Euporia is a platform aimed to foster the searchability and
discoverability of Open Access philosophical resources and scholarly
contributions on topics related to the philosophy of Open Science,
digital culture and research ethics. Euporia pursues a twofold goal: to
stimulate the use of Open Access philosophical literature and to
intensify a critical discussion on Open Science and the impact of
digitality on contemporary culture. Therefore the blog is intended to be
a portal presenting, on the one hand, all the available Open Access
primary and secondary literature in philosophy, and on the other hand
all relevant contributions to the philosophy of Open Science, the
philosophy of digital culture and research ethics.
The ancient greek
word euporia (εὐπορία), according to the LSJ Lexicon, means “ease,
facility, of doing a thing” and, as opposed to poverty, “plenty,
abundance”. In the philosophical tradition, it was also used in
opposition to aporia (ἀπορία), as “solution of doubts or difficulties”.
Euporos is the person “full of resources or devices, ingenious,
inventive”. Last, but not least, we liked the random assonance with the
word euphoria.
The AWOL Index: The bibliographic data presented herein has been programmatically extracted from the content of AWOL - The Ancient World Online (ISSN 2156-2253) and formatted in accordance with a structured data model.
AWOL is a project of Charles E. Jones, Tombros Librarian for Classics and Humanities at the Pattee Library, Penn State University
AWOL began with a series of entries under the heading AWOL on the Ancient World Bloggers Group Blog. I moved it to its own space here beginning in 2009.
The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available.
The ancient world is conceived here as it is at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, my academic home at the time AWOL was launched. That is, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, from the beginnings of human habitation to the late antique / early Islamic period.
AWOL is the successor to Abzu, a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world, founded at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago in 1994. Together they represent the longest sustained effort to map the development of open digital scholarship in any discipline.
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