Access to Mideast and Islamic Resources (AMIR)
This project began as a consequence of a series of conversations in 2010
between Charles Jones and Peter Magierski at NYU about the need for a
tool to assemble and distribute information on open access material
relating to the Middle East.
It uses Jones' Ancient World Online (AWOL) as a model.
We welcome and encourage active participation and will add interested parties to the authors' list upon request.
Notable entries include:
Open Access at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
In recognition and support of Open Access Week, this post lists digital resources currently available from ISAW and its collaborators under the terms of open licenses:
- 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.
- Content License: Creative Commons Attribution
- 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.
- Content License: Creative Commons Attribution No Derivatives Share-Alike
- Papyri.info
- Search
and browse over 80,000 ancient Greek, Latin and Coptic documents
preserved on papyrus and other materials. Images, texts, translations
and descriptions contributed by scholars and institutions around the
world. Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
- Content License (texts and descriptive information): Creative Commons AttributionSoftware License: GNU General Public License
- Pleiades
- Use,
create and share information about ancient places, spaces and
geographic names. Over 30,000 places registered (and growing). Funded by
the National Endowment for the Humanities.
- Content License: Creative Commons Attribution
Software Licenses: GNU General Public License and other open-source licenses
