Carpenter Library Help using Dyabola

DYABOLA consists of several databases.  The Realkatalog DAI Rom is the largest.  It is an index of journals and books (including collected studies, conference proceedings, and festschrifts) relating to the art and archaeology of the ancient Mediterranean world, and to a lesser extent, the ancient Near East. The Sachkatalog der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission Frankfurt and the catalogue of the Deutsche Archäologischen Institutes Madrid are useful for material relating to central and southwest Europe.

All navigation is within Dyabola. The navigation bar and back button in your web browser are suppressed.

The Session Results box on the right saves all your searches, so if you click on a search again, it redoes the search.

Searching

The "Search" box will allow a limited keyword/character string search that searches authors, words in titles, and publishers, but not subjects. Capitalization is not important.

"Expert search" allows search by author, title (article or book), journal, journal abbreviation, or publisher. Capitalization is important; you must capitalize authors' names. Search by last name only and then use the results list to choose the author.

"Search subject list only" is not a true subject search, since it only searches the first word in an article or book title.  It does not search DYABOLA-assigned subject headings (which can be found by "Browse tree of subject headings," above). "Search" is more useful.

Viewing Results

If you get a list of results which doesn't fit on the screen, you have to navigate through them with the down and up arrows. There is no way of reordering the searches, although you can jump to the end of a search list, uncheck and delete records, or specify a certain date range. Once you click on a title, you're in a different type of screen, where results are presented in the form of a card, from each of which you can navigate to the previous or next card.  Below the record are several tabbed links.

• "Parents" will give you the full title for journal abbreviations.

• "Children" gives a list of journal issues or tables of contents of individual journal volumes or volumes of collected studies.

• "Reviews" links to book reviews.

Saving Records

To print or export records, return to the "Search result options" menu (in the right-hand window).  At the bottom of the page, you can choose from the drop-down menu the results of your previous searches; a text list will be loaded into the main window which you can then print or copy into a word-processing program.  You cannot directly save, export, or print anything that you found by navigating beyond an individual search (e.g., you cannot save or print a list of book reviews of an individual book; you can only do so by copying and pasting from each window into a word processor).  The "Navigation History" window on the right side of the screen saves the results you found by browsing, so you can return to them, if not print or export them.

To limit results by combining more than one search, return to the "Search result options" menu. Any searches can be combined.

Locating Greek materials

Journal, book, and article titles in Greek are indexed in Greek, but authors are transliterated.  If you have difficulty searching in Greek, try navigating to Greek records using the subject tree or searching by author.  Abbreviations for Greek journals are transliterated, so if you know the DYABOLA abbreviation, then you can search "abbr-periodicals" in the expert search screen.

Abbreviations for some serials held by Bryn Mawr are:

ADelt=Αρχαιολογικόν Δελτίον

AErgoMak=Το Αρχαιολογικό Εργο στη Μακεδονία και Θράκη

AEphem=Αρχαιολογική Εφημερίς

Ergon=Το Εργον της Αρχαιολογικής Εταιρείας

Prakt=Πρακτικά της εν Αθήναις Αρχαιολογικής Εταιρείας

KretChron=Κρητικά Χρονικά

Thessalika=Θεσσαλικά

Please contact Camilla MacKay with any questions (cmackay@brynmawr.edu)