Tuesday, October 13, 2009

University of Michigan Press books open access at HathiTrust

New digital access options for U-M Press titles

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (Oct. 8, 2009)—The University of Michigan Press is joining with HathiTrust Digital Library to open electronic content for free online access. U-M Press plans to have 1,000 or more titles available for full viewing by the end of this year.

Launched in 2008, HathiTrust is a digital preservation repository and research management tool for the world's great research libraries, focused on providing scholars in the digital age with the largest collection of electronic research material this side of Google Book Search and large-scale, full-text searching and archiving tools to manage it...

At this time the following titles in ancient studes are available in this collection

Title: The Aphrodite of Knidos and her successors : a historical review of the female nude in Greek art / Christine Mitchell Havelock.
Author: Havelock, Christine Mitchell.
Date: 2007

Title: Archimedes and the Roman imagination / Mary Jaeger.
Author: Jaeger, Mary, 1960-
Date: 2008

Title: Athenian financial documents of the fifth century, by Benjamin Dean Meritt.
Author: Meritt, Benjamin Dean, 1899-1989.
Date: 1932

Title: The Augustinian epic, Petrarch to Milton / J. Christopher Warner.
Author: Warner, J. Christopher (James Christopher), 1961-
Date: 2005

Title: Ceremony and power : performing politics in Rome between Republic and Empire / Geoffrey S. Sumi.
Author: Sumi, Geoffrey S., 1963-
Date: 2005

Title: Clemency & cruelty in the Roman world / Melissa Barden Dowling.
Author: Dowling, Melissa Barden.
Date: 2006

Title: Coins from Seleucia on the Tigris, by Robert Harbold McDowell.
Author: McDowell, Robert Harbold, 1894-
Date: 1935

Title: Discovering the Greek countryside at Metaponto / Joseph Coleman Carter.
Author: Carter, Joseph Coleman.
Date: 2006

Title: East Central & Eastern Europe in the Early Middle Ages / Florin Curta, editor.
Date: 2005

Title: Elementary Latin: I
Author: Crawford, Grace A.
Date: 1963

Title: Elementary Latin: II
Author: Crawford, Grace A.
Date: 1963

Title: From monastery to hospital : Christian monasticism & the transformation of health care in late antiquity / Andrew T. Crislip.
Author: Crislip, Andrew T. (Andrew Todd)
Date: 2005
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Title: The Greek and Latin literary texts from Greco-Roman Egypt.
Author: Pack, Roger Ambrose, 1907-
Date: 1952

Title: The Hellenistic monarchies : selected papers / Christian Habicht.
Author: Habicht, Christian.
Date: 2006

Title: How the Incas built their heartland : state formation and the innovation of imperial strategies in the Sacred Valley, Peru / R. Alan Covey.
Author: Covey, R. Alan, 1974-
Date: 2006

Title: The idea of the theater in Latin Christian thought : Augustine to the fourteenth century / Donnalee Dox.
Author: Dox, Donnalee.
Date: 2004

Title: Law and the rural economy in the Roman Empire / Dennis P. Kehoe.
Author: Kehoe, Dennis P.
Date: 2006

Title: The laws of the Roman people : public law in the expansion and decline of the Roman Republic / Callie Williamson.
Author: Williamson, Callie.
Date: 2004

Title: The learned collector : mythological statuettes and classical taste in late antique Gaul / Lea M. Stirling.
Author: Stirling, Lea Margaret.
Date: 2005

Title: Life and thought in the ancient Near East / Louis L. Orlin.
Author: Orlin, Louis L. (Louis Lawrence)
Date: 2007

Title: The march up country;
Author: Xenophon.
Date: 1958

Title: The myths of fiction : studies in the canonical Greek novels / Edmund P. Cueva.
Author: Cueva, Edmund P., 1964-
Date: 2004

Title: Neo-Babylonian business and administrative documents; with transliteration, translation and notes,
Author: Moore, Ellen Whitley, ed. and tr. 1889-
Date: 1935

Title: News and frontier consciousness in the late Roman Empire / Mark W. Graham.
Author: Graham, Mark W., 1970-
Date: 2006

Title: The odyssey / Homer ; translated by Rodney Merrill ; with introductions by Thomas R. Walsh and Rodney Merrill.
Author: Homer.
Date: 2002

Title: The Peloponnesian War; the Thomas Hobbes translation. Edited by David Grene, with an introd. by Bertrand de Jouvenel.
Author: Thucydides.
Date: 1959

Title: The phonology and morphology of royal Achaemenid Elamite.
Author: Paper, Herbert H. (Herbert Harry), 1925-
Date: 1955

Title: Present shock in late fifth-century Greece / Francis M. Dunn.
Author: Dunn, Francis M.
Date: 2007

Title: Reading after Actium : Vergil's Georgics, Octavian, and Rome / Christopher Nappa.
Author: Nappa, Christopher.
Date: 2005

Title: Rethinking reality : Lucretius and the textualization of nature / Duncan F. Kennedy.
Author: Kennedy, Duncan F.
Date: 2002

Title: The rise of the Chinese Empire / Chun-shu Chang.
Author: Chang, Chun-shu, 1934-
Date: 2007

Title: Romans in a New World : classical models in sixteenth-century Spanish America / David A. Lupher.
Author: Lupher, David A., 1947-
Date: 2003

Title: Speculum iuris : Roman law as a reflection of social and economic life in antiquity / edited by Jean-Jacques Aubert and Boudewijn Sirks.
Date: 2002

Title: Stamped and inscribed objects from Seleucia on the Tigris, by Robert Harbold McDowell.
Author: McDowell, Robert Harbold, 1894-
Date: 1935

Title: Structural patterns and proportions in Vergil's Aeneid, a study in mathematical composition / by George E. Duckworth.
Author: Duckworth, George Eckel, 1903-
Date: 1962

Title: Theogony ; and, Works and days / Hesiod ; translated and with introductions by Catherine M. Schlegel and Henry Weinfield.
Author: Hesiod.
Date: 2006

Title: Thutmose III : a new biography / Eric H. Cline and David O'Connor, editors.
Date: 2006

Title: Tragedy, rhetoric, and the historiography of Tacitus' Annales / Francesca Santoro L'Hoir.
Author: Santoro L'Hoir, Francesca.
Date: 2006

Title: Vergil's Aeneid and the Roman self : subject and nation in literary discourse / Yasmin Syed.
Author: Syed, Yasmin, 1964-
Date: 2005

Title: Women's letters from ancient Egypt, 300 BC-AD 800 / Roger S. Bagnall and Raffaella Cribiore ; with contributions by Evie Ahtaridis.
Author: Bagnall, Roger S.
Date: 2006

Friday, October 9, 2009

New Testament Manuscripts

New Testament . Virtual Manuscript Room
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Die Rechte an den Bilder im NT.VMR gehören vielen unterschiedlichen Institutionen, Bibliotheken und Klöstern. Deswegen sind die Bilder jetzt im NT.VMR - read mode mit den besitzenden Institutionen verknüpft. Unter dem Bild findet man hinter dem Hinweis "©image:" die farblich hervorgehobene Bibliotheksnummer. Nach Anklicken werden Angaben zur Institution und ein Überblick an griechischen, neutestamentlichen Handschriften geboten, die dieser Institution geören.
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Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Open Access Digital Library: THE CUNEIFORM DIGITAL LIBRARY

[Originally posted 10/7/09, updated 7/1/10]

The Cuneiform Digital Library was relaunched on 1 July 2010 as

Oracc: The Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus



Go there for details.




THE CUNEIFORM DIGITAL LIBRARY free online resources about the Ancient Near East from the dawn of writing to the end of cuneiform
The CDL is a collaborative network of projects centered around the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. We provide a global registry for cuneiform documents (the CDLI catalog), tools for corpus-development (the ATF specification and related software and web-services), educational pages (the CDLI wiki) and a free hosting service to support the development of special-interest projects (this portal!).

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Open Access Journal: Structure and Dynamics: eJournal of Anthropological and Related Sciences

Structure and Dynamics: eJournal of Anthropological and Related Sciences
ISSN: 1554-3374
Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences Social Dynamics and Complexity
University of California, Irvine
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Friday, September 25, 2009

Ancient and Near Eastern journals open access at revues.org

[Originally posted 5/5/09, updated 5/6/09 with the addition of Atlas du Liban. Updated 9/25/09 with the addition of Annuaire de l’École pratique des hautes études. Section des sciences historiques et philologiques and Annuaire de l’École pratique des hautes études. Section des sciences religieuses.. Updated 12/7/09; updated 2/9/10]

Revues.org has an interesting suite of open access online journals relating to antiquity and the Near East. Current holdings include the following journals:

Abstracta Iranica
Annuaire de l’École pratique des hautes études. Section des sciences historiques et philologiques
Annuaire de l’École pratique des hautes études. Section des sciences religieuses
Le Bulletin d’études orientales
Bulletin du Centre de recherche français à Jérusalem
Cahiers d’Asie centrale
Cahiers d’études sur la Méditerranée orientale et le monde turco-iranien
Cahiers «Mondes Anciens»
Chroniques yéménites
Documents d’archéologie méridionale
Égypte/Monde arabe
European journal of Turkish studies
Paléo. Revue d'archéologie préhistorique
Préhistoires méditerranéennes
Quaternaire: Revue de l'Association française pour l'étude du Quaternaire
Revue archéologique de l’Est
Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée
Revue archéologique du centre de la France

[And see the full List of Open Access Journals in Ancient Studies]

and these monographs from the Collections électroniques de l’Ifpo

Liban, espaces partagés et pratiques de rencontre [Texte intégral]
Sous la direction de Franck MermierL’ouvrage inaugure la nouvelle collection de l’Institut, Les Cahiers de l’Ifpo. Cette première édition des Cahiers de l’IFPO est consacrée aux espaces partagés et pratiques de rencontre au Liban, sans que prédomine, à nos yeux, dans les notions de partage et de rencontre, le caractère positif ou neutre de l’un, la valeur de mise...

Atlas du Liban [Texte intégral]
Sous la direction de Éric Verdeil, Ghaleb Faour et Sébastien Velut Offrir une vision nouvelle du territoire libanais et mettre en évidence ses transformations depuis une trentaine d’années : tel est le projet de cet atlas, produit d’une collaboration franco-libanaise. L’ouvrage repose sur une large collecte d’informations spatialisées à une échelle fine ; sa cartographie riche et inédite permet...

ONG palestiniennes et construction étatique [Texte intégral]
de Caroline Abu-Sada
Avec la reconfiguration territoriale et la mise en place de l’Autorité palestinienne qui ont suivi les accords d’Oslo, puis les bouleversements liés à la seconde Intifada, les orientations et les priorités des ONG palestiniennes ont évidemment évolué, notamment pour celles qui ont un lien avec l’enjeu du « retour à la terre ».

Penser l'Orient [Texte intégral]
Sous la direction de Youssef Courbage et Manfred Kropp
Les entretiens franco-allemands de Beyrouth.
Nul n'ignore le rôle occulte ou déclaré de ces maîtres à penser que sont devenus les orientalistes occidentaux. Nul n'ignore les implications, louables ou critiquables, de leurs recherches dans la perception du monde arabe et musulman et, chemin faisant, dans la conception des politiques de leurs...
Armées et combats en Syrie de 491/1098 à 569/1174 [Texte intégral]
de Abbès Zouache
Dès leur arrivée en Syrie, les Francs firent preuve d’une adaptabilité multiforme. Ils intégrèrent des éléments locaux dans leurs armées, palliant ainsi leurs difficultés démographiques, même s’il faut revenir sur l’idée d’une supériorité musulmane systématique. Les armées musulmanes souffrirent longtemps d’un déficit...

Each component of revues.org includes news feeds allowing readers to be alerted when new content appears.

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

"Preprints and Open Access Revisited"

The following article appeared in APA Newsletter, volume 32, Number 3 (June 2009), and is reformatted here, with the permission of the author, in html with added hyperlinks.


LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT
Preprints and Open Access Revisited

This is a revised reprint (rather than a preprint!) of my February 2009 President’s Letter. Many in the APA membership seem to have missed the February Newsletter, due to the change-over to electronic distribution. Since I regard the issue of preprints and open access to be of great importance to the future of the organization, I offer it again. My apologies to those who read this Letter last winter. To those missed it the first time around, I hereby reiterate my previous invitation to the members of the APA to make their scholarly work-in-progress public as preprints on the newly formed Classical Research Network (CRN). Instructions about how to find and submit papers on the CRN will be found below. But first I will try to answer the obvious question: “Why should classicists bother with preprints?” Preprints are not peer reviewed publications. But they can be an important stage on the way to peer-reviewed publication and there is considerable value in making one’s scholarship public in advance of final publication.

Scholarship is, of course, all about making the results of research available to a community of scholars. In the first 120 years after the foundation of APA (in 1869) classical scholarship was made public primarily in the form of printed books and periodicals: peer-reviewed journals, monographs, and in occasional collections of essays and Festschriften. But the situation changed with the coming of the internet. Bryn Mawr Classical Review, which proudly claims the title of the second-oldest online journal in the humanities, began publishing online in 1990. Since then, the quantity of scholarship available online has exploded: e-journals; back issues of hard-copy journals on JSTOR and other archive sites; e-books from ebrary and Amazon.com; online bibliographies (notably APh and DCB); web pages (of organizations, academic departments, and individuals); blogs and more offer the potential for making research publicly available.

The “preprint” or “working papers” series seems to me to offer a promising, and still under-utilized venue for making classical scholarship public. Unlike many forms of internet publication, the preprint series is a time-tested form of scholarly communication. Working papers have long been a standard feature of how scholarly work is carried out in academic departments of social and natural sciences–indeed, some preprint series date back to before the internet era. The popularity of the form is due to several unique advantages that it offers to scholars: Preprints reduce to near-zero the time lag between the completion of an article that is “ready to circulate,” even if not yet “ready to publish,” and its appearance in public. Authors can gain feedback on a paper before it is submitted to a peer-reviewed journal. The chronological priority of a new idea is established once a paper is “datestamped” by appearing in a series. And, not least, readers (including people lacking access to research libraries) gain access to up-to-date academic scholarship.

Despite these advantages, the humanities were slow to follow the lead of the social and natural sciences. It was not until 2005 that the Classics Departments of Princeton and Stanford Universities launched their experimental preprint series, The Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics (http://www.princeton.edu/~pswpc). The series is open access–anyone with an internet connection and a reasonably up-to-date browser can access all site content and download papers without charge. Copyright for each paper is held by the author(s); there is no editorial content review (once again: preprints are not peer-reviewed publications). Posting is limited to the faculty and students of the hosting institutions.

The PSWPC experiment seems to have been successful, at least if success is measured in terms of authors (currently ca. 40 faculty and graduate students), papers (ca. 150–if one counts re-editions), and readers (or at least viewers and downloaders). Our experience in the first year of the series, along with some preliminary readership statistics, are in reported in J. Ober, W. Scheidel, B. Shaw, and D. Sanclemente, “Toward Open Access in Ancient Studies. The Princeton-Stanford Working Papers in Classics,” Hesperia 76 (2007): 229-42 (http://dx.doi.org/10.2972/hesp.76.1.229 - open access). The series was reviewed in March 2008 by David Pritchard in Literary and Linguistic Computing (http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/fqn005v1 - ironically, only the abstract of this review-article is open access) [the texts of this article is available at http://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/2226 -CJ-]

When we launched the PSWPC site, we hoped that other Classics Departments would set up their own parallel series. The University of Wales Lampeter has indeed done so (http://www.lamp.ac.uk/ric/working_papers.html), but there are non-trivial costs involved with setting up and maintaining a departmental preprint site.

Happily, thanks to the hard work of a team of scholars at the University of Texas (notably Lesley Dean-Jones in the Classics Department and Bernard Black in the Law School) there is now an open access and very well organized Classics preprint series available to all Classicists: the Classics Research Network (http://www.ssrn.com/crn/index.html). The CRN is part of the Humanities Research Network, which is in turn a part of the large and well established Social Science Research Network (the SSRN currently includes over 200,000 papers and gets ca. 7 million downloads per year).

The Classics Research Network is open access: papers posted on the site are uploaded by authors without charge and searched, browsed, and downloaded by readers without charge. Authors retain the copyright and retain the right to post their work on other sites.

To browse the existing papers on the Classic Research Network:
  • Enter into your browser: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/displayjournalbrowse.cfm, which will bring up a list of Networks. Find, at the bottom of the list, “Humanities Research Network.”
  • Click the square box in front of Humanities Research Network, which will bring up a list of Humanities Networks. You will find, at the top of the list, “HRN Classical Research Network.” Click the title to see a list of all the papers on the CRN, or the box in front of the title to browse specific CRN Subject Matter eJournals (e.g. History, Literature, Classical Tradition). [or go directly to HRN Classical Research Network]
To register to submit a paper on the Classics Research Network, go to www.ssrn.com and click on “submit.” The procedure for submitting papers to the CRN is quite straight forward and works quickly as soon as you complete registration. By registering, you will set up an individual “author page,” which will include direct links to all your posted papers. For example, my own page is http://ssrn.com/author= 336081. As you become more familiar with the network you will find that its utility grows. You may choose to receive e-mail notification when other scholars post papers in research areas of interest to you. You may submit both preprints (Working Paper Series) and, if you have not given away electronic rights, previously published papers (Accepted Papers Series). After you submit a paper, you may revise it as often as you wish.

I realize that for some classicists posting preprints on an open access web site will initially seem strange, perhaps even dangerous. I believe the risks are minimal and that they are, in any event, much outweighed by the risks associated with failing to make our scholarship public in a timely way. The highly experienced SSRN administrators, who handle tens of thousands of preprints annually, report that publishers ordinarily have no objection to authors having posted their papers with a preprint series. They also report that incidents of posted papers being misappropriated are almost unknown; the few known cases of misappropriation have been addressed swiftly and to the author’s satisfaction. This relative lack of complications for authors is confirmed by my own years of experience with the Princeton-Stanford Working Papers in Classics.

I encourage APA members to submit their papers to the Classical Research Network. My sincere hope is that that the SSRN’s Classics Research Network will soon become a standard place where all those who care about classical studies can freely post their scholarly efforts, and freely obtain access to current research.

Josiah Ober