Open Access Resources: History & Archaeology

Journal (peer-reviewed)
The Journal of Historical Biography is an international, peer-reviewed, open access periodical . . . Content includes biographical portraits of prominent individuals; reviews of biographical works and of works related to historical biography; and theoretical, methodological, and philosophical pieces reflecting on the larger issues associated with writing biography or autobiography.

Journal
[T]he Bible and Interpretation, is designed to appeal to a significant public and scholarly audience who are interested in the most current news and interpretations on the Bible and ancient Near East history.

Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) is a search tool that aims to make the discovery of open content easier. OASIS currently searches open content from 114 different sources and contains 440,269 records.

Database; eBooks and articles
Bible Archaeology on the Web's purpose is to "make high quality theological material freely available throughout the world, thus providing Bible teachers and pastors with the resources they need to spread the Gospel in their countries."

Maps
The Digital Archaeological Atlas of the Holy Land (DAAHL) is an international project that brings together experts in information technology including Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and the archaeology of the Holy Land (modern Israel, Palestine, Jordan, southern Lebanon, Syria and the Sinai Peninsula) to create the first on-line digital atlas of the region held sacred to the three great monotheistic faiths - Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

Maps
Mapping Past Societies (formerly, The Digital Atlas of Roman and Medieval Civilization (DARMC)) makes freely available on the internet the best available materials for a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) approach to mapping and spatial analysis of the Roman and medieval worlds.

Journals list
AWOL began with a series of entries under the heading AWOL on the Ancient World Bloggers Group Blog. . . 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.

Journal
Journal of Greco-Roman Christianity and Judaism originates from McMaster Divinity College, Hamilton, ON, Canada.

Database; eBooks and articles
Early Church on the Web's purpose is to "make high quality theological material freely available throughout the world, thus providing Bible teachers and pastors with the resources they need to spread the Gospel in their countries."

Journal (peer-reviewed)
The Heroic Age is dedicated to the exploration all aspects of early medieval Northwestern Europe, from a variety of vantage points and disciplines from the beginning of the fourth century through the beginning of the thirteenth.

Journal
Digital Medievalist (DM) is the journal of the Digital Medievalist Community. It publishes work of original research and scholarship, theoretical articles on digital topics, notes on technological topics, commentary pieces discussing developments in the field, bibliographic and review articles, tutorials, and project reports.

Book reviews; use to find potential sources
he Medieval Review (TMR; formerly the Bryn Mawr Medieval Review) has been publishing reviews of current work in all areas of Medieval Studies, a field it interprets as broadly as possible.

Database; eBooks and articles
Medieval Church on the Web's purpose is to "make high quality theological material freely available throughout the world, thus providing Bible teachers and pastors with the resources they need to spread the Gospel in their countries."