Online Digital Archaeology Library

The Archaeology Data Service has announced the opening of its Digital Library.

Already on the shelves you will find:

- the first 22 volumes in the Council for British Archaeology's Research Report series, held in PDF format, including such important titles as "The Iron Age in the Irish Sea Province" edited by Charles Thomas, Philip Rahtz's "Excavations at St Mary's Church Deerhurst", Richard Reece's edited volume on "Burial in the Roman World", and many, many more. These volumes have been out of print for years although many are still key books on reading lists. Now they are available to all on-line.

- the first 15 volumes in the CBA's Occasional Papers series, again as PDF files. This series includes seminal titles in the history of British Archaeology, such as The Erosion of History.

Both series have been digitised by HEDS as part of the JISC's fast-track digitisation programme. All volumes up to 1996 have been scanned in their entirety, including illustrations and microfiche, and are going to be made available by the CBA in stages, in association with the ADS.

- Also in the ADS Library you will find a comprehensive index to archaeological electronic journals, plus an on-line report on excavations in Cyprus, publications about NERC's Ancient Biomolecules Initiatives and, in the bibliographies section, old favourites including the British and Irish Archaeological Bibliography.

In our Library the books you want are never out, and there is plenty of room on the shelves for more. If you are publishing digitally then lodge an archive copy with the ADS.

Click to visit the ADS Library.