This list of Research Tools is provided to help you when writing blog posts for AntiquityNOW. We will continue to update this list with new tools as we discover them. If you have a favorite resource that you’d like us to add, please comment at the bottom of the page.
- Doug’s Archaeology– A list of archaeology journals.
- JSTOR
- figshare
- Google Books
- Google Scholar
- The Library of Congress Research Tools
- National Archives– United States government records. Explore history through documents, photos and records.
- Perseus Digital Library
- PLoS One — Public Library of Science’s Open Access journal for any topic in science
- Project Muse– online scholarly database
- ProQuest– online scholarly database
- Schmoop– content is written primarily by Ph.D. and Masters students from top universities, like Stanford, Berkeley, Harvard, and Yale.
For Images Specifically– These are places where you can find public domain or freely licensed images.
- The Archaeology Image Bank
- The British Library
- Creative Commons Image Search
- History Link 101
- Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Catalog
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art Image Resources
- Open F|S– the complete digitized collections of the Freer and Sackler Galleries and the Freer Study Collection (the Smithsonian’s museums of Asian art).
- Portable Antiquities Scheme
- Wellcome Images– Over 100 000 images, including manuscripts, paintings, etchings, early photography and advertisements, are being made freely available through Wellcome Images. Drawn from the historical holdings of the world-renowned Wellcome Library.
- Wikipedia Public Domain Image Resources– This is an extremely comprehensive list of all the places online where you can find public domain and freely licensed images.