Summer2020 Session 5

Sunoikisis Digital Classics, Summer 2020

Session 5. Open Access for Digital Classics

Thursday May 7, 17:00-18:15 CEST

Convenors: Monica Berti (University of Leipzig) and Rada Varga (Babes-Bolyai University)

YouTube link: https://youtu.be/87iXeml7dB4

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Session outline

The aim of this session is to present the current state of the art about Open Access and Digital Classics. The session will present and discuss open access resources that are now available in fields of Digital Classical Philology and Digital Classical History.

Reference materials

Seminar readings

• P. Suber. Open Access. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series 2012. Available: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/open-access (PDF)

• M.P. Eve. Open Access and the Humanities. Contexts, Controversies and the Future. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2014. Available: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/open-access-and-the-humanities/02BD7DB4A5172A864C432DBFD86E5FB4

• M. Berti (ed.). Digital Classical Philology. Ancient Greek and Latin in the Digital Revolution. Age of Access? Grundfragen der Informationsgesellschaft 10. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter 2019. Available: https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/502894 and http://www.oapen.org/record/1006690

Further reading

Exercise