Aegyptiaca, the literature database of the Institute for Egyptology and Coptology of the WWU Münster comprises all acquisitions made by the institute since 1987. This includes information on journals and series by the use of keywords. Retrospective work (aiming at the year 1822) continually supplements the database.

Browsing the entire catalogue of the Bavarian State Library the Special Subject Catalogue for Ancient Studies prioritizes search results of publications in the field of Ancient Studies and Classics.

All search results are sorted in order of relevance, including publications on other fields of study. This ensures an interdisciplinary approach on the query and a wide choice of search results.

Funded by the DFG (German Research Foundation), the “Codices iconographici” of the Bavarian State Library were digitized and are gradually released to the public. Currently available are the digital edition of the Schmeller Repertorium and a searchable transcript of a structured excerpt. New descriptions and full digitization of ca. 130 objects from the 17th century have been completed.

Browsing the entire catalogue of the Bavarian State Library the Special Subject Catalogue for Ancient Studies prioritizes search results of publications in the field of Ancient Studies and Classics.

All search results are sorted in order of relevance, including publications on other fields of study. This ensures an interdisciplinary approach on the query and a wide choice of search results.

Since around 1950 the Bavarian State Library has been documenting research publications on the collections of the Department of Manuscripts and Rare Books. This documentation is based on systematic evaluation of the library’s acquisitions (special prints, specimen copies, monographs and journals) and recently also on retrospective analysis of full text journals and databases.

Funded by the DFG (German Research Foundation), in 2003 the 113.000 records of the old card catalogue (“Literaturkatalog”) were digitized and integrated into the database.

The database is constantly enhanced by ongoing evaluation work.

The Greek and Roman Antiquities Departmental Library collects books and journals of all academic projects on Ancient Studies conducted by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

Methodical collecting started during the 19th century but older collections date back to the 16th century.

The reference library is open to the public for academic use.

BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine), operated by the Bielefeld University Library, is one of the largest search engines dedicated to academic (open access) resources worldwide. Metadata from freely accessible repositories is regularly indexed. The portal PropylaeumSEARCH includes a relevant selection of resources related to Ancient Studies. This selection is based on content carrying Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC). Since DDC classification in BASE is partly an automatic process, errors may occur from time to time and search results from other subject areas may wrongly appear in the selection. Not all publications included in BASE are freely accessible (open access), but direct access is frequently possible through license agreements (usually on the basis of your IP).

KIRKE is a catalogue of internet resources concerning Classical Studies. These internet resources are indexed by the Bavarian State Library and are based on a collection of the Institute of Classical Philology at the Humboldt Universität Berlin.

The Database Information System (DBIS) is a cooperative service listing scientific databases. It comprises freely accessible databases as well as those needing to be licensed by a specific library. Currently the DBIS is listing over 13.000 databases. These include media on CD-ROM and DVD, but for the most part the information is available online.

The Ancient Studies section is integrated in PropylaeumSearch.

The library of the Archaeological Heritage Office of Saxony is the third largest special subject library on Pre- and Early History in East Germany. By exchanging publications with more than 350 partners all over the world the library is able to offer a great variety of the latest archaeological literature. The collection’s main focus is on publications concerning Saxony from prehistoric times to present age and on special subject literature on Europe from Stone Age to Early Modern Age.

The Electronic Journals Library is a service to facilitate the use of scholarly journals on the internet. It offers a fast, structured and unified interface to access full-text articles online. The participating libraries provide their users access to the journals they subscribe to. The journals are presented in lists sorted by research area. An updated list is generated by the database according to the member library's specifications each time it is accessed. The availability of full-text access is indicated by traffic-light symbols according to the license situation of each member library.

The Ancient Studies section is integrated in PropylaeumSearch.

The database iDAI.bibliography/ZENON includes the library collections of all DAI departments, the DEI Amman and the Winckelmann Society as well as retrodigitized source materials and e-resources. Books, journals, essays and reviews are catalogued descriptively, subject oriented, and topographically. Listings of new acquisitions are available. Connecting the bibliographical data to other portals of the DAI (e.g. iDAI.gazetteer) is in progress.

This section of the ZENON online catalogue covers all publications on Archaeology (i.e. essays, monographs and journals) of the three Berlin DAI libraries: Eurasia Department, Department of Oriental Studies and the Berlin Head Office. Records of e-publications and retrodigitized publications are available.

The Gnomon Bibliographic Database (GBD) is one of the most extensive database systems in Classical Studies (Ancient History, Epigraphy, Numismatics, Papyrology, Classical Philology, Classical Archaeology and Archaeology of the Roman Provinces, Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Pre- and Early History, Hebrew Bible and New Testament, Early Church History and Patristics, Jewish Studies) including publications on the history of scholarship. The GBD was founded in 1991 by Prof. Dr. Jürgen Malitz (Eichstätt) and includes monographs, anthologies, articles in journals, reviews and encyclopaedias in all relevant academic languages searchable in detail with a comprehensive multilingual thesaurus (currently ca. 25.000 keywords).

The Saxony-Anhalt State Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology offers bibliographical records of monographs on archaeological subjects that were acquired by the State Office’s two libraries. In addition, the collections of four formerly private libraries can be searched.

The University Library Heidelberg offers part of its Special Subject Collection Classical Archaeology as full text publications (monographs and journals). The searchable full text collection consists of digitized literature from 1530 to 2000.

The University Library Heidelberg offers part of its Special Subject Collection Egyptology as full text publications (monographs and journals). The searchable full text collection consists of digitized literature from 1550 to 2000.

heidICON is the digital and interdisciplinary object and multimedia repository of Heidelberg University. Institutes, collections and projects can provide images, video and audio data as well as other multimedia material for research and teaching via the database.

PropylaeumSEARCH includes all records on heidICON concerning Ancient Studies.

The Special Subject Catalogue Classical Archaeology comprises all publications on Classical Archaeology acquired by the University Library Heidelberg.

Some of the records are enhanced by scans of tables of content and by reviews. Records of digitized publications are available as well.

The Special Subject Catalogue Egyptology comprises all publications on Egyptology acquired by the University Library Heidelberg.

Some of the records are enhanced by scans of tables of content. Records of digitized publications are available as well.

The library of the Institute for Pre- and Early History at Kiel University is one of the largest archaeological libraries in Germany. In addition to it, the University Library provides access to other relevant titles. The collection includes publications on all fields of Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology as well as related subject areas. Titles concerning Northern Europe are purchased and catalogued by the Fachinformationsdienst Nordeuropa.

The Archaeological Library of the Kunstbibliothek contains all archaeological collections of the Berlin National Museums. Publications are catalogued according to the Regensburger Verbundklassifikation (Regensburg Library Classification Scheme). The collections include the following subjects: Egyptology, Near Eastern Archaeology and Ancient Eastern Philology, Classical Archaeology, Epigraphy, Pre- and Early History, Papyrology, Archaeology of Sudan and publications of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.

The library of the LEIZA is one of the largest archaeological libraries in Germany. The collection’s main focus is on publications concerning the cultural history and archaeology of the Ancient World from Palaeolithic Age to the Central Middle Ages. Currently the online catalogue includes books and journals catalogued in the years 1987-1999 and accessions starting from July 2004. New publications are constantly added.

The library of the Leopold Wenger Institute is the largest library on ancient law in Germany. The online catalogue offers bibliographical records of essays on ancient legal history starting from 1991.

Since 2017 no further publications were added to this database.

The database OLC-SSG Online Contents Classics provides access to the tables of contents of journals in the field of Classical Studies, especially Greek and Latin Philology, Classical Archaeology, Pre- and Early History, Ancient History and Egyptology.

recensio.antiquitatis provides a central reference system for reviews in the field of Classical Studies. The open access review platform aggregates both print and electronic reviews in one database. Funded by the DFG (German Research Foundation), recensio.antiquitatis is a project of the Bavarian State Library.

The RI OPAC is a freely accessible literature database for medieval research in the entire European language area, covering all disciplines. The database serves as a digital catalogue of cited literature for the regestae database run by the project Regesta Imperii (Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz). It is also a universal research tool for searching for publications from the 16th century to the present day.
A special section on Byzantine Studies is integrated into PropylaeumSEARCH.

As the largest scientific universal library in Germany, the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Berlin State Library – Prussian Cultural Heritage) is a central supplier of national and international literature. More than 11 million volumes of printed material alone have accumulated since the library was founded in 1661. The collection comprises over 2.2 million additional printed works and other, often unique, materials in special collections – these include western and oriental manuscripts, music autographs, estates and deposits, personal collections, maps, and historic newspapers. The library’s collection also contains more than 10 million microforms and, in the picture library, over 12 million motifs. A constantly increasing number of databases and other electronic resources complement the collection.

Browsing the entire catalogue of the University Library of the Technische Universität Berlin the Special Subject Catalogue for Ancient Studies prioritizes search results of publications in the field of Ancient Studies and Classics.

All search results are sorted in order of relevance, including publications on other fields of study. This ensures an interdisciplinary approach on the query and a wide choice of search results.

The Special Subject Catalogue Ancient Near East combines the older collections on Ancient Near East Studies of the University Library Tübingen and the special subject collection “Ancient Near East”. It also includes publications on Ancient Studies in the departmental library Schloss Nord and publications on Biblical Archaeology in the Theologicum library.

Browsing the entire catalogue of the University Library of the Freie Universität Berlin the Special Subject Catalogue for Ancient Studies prioritizes search results of publications in the field of Ancient Studies and Classics.

All search results are sorted in order of relevance, including publications on other fields of study. This ensures an interdisciplinary approach on the query and a wide choice of search results.

Browsing the entire catalogue of the University Library of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin the Special Subject Catalogue for Ancient Studies prioritizes search results of publications in the field of Ancient Studies and Classics.

All search results are sorted in order of relevance, including publications on other fields of study. This ensures an interdisciplinary approach on the query and a wide choice of search results.