This focussed information paper describes the work of the Archaeology Data Service (ADS) and the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) in the context of teaching and learning for archaeology. It will introduce some of the services available to assist students and how these might be included in the curriculum. It identifies a set of tools that may be useful to lecturers in supporting their work and the students that they teach. It ends with a short review of tools available to web masters which can be used to embed many of these services within Virtual Learning Environments or departmental websites. At the core of the paper is the basic principle that ADS and AHDS exist to provide a managed service. We may be good at archaeology at arts and humanities and at data: but if we are not also good at providing a service then these other aspects are futile.
