Happy New Year and happy seventeenth birthday to AWOL

Tuesday, January 6, 2026

Happy New Year and happy seventeenth birthday to AWOL

Happy New Year and happy seventeenth birthday to AWOL, which launched 6 January 2009. During those seventeen years I have written and edited 12223 entries.

AWOL passed the twenty-one million page views threshold this autumn (with 21532266 page views recorded as of today, to be exact), and now has about six thousand subscribers by email. 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 each day.

AWOL' s Alphabetical list of Open Access Journals in Ancient Studies currently includes 2237 titles. I continuously edit and revise the list as URLs change, titles go offline, and so on.

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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.

AWOL is syndicated to Facebook and Twitter.