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From: William Kilbride <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: 17 June 2002 15:34
Subject: [FISH] ARCHway: Access to the UK's best archaeology libraries and
their journals
>ARCHway: Access to the UK's best archaeology libraries and their
>journals
>
>The University of York Library, the Archaeology Data Service (ADS) and
>the Research Support Libraries Programme are pleased to announce the
>launch of an exciting new service for everyone involved in
>archaeological research: the ARCHway Database. ARCHway provides an
>integrated catalogue to the journal holdings of 25 leading academic
>libraries and is set to become a fundamental resource for archaeologists
>and their research.
>
>ARCHway, which offers 3 different research tools, is available free of
>charge at http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/ARCHway.html
>
>The ARCHway "Journal Locator" describes the journal holdings of 25
>leading research institutions. Between them, these libraries hold
>more than 2,000 journals on every aspect of archaeological research,
>covering every topic and location of interest to archaeologists
>based in the UK and beyond. These journals represent many thousands
>of individual volumes, and hundreds of thousands of articles and
>notes. The "Journal Locator" provides the title of the journal,
>contact details for each of the libraries that hold it, the volume
>numbers of each journal they hold, and the years covered by these
>collections. So, for example, you can find the eight libraries that
>hold volume one of the "Journal of the American Research Center
>in Egypt" or locate all five volumes of the "Orkney Miscellany".
>
>The ARCHway "List of Journals" presents the same data for each of these
>journals in turn, providing a short description of the content of each
>journal, its publisher and ISSN, as well as a list of institutions that
>hold the journal. So, if you want to check the details of any
>archaeological journal, then you can find them here.
>
>The ARCHway "Citation Index" indexes the tables of contents from
>Britain's 14 most popular archaeological journals. This means that a
>researcher can cross search the complete indexes of 14 journals and
>identify all the articles or notes that relate to their own area of
>expertise or interest. References range from as far back as 1770, and
>as recently as 2001. In this way you can recover 71 different
>articles concerning research at or near Winchester in journals as
>diverse as Medieval Archaeology, Britannia and the Journal of
>Archaeological Science. With an author search, you can track the
>career of different archaeologists through the pages of these
>different publications. So, you can find 73 articles written by Stuart
>Piggott in the Antiquaries Journal, the Proceedings of the Prehistoric
>Society, the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
>and others.
>
>Combining these tools, you can find an article that is relevant to your
>research, then find the institution nearest you that hosts it. You can
>even scan the contact details to find opening times and lending
>privileges.
>
>ARCHway Project Manager Gordon Bower said "This is a fundamental
>research tool that will make a significant impact on the way that
>academics and others pursue their research. For the first time it
>allows us to see a complete listing of all the journals available to
>UK-based archaeologists. Most of the volumes listed will be available
>to students either directly through reciprocal lending and browsing
>agreements, or through inter-library loan."
>
>He added "Even for well-stocked libraries, this is a major step forward,
>because the tables of contents provide a really detailed view of what is
>available between the covers of a volume, rather than just listing items
>in stock."
>
>The ARCHway project was led by the University of York Library, with help
>from many different partners including most of the leading academic
>libraries with archaeology holdings in the UK. Other Partners include
>the Council for British Archaeology, the British Library, the Society of
>Antiquaries of London, the Institute of Classical Studies and the
>National Museums of Scotland. It was funded by the Research Support
>Libraries Programme. The data is now available from the Archaeology
>Data Service at http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/ARCHway.html
>
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>
>
>William Kilbride
>User Services Manager
>Archaeology Data Service
>
>Dept of Archaeology t 0044 (0)1904 433954
>University of York f 0044 (0)1904 433939
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