Friday, October 31, 2008

OI in JSTOR

The quickly expanding corpus of scholarly resources being digitized and served electronically by JSTOR includes a great deal of material relevant to the history of the Oriental Institute. Take for instance the following:

New Mesopotamian Gallery at the Oriental Institute

Oriental Institute Museum Staff
Near Eastern Archaeology, Vol. 67, No. 1 (Mar., 2004), pp. 52-53

The Egyptian Gallery of the Oriental Institute Museum Reopens
Emily Teeter
Near Eastern Archaeology, Vol. 62, No. 2 (Jun., 1999), pp. 93-127

The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
James Henry Breasted
The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures, Vol. 35, No. 4 (Jul., 1919), pp. 196-204

Smart Museum of Art to Host Special Exhibition of Sumerian Temple Treasures from the Oriental Institute Museum
The Biblical Archaeologist, Vol. 60, No. 3 (Sep., 1997), p. 186

The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago: A Beginning and a Program
James Henry Breasted
The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures, Vol. 38, No. 4 (Jul., 1922), pp. 233-328

The Syrian Expedition of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
C. W. McEwan
American Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 41, No. 1 (Jan. - Mar., 1937), pp. 8-16

Ancient Palestine Treasure Comes to Oriental Institute
The Science News-Letter, Vol. 32, No. 852 (Aug. 7, 1937), p. 85

The Oriental Institute: Thirty Years and the Present
Thorkild Jacobsen, John A. Wilson
Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Vol. 8, No. 3 (Jul., 1949), pp. 236-247

The New Head of the Oriental Institute
W. F. A[lbright]
Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, No. 61 (Feb., 1936), p. 19

Persepolis in Retrospect: Histories of Discovery and Archaeological Exploration at the Ruins of Ancient Parseh
Ali Mousavi
Ars Orientalis, Vol. 32, Medes and Persians: Reflections on Elusive Empires (2002), pp. 209-251

Obituary: James Henry Breasted
Geographical Review, Vol. 26, No. 1 (Jan., 1936), p. 162

An Adventure of Great Dimension: The Launching of the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary
Erica Reiner, Robert McC. Adams
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series, Vol. 92, No. 3 (2002)

... and there is much much more ...

Of course access to JSTOR is limited to those inside the domains of subscribing institution. Fortunatley this emeans most university and many public library systems.

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