The aim of the ADS is to collect, describe, catalogue, preserve, and provide user support for digital resources that are created as a product of archaeological research. The ADS also has a responsibility for promoting standards and guidelines for best practice in the creation, description, preservation and use of archaeological information.

The Digital Archaeological Record (tDAR) is an international digital repository for the digital records of archaeological investigations. tDAR’s use, development, and maintenance are governed by Digital Antiquity, an organization dedicated to ensuring the long-term preservation of irreplaceable archaeological data and to broadening the access to these data.

The Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology (formerly the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology (CEA)) is a growing open-access teaching and learning resource. Its goal is to facilitate access to scholarship in Social Anthropology for experts and non-experts worldwide. All entries are written and peer-reviewed by leading academics.

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) seeks to encourage the identification, protection and preservation of cultural and natural heritage around the world considered to be of outstanding value to humanity. This is embodied in an international treaty called the Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, adopted by UNESCO in 1972.

The British and Irish Archaeological Bibliography (BIAB) was originally compiled by the Council for British Archaeology (CBA), containing over 150,000 references and abstracts from 1695 to the 21st century. In 2016 BIAB was deposited with the ADS, and its records added to the Library database.

Government funded project to encourage the voluntary recording of archaeological objects found by members of the public in England and Wales. Includes information on the identification and conservation of artefacts, database of finds, images, research projects in progress and news from the sector.

The Institute for Archaeologists (IfA) advances the practice of archaeology and allied disciplines by promoting professional standards and ethics for conserving, managing, understanding and promoting enjoyment of heritage. Access codes of practice for collection, documentation, conservation and research of archaeological materials and guidelines for excavations. Also links to many related organisations and societies.