Some Acknowledgements are in Order!
Over the course of the summer of 2007, Alicia Hawkins, then OAS Director of Publications, supervised two Laurentian University students, Anne Dorion and Justin Tighe. Part of their responsibilities included scanning, OCRing, editing and transferring abstracts from previous issues of Ontario Archaeology. This work was undertaking thanks to a Summer Experience Program 2007 grant made available by the Ontario Ministry of Culture and partially funded by the Ontario Archaeological Society.
During the fall and winter of 2008/09, Melennia Point worked diligently to create PDFs of all OA articles available through the library of the Canadian Museum of Civilization. As a result, a keyword search yields not only the full reference and abstract of the articles which correspond to the search parameters, but also provides you with the possibly of downloading a full-text PDF of the article.
The expected result of this significant investment is that someone on the other side of the world could read an article about the internal structuring of Huron longhouses in an instant. The real hope is that the impact of all those wonderful thought-provoking OA articles will broaden well beyond the scope the original authors ever contemplated.
The OAS would like to thank Luke Dalla Bona and Pictographics Ltd. of Sault Ste.Marie, our internet service provider, who generously hosts the OAS website as part of an offer extended to the OAS by the Canadian Archaeological Association.
