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Unpublished Reports pass 80,000
Towards the end of 2023 the ADS Library passed a considerable milestone of 80,000 fieldwork reports. This corpus is now one of the largest collections of…
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ADS Priorities for 2023/2024
The work of the ADS is overseen by a Management Committee made up of representatives of key stakeholders, funders, and user communities. The Committee meets once…
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Archaeology on Your Doorstep
Editor Intro: This week’s blog post is written by Richard Paxford, an ADS digital archives assistant who recently joined us in York. Below Richard writes about…
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Welcome to the new ADS website!
We at the ADS are excited to announce the launch of the new ADS website! The new website will go live at 8am on Monday 6th…
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Using the ADS library: How do you search for authors?
Introduction Recently we received a query on Twitter about how to best search for specific authors using the ADS library. Specifically the query asked how best…
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Accession. Migration. Duplication. The exciting world of archiving digital data.
The ADS is an accredited digital repository and data that’s deposited with us is available open access via our archives or library but what actually happens…
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My First Month at the ADS
At the best of times starting a new job can be a nerve-racking experience. So starting a new job during a pandemic should therefore be worse,…
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Does anyone have a map?
If there is one thing that I really enjoy, it’s exploring data spatially. I really enjoy being able to look at a map and see where…
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First month with the Archaeology Data Service
I’m Becky Hirst and I started working as a Digital Archives Assistant with the Archaeology Data Service in August 2021. Since completing Undergraduate and Postgraduate studies…
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My First Month as a Digital Archives Assistant
Hello! I’m Evelyn, and I started my role as a Digital Archives Assistant for the Archaeology Data Service at the beginning of August. Having previously worked…
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Changes to the ADS Library
Since a Beta release back in March 2017 we’ve received a great deal of feedback on the ADS Library application. We know it’s used intensively, with…
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The ADS Grey Literature Library reaches a milestone!
The ADS Library now holds over 50,000 downloadable grey literature reports!Thank you to all the archivists who have worked hard preserving, archiving and disseminating these files and to all of our depositors who continue to make our Grey Literature Collections such a rich resource!
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Gems in the ADS Library #1
Hi Anastasia Akerman here again, after spending time working on the ADS library I thought it would be fun to share with you a few gems…
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ADS Library: BETA version now online!
The ADS, Historic England and the Council for British Archaeology are pleased to announce the beta release of ADS Library. Weaving a web of references. The…
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British and Irish Archaeological Bibliography Survey Results
The British and Irish Archaeological Bibliography is moving from the Council of British Archaeology to the ADS in 2016. The idea is to integrate it with other…
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The dark valley: notes from the ADS library
Over a year and a half ago I wrote a short blog on the mechanics of the ADS grey literature library, going in to (what I considered)…
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The Grey Literature Library reaches 30,000
The ADS is excited to announce that we now have over 30,000 reports in our Grey Literature Library. Since the start of 2015, 734 reports have been added…
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Opening up the Grey Literature Library
The Grey Literature Library is one of the ADS’s most popular resources, and as shown by projects such as the Roman Rural Landscape, one that is…
