A milestone (of sorts)

Five thousand posts on AWOL as of this week.

The top ten entries are:

Alphabetical List of Open Access Journals in Ancie...

Dec 25, 2015, 204 comments

	212555
Open Access to all Oxford University Press Online ... Apr 8, 2014	22630
Epigraphischen Datenbank Heidelberg - Epigraphic D... Sep 4, 2013	8375
Les papyrus de Genève 1-4 Online Apr 24, 2015	8079
The Ancient World in JSTOR May 9, 2016, 4 comments	5452
Open Access Library: ETANA Core Texts Feb 8, 2015	4798
Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications: Titles wi... Jun 9, 2014, 1 comment	4342
Open Access Paulys Realencyclopädie der classische... May 13, 2016, 1 comment	4185
JSTOR Register & Read Jun 13, 2016, 3 comments	3254
Roundup of Resources on Ancient Geography Mar 21, 2016, 7 comments	2315

With all due respect to the field of Papyrology, the popularity of Les papyrus de Genève is baffling. Can anyone explain?

Happy New Year

Happy New Year to Ancient World Online readers everywhere. You are looking at AWOL pages well over a million times a year now, and I'm grateful for your interest. If you have ideas for making AWOL better, send them along. If you know of open access scholarship worthy of mention, let me know!

Make sure you look at The AWOL Index which systematically describes ancient-world information resources on the world-wide web. The bibliographic data presented herein has been programmatically extracted from the content of AWOL - The Ancient World Online (ISSN 2156-2253) and formatted in accordance with a structured data model. In continuous operation since 2009, AWOL is a blog authored by Charles E. Jones, Tombros Librarian for Classics and Humanities at the Pattee Library, Penn State University.

This publication, The AWOL Index, is an experimental project, developed jointly by Jones and Tom Elliott, the Associate Director for Digital Programs at New York University's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW), with the assistance of Pavan Atri, Roger Bagnall, Dawn Gross, Sebastian Heath, Gabriel McKee, Ronak Parpani, David Ratzan, and Kristen Soule.
Creation of The AWOL Index was made possible by a grant from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation.

Milestone: Alphabetical List of Open Access Journals in Ancient Studies

At the beginning of May 2015, AWOL's Alphabetical List of Open Access Journals in Ancient Studies passed the 1500 title mark. While I make every effort to make sure that all links are working, some come and go, and others fall out of use. If you notice any broken links, please send me a comment. I'll do my best to fix them. Likewise if you know of a title that is missing from the list, please let me know.

See also Spanish/Catalan/Portuguese Open Access Journals on the Ancient World

And see Open Access Journals in Middle Eastern and and Islamic Studies

AWOL mailing list problem

A change in the way mailing lists and some large email service providers interact this winter has created major problems for AWOL and many other mailing lists.  We are working to solve this problem.

In the meantime, if you have been experiencing problems with the list, there are some alternatives.
1) Add AWOL to your feed reader.
2) Read AWOL directly online.
2) Read AWOL on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AncientWorldOnline
4) Read AWOL on Twitter: @AWOL_tweets
5) Resubscribe to AWOL at a different email address.

With thanks for your patience as we troubleshoot the problem.

Ancient World Online User Survey

In order to learn more about the readers of AWOL I have developed this short anonymous
Ancient World Online User Survey

Many thanks to all those who participated.

With thanks in advance!

-Chuck Jones-

Image source Wikipedia

Writing with stylus and folding wax tablet. painter, Douris, ca 500 BC (Berlin)