Tag Archives: Open Access

“Privashing” vs. publishing — in search of an accurate term for a problematic academic tradition

This is a short piece reflecting on the need to distinguish publication that actually maximizes the degree to which we make academic work public from the traditional practice of handing control over to commercial, often for-profit, companies that make money by restricting publication. Continue reading →

by Gregory Crane Posted on July 28, 2015
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Getting to open data for Classical Greek and Latin: breaking old habits and undoing the damage — a call for comment!

This blog post addresses two barriers that prevent students of historical languages such as Classical Greek and Latin from shifting to a fully open intellectual ecosystem: (1) the practice of giving control of scholarly work to commercial entities that then use their monopoly rights to generate revenue and (2) the legacy rights over critical editions that scholars have already handed over to commercial entities. Continue reading →

by Gregory Crane Posted on March 4, 2015
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Perseus Open Publication Series

The Perseus Digital Library at Tufts University and the Open Philology Project at the University of Leipzig announce plans for the Perseus Open Publication Series (POPS), a new venue for open access and open data publications in any format and in any language that the Perseus Digital Library can support. Continue reading →

by Gregory Crane Posted on October 2, 2014
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Opening up Classics and the Humanities: Computation, the Homer Multitext Project and Citizen Science

Increasingly powerful computational methods are important for humanists not simply because they make it possible to ask new research questions but especially because computation makes it both possible — and arguably essential — to transform the relationship between humanities research and society, opening up a range of possibilities for student contributions and citizen science. To illustrate this point, this paper looks at the transformative work conducted by the Homer Multitext Project. Continue reading →

by Gregory Crane Posted on September 29, 2014
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The Digital Loeb Classical Library — a view from Europe

The Digital Loeb Classical Library has gone live and many students of Greek and Latin are testing it. “The Digital Loeb Classical Library — a view from Europe” considers some of the issues that the new DLCL raises. Continue reading →

by Gregory Crane Posted on September 22, 2014
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The Digital Loeb Classical Library, Open Scholarship, and a Global Society

ShareTweet This piece was first published in February 2014 as an open Google doc on the Digital Loeb Classical Library, Open Scholarship, and a Global Society. Another piece is in preparation and will appear on the blog for the Open … Continue reading →

by Gregory Crane Posted on September 20, 2014
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Announcing the Leipzig Open Fragmentary Texts Series (LOFTS)

The Humboldt Chair of Digital Humanities at the University of Leipzig is pleased to announce a new effort within the Open Philology Project: the Leipzig Open Fragmentary Texts Series (LOFTS). In the first phase of LOFTS we invite public discussion as we finalize the goals, technological methods and editorial practices. Continue reading →

by Lisa M. Cerrato Posted on December 16, 2013
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