ETANA:
Electronic Tools and Ancient Near Eastern Archives

This site provides resources to the planning group for the development of the ETANA grant proposal.

Call for support

Directory of Participants

Proposal document sections

• Project Description (January 2, 2001 Draft).
• Project Justification Statement (January 19, 2001 Draft).
• Project Organization Statement (January 19, 2001 Draft).
• Proposed Structure Diagram.
• Rights Management.
• Technology Plan.
• Evaluation.

Business Plan Proposal

Founding Organizations and their Publications

• American Schools of Oriental Research
  • Near Eastern Archeology (formerly: Biblical Archaeologist)
  • Biblical Archaeologist (Volumes 40-55 (1977-1992) available on CD-ROM
  • Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research (TOC)
  • Journal of Cuneiform Studies (TOC)
  • American Schools of Oriental Research Newsletter (Full-text PDF)
• American Oriental Society
  • Journal of the American Oriental Society (TOC)
  • American Oriental Series (monographic series)
• Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
  • Oriental Institute -- News & Notes (Quarterly) (Full-text of lead articles)
  • Extensive publication program--mostly monographs and research reports
  • Abzu Guide to resources for the study of the Ancient Near East available on the Internet.
• Cobb Institute of Archaeology at Mississippi State University
• Society of Biblical Literature
  • Journal of Biblical Literature (JBL)
  • Review of Biblical Literature (RBL)
  • Semeia
  • Various Monographic series
• Vanderbilt University -- Jean & ALexander Heard Library
• Vanderbilt University -- Divinity School
• Case Western Reserve University
  • Virtual Nimrin Archaeological site
• University of Southern California
  • West Semitic Research Project
  • InscriptiFact

Affiliate members:

• The Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University

Meetings

Agenda for January 26 meeting at USC.

• The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
  • JSTOR

• BioOne
• University of Southern California
  • West Semitic Research Project
  • InscriptiFact
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

• Electronic Publication of Ancient Near Eastern Texts (Adriane 22)
• American Theological Library Association Serials Project
• Proposing a Knowledge Exchange Model for Scholarly Publishing by John Willinsky. from Current Issues in Education, Volume 3, 2000.
• Related Conference: Ancient Studies -- New Technology: The World Wide Web and Scholarly Research, Communication, and Publication in Ancient, Byzantine, and Medieval Studies
• SBL demonstration PrePrint server
• Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative
• E-Prints.org
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• UCLA Digital Archaeology Lab

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Budget form for participants.