The Internet Archaeology Archive has been purchased by JISC and is available free of charge in perpetuity to UK Higher and Further Education institutions and Research Councils.
Institutions now have free online access to issues 1-12 of the pioneering e-only journal Internet Archaeology, published between 1996 and 2006. Internet Archaeology is an independent, fully refereed academic online journal published by the Council for British Archaeology and hosted by the Department of Archaeology at the University of York.
Content description
Content ranges from excavation reports (incorporating text, photographs, data, drawings, reconstruction diagrams, interpretations) and analysis of large data sets along with the data itself, to visualisations and applications of information technology in archaeology. The aim of this resourcel is to provide new avenues to present and engage with archaeological research by making use of the huge potential of a web delivered publication to present archaeological research in unique and exciting ways, such as full colour images, video footage, virtual reality models, searchable data sets and interactive mapping.
N.B. The archive licence includes issues 1-21 inclusive
Main subject areas
Internet Archaeology content has wide appeal making it an ideal resource for researchers in a number of subject areas. As well as archaeology and anthropology, this resource will be of interest to researchers in ICT, history, classics, biology, geography, environmental studies, social sciences, medicine and the performing arts.
Use in the classroom
Articles within Internet Archaeology can be used as source material in the following archaeology university modules:
Archaeological Computing
Archaeological Fieldwork, Methodology and Practice Managing, Interpreting and Analysing Archaeological Data Landscape Archaeology Environmental Archaeology Maritime Archaeology Interpretation and Analysis of Archaeological Materials Zooarchaeology Archaeology, Art and Representation Heritage Management Public Archaeology Museum studies Material Culture Settlement and Economy
And for the following units on the AQA AS/A2 Archaeology syllabus:
Survey and Excavation (Sources and Methods) Post-Excavation, Dating and Interpretation (Techniques and Methods) Settlement and Social Organisation Material Culture, Technology and Economics
Academic level
AS/A level. Undergraduate, post-graduate. Academic research.
Date range
Internet Archaelogy Archive 1996-2006 is a static resource and includes issues 1-21 inclusive.
Comparable resources
There is not any other archaeology journal that is directly comparable to Internet Archaeology. There are other electronic journals for archaeology but they almost exclusively publish text and images and don't offer the range of content (e.g. datasets, VR, video) that Internet Archaeology does. They also tend to have a more restricted (geographical/chronological) coverage than Internet Archaeology.
Complementary resources
Content from the Internet Archaeology Archive can be used with the historical Ordnance Survey maps from Historic Digimap to support studies focusing on environmental archaeology and the use of digital data for archaeology and anthropology.
Cost
JISC Collections has purchased the Internet Archaeology Archive 1996-2006 on behalf of UK higher and further education institutions. There is no cost to institutions. However institutions must still complete a sub-licence to access the resource.
Functionality and standards compliance
Usage statistics
The access stats are not COUNTER-compliant but the access stats that are collected are freely available at: http://intarch.ac.uk/news/iaweb.html
Authentication
The innovative nature of the material within Internet Archaeology means that there are a number of complex issues surrounding access management which have to be resolved before Athens and/or Access Management Federation access is implemented. In the meantime, IP access is provided.
Accessibility
Internet Archaeology content complies with WAI Priority 1 accessibility standards but most features also comply with Priority 2 and 3 guidelines
Library support information