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Explore online resources, e-books, scholarly articles, and newspapers for Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies. Access scholarly databases like JSTOR and use useful tools like ETANA and HUMBUL Subject Gateway for further research. Contact Diane Bergman, Griffith Librarian, for assistance.
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WISER Humanities: Electronic Information Resources for Egyptology & Ancient Near Eastern Studies with Diane Bergman Griffith Librarian Oxford University Library Services diane.bergman@ouls.ox.ac.uk
Finding electronic materials for Egyptology & Ancient Near Eastern Studies • Sackler Library Web Site http://www.saclib.ox.ac.uk/ -- Online resources – Egyptology/Assyriology • Citing online resources: Internet Archaeology: http://intarch.ac.uk/news/housestyle/ecite.html • Internet Archive: http://www.archive.org/
E-books, e-articles • [ASLIB] Index to Theses (Great Britain and Ireland) and Dissertation Abstracts (USA & Canada), available via OxLIP. Cover more than 1.5 million doctoral dissertations and masters theses, with abstracts and some with 24 page previews.
Scholarly Articles • Use OLIS for journals held in Oxford • Egyptological Bibliographies on 1st Floor reference shelf & CD-ROM in Diane Bergman’s office • Use TDNET via OxLIP to access specific electronic journals • Use the MLA via OxLIPto find journal articles on a particular topic (e.g. Egyptian religion) – allows refinement of search
Scholarly Articles via OxLIP • JSTOR – a database of journal articles – good for looking for online full-text material • PCI(Periodicals Contents Index) -- Full Text for the Humanities & Social Sciences • ZETOC -- Articles from the British Library Document Delivery Service -- 1993 to the present -- Journals and conference proceedings
Newspapers • Lexis-Nexis via OxLIP
Useful tools available via WWW • ETANA http://www.etana.org/abzu/ • HUMBUL Subject Gateway to the WWW: http://www.humbul.ac.uk
Contact details: Diane Bergman, Griffith Librarian diane.bergman@saclib.ox.ac.uk Sackler Library 2-78089
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