This is Open Access Week 2012
AWOL
is approching one million page views (992,605 as of today, to be exact), and has now surpassed 5200 subscribers by
email, three and a half years after I deployed that function. I'm
gratified that such a large number of you find AWOL interesting enough
to voluntarily add another piece of email to your busy queues.
You may follow AWOL directly via
News Feed (user count not easy to discover), via
Feedburner (this
are the ca. 5200 email subscribers - a thousand more than six months ago), on
Facebook (881 likes), or on Twitter
@ISAWLibrary (522 followers). You can also follow AWOL on
Google+.
AWOL' s
Alphabetical list of Open Access Journals in Ancient Studies currently includes 1223 titles. We reached the
1000 title benchmark one year ago.
The following graph charts the growth of traffic on AWOL over its lifetime:
Since May 2010, Blogger has been keeping detailed statistics on usage of
files hosted there. In that period the ten most frequently viewed AWOL
pages have been:
I invite you to make use of
the full suite of Online Resources from ISAW currently available from ISAW and its collaborators under the terms of
open licenses:
- Ancient World Digital Library Book Viewer
- The
first fruits of an effort to accelerate and enhance access to the
emerging global library of digital publications on the ancient world,
the AWDL Book Viewer lets users read and search digitized copies of
previously printed scholarly materials. In addition to page images of
many digitized volumes, AWDL currently hosts an online version of Roger Bagnall and Giovanni Ruffini. (2012) Amheida I. Ostraka from Trimithis, Volume 1: Texts from the 2004–2007 Seasons.
- Ancient World Image Bank
- View
and download over 2,000 free digital images of sites and objects from
the ancient world, contributed by ISAW faculty, staff and friends.
- Ancient World Online
- Find out about all the latest online and open-access material relating to the ancient world, regardless of where it's published.
- Exhibitions
- Learn
about the objects and cultures featured in ISAW's public exhibitions at
15 East 84th Street in New York. Even though these exhibitions
eventually close or move on to other locations, the websites for them
remain, providing permanent access to images, maps and other materials.
- ISAW Papers
- ISAW Papers
is an open-content scholarly journal that publishes article-length
works on any topic within the scope of ISAW's scholarly research.
- Papyri.info
- Search
and browse over 50,000 ancient Greek and Latin documents preserved on
papyrus and other materials. Images, texts, translations and
descriptions contributed by scholars and institutions around the world.
Get the latest project news via the Digital Papyrology Blog.
- Planet Atlantides
- News
aggregators for ancient studies. This site gathers together news,
commentary and other posts from a variety of blogs and sites around the
web and provides the aggregate in an easy-to-read web page as well as in
a variety of web feed formats.
- Pleiades
- Use,
create and share information about ancient places, spaces and
geographic names. Over 30,000 places registered (and growing). Get Pleiades Project News here.
- Social Media
- You can follow ISAW on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Academia.edu, Google+, or (via one of our web feeds) in your favorite feed reader or aggregator.
I also invite you to amuse
yourself by browsing through
Bookplates of Scholars in Ancient Studies.
If any of you have additions, corrections or comments on that, please
do get
in touch with me. I'm particularly interested if you can surface
other interesting bookplates of scholars of antiquity.
As always, comments - online or offline - about AWOL are welcome.
Earlier administrative notes with user statistics have been posted in August 2012, April 2012, March 2012, November 2011, October 2011, July 2011, April 2011, January 2011, December 2010, October 2010, August 2010, July 2010, May 2010, and January 2010.
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