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WISER: Workshops in Information Skills and Electronic Resources

with Diane BergmanGriffith Librarian

Oxford University Library Servicesdiane.bergman@ouls.ox.ac.uk

WISER Humanities:Electronic Information

Resources for Egyptology & Ancient Near Eastern Studies

(Assyriology)

Useful URLs

Sackler Library Web Site http://www.saclib.ox.ac.uk/ -- Online resources – Egyptology/Assyriology

http://www.saclib.ox.ac.uk/sac02eleegyurlegy.htm - Egyptology

http://www.saclib.ox.ac.uk/sac02eleegyurlassy.htm - Assyriology

http://griffith.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/gri/7.html (Griffith Institute)

Examples of what we are talking about:

Best web site

in Egyptology according to

Zahi Hawass:

Egyptology Resources

http://www.newton.cam.ac.uk/egypt/

created and maintained by

Dr. Nigel Strudwick

Very excellent web sites Oriental Institute, University of Chicago

http://oi.uchicago.edu/

ETANA http://www.etana.org/

Institutional

web sites:

Egypt Exploration Societyhttp://www.ees.ac.uk/

Theban Mapping Projecthttp://www.thebanmappingproject.com/

British School of Archaeology in Iraqhttp://www.britac.ac.uk/institutes/iraq/

Component of an institutional web site:

International Association of Egyptologists on the University of Munich site

http://www.iae.lmu.de/

Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale on the University of Leiden site

http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/rencontre/

Griffith Institute on the Ashmolean Museum sitehttp://griffith.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/gri/

Oriental Institute on University of Oxford sitehttp://www.orinst.ox.ac.uk/

Museum

Collections:

British Museum Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan

http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/aes/aeshome.html

Brooklyn Museum

http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/

Metropolitan Museum of Art Ancient Near Eastern Art

http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/department.asp?dep=3

Electronic publications – informational:

Uppsala Studies in Egyptology http://www.arkeologi.uu.se/publications/USE/index.htm

Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions

http://www.springerlink.com/content/1569-2124/

Electronic publications – full text:

Online thesis from the University of Heidelberg

Oriental Institute (Chicago) Electronic Publicationshttp://oi.uchicago.edu/research/pubs/catalog/electronic.html

Electronic Journals Egypt

British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan (BMSAES)first e-journal in Egyptology

http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/bmsaes/index.html

PalArch's Journal of Archaeology of Egypt/Egyptologyhttp://www.palarch.nl/Archaeology/archaeology.htm

Electronic Journals - ANE Cuneiform Digital Library Journal (CDLJ)

http://cdli.ucla.edu/pubs/cdlj.html

Electronic journals – search “open access” on ABZU

http://www.etana.org/abzu/

Recent acquisitions lists:Publications in Egyptologyhttp://griffith.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/gri/7pie.html

University of Heidelberg Library

Bibliographies:Egypt & ANE

Annual Egyptological Bibliography

Hittite Portal

Demotistische Literaturübersicht featured in the journal Enchoria since 1971

Women in the Ancient Near East

Addresses –Contacts:

Published by the Oriental Institute (Chicago)

Excavations:

BURRELL COLLECTION: Saqqara Geophysical Survey Project

A directory of current archaeological excavations in the Holy Land

Links:

University of Munich

University of Hamburg

Discussion Lists

Weekly digest is a good source of current information

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Oxford electronic resources review

Lots of ways to get there but you can start with the

Sackler Library web site

Some of the full text electronic journals for Egyptology & Assyriology available via TDNet in OxLIP

Journal of Near Eastern Studies (JSTOR) American Journal of Archaeology (JSTOR) Aegyptus (PCI Full Text) Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental

Research (JSTOR) Journal of Cuneiform Studies (JSTOR) American Journal of Semitic Languages and

Literatures (JSTOR)

A sampling of Egyptology & Assyriology in Intute: Arts and Humanities

Institute of Egyptology, Waseda University Digital Egypt for universities Death in ancient Egypt Assyriologie: guide to the Assyriological division

of the Seminar für Sprachen und Kulturen des Vorderen Orients at the University of Heidelberg

Archaeological site photography Assur. Ausgrabungen in Assur 2000 und 2001

An invaluable resource

Oxford University Computing Services

13 Banbury Road (just north of the Old Parsonage Hotel)

www.oucs.ox.ac.uk

http://www.skillsportal.ox.ac.uk/

Citing online resources:

Internet Archaeology:

http://intarch.ac.uk/news/housestyle/ecite.html

Internet Archive

http://www.archive.org/

OLIS: http://www.lib.ox.ac.uk/olis/

OxLIPOxford Libraries'

Information Platform

http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/oxlip/index.html

TDnet - Electronic Journals Management

JSTOR Best to get to via TDNet via

OxLIPPCI (Periodicals Contents Index)

Periodicals Archive OnlinePeriodicals Index Online

OxLIPZETOC

British Library's Electronic Table of Contents

OxLIPLexis-Nexis

for newspaper articles

OxLIPMLA (Modern Language Association)

for literature, languages, linguistics & folklore

OxLIPIndex to Theses from the UK, Ireland, Africa,

Australia & Canada

OxLIPDissertation Abstracts Online

USA and Canada

Diane Bergman,

Griffith Librarian

diane.bergman@saclib.ox.ac.uk

Sackler Library

2-78089

Contact details:

Assessment form at: http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/courses/feedback/index.xsp

Thank you for attending today

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