The ADS Library brings together bibliographic records and e-prints for published and unpublished archaeological documents. It includes data from sources, such as OASIS, Digitised Journals and Monographs, Internet Archaeology, Publisher Feeds, and Grey Literature from ADS Archives. British and Irish Archaeological Bibliography (BIAB) was originally compiled by the Council for British Archaeology, but in 2016 it was deposited with ADS.

This database promotes good practice in the use of digital data in archaeology, it provides technical advice to the research community, and supports the deployment of digital technologies. The core activity of the ADS is the long-term digital data preservation and the promotion and dissemination of a broad range of data in archaeology.

The information is organized into archaeological traditions and the text is subject-indexed to the paragraph-level by HRAF anthropologists according to HRAF’s modified Outline of Cultural Materials (OCM). Traditions covered in the database include Egyptian, Highland Andean, Coastal Andean, Maya, Highland Mesoamerican, Mississippian, Mesopotamian, the U.S. Southwest, and Indus Valley sequences.

The information is organized by region and sub-region and the sources are indexed at the paragraph level. The subjects used in the indexing and searching the ethnographic texts are based on the Outline of Cultural Materials (OCM), a thesaurus of subject terms and descriptions.

AnthroSource contains articles from journals, newsletters, bulletins and monographs, and it provides access to scientific research information across the field of anthropology.

It contains references to geoscience journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports and theses. The GeoRef database covers the geology of North America from 1669 to the present and the geology of the rest of the world from 1933 to the present. The database includes references to all publications of the U.S. Geological Survey. Masters' theses and doctoral dissertations from US and Canadian universities are also covered.

Each Digimap collection is made available under its own individual licence which details what activity is permitted with their data and what is not. By registering, you agree to abide by the terms of each individual licence. Please ensure you read each licence carefully, as these terms and conditions may impact your use of the resources in your research. Pay particular attention to the different referencing methodologies required for each collection. As you will need to register for an individual account, please also be aware that you agree to the sharing of your personal data, as per Digimap’s Privacy Notice.

Operated by EDINA at the University of Edinburgh, Digimap offers several data collections, including Ordnance Survey, historical, geological, LiDAR and marine maps, spatial data, OS National Geographic Database (NGD) & the National Tree Map. It provides an easy to use interface to browse, view and print geological maps; a simple data download facility so that the maps can be downloaded for use in a Geographic Information System (GIS) or image processing software.

Note that there are some titles that we do not subscribe to. Journal coverage is from the first volume for most titles, but just from 1995 for The Lancet and a few other Academic Press titles. We have access to Elsevier's 'Freedom Collection' titles and a few subscribed titles outside of this collection. We have full text access to the 2000-2008 Veterinary Medicine collections. ScienceDirect also hosts ejournals for other publishers, but we do not have access to those (e.g. American Institute of Chemical Engineers, American Psychological Association, Anderson Publishing Ltd, CRC Press).