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More CBA Research Reports have been released in the last few months and are accessible through the ADS Library. We are now up to volume 96 which looks at aspects of Roman Alcester. Other volumes span a wide range of interests including Environment and economy in Anglo-Saxon England and Excavations at Rhuddlan Clwyd 1969-73: Mesolithic to Medieval.
Other recent developments include an 'e-thesis' service, as announced in the last issue of ADS News. Current titles available include such diverse topics as the Three Dimensional Modelling of Scottish Early Medieval Sculpted Stones and the Idea of Residence in the Neolithic Cotswolds. Though the total number of e-theses is small, demand has been very high. We look forward to mounting more in weeks to come.
Perhaps of most significance in terms of provision of access is the deposition of eight unpublished or 'grey literature' reports by Worcestershire County Council Archaeological Services. It is envisaged that many more of these will follow as the English Heritage funded OASIS project continues to develop with its provision for online deposition.
Looking further afield the first of a series of e-books being produced by the Upper Tisza Project, an interdisciplinary Anglo-Hungarian landscape archaeology cooperation, was published. Local sites and monuments records continue to be added to ArchSearch - most recently with a load of records from Somerset County Council. This, with a recent re-load of Scottish records has brought the total number of records to almost 600,000.
All these resources can be found at: http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/
It was noted in ADS News 13 that a pilot funded by the ARCHway project was underway with the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland to deliver the full texts of many of its publications. This service has now gone live and includes:
More recent publications will be added on a rolling basis. This invaluable resource is accessible through the ADS Library and the ARCHway Citation Index which allows for author and keyword searching at the article level. Accessible as PDF files users can also search within articles using more recent versions of Adobe Acrobat.
An extract from the first publication of Archaeologica Scotica (1792), now available online.
Not surprisingly, this service has proven popular. The journals contain details of almost every theme, project and excavation undertaken in Scotland for over two hundred years. One reader commented that this was the most significant innovation in the publications of the society since the first volume appeared in 1792 - and that David Erskine, the 11th Earl of Buchan and founder of the society would be amazed and delighted.
These publications are available free of charge online: http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/library/psas/
ArchSearch News is brought to you by the ADS Technical Team: Tony Austin, Jen Mitcham, Kieron Niven, Marcus Smith and Keith Westcott.
ArchSearch is online at: http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue
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