Bibliography

L’Année philologique (APh) is international in character, not only in terms of the origins of the publications it indexes, but also in terms of its production, with teams from France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States collaborating together and coordinated by the editorial director to keep the database up-to-date.

Multi-Lingual Interface

Abstracts of journal articles are provided in English, German, Spanish, French, or Italian. Book entries may include tables of contents and book review information.

Team

L’Année Philologique is realised in collaboration with the Société Internationale de Bibliographie Classique.

Editorial Director:

Pedro Pablo Fuentes González (University of Granada)

Offices:

Rédaction française de L’Année Philologique: Université de Lille 3

Münchener Arbeitsstelle der Année Philologique

Centro Italiano dell’Année Philologique (CIAPh)

Redacción Española de L’Année Philologique (REAPh)

Rédaction suisse de L’Année Philologique

American Office of L’Année Philologique

Rédaction grecque de L’Année Philologique

A Product Crafted With the Users in Mind

You will find:

DOI links to the full text of a book or article
Live links to ancient authors and texts in the Library of Latin Texts, Dictionnaire des philosophes antiques, and full-text resources on the Classical Works Knowledge Base
Several export formats (EndNote, Zotero, RefWorks, RIS, Microsoft Office Word)
Multi-lingual interface
English, French, Spanish, German and Italian thesaurus
Metrics component that enables users to examine in detail trends in Classics, see journal profiles (e.g. information on subjects and periods covered), and find authors’ publication profiles
Compatible with OpenURL, facilitating linkage to full text
Email alerts

More About

New Interface

Since February 2024 we gave APh’s interface an important update with improved search functionalities. A beta version is now available for testing. The old version of the interface remains available.
For more details, please visit https://about.brepolis.net/brepolis-bibliographies-new-interface-beta/

A short introduction to the new interface of the APh is available here (ppt).

Full Coverage List

The list of covered journals is available here.

The list (PDF) of journals abbreviations used in L’Année philologique can be found here.

Related Database

Apart from L’Année Philologique (covering Antiquity), Brepols publishes a wide range of other online bibliographies: the International Medieval Bibliography and the Bibliographie de civilisation médiévale (covering the Middle Ages), the International Bibliography of Humanism and the Renaissance (covering Early Modern History), the Bibliography of British and Irish History, and the Index Religiosus (covering theology, religious sciences, and Church history).

Linked Databases

Live links to the biographies of Greek and Roman Philosophers in the Dictionnaire des Philosophes Antiques (DPhA)

Live links to ancient authors and texts in the Library of Latin Texts (published by Brepols) and to external full-text resources on the Classical Works Knowledge Base, including PHI Classical Texts, Perseus Digital Library and Thesaurus Linguae Graecae

More Material

Leaflets

English version (PDF)

Flyer

English version (PDF)

Slides

New interface (Beta version, February 2024): PPT.

Videos

Record of the webinar given by Mackenzie “Mack” Zalin (Librarian for Classics at Johns Hopkins University and Chair of the Advisory Board of the American Office of L’Année philologique to the Society for Classical Studies) and Chris VandenBorre (Project Manager, Brepols) for an overview of recent innovations in APh.