Meggie Macdonald

While recently reviewing the University of Toronto Classics Department webpage, I discovered proof that it pays to keep checking back. 

The TOCS-IN project (Table of Contents of Indexes of Interest to Classicists) is run by several people out of Toronto (Canada), Louvain (Belgium) and Baltimore (USA) and I’m happy to say that I now consider myself a contributing volunteer to this monumental work.

TOCS-IN is designed to provide an interactive reference for classicists to find articles from all the available scholarly journals.  The project itself has been divided into two:  the Louvain group is focusing on all journals published before 1992 while the Toronto and Baltimore branches are working on anything published after 1992 and are also keeping the indexes up to date with new publications.

TOCS-IN is looking for volunteers who have the time, interest and inclination to scour through back issues of an incredible number of scholarly journals and compile .txt lists (using specific formatting) of the tables of contents of each and every issue.

I have offered to take on the Papers of the British School at Rome, The American Journal of Archaeology and the Cambridge Classical Journal.  My choices are based on my interests (history and archaeology) and the regularity with which I have found articles for various research projects in the past (the American Journal of Archaeology, for example), and I feel that I could make a positive contribution to this project and facilitate the research of numerous classicists around the world.

Just another reason to keep on networking.