Letter No. 1, 10 November 2011 – update on electronic resources

The library staff have been working on improving the range of resources on offer in the library, particularly in digital form.
If there are particular online utilities you would be interested to have available during your stay at the Albright please let us know.

We would like to draw your attention to the following online resources:

Wiley-Blackwell has made available a Special Virtual Issue, Top Discoveries in Archaeology, featuring content from leading Archaeology journals, free until the end of 2011.

The International Journal of Nautical Archaeology has made available a Special Virtual Issue, Asking Questions, Raising Standards, Developing Skills: Four Decades of IJNA, free until the end of 2011.

The Dead Sea Scrolls are now accessible online as high quality images, at: http://dss.collections.imj.org.il/

The Archives of the American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR), which contain, among other things, materials pertaining to excavations lead or participated in by ASOR in the last 100 years, are being digitized. They can be found at:
http://www.asor.org/archives/collections.html

The Digital Library for International Research (DLIR) has brought together in digital form the library and research collections (including maps, photographs, and rare journals) of the American academic centers which make up the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC), in an e-library at: http://www.dlir.org/eresources.html

The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago has been scanning its back catalog and offers digital versions of most of its old and new publications, at: http://oi.uchicago.edu/research/pubs/catalog/

JSTOR has made some of its Early Journal Content freely available, specifically articles pre-1923 from the US and pre-1870 from international journals. See http://about.jstor.org/support-training/help/free-early-journal-content-jstor for more information.
You can also access this content from the Albright library catalog records for the following journals:
American anthropologist.
American journal of archaeology.
American journal of Semitic languages and literatures.
American journal of theology.
Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research.
Annual report of the Trustees of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Biblical world.
Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research.
Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Harvard theological review.
Hebraica.
Jewish quarterly review.
Journal of religion.
Journal of the American Oriental Society.
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society.
Old & New Testament student.

The National Library of Israel has digitized many of its collections; several may be found at the following links:
Holy Land Maps
Ancient Maps of Jerusalem
Ancient Maps of Historic Cities
Digitized Manuscripts
Digitized Book Repository

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Updated November 2011