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Digital Classists and NEW plan for Perseus Digital Library

The Next Generation of the Digital Classics Collaboration: Perseus Project’s New Plan                      by Jong Hwan Lee (PhD Candidate in Philosophy, Woodruff Fellow, Emory Libraries)

On March 20, Perseus Digital Library, which assembles digital collections of Greek and Roman resourses, announced plans to promote online collaboration.

Perseus announces plans to decentralize the curation, annotation, and general editing of the TEI XML texts that it hosts. Ultimately this will include every textual object in Perseus, allowing individuals to modify (where rights allow), and to create new, dictionary and encyclopedia entries, translations, commentaries, introductions, as well as machine actionable annotations such as identifications of people and places and the morpho-syntactic analyses in the Greek and Latin Treebanks. 

See demo videos for editing, reviewing, and creation of new translations below.

It is hard to tell from the prototype youtube clips what the actual and final outlook of this change would be like. But I think there are lots of potential for this new plan.

Update - Does the "Research Works Act" work for you?

by Melanie T. Kowalski, Library Research Fellow, The Intellectual Property Rights Office

UPDATE: Since the original drafting of this post, several organizations and publishers have released statements against the Research Works Act (H.R. 3699):

Federal Agency Institutional Repository Announced!

The United States has taken step forward in the Open Access Movement. On October 5th, 2011, the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) announced its partnership with Information International Associates, Inc. (IIa) in developing an Institutional Repository Service for federal agencies.

Open Access Initiatives at Emory

Open Access is a method of sharing scholarship that is digital, online, free of charge and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.  You can participate in Open Access initiatives at Emory to preserve your work, and to make it more visible and accessible around the world.

Know Your Copy Rights

Open Access is all about openly and freely sharing scholarly content. Understanding the rights you have as an author under copyright law is the first step in participating in Open Access, since these right give you the ability to ensure that your content is openly accessible.  You own the copyright to your work from the moment you put your finger tips to a keyboard or pen to paper. This includes articles, manuscripts, poems and even blog posts. Copyright owners have the exclusive right to reproduce their work, distribute their work, and publicly perform or display their work.

October 24th to 30th is the fourth annual international Open Access week! So what exactly is “Open Access”?

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October 24 to 30 is the fourth annual international Open Access Week.  So what exactly is ‘Open Access?’ 

“Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.” –Peter Suber, A Very Brief Introduction to Open Access 

New journal from the publishers of Nature

Nature Climate Change is now here! Emory Libraries are among the first libraries to subscribe to the newest Nature journal.  The Emory Univeristy librarians have been busy this summer expanding our already impressive collection of online journals from Nature Publishing Group (NPG). We now have expanded access to many of the journals’ archives too.

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