Information Provision & Publishing
The CBA has, since the mid-1990s, pioneered electronic access to archaeological materials, information, interpretations and discussion. The richness and depth of content on its website attracts more than 400,000 page visits per month (almost 5 million per year), and is in the process of being redesigned to enable greater participation by users.
The CBA has published almost 200 books since 1945. Today, these publications take two main forms: the Research Report series publishes monographs of research into the archaeology of Britain, largely deriving from excavation, buildings and landscape surveys. The Practical Handbooks series is methodological, and aims to present straightforward summaries of topics for those new to a particular specialism. Further details of these are available on the CBA website.
In addition, the CBA publishes British Archaeology: a bi-monthly news-magazine drawing together the latest news, discoveries and comment for both the general reader and the academic. Since 1997, the CBA has published the e-journal Internet Archaeology. The CBA has been providing a comprehensive bibliographic service for archaeology since 1949, which is today available free-of-charge as the online British and Irish Archaeological Bibliography.
A programme of digitisation has enabled free, electronic access to much of the CBA’s back catalogue of publications, including British Archaeology and many books and occasional papers. In recognition of the importance of the internet for the future of archaeological publishing, the CBA has recently, in collaboration with the Society of Antiquaries of London, launched ArchLib: an online library of electronic publications. This library beings together books, journals and papers from a growing number of publishers, and enables users to search across all of them simultaneously to discover and download articles for their research.
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