AWOL - The Ancient World Online: Agitating for Orientalia Online

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Agitating for Orientalia Online

Update (11 May 2015): Orientalia 1920-2010 (No. 1 - Vol. 79, No. 4) is now among the journals at JSTOR.

Who among us would not be pleased to see the journal Orientalia (ISSN: 0030-5367) available online in open access?

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Rivista trimestrale dedicata allo studio scientifico dell'Antico Oriente. Gli articoli sono in inglese, francese, tedesco e italiano. Ogni volume è composto approssimativamente da 600 pagine con circa 50 tavole.

A quarterly devoted to the scientific study of the Ancient near East. Articles are in english, french, german and Italian. Each volume consists of approximately 600 pages with about 50 plates.

Its sister journal Biblica has been accessible in open access for years, and large important sections of Orientalia's content have already been digitized by forward-thinking projects. Among these are:

Volume 77:2 (2008) is available complete online at the publisher's website

In addition, countless articles have been archived in public places by individual authors. It is also notoriously difficult to subscribe to, for either institutions or individuals.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if the Gregorian and Biblical Press made it accessible on the same terms as Biblica?

See AWOL's full List of Open Access Journals in Ancient Studies

2 comments:

TODA Satoshi (Mr.; Toda is my family name)September 25, 2013 at 12:53 PM
I totally support this "agitation".
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UnknownDecember 11, 2013 at 6:28 PM
Yes, Chuck, I'd love to have Orientalia on-line.
Norman Yoffee
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AWOL is a project of Charles E. Jones, Tombros Librarian for Classics and Humanities at the Pattee Library, Penn State University

AWOL began with a series of entries under the heading AWOL on the Ancient World Bloggers Group Blog. I moved it to its own space here beginning in 2009.

The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available.

The ancient world is conceived here as it is at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, my academic home at the time AWOL was launched. That is, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, from the beginnings of human habitation to the late antique / early Islamic period.

AWOL is the successor to Abzu, a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world, founded at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago in 1994. Together they represent the longest sustained effort to map the development of open digital scholarship in any discipline.

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