2 Ocak 2013 Çarşamba

Zimbabwe's NoViolet Bulawayo wins Caine writing prize

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Source: BBC News, 12 July 2011
NoViolet Bulawayo was born and raised in Zimbabwe and studied in the US
Zimbabwean writer NoViolet Bulawayo has won this year's Caine Prize for African Writing, regarded as Africa's leading literary award.

The £10,000 ($16,000) prize was given for her story Hitting Budapest about hungry children from a shantytown who steal guavas from an upmarket suburb.

Full article

An A - W of video collections : from Architecture to Women's Studies

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Alexander Street Press video collections

CSU Library has completed the acquisition of a major resource which consists of 23 separate streaming-video collections, covering a huge range of subjects from Criminal Justice to Education, from Business & Economics to Health & Society, from Art & Architecture to Women's & Gender Studies.

You can access these collections from the Journal Databases webpage, where they are listed under title and also under the relevant subject heading(s). You can search and browse for video material. Transcripts, and tools to assist with using the videos for educational purposes, are also available.

These collections are also available in a single resource known as Academic Video Online, also called Alexander Street Video, where you can see all the collections in a single list, and make a choice from the list.

Dental Education in Video

The Library is currently running a trial of another education and training video collection - Dental Education in Video, also provided by Alexander Street Press. We have decided to purchase this collection, which will increase the number of Alexander Street Press video collections to 24.

1 Ocak 2013 Salı

Open Access Journal: Sylloge epigraphica Barcinonensis

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[First posted 25 May 2012. Updated 31 December 2012]

Sylloge epigraphica Barcinonensis
ISSN 2013-4118
Sylloge epigraphica Barcinonensis: SEBarc
Sylloge epigraphica Barcinonensis (ISSN 2013-4118), fundada el 1994 pel professor Marc Mayer i Olivé, és una publicació científica anual que vol difondre estudis i novetats epigràfiques de qualitat, originals i inèdites, i abraça des del punt de vista de temes d'epigrafia, filologia clàssica, paleografia, història antiga, topografia antiga, arqueologia clàssica i llengües paleohispàniques. 

Archives

2011: Núm.: 9

2010: Núm.: 8

2009: Núm.: 7

2008: Núm.: 6

2005: Núm.: 5

2002: Núm.: 4

1999: Núm.: 3

1995: Núm.: 2

 

1994: Núm.: 1


See the full List of Open Access Journals in Ancient Studies

Administrative: 01.01.2013

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 Happy New Year!

AWOL passed the one million page views threshold this autumn (1,133,268 as of today, to be exact), and is now approaching 5500 subscribers by email, three and a half years after I deployed that function.  I'm gratified that such a large number of you find AWOL interesting enough to voluntarily add another piece of email to your busy queues each day.

You may follow AWOL directly via News Feed (user count not easy to discover), via Feedburner (these are the ca. 5500 email subscribers), on Facebook (825 likes),  or on Twitter @ISAWLibrary (572 followers).  You can also follow AWOL on Google+.

AWOL' s Alphabetical list of Open Access Journals in Ancient Studies currently includes 1056 titles. We reached the 1000 title benchmark a little more than a year ago.  I'm  currently editing and revising the list - a slow process

The following graph charts the growth of traffic on AWOL over its lifetime:



Since May 2010, Blogger has been keeping detailed statistics on usage of files hosted there. In that period the ten most frequently viewed AWOL pages have been:

EntryPageviews
Alphabetical List of Open Access Journals in Ancie...Jul 1, 2012 96901








Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications: Titles wi...Oct 12, 2012 4477








The Ancient World in JSTORJun 13, 2011 4002








Roundup of Resources on Ancient GeographySep 27, 2012 1927








Brooklyn Museum Publications: Titles with full-tex...Oct 25, 20121838








JSTOR Register & ReadMar 8, 2012 1622








The Oriental Institute Open Access PublicationsDec 14, 20111414








Open Access Journal: MinervaAug 6, 2012,  1332








Ancient World in Open Access Institutional Reposit...Sep 24, 2012,  1269








Migne onlineOct 18, 20091171


I invite you to make use of the full suite of Online Resources from ISAW currently available from ISAW and its collaborators under the terms of open licenses:

Ancient World Digital Library Book Viewer
The first fruits of an effort to accelerate and enhance access to the emerging global library of digital publications on the ancient world, the AWDL Book Viewer lets users read and search digitized copies of previously printed scholarly materials. In addition to page images of many digitized volumes, AWDL currently hosts an online version of Roger Bagnall and Giovanni Ruffini. (2012) Amheida I. Ostraka from Trimithis, Volume 1: Texts from the 2004–2007 Seasons.
Ancient World Image Bank
View and download over 2,000 free digital images of sites and objects from the ancient world, contributed by ISAW faculty, staff and friends.
Ancient World Online
Find out about all the latest online and open-access material relating to the ancient world, regardless of where it's published.
Exhibitions
Learn about the objects and cultures featured in ISAW's public exhibitions at 15 East 84th Street in New York. Even though these exhibitions eventually close or move on to other locations, the websites for them remain, providing permanent access to images, maps and other materials.
ISAW Papers
ISAW Papers is an open-content scholarly journal that publishes article-length works on any topic within the scope of ISAW's scholarly research.
Papyri.info
Search and browse over 50,000 ancient Greek and Latin documents preserved on papyrus and other materials. Images, texts, translations and descriptions contributed by scholars and institutions around the world. Get the latest project news via the Digital Papyrology Blog.
Planet Atlantides
News aggregators for ancient studies. This site gathers together news, commentary and other posts from a variety of blogs and sites around the web and provides the aggregate in an easy-to-read web page as well as in a variety of web feed formats.
Pleiades
Use, create and share information about ancient places, spaces and geographic names. Over 30,000 places registered (and growing). Get Pleiades Project News here.
Social Media
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I  also invite you to amuse yourself by browsing through Bookplates of Scholars in Ancient Studies. If any of you have additions, corrections or comments on that, please do get in touch with me.  I'm particularly interested if you can surface other interesting bookplates of scholars of antiquity.

As always, comments - online or offline - about AWOL are welcome.

Earlier administrative notes with user statistics have been posted in October 2012, August 2012,  April 2012, March 2012, November 2011, October 2011,  July 2011, April 2011, January 2011,  December 2010,  October 2010, August 2010,  July 2010, May 2010, and  January 2010.

Zimbabwe's NoViolet Bulawayo wins Caine writing prize

To contact us Click HERE
Source: BBC News, 12 July 2011
NoViolet Bulawayo was born and raised in Zimbabwe and studied in the US
Zimbabwean writer NoViolet Bulawayo has won this year's Caine Prize for African Writing, regarded as Africa's leading literary award.

The £10,000 ($16,000) prize was given for her story Hitting Budapest about hungry children from a shantytown who steal guavas from an upmarket suburb.

Full article

Musician Fashion Accessories: A Person's Infinity Scarf

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fashion accessories

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An A - W of video collections : from Architecture to Women's Studies

To contact us Click HERE

Alexander Street Press video collections

CSU Library has completed the acquisition of a major resource which consists of 23 separate streaming-video collections, covering a huge range of subjects from Criminal Justice to Education, from Business & Economics to Health & Society, from Art & Architecture to Women's & Gender Studies.

You can access these collections from the Journal Databases webpage, where they are listed under title and also under the relevant subject heading(s). You can search and browse for video material. Transcripts, and tools to assist with using the videos for educational purposes, are also available.

These collections are also available in a single resource known as Academic Video Online, also called Alexander Street Video, where you can see all the collections in a single list, and make a choice from the list.

Dental Education in Video

The Library is currently running a trial of another education and training video collection - Dental Education in Video, also provided by Alexander Street Press. We have decided to purchase this collection, which will increase the number of Alexander Street Press video collections to 24.