Freesources


I love free stuff. Educational free stuff? Even better.  Links below to several of my favorite libraries online.  Make some tea, grab some munchies, settle in and go wild.  You'll be down the rabbit hole for hours.

This was prepared with the assistance of Marvin cat.

(All links have been set to direct to Egyptological content for simplicity's sake.)



Sidestone Press: "Open Science is central to our publishing philosophy: we believe that scientific information should be freely available to all. Through our own digital e-book library we guarantee that scientific information published through Sidestone Press is immediately freely available around the world. Our authors always retain the copyright of their research and are free to share PDFs of their work."  Here

The British Museum:
 "The British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan (BMSAES) is a peer-reviewed, academic publication.
BMSAES is dedicated to presenting research on aspects of ancient Egypt and Sudan and the representation of those cultures in modern times. It is available to view and download free of charge." Here

"British Museum researchers have created a series of free Online Research Catalogues.They combine peer-reviewed introductory essays with carefully selected groups of object records generated from the Museum's Collection online database. The aim of these catalogues is to provide the widest possible access to new research on collections of objects as the records are automatically updated when new information becomes available." Here

The Metropolitan Museum:

"MetPublications is an online portal to The Metropolitan Museum of Art's comprehensive art publishing program. It features over 1700 titles, including books, guides, Bulletins and Journals from the last six decades. The full contents of over 1400 out-of-print titles may be read online, searched, or downloaded as a PDF for free. Publications still in-print may be previewed and fully searched online through a link to Google Books." Here

The Oriental Institute:

"On October 27, 2004, the faculty of the Oriental Institute, led by Director Gil J. Stein, unanimously voted to issue all new publications both in print and online, printed copies to be sold and online copies to be free, and all older titles to be processed for complimentary download from the Institute’s website as time and funds permit. The project was completed October 1, 2013, with the Publications Office gathering together more than 700 titles, 128,000 files, in 510 gigabytes of data." Here

Archeopress:  I couldn't find their mission statement but lots of good stuff. Here

"The Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections (“JAEI”) publishes four regular issues per year, one each on a quarterly basis. In an effort to bring content to press as soon as possible, the journal occasionally publishes more than four issues per year. All content that appears in JAEI is subject to double blind peer review. While all JAEI content appears online, and the journal was founded as a digital only publication, special issues and guest edited issues are brought to print." Here

Academia dot EDU.  This is the golden ticket.  Academics upload their papers with open access granted.  Free downloads.  You'll be like a kid in a candy store. Here

The University of Memphis has an amazing bibliography with links to cited articles. Here

Aegyptiaca is an international open access journal, published by the LMU Munich, Faculty for the Study of Culture, Egyptology and Coptic Studies. It is dedicated to the documentation and research of the history of reception of ancient Egypt. The journal will be published biannually in English language and will accept German and French articles as well. Here

Birmingham Egyptology Journal is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal available only online and free of charge. Here

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