Albright Institute of Archaeological Research

The Albright Institute of Archaeological Research has made open access vols. 8-15 (2003-2010) its newsletter:


http://www.aiar.org/publications.html

Scroll to the bottom of the page for links to the various volumes. 

(Limited) open access links to the writings of individual scholars

There is an increasing movement of scholars posting their scholarship online (open access). Already there are platforms such as academia.edu and linkedin.com. For links to the works of individual scholars (e.g., Tov, Knight), see the list at AWOL another source:

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?shva=1#inbox/133bcffff3f2c5ff

Aula Orientalis 9, 15, 17-18 (1991, 1997, 1999-2000))

A limited number of volumes of Aula Orientalis are now open access, i.e. 9, 15, 17-18 (1991, 1997, 1999-2000).

http://www.aulaorientalis.org/

Concordance of the Sahidic NT

A digitized concordance of the Sahidic NT (Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium 124, 173, 183, 185; vols. 1-3a, b, 1950-1959) is available at:
http://alinsuciu.com/2011/11/11/concordance-of-the-sahidic-new-testament/

Digital Dictionaries of South Asia

All of the following languages have dictionaries online from the DDSA:

http://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/list.html

Assamese	Khowar	Pali	Tamil
Baluchi	Konkani	Panjabi	Telugu
Bengali	Lushai	Pashto	Torwali
English	Malayalam	Persian	Urdu
Gujarati	Manipuri	Rajasthani	Comparative
Hindi	Marathi	Sanskrit
Kannada	Nepali	Sindhi
Kashmiri	Oriya	Sinhala

The comparative dictionaries are Dravidian and Indo-Aryan

Corpus of South Arabian Inscriptions

CSAI has in its repository digitized images from the British, Beirut National, and Yemeni Museums as well as inscriptions from Jordan. Registration is required but free.

http://csai.humnet.unipi.it/csai/html/index.html

Here's a blurb from the home page:

The objective of the CSAI project, which began in 1999 is to collect the published Ancient South Arabian inscriptions. New corpora have been added in recent years: the catalogue of the British Museum inscriptions, and those of a number of Yemeni museums. For the first time, texts written in minuscule writing are also included into the database. Up to the present, the published corpus of non-monumental texts from south Arabia is relatively small, but a big edition of new texts is going to be published.

Corpus of South Arabian Inscriptions

CSAI has in its repository digitized images from the British, Beirut National, and Yemeni Museums as well as inscriptions from Jordan. Registration is required but free.

http://csai.humnet.unipi.it/csai/html/index.html

Here's a blurb from the home page:

The objective of the CSAI project, which began in 1999 is to collect the published Ancient South Arabian inscriptions. New corpora have been added in recent years: the catalogue of the British Museum inscriptions, and those of a number of Yemeni museums. For the first time, texts written in minuscule writing are also included into the database. Up to the present, the published corpus of non-monumental texts from south Arabia is relatively small, but a big edition of new texts is going to be published.

Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations

By now there are many search engines for theses and dissertations. The latest is the NDLTD http://www.ndltd.org/

From the home page, one has the choice of two engines:

• Scirus ETD search http://www.ndltd.org/serviceproviders/scirus-etd-search

"A comprehensive scientific research tool from Elsevier, Scirus ETD Search provides an advanced search that can narrow results to theses and dissertations as well as provide access to related scholarly resources."

• VTLS visualizer http://thumper.vtls.com:6090/

"This is a dynamic search and discovery platform with sophisticated functionality.  You can sort by relevance, title, and date.  In the current implementation, faceted searches are available by language, continent, country, date, format and source institution.  Additional facets, such as subjects or departments, can be added if desired."

A search of both engines found my doctoral dissertation, but neither had my master's theses (US thesis or UK thesis). VTLS listed the dissertation, with option to purchase. SCIRUS gives the impression that the dissertation was completed in 1970 (bold font) rather than 2005 (the latter is in regular font). Clicking the link gives further information, i.e. bibliographical details of the dissertation as well as its subsequent publication. The catch is that the categories are in French, but if you can't make it out there's a button that translates it into English.

The website gives URLs to other search engines.

Ancient Israel (Chicago Oriental Institute)

The Chicago OI has just published open access a book entitled Ancient Israel: Highlights from the Collections of the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago. The book is essentially as history of Megiddo as charted by the archaeological finds from the EBA to the Byzantine period.

http://oi.uchicago.edu/pdf/oimp31.pdf