Well, actually not! 😉 but the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library has been upgraded!
From their Facebook page:
A second, upgraded version of the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library was launched today. Visitors to the new website (www.deadseascrolls.org.il) will be able to view and explore 10,000 newly uploaded images of unprecedented quality. The website also offers accompanying explanations pertaining to a variety of manuscripts, such as the book of Exodus written in paleo-Hebrew script, the books of Samuel, the Temple Scroll, Songs of Shabbat Sacrifice, and New Jerusalem.
The upgraded website comprises many improvements: 10,000 new multispectral images, improved metadata, additional manuscript descriptions, content pages translated into Russian and German in addition to the current languages, a faster search engine, easy access from the site to the facebook page and to twitter and more.
Imagine that! 10,000 new images.
Pass this on to academic publishers worried about control over works they can’t give away.
The ranks of the “frightened by public access” to non-commercial content are growing thinner.