Open Access Archaeology Digest #11

Open Access (free to read) articles on archaeology:

Frammenti inediti da un soffitto dipinto del Palatino.
http://www.fastionline.org/mod_code/download.php?file=FOLDER-it-2009-141.pdf

Internet Archaeology: an International Electronic Journal for Archaeology
http://caaconference.org/proceedings/online/1995/60_heyworth_et_al_caa_1995/

Radiocarbon Dates from Sinkyone Wilderness State Park: Variability and Concordance
http://www.scahome.org/publications/proceedings/Proceedings.02Ferneau.pdf

Learn more about Open Access and Archaeology at: http://bit.ly/YHuyFK

Open Access Journal of the Day: Surrey Archaeological Collections

http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/surreyac/

Archeologia e Calcolatori

http://soi.cnr.it/archcalc/

Archeologia e Calcolatori is a peer reviewed open access journal. It also happens to be one of my favorites. It deals with computer applications to archaeology which is a lot of what I deal with in my work. It is published in French, English, German, Italian, and Spanish so there are articles for everyone. Well not everyone but lots of people. It has been publishing since 1990 so there are lots of open access articles online.

ArcheoArte. Rivista elettronica di Archeologia e Arte

http://ojs.unica.it/index.php/archeoarte/about

ArcheoArte. Rivista elettronica di Archeologia e Arte is a peer reviewed journal about archaeology and art history. The best part is that it is open access so you can read as many articles that you want. You will have to speak Italian or use google translate to read the articles but that is a small inconvenience. The stuff is pretty good. check it out.

Interested in Swiss Archaeology?- Archäologie der Schweiz

Archäologie der Schweiz is published in the languages of Switzerland- German, French, and Italian. It is a journal that deals specifically with the Archaeology of Switzerland. Here is what the webpage says-

“The quarterly journal: richly illustrated, easy to read, to date - with articles, diary, new releases and much more. 200-300 pages per year.”

the webpage is here- http://www.archaeologie-schweiz.ch/de/as.htm and is in German, French, and Italian. To get English you need to use Google translate.

Open Access History and Archaeology Journal- Anistoriton

This is a pretty cool born digital journal. It publishes essays, news, viewpoints, primary sources and field work reports on any topic related to History, Archaeology and ArtHistory of any era and any part of the world provided it is of interest to the general educated public, students, scholars. It is completely open access so neither the reader or the author pays.

“Anistoriton is an electronic Journal of History, Archaeology and ArtHistory. It publishes scholarly papers since 1997 and it is freely available on the Internet. All papers and images since vol. 1 (1997) are available on line. The United States Library of Congress has selected Anistoriton site for inclusion in its historic collections of Internet materials (The Library of Congress Web Archiving).”

website: http://www.anistor.gr/english/index.htm

Published: English, peer reviewed, 4x a year

Open Access Journal- Ancient Nepal

“Published by the Department of Archaeology in Kathmandu, Nepal, Ancient Nepal (प्राचीन नेपाल) is a journal devoted to pre-history and field archaeology in the Himalayas. Special interests include epigraphy, manuscripts, numismatics, archives, art, anthropology, architecture and museum studies.”

You can find journals from 1967-2006 online here-http://www.digitalhimalaya.com/collections/journals/ancientnepal/index.php?selection=159 I am not sure if this journal is still publishing our not.

Published in: English and Nepalese, peer reviewed, there appears to be no set number of publications with some years have 5 and others 1.  

Open Access Journal- Ancient Asia

Ancient Asia is a journal that has slowly been getting off the ground. First published in 2006 the second volume did not arrive till 2010. The slow start aside, the website is really good.

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