The Oriental Institute is a center for the study of ancient Near Eastern civilizations

Starting in 2004, the Oriental Institute committed to digitizing all of its publications and making them available online, without charge.

The minimum for each volume, old and new, current and forthcoming, will be a Portable Document Format (PDF) version following current resolution standards.

New publications appear online at or near the time they appear in print. Older publications will be processed as time and funding permits.

 Several hundred volumes are now online.