Open Access Monographs: Topoi: Berlin Studies of the Ancient World / Berliner Studien der Alten Welt

Open Access Monographs: Topoi: Berlin Studies of the Ancient World / Berliner Studien der Alten Welt
From the home page:

The series: Topoi. Berlin Studies of the Ancient World brings together contributions from all fields of classical studies, from pre- and early history and classical archeology to ancient philosophy, theory of science and theology. Monographs and volumes which present the research results of the Excellence Cluster Topoi form a major focus of the series. Additional topics are currently being planned.

The Excellence Cluster Topoi examines the formation and transformation of space and knowledge in ancient civilizations. Topoi is the joint responsibility of the Freie Universität Berlin and the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Partner institutions are the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the German Archeological Institute, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. Furthermore Topoi is interlinked with several university institutes as well as other institutions. For further information see www.topoi.org.

Some of the monographs in this series are open access, e.g., Population Dynamics in Prehistory and Early History (http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/179228?rskey=yh1hoB&result=4&q=topoi), Babylon (http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/42407?rskey=yh1hoB&result=2&q=topoi), and

Militärsiedlungen und Territorialherrschaft in der Antike (http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/42816?rskey=yh1hoB&result=1&q=topoi)

USC Digital Library - The West Bank and East Jerusalem Searchable Map

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/wbarc/

From the home page:

This collection includes lists of archaeological sites that have been surveyed or excavated since Israel occupied the West Bank and East Jerusalem in 1967. Since that time, the oversight of the antiquities of the area has devolved on two government bodies: the military administration's Staff Officer for Archaeology (SOA) in Judea and Samaria and the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA). The IAA, which is responsible for East Jerusalem, is a civil branch of government and its records are open for inspection. Some of the records of the Staff Officer for Archaeology in Judea and Samaria are being accessed in full for the first time as a result of the joint Israeli-Palestinian Archaeology Working Group. This involved a team of Israeli and a team of Palestinian archaeologists and cultural heritage professionals working in concert to create new data resources that document the single, unitary archaeological landscape of the southern Levant, which is now bisected by the modern borders.

The Israeli-Palestinian Archaeology Working Group sponsored and partly funded a research effort by Rafi Greenberg (Tel Aviv) and Adi Keinan (University College London) in order to gather details about each site in the West Bank excavated or surveyed between 1967 (updated periodically). These data include the site name(s), location on a GIS grid, description of the site's major components (e.g. olive oil press; ritual bath; sheikh's tomb; church, synagogue, village); details about the periods when the site was occupied (e.g. Neolithic, Byzantine [Christian]; Iron Age II; Ottoman); and information about the excavators or surveyors who gathered data about the site; and relevant publications/bibliography. This collection page provides access to a database, which is a work in progress. We look forward to additions to this database file in the future as additional data are provided by Israelis, Palestinians and others.
The data contained in this database is also available in a visually searchable Google Map interface.

Partially open access: Theological Studies

http://www.ts.mu.edu/
The US Jesuit journal Theological Studies is now partially available on an open access basis. Individuals may download articles that are older than five years.

Details from the website:

Theological Studies is a quarterly journal of theology, published under the auspices of the Jesuits in the USA. Located at Marquette University, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, it is under the general editorship of David G. Schultenover, SJ, in concert with its editorial consultants. Its book review editor is R. Daniel Kendall, S.J., of the University of San Francisco.

 Founded and sponsored by the Society of Jesus in the United States of America, Theological Studies is a Catholic scholarly journal that serves the Church and its mission by promoting a deeper understanding of the Christian faith through the publication of research in theological disciples. Through refereed articles and reviews of noteworthy books, the journal aims to recover and to help make accessible the riches of the theological tradition, and to present significant developments in current theology. It is published quarterly in English for an international readership.

Theological Studies is now making past articles as well as book reviews available for individual download, after the item has been in print publication for five full years (e.g., those published in 2006 are available for download beginning in the year 2012). Some notes:

• Visitors are welcome to make single copies of articles from Theological Studies. Those who want multiple copies (for classroom use, for example) must get the necessary permission from Copyright Clearance Center and pay the royalty fee. To do this click on the icon:
• If you download only a single copy of an article for personal use, we request a small user’s fee to cover administrative costs of putting our past content online. To make your contribution, please click the “Donate” button on the left-hand side of this page.
• Visitors will experience the search features best when they have the latest version of Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, or Chrome (all of which employ JavaScript and AJAX).
• The articles have been rendered in Adobe Acrobat's text format, so that users can select and copy text from the PDF files (i.e., they have all been OCR'ed).

Go to download articles.

The search page provides a dynamic search feature that allows the visitor to find PDF versions of past articles by entering in an author's name, a title of a past article (or a partial title or keyword) or a volume number. Note: the search feature does not allow a search by year of appearance, but since TS has been in continual publication since 1940 (with its volume 1), the simple mathematical formula (Year of Publication) - 1939 = Volume number will allow the user to enter the correct volume number for the known year of publication (e.g., a year of publication in 2000, minus 1939, will result in the correct volume of 61).

Go to book reviews and shorter notices

Clicking on the PDF link for a given issue of the journal will take you to the reviews and notices for that issue. These you can then page through and/or search by typing word(s) into the search box on the menu bar in Adobe Acrobat (or your PDF reader, such as Preview on the Mac).

Access to the Most Recent Issues (for individual paid subscribers only)

If you are a current individual subscriber to Theological Studies you can access your currently subscribed issue and articles by following this link.

Göttingen Register of Electronic Texts in Indian Languages

http://gretil.sub.uni-goettingen.de/gr_elib.htm

From the home page:

The GRETIL e-libray is a collection of electronic editions of books and articles on Indological and related subjects. The focus is on older standard works, along with writings relevant to the history of indology and related fields (Wissenschaftsgeschichte).

 

Gerstenberger - collected essays

From the AGADE listserve comes more good news of open access publications from distinguished scholars:

Published electronically and free at online access is a large
collection of my essays in German and English written over more than
50 years.

The publisher is the University of Giessen, Germany. Editors are my
colleagues Ute E. Eisen and Christl M. Maier. The title of
this 700 page opus is: Erhard S. Gerstenberger: Die Hebraeische Bibel
als Buch der
Befreiung. Ausgewaehlte Aufsaetze, 2012. Here is the URL access:

               http://geb.uni-giessen.de/geb/volltexte/2012/8601/

geb stands for "Giessener Elektronische Bibliothek". You can get to
the book also by way of
www.uni-giessen.de navigating through the university site.

Zeitschrift für die Alterthumswissenschaft (pre-1857)

http://archiv.ub.uni-marburg.de/eb/2011/0283/
Zeitschrift für die Alterthumswissenschaft has several pre-1857 issues that are open access. Perhaps best for those doing reception history.

Princeton's Index of Christian Art

http://ica.princeton.edu/

From the home page:

It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to the Index of Christian Art web site. Little did the founder of the Index, Charles Rufus Morey, realize in 1917 how this resource would develop to be the most important archive of medieval art in existence and the most specialized resource for the iconographer. The Index has developed a life of its own over the last ninety years which has extended beyond the confines of its home in Princeton and is destined to have an even greater impact with the development of an electronic resource such as this. Despite the initial belief that all medieval art could be iconographically analyzed within fifteen years of the start of the project, it is a task which is not only still ongoing, but one which is thriving and ensures a prosperous future for the archive.

Thanks must go to the many scholars who have generously given of their knowledge and experience into making this resource what it is today and to the new group of users who continually give of their research.

Colum Hourihane
Director, Index of Christian Art
Princeton University