Category Archives: Publications

Search Pigeon

Posted on 2008-02-18 by Tom Elliott

Spotted by way of Peter Suber’s Open Access News: Search Pigeon is a collection of Google Co-opTM Custom Search Engines (CSEs) designed to make researching on the web a richer, more rewarding, and more efficient process. Designed for researchers in … Continue reading →

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The Future is Now? Digital Library Projects and Scholarship and Teaching in the Classics

Posted on 2008-01-03 by Tom Elliott

Saturday, January 5th, 8:30-11:00 a.m., Crystal Ballroom C, Hyatt Regency, Chicago (APA Annual Meeting 2008) Sponsored by the APA Committee on Publications Donald Mastronarde, Chair Thanks to digitization projects by both the commercial and the open-access sectors, the long-predicted transition … Continue reading →

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Tinctoris Updates

Posted on 2007-12-11 by scaife

Ron Woodley of the Birmingham Conservatoire at Birmingham City University has updated his site on the Renaissance music theorist Tinctoris published here on the Stoa: Two new treatise texts by Tinctoris are added, relating to technical aspects of late medieval … Continue reading →

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Cultural Heritage and Open Access Licenses

Posted on 2007-11-17 by Gabriel Bodard

The Eduserv Foundation has released a report on the use of Creative Commons, Creative Archive, and other open access licenses in the area of British heritage, ‘Snapshot study on the use of open content licences in the UK cultural heritage … Continue reading →

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SSRN does Classics: old wine in new wineskins?

Posted on 2007-10-23 by scaife

I always find myself wanting humanists to think about using the net for more than “let’s just do what we’ve always done, only on line now” (the BMCR syndrome, if you will). But still this expansion of SSRN into Classics … Continue reading →

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Joint Library Digital Classics accessions

Posted on 2007-10-23 by Gabriel Bodard

The Joint Library of the Hellenic and Roman Societies and the Institute of Classical Studies has a new blog which will contains updates to, among other things, library news, accommodation and shelving issues, and major accessions. In addition, items of … Continue reading →

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THE OATH IN ARCHAIC AND CLASSICAL GREECE

Posted on 2007-10-18 by scaife

Alan Somerstein, helped by several research assistants, has directed a substantive new site with ancillary discussions focused on the oath in ancient Greece. Careful definition of the phenomenon, a database of over 3700 occurrences, and a spreadsheet of sources for … Continue reading →

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Multiverse & Sketchup: Doom of Second Life?

Posted on 2007-10-16 by scaife

from Shawn Graham’s Electric Archaeology: From an archaeological point of view, creating 3d representations of a site using Sketchup, and then moving that with the terrain into an online world, with the associated annotations etc could really be revolutionary – … Continue reading →

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New Plato translations, under CC license

Posted on 2007-10-15 by scaife

Cathal Woods, philosophy professor at Virginia Wesleyan University, writes: together with a student, i have prepared new translations of plato’s euthyphro, apology (which we’re calling “socrates’ defense”), crito, and the death scene from phaedo. they’re free to all under a … Continue reading →

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Fitzpatrick on CommentPress

Posted on 2007-10-15 by scaife

from Kathleen Fitzpatrick, “CommentPress: New (Social) Structures for New (Networked) Texts,” Journal of Electronic Publishing, Fall 2007: … CommentPress demonstrates the fruitfulness of reimagining the technologies of electronic publishing in service to the social interconnections of authors and readers. The … Continue reading →

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Vicipaedia

Posted on 2007-10-01 by scaife

from the CHE: Latin Lovers Flock to Vicipaedia It’s taken only a few years for Wikipedia to become one of the world’s most translated documents: Sections of the site now appear in about 250 languages, including regional dialects like Quechua, … Continue reading →

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… and Why We Should Worry

Posted on 2007-10-01 by scaife

Siva Vaidhyanathan has posted on his blog, the Googlization of Everything, an interview he did with a Charlottesville newspaper. The interview reveals some of his concerns about Google. An example: More than 20 big university libraries have signed contracts with … Continue reading →

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Open Access publication, anyone?

Posted on 2007-09-29 by scaife

The second footnote to a review of Wolfgang Bernard and Christiane Reitz (edd.), Werner Krenkel: Naturalia non turpia. Sex and Gender in Ancient Greece and Rome / Schriften zur antiken Kultur- und Sexualwissenschaft. Spudasmata 113. Hildesheim, Zürich, New York: Olms, … Continue reading →

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UI for Google book search improves

Posted on 2007-09-26 by scaife

Inside Google Book Search offers an update of “New ways to dig into Book Search.”

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Academic publishers prepare for dirty war against Open Access

Posted on 2007-09-22 by Gabriel Bodard

According to an article published in this week’s New Scientist (full article requires sub): An unexpected package arrived on my desk earlier this year. The sender did not give a name, and the return address was false. Inside were copies … Continue reading →

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