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Dear Colleagues and fellow Syriacists,We write to announce the publication of a new online resource at DumbartonOaks aimed at the community of Syriac studies. We have assembled numerousfreely available, digitized texts -- most notably tried-and-true scholarlyinstrumenta -- and organized them into an annotated bibliography that coversseveral categories (lexica, grammars, histories of Syriac literature, etc.).We have pitched the site at Syriac students who may not know that they needthese resources yet, but will be glad to see them all in one place when theydo!This new resource can be found athttp://www.doaks.org/research/byzantine/resources/syriacYou can read more about our goals on the Introduction page. We hope thatthis site will be of value to the Syriac community, especially those who donot have access to print copies of these (often rare) resources. We willcontinue to refine and enlarge these pages, and add new ones as well. Ofcourse, we welcome helpful suggestions, comments, and corrections from thescholarly community.As a caveat, we understand that some of the Google Books links may beuseless to those outside of the US because of Google’s decisions regardingcopyright law in various countries. Where available, we have tried to linkresources on other reputable sites that do not have internationalrestrictions (such as archive.org). We will continue to try to move ourlinks to such sites in the future.Scott Johnson (johnsons@doaks.org)Jack Tannous (tannousj@doaks.org)