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L’Année philologique on the Internet
Éric Rebillard, General editor
(Cornell University)
The Database History The Offices of the APh
The Database
– 600,000 bibliographic records for the years 1949 to 2005, with 12,500 new records added each year.
– the international offices analyze 1,500 periodicals each year as well as 500 articles in collections and conference papers.
– publication information for articles is accompanied by a brief abstract
– all the records are classified in a two-parts system: Ancient authors and texts, Subjects and disciplines.
– multiple possibilities for research are available:
- by modern authors
- by full text
- by ancient authors and texts
- by subjects and disciplines through a multilevel index showing the different levels of classification
- by word(s) in the title
- by publisher
- by collection
- by periodical
with the possibility of limiting the search by year of publication or by a range of years, and also by modern language (for French, English, German, Italian and Spanish).
– all the criteria are able to be combined in a History of Research to create complex searches.
– a facility for selecting records for printing or exporting.
The format of the bibliographical references conforms as closely as possible to that of the printed volumes. However, cross-references (which point to a single item under different rubrics) and review entries (which contain information about reviews of books already noted in a previous volume) are now included in the original entry. For collections, each volume is connected by HTML links to the articles it contains so that users can move from the volume to its constituent articles and vice-versa.
A Help file and notes on the various search screens provide help to users.
The data may contain omissions or errors, or may be late in appearing. The SIBC cannot guarantee the accuracy, relevance, exhaustiveness, currentness, reliability or proficiency of any individual use of information made accessible by the Année philologique database. Users are invited to submit corrections by e-mail to aph_error@vjf.cnrs.fr.
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History
Founded in Paris by the latinist Jules Marouzeau (1878-1964), Professor at the Sorbonne, L’Année philologique first appeared in 1928. The first volume recorded the publications of 1924-26, and the second appeared that same year with the publications of 1927. Since then, an annual volume brings together all the bibliography for each year. Juliette Ernst (1900-2001), J. Marouzeau's principal collaborator, became director of the Année philologique in 1964. The next year she created an editorial office at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill (USA), and another at Heidelberg, Germany in 1972. A third office was opened in Lausanne, Switzerland in 1977. Two new offices were then opened in 1996 in Genoa, Italy and in 1999 in Grenada, Spain. Pierre-Paul Corsetti is at the head of the Année philologique which is part of UPR 76 of the CNRS.
The Année philologique is published by the Société Internationale de Bibliographie Classique with support from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France), the University of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, Ohio), Ohio University (Athens, Ohio), the National Endowment for the Humanities (USA), the American Philological Association, the Heidelberg Akademie der Wissenschaften, the Académie suisse des sciences humaines, the Université de Gênes (Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Centro di Servizi Bibliotecari di Lettere e Filosofia, D.AR.FI.CL.ET.), the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (Rome), the Université de Grenade (Vicerrectorado de Investigación y Relaciones Internacionales; Facultad de Filosofía y Letras), the Fédération internationale des associations d'études classiques, and Unesco, on the recommendation of the Conseil international de la philosophie et des sciences humaines.
Fifty-six years (1949-2005) of the Année philologique (volumes 20 to 76) have now been put on-line by the Société Internationale de Bibliographie Classique, under the direction of Éric Rebillard (Cornell University), in collaboration with the American Philological Association and the Database of Classical Bibliography. Volumes 20 to 63 were digitized by the Database of Classical Bibliography under the direction of Dee L. Clayman. Volumes 64 to 65 were digitized by the French Office of the Année philologique with the support of the CNRS. Volumes 66 to 76 were assembled by the program AnPhil developed by Richard Goulet and exported directly into SGML. Each summer a new volume will be added to the database with the next update planned for the summer of 2008 when bibliography from 2006 will be added. The digitization of volumes before vol. 20 is being undertaken by the DCB.
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The international organization of the Année philologique (in 2008)
Administration and the French editorial staff : CNRS - UPR 76, Villejuif
General Director: Pierre-Paul Corsetti
Secretary: Marie-Josée Mangin
Editors: Frederic Alpi, Dina Bacalexi, Emmanuelle Capet, Michael Chase, Pierre Langlois (not part of UPR 76), Ingrid Robbe-Grillet, Benoît Zawisza.
Correspondent for Switzerland: Brigitte Maire (Lausanne)
American Office : Cincinnati, OH
Director: Lisa D. Carson
Assistant director: Shirley Werner
Editor: Jody Gordon
Zweigstelle Heidelberg : Forschungsstelle der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften
Director : Prof. Dr. Ernst A. Schmidt
Editors: Regina Eickelkam, Regine Klar, Werner Schubert
Centro Italiano (CIAPh) : Università di Genova (D.AR.FI.CL.ET.), Università di Bologna, Università di Pavia
Director: Prof. Franco Montanari (Genova)
Editors: Enrico Magnelli, Laura Moisello, Fausto Montana, Camillo Neri.
Redacción Española (REAPh) : Universidad de Granada - Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
Director : Prof. Pedro Pablo Fuentes González
Assistant director : Ana Manzanares Ruiz
Editors : Álvaro Fernández Fernández, Prof. María del Carmen Hoces Sánchez.
Canadian Office: University of Victoria, Department of Greek and Roman Studies
Brian Moss.
The Database of Classical Bibliography
The DCB is a project of the American Philological Association located at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (USA) with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities (USA), private charitable foundations, and individual donors.
Director and General Editor: Dee L. Clayman
Associate Director: Emily Fairey
Editors: Paul McBreen, Colin Pilney, Cameron Pearson, Sean Lake.
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