Places to Publish Open-Access in Classics and Related Areas

The following was begun during an informal morning coffee with a group of Hellenic Studies librarians. Special thanks go to Elli Mylonas and Colin McCaffrey, who were seated on either side of me, but others contributed, and of course I am responsible for any errors in what follows. If there are omissions, please comment or email me at phoebe.acheson at gmail.com so I can add to the lists that follow!

Need a Refresher on What Open Access Is?

• I posted a basic introduction for Classicists during Open Access Week a few years ago.
• See also The Association of Research Libraries’ SPARC Resources for Open Access Education.

Fairly Traditional Monographs

The following are publishing monographs and making digital access of some kind available for free to all; in many cases print books may also be purchased and/or printed on demand.

• California Classical Studies
• Center for Hellenic Studies Online Publications
• Dickinson College Commentaries (commentaries, natch.)
• Open Book Publishers (current titles in Classics are described as textbooks)
• Oriental Institute Publications
• University of Michigan Open Humanities Press

Journal Articles

• Directory of Open Access Journals This site allows browsing for open-access titles that use peer review by discipline (look under Arts and Architecture, Languages and Literatures, History and Archaeology, or other headings depending on your subfield).
• Ancient World Online: List of Open-Access Journals in Ancient Studies This list is extremely comprehensive and includes many items not in the DOAJ, above, but many are not peer-reviewed and others are titles that have put back issues online open-access but are not publishing current issues in that format. With these caveats, a journal on this list might be the right one for your publishing needs.
• ISAW Papers I am highlighting this specific project (title? series?) because it is at the forefront of technology for publishing born-digital articles (highly linked, linked open data friendly, etc.)

Pre-Prints, Working Papers, and Self-Archiving

In many fields, pre-prints or “working” versions of papers that have not yet been formally published are routinely circulated and deposited online in open access repositories. This is not yet common in Classics, but certainly could become more so.

• Princeton-Stanford Working Papers in Classics This resource currently only serves members of the academic communities at these two institutions.
• Bill Caraher’s Pre-Prints at Scribd Bill Caraher is extremely consistent about making pre-prints of his chapters, articles and conference papers available to the public, hosted at Scribd (a free service) and linked from (and often discussed in some detail at) his Archaeology of the Mediterranean World. Any scholar could follow this model.

Self-Archiving is the process of  making ones own published work available open-access online. It can be done in a variety of ways and places:

• An Institutional Repository (sometimes called a Digital Library or Repository; example: DukeSpace) at your institution (ask your liaison librarian!)
• Scribd as above
• Academia.edu (which now requires readers to have a free account to access your papers)
• Your own personal or departmental web site or blog
• In archaeology, Propylaeum-DOK from the University of Heidelberg Library is a subject-specific repository accepting papers from scholars all over the world.

The big issue with self-archiving is making sure you have the right to do so under the contract you signed with the original publisher of your work.  These contracts can be negotiated.  Here’s an account by librarian Micah Vandegrift detailing his recent negotiation about self-archiving. If your library has a Scholarly Communications office (example: Duke Scholarly Communications), they may also be able to give you advice on this process.

I welcome your comments with further thoughts about specific venues to publish open-access or other ways in which to freely disseminate scholarly information online.

What’s a DOI (And Why?)

This post was inspired by a twitter conversation last night; my thanks to @DrKillgrove, @YaleClassicsLib and @rogueclassicist for their questions and answers!

DOI stands for Digital Object Identifier, and it’s a relatively new (ca. 2000) standard number that has been introduced to identify digital objects.  For ancient studies, its most relevant use is providing a unique standard number that identifies a specific journal article.  Books have long had standard numbers like ISBNs, as well as Library of Congress Classification Numbers (LCCN) and OCLC numbers that can be used to identify them.  Until the DOI, journals could be identified by the ISSN, but individual articles were out of luck. DOIs in print citations for journal articles look like this, and are usually found at the end of the citation, after page numbers (if any): doi: 10.1080/1357627021000025469

In addition to providing citation precision, DOIs can be used to find digital copies of the articles in question.  The International DOI Foundation (http://www.doi.org/) provides a DOI resolver at http://dx.doi.org/.  (I love the simplicity of this page, by the way: a box, a sentence or two, and boom, there’s your article.)  You can also resolve a DOI on the fly by just sticking the DOI numbers onto the end of that URL prefix: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1357627021000025469 will take you to the article in question.  (Note that if the article is by subscription only, and you or your institution does not subscribe, you may not actually be able to access the full article.)

The question by @DrKillgrove that got the conversation started was (paraphrased) ‘I have an article in hand – how do I find out what its DOI is if it doesn’t say so anywhere?’ @YaleClassicsLib pointed out the free DOI lookup page at Crossref.org: http://www.crossref.org/guestquery/ This lets you type in a citation and see if a DOI exists for a given article.  It really needs an ISSN to work, which you may have to track down, and it did not find the DOI when I entered basic citation information for the article linked above, so it’s not as lovely as the DOI resolver linked above. A Google Scholar search for your article title and “doi” might be a decent backup.

I should note that many articles do not have DOIs, so it was possible that none existed for the article Dr. Killgrove was looking for.  DOIs are provided by publishers, who join the DOI system and pay a fee (which helps guarantee that the DOI system will continue to work in perpetuity). Journals that almost certainly have DOIs for their articles are US/Western scientific journals put out by major publishers.  Journals no longer being published and journals not affiliated with major publishers may not have DOIs. Most journals that provide DOIs for current issues have also applied them retrospectively.

In sum: DOIs are good, because they allow

1. precision citation in a numeric string and
2. the quick finding of a digital copy of a given article using http://dx.doi.org/.

Please consider including them in your print citations, and using them in online citations to link directly to articles.

Library-Related Presentations at LAWDI

LAWDI was set up with half-hour presentations by ‘faculty,’ and 15-minute presentations by the rest of the attendees.  Links to slides for all presentations that used them are being collected here.  In this post I discuss those presentations most relevant to librarians and the issues they love best (bibliographic citation, authority control, scholarly publishing) as well as recapping my own presentation.

Friday we began with a talk by Chuck Jones of the ISAW Library (links he discussed collected at AWOL) and then a powerhouse tour of library linked data and metadata issues by Corey Harper of NYU’s Bobst Library.  His slides are here.   (For librarians wanting to get up to speed or keep up to date on the issues Corey covers I also strongly recommend following the blog of Ed Summers of the Library of Congress, http://inkdroid.org/journal/ Half of what I know about linked open data I learned there.)

So, I had a tough act to follow; I think I actually said, “And now for something completely different.”  First I described the goals of and demonstrated the Ancient World Open Bibliographies. Its origins are covered in a post titled “The Beginning” at that blog, and you can follow the links to the Wiki and Zotero library for the project yourself. In the context of LAWDI, it was important to note that Zotero allows the export of bibliographic citations automatically marked up using the Bibo (Bibliographic ontology) vocabulary, so keeping bibliographies there gives you a leg up on becoming part of the linked open data world.  I also demonstrated an online bibliography on Evagrius Ponticus by Joel Kalvesmaki of Dumbarton Oaks as example of what can be done with a bibliography based in Zotero, but presented as an inherent part of a digital project.

The second point I wanted to make was that bibliographic information is linked open data friendly.  (Libraries have worked hard to make it so!) Library catalogs are structured data files on books, and while the current structure is out of date, we’re working on that (see Corey Harper’s talk). Most books have a standard number that represents them: an ISBN, an OCLC number (accession number into the OCLC catalog, now online as WorldCat) or a Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN).  Many books have all three!  Articles, book chapters, or other things  scholars want to cite are more problematic.  Many journal publishers now use DOIs (digital object identifiers) for specific articles, but these have not been universally adopted. I demonstrated the DOI resolver at http://dx.doi.org/ (which also lets you create stable URIs for DOIs; I’ll cover this in more explicit detail in a future post.)

My third point was to try to think more broadly about how existing open-access online bibliographic indexes for ancient studies could move in the direction of being linked open data compliant.  At 8am the morning I spoke, without any prompting from me, Tom Elliott posted a manifesto on this same topic at his blog: Ancient Studies Needs Open Bibliographic Data and Associated URIs. So, let me say, what he said, and amen.

Saturday we had two talks that were very exciting to me as a librarian, even though they were actually about scholarly publishing. Sebastian Heath of ISAW talked (without slides I think) about publishing the ISAW Papers series using linked open data principles.  Andrew Reinhard of the American School of Classical Studies (ASCSA) publications office brought forward one of the more resonant metaphors of the conference, that the current scholarly publishing enterprise is essentially steampunk, 21st century work with 19th century models. (This got retweeted a lot!) He was bursting with ways ASCSA plans to change this. Slides are here.

Next up: my recommendations on choosing good links for bibliographic stuff.

Previous post here on LAWDI:

• LAWDI Conference on Linked Open Data for Ancient Studies

JStor Opens Free Access to Early Journal Content

First, briefly, my apologies for limited blogging lately, and I know I am now behind on the acquisitions list for the UGA library – I have it penciled in for next week!  Lots going on around here.

Since I blogged about the Aaron Swarz/MIT/Jstor downloading foofaraw here, I was very interested to see the announcement by Jstor last week that they are making out-of-copyright works they host available to all.  They explicitly address the Swarz incident in the news release, noting that this project was underway before that occurrence.

What does it mean for access?

…today, we are making journal content on JSTOR published prior to 1923 in the United States and prior to 1870 elsewhere, freely available to the public for reading and downloading. This includes nearly 500,000 articles from more than 200 journals, representing approximately 6% of the total content on JSTOR.

Further, they are exploring various models for individuals unaffiliated with Jstor-subscribing institutions to get access to other content via Jstor as a bundle (as opposed to a per-article fee).  Since this probably requires a lot of individual negotiations with publishers, it may take some time, but it’s a step forward.  Go Team Jstor.

UGA Libraries Classics-Related Acquisitions: July 2011

In the five weeks since my last post on this topic, the UGA Libraries added 5395  items to the Main Library collection.

I realize I’ve never mentioned that the “New Titles” interface of the UGA library catalog is open to the public, with keyword searching possible, and results that can be sorted by call number, author, or title.

Works of interest to those in Classics and related fields include the following (in LC call number order); as always, the boundaries for inclusion at the fringes of the discipline are somewhat arbitrary, depending on what struck me as interesting this month!

• Apelles von Kolophon: das Telephosbild aus Herculanum im antiken und modernen Kunsturteil, Andreae, Bernard.
  Location: Main Library 2nd floor AS182 .M232 2011 no.2
• Ancient Greek philosophy: from the Presocratics to the Hellenistic philosophers, Blackson, Thomas A.
  Location: Main Library 6th floor B171 .B53 2011
• Parmenides, Plato, and mortal philosophy: return from transcendence, Adluri, Vishwa.
  Location: Main Library 6th floor B235.P24 A34 2011
• Techne in Aristotle’s Ethics: crafting the moral life, Angier, Tom P. S.
  Location: Main Library 6th floor B430 .A927 2010
• Ancient oracles: making the gods speak, Stoneman, Richard.
  Location: Main Library 6th floor BF1765 .S76 2011
• Monotheism between pagans and Christians in late antiquity
  Location: Main Library 6th floor BL221 .M66 2010
• Coping with the gods: wayward readings in Greek theology, Versnel, H. S.
  Location: Main Library 6th floor BL783 .V47 2011
• Paysage et religion en Grece antique : melanges offerts a Madeleine Jost
  Location: Main Library 6th floor BL790 .P39 2010
• Archaeology of sanctuaries and ritual in Etruria
  Location: Main Library 6th floor BL813.E8 A734 2011
• Church, cities, and people: a study of the plebs in the church and cities of Roman Africa in late antiquity, Evers, Alexander Wilhelmus Henricus, 1970-
  Location: Main Library 6th floor BR190 .E94 2010
• Ambrose and John Chrysostom: clerics between desert and empire, Liebeschuetz, J. H. W. G. (John Hugo Wolfgang Gideon)
  Location: Main Library 6th floor BR1710 .L54 2011
• Codex Sinaiticus: the story of the world’s oldest bible, Parker, D. C. (David C.)
  Location: Main Library 6th floor BS64.S5 P37 2010
• Common written Greek source for Mark and Thomas, Horman, John, 1940-
  Location: Main Library 6th floor BS2585.52 .H67 2011
• Technology and science in ancient civilizations, Olson, Richard, 1940-
  Location: Main Library 2nd floor CB311 .O46 2010
• Social bioarchaeology
  Location: Main Library 2nd floor CC79.5.H85 S634 2011
• Nicopolis d’Epiro: nuovi studi sulla zecca e sulla produzione monetale, Calomino, Dario.
  Location: Main Library 2nd floor Folio CJ479.N55 C35 2011
• Vie, mort et poesie dans l’Afrique romaine: d’apres un choix de Carmina Latina epigraphica, Hamdoune, Christine.
  Location: Main Library 2nd floor CN715 .H35 2011
• Western time of ancient history: historiographical encounters with the Greek and Roman pasts
  Location: Main Library 4th floor D16.8 .W398 2011
• Late antiquity: a very short introduction, Clark, Gillian (E. Gillian)
  Location: Main Library 4th floor D57 .C53 2011
• Roman Britain: life at the edge of empire, Hobbs, Richard, 1969-
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DA145 .H59 2010
• Haltonchesters: excavations directed by J.P. Gillam at the Roman fort, 1960-61, Dore, John, 1951-2008.
  Location: Main Library 4th floor Folio DA147.N67 D67 2010
• Intailles et camees de l’epoque romaine en Gaule (territoire francais), Guiraud, Helene.
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DC63 .G87 2008
• SOMA 2009: proceedings of the XIII Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology, Selcuk University of Konya, Turkey, 23-24 April 2009 Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology (13th : 2009 : Selcuk University of Konya, Turkey)
  Location: Main Library 4th floor Folio DE60 .S96 2009
• LRCW3: late Roman coarse wares, cooking wares and amphorae in the Mediterranean: archaeology and archaeometry: comparison between western and eastern Mediterranean International Conference on Late Roman Coarse Wares (3rd : 2008 : Parma, Italy and Pisa, Italy)
  Location: Main Library 4th floor Folio DE61.P66 I67 2008
• Archaeology of the Hellenistic far east: a survey, Mairs, Rachel.
  Location: Main Library 4th floor Folio DF77 .M325 2011
• Tra Roma e Costantinopoli: ellenismo, Oriente, cristianesimo nella tarda antichita: saggi scelti, Mazza, Mario, 1935-
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DF77 .M39 2009
• Cruelty and sentimentality: Greek attitudes to animals, 600-300 BC, Calder, Louise, 1967-
  Location: Main Library 4th floor Folio DF78 .C25 2011
• Huile et l’argent: [gymnasiarchie et evergetisme dans la Grece hellenistique] : actes du colloque tenu a Fribourg du 13 au 15 octobre 2005, publies en l’honneur du professeur Marcel Pierart a l’occasion de son 60eme anniversaire
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DF217 .H84 2005
• Funerary landscape at Knossos: a diachronic study of Minoan burial customs with special reference to the warrior graves, Miller, Madelaine.
  Location: Main Library 4th floor Folio DF221.C8 M45 2011
• Minoans in the central, eastern and northern Aegean: new evidence: acts of a Minoan Seminar 22-23 January 2005 in collaboration with the Danish Institute at Athens and the German Archaeological Institute at Athens
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DF221.C8 M55 2009
• Greek world : 479-323 BC, 4th ed., Hornblower, Simon.
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DF227 .H67 2011
• Song of wrath: the Peloponnesian War begins, Lendon, J. E.
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DF229 .L46 2010
• Landmark Arrian: the campaigns of Alexander; Anabasis Alexandrou: a new translation, 1st ed., Arrian.
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DF234 .A77313 2010
• Spartans: a new history, Kennell, Nigel M.
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DF261.S8 K45 2010
• Athenian Agora: site guide, 5th ed., Camp, John McK.
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DF287.A23 C36 2010
• Edinburgh history of the Greeks. C. 500 to 1050, the early Middle Ages., Curta, Florin.
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DF553 .C87 2011
• History of Greece, Doumanis, Nicholas, 1964-
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DF757 .D68 2010
• Antichi popoli della Campania: archeologia e storia, 1a ed., Cerchiai, Luca.
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DG55.C3 C469 2010
• Between Satricum and Antium: settlement dynamics in a coastal landscape in Latium Vetus
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DG55.N48 B48 2011
• Aurelian wall and the refashioning of Imperial Rome, A.D. 271-855, Dey, Hendrik W., 1976-
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DG67 .D49 2011
• Resurrecting Pompeii, Lazer, Estelle.
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DG70.P7 L39 2008
• Terventum: carta archeologica della media valle del Trigno, Fratianni, Gerardo.
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DG70.T774 F738 2010
• Popular culture in ancient Rome, Toner, J. P.
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DG78 .T66 2009
• Children in the Roman Empire: outsiders within, Laes, Christian.
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DG91 .L3413 2011
• Etat et societe aux deux derniers siecles de la republique romaine: hommage a Francois Hinard
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DG241 .E83 2010
• Whispering city: modern Rome and its histories, Bosworth, R. J. B.
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DG809 .B67 2011
• Rome across time and space: cultural transmission and the exchange of ideas, c. 500-1400
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DG811 .R66 2011
• Espaces et societes a l’epoque romaine: entre Garonne et Ebre: actes de la table ronde de Pau, 26-27 janvier 2007: hommage a Georges Fabre
  Location: Main Library 4th floor Folio DP94 .E84 2009
• Societies in transition: evolutionary processes in the Northern Levant between late Bronze Age II and early Iron Age: papers presented on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the new excavation in Tell Afis: Bologna, 15th November, 2007
  Location: Main Library 4th floor Folio DS41.5 .S62 2010
• From pots to people: a ceramic approach to the archaeological interpretation of ploughsoil assemblages in late Roman Cyprus, Winther-Jacobson, Kristina,
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DS54.3 .W57 2010
• Roman temple complex at Horvat Omrit: an interim report
  Location: Main Library 4th floor Folio DS111 .R68 2011
• From Nabataea to Roman Arabia: acquisition or conquest, Al-Otaibi, Fahad Mutlaq.
  Location: Main Library 4th floor Folio DS154.22 .A4 2011
• Carthage must be destroyed: the rise and fall of an ancient Mediterranean civilization, Miles, Richard, 1969-
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DT269.C35 M55 2010
• Spectacle in the Roman world, Dodge, Hazel.
  Location: Main Library 2nd floor GV31 .D64 2011
• Speeches from Athenian law, 1st ed.
  Location: Main Library 2nd floor K181 .S68 2011
• Wars of the Romans: a critical edition and translation of De Armis Romanis, Critical ed., Gentili, Alberico, 1552-1608.
  Location: Main Library 2nd floor KZ6385 .G458 2011
• Spread of the Roman domus-type in Gaul, Timar, Lorinc.
  Location: Main Library 7th floor Folio NA335.G38 T56 2011
• Ara pacis Augustae, 1. ed., Bordignon, Giulia.
  Location: Main Library 7th floor NB133 .B67 2010
• Life, death and representation: some new work on Roman sarcophagi
  Location: Main Library 7th floor NB1810 .L47 2011
• Souveni : l’industria dell’antico e il grand tour a Roma, 1. ed., Pinelli, Antonio, 1943-
  Location: Main Library 7th floor NK600 .P56 2010
• Crete in transition: pottery styles and island history in the archaic and classical periods, Erickson, Brice L.
  Location: Main Library 7th floor NK3840 .E75 2010
• Pottery production, distribution and consumption in early Minoan west Crete: an analytical perspective Nodarou, Eleni.
  Location: Main Library 7th floor Folio NK3843 .N68 2011
• Comercio de terra sigillata altoimperial en el circulo del estrecho: balance historiografico y lineas de investigacion, Bustamante Alvarez, Macarena.
  Location: Main Library 7th floor Folio NK3850 .B87 2010
• World of Greek vases
  Location: Main Library 7th floor Folio NK4645 .W68 2009
• History of the study of south Italian black- and red-figure pottery, Higginson, Ronald.
  Location: Main Library 7th floor Folio NK4648 .H54 2011
• Roman cameo glass in the British Museum
  Location: Main Library 7th floor Folio NK5439.C33 R66 2010
• From scholars to scholia: chapters in the history of ancient Greek scholarship
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA53 .F76 2011
• Greek: a language in evolution: essays in honour of Antonios N. Jannaris
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA227 .G74 2010
• Ancient scholarship and grammar: archetypes, concepts and contexts
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA251 .A63 2011
• Latin linguistics today: Akten des 15. internationalen Kolloquiums zur Lateinischen Linguistik, Innsbruck, 4.-9. April 2009 International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics (15th: 2009: Innsbruck, Austria)
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA2080 .I5 2009
• Saggi di commento a testi greci e latini
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA3003 .S24 2008
• Wahl des Lebens in der antiken Literatur, Harbach, Andrea.
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA3014.C55 H37 2010
• Bellator equus, 1. ed., Sestili, Antonio.
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA3015.N4 H6 2010
• Macht der Rede: eine kleine Geschichte der Rhetorik im alten Griechenland und Rom, Stroh, Wilfried.
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA3038 .S87 2009
• Rhetoric and centers of power in the Greco-Roman world: from Homer to the fall of Rome, Tapia, John E., 1950-
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA3038 .T37 2009
• Perceptions of the Second Sophistic and its times
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA3086 .P47 2011
• Birth of comedy: texts, documents, and art from Athenian comic competitions, 486-280
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA3161 .B57 2011
• Narrative and identity in the ancient Greek novel: returning romance, Whitmarsh, Tim.
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA3267 .W55 2011
• Late antique Greek papyri in the collection of the Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat Jena (P. Jena II)
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA3300.A1 L384 2010
• Story of the Bodmer Papyri: from the first monastery’s library in Upper Egypt to Geneva and Dublin, Robinson, James M. (James McConkey), 1924-
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA3318.C63 R63 2011
• Liberte et esclavage chez les historiens grecs classiques, Tamiolaki, Melina, 1977-
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA3521 .T36 2010
• Complete Aeschylus, Aeschylus.
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA3827 .A2 B87 2009
• Persians; Seven against Thebes; and, Suppliants, Aeschylus.
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA3827 .A655 2011
• Aristophanes: Sex und Spott und Politik, Holzberg, Niklas.
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA3879 .H478 2010
• Viaggio di Artemidoro: vita e avventure di un grande esploratore dell’antichita, 1. ed., Canfora, Luciano.
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA3936.A23 C367 2010
• Medea, Euripides.
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA3975.M4 M67 2011
• Hesiod’s calendar: a version of Hesiod’s Theogony and Works and days Hesiod.
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA4010.E5 T5 2010
• Kommentar des Proklos zu Hesiods “Werken und Tagen”: Edition, Ubersetzung und Erlauterung der Fragmente, Marzillo, Patrizia.
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA4011.A15 P7677 2010
• Homer encyclopedia
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA4037.A5 H58 2011
• Momenti della ricezione omerica: poesia arcaica e teatro: giornate di studio del dottorato di ricerca in filologia, letteratura e tradizione classica, Milano 9-10 febbraio 2004
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA4037.A5 M66 2004
• Character, narrator, and simile in the Iliad, Ready, Jonathan L., 1976-
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA4037 .R373 2011
• Iuncturae Homericae: a study of noun-epithet combinations in the Iliad and the Odyssey, Dee, James H.
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor Folio PA4209 .D44 2010
• Pastorales de Longos (Daphnis et Chloe), Laplace, Marcelle.
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA4229.L9 L36 2010
• Shield (Aspis) and The arbitration (Epitrepontes), Menander, of Athens.
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA4246 .E4 2010
• Nosside e la poesia greca nell’Italia meridionale, Tarsiano, Franco.
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA4253.N5 T37 2009
• Oracular tales in Pausanias, Overmark Juul, Line, 1975-
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA4266 .O94 2010
• Filostefano di Cirene: testimonianze e frammenti, Capel Badino, Roberto.
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA4271.P58 C37 2010
• Ironic defense of Socrates: Plato’s apology, Leibowitz, David, 1954-
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA4279.A8 L45 2010
• Plutarch’s Life of Alcibiades: story, text and moralism, Verdegem, Simon.
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA4369.A6 V47 2010
• Plutarch’s lives: parallelism and purpose
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA4385 .P59 2010
• Sophocles’ Antigone: a new translation, Sophocles.
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA4414.A7 R3913 2011
• Servitude tragique: esclaves et heros dechus dans la tragedie grecque, Serghidou, Anastasia.
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA5160 .S47 2010
• Scuola e trasmissione del sapere tra tarda antichita e Rinascimento
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA6023.A2 S396 2009
• Acting with words: communication, rhetorical performance and performative acts in Latin literature
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA6029.S62 A28 2010
• Comedy of storytelling: theatricality and narrative in Apuleius’ Golden ass, Kirichenko, Alexander.
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA6217 .K57 2010
• Satires and epistles, Horace.
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA6396.A2 C69 2011
• Ricerche sui Romana di Jordanes Girotti, Beatrice.
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA6445.J2 R634 2009
• Metamorphose dans les Metamorphoses d’Ovide, Vial, Helene.
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA6519.M9 V48 2010
• Metamorphoses: a new translation, contexts, criticism, 1st ed., Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA6522.M2 M44 2010
• Arbitri nugae: Petronius’ short poems in the satyrica, Setaioli, Aldo.
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA6559 .S48 2011
• Silvae. book II, Statius, P. Papinius (Publius Papinius)
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA6697 .A3 2011
• Most dangerous book: Tacitus’s Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich, 1st ed., Krebs, Christopher B.
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA6706.G4 K736 2011
• Terenzio e i suoi nobiles: invenzione e realta di un controverso legame, Umbrico, Alessio.
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA6768 .U43 2010
• Vergil’s Aeneid, books I-VI, Rev. ed., Virgil.
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA6802.A1 P5 1964
• Song exchange in Roman pastoral, Karakasis, Evangelos.
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA6804.B7 K37 2011
• C.S. Lewis’s lost Aeneid: arms and the exile
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA6807.A5 L42 2011
• Iuvenalis docet: le citazioni di Giovenale nel commento di Servio, Monno, Olga.
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA6825 .M56 2009
• Vestigia Vergiliana: Vergil-Rezeption in der Neuzeit
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA6825 .V467 2010
• Gospel ‘according to Homer and Virgil’: cento and canon, Sandnes, Karl Olav, 1954-
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PN1077 .S195 2011
• Ethics of empire in the saga of Alexander the Great: a study based on MS AM 519a 4to, Ashurst, David.
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PT7296.A37 A84 2009
• Apollodorus Mechanicus, Siege-matters = Poliorketika, Apollodorus, of Damascus, 1st/2nd cent.
  Location: Main Library 2nd floor U873 .A713 2010
• Ship iconography in mosaics: an aid to understanding ancient ships and their construction, Friedman, Zaraza.
  Location: Main Library 2nd floor Folio VM16 .F75 2011
• Paleografia latina: l’avventura grafica del mondo occidentale, Cherubini, Paolo.
  Location: Main Library 2nd floor Main Z114 .C52 2010

Scholarly Journals in the News…

My Twitter feed broke out in a tizzy yesterday at the news that Aaron Swarz was charged with breaking into a wiring closet at MIT (with which he was not affiliated; during the incident he was employed as a Fellow at the Harvard Center for Ethics [!]) while wearing a bike helmet over his face, and using a personal laptop to download some 4 million articles from Jstor.  Jstor issued a statement about the case, emphasizing that they had not asked for the prosecution, and they do have a service to allow scholars to work with large corpora of articles, if they ask permission first. Demand Progress, an advocacy organization with which Swarz has been affiliated, also released a statement, describing the charges as “bizarre” and arguing that Swarz was being prosecuted for the equivalent of “checking too many books out of the library.”

Usually when my Twitter people are in a tizzy about something they agree with one another, but yesterday they were quite divided – some saw this as a case of advocacy for academic freedom on the internet, and some saw this as a straightforward illegal act (whether or not it should be a matter of criminal charges).  Comments on articles in the New York Times and Wired were similarly variable – and one thing that struck me was the level of ignorance about Jstor from many, especially those in the computing community.  The first 10 comments on the Wired article mostly simply ask, “What is Jstor, and why should we care about this?” Ah, the academic bubble we live in!

Some important questions are being brought forward, and I think it is healthy for the “information on the internet should be free” and the “in the real world, we agree to licensing agreements and violating them is bad” camps to engage with one another.  Jstor is a wonderful service, but it is an expensive one (prices are here); it’s a not-for-profit, but one commenter alleges that more than 10 of its employees have salaries over $250,000 (are they hiring? do they want me?!?).  Should Jstor do more to make its materials accessible to the public? What about the things in Jstor that are out of copyright due to age?

Barbara Fister manages to pull the Swarz incident into her current post, titled “Breaking News: Academic Journals Are Really Expensive!”  If you’re a librarian reading this, you probably know all about the crisis in scholarly publishing; if you’re a student or a faculty member and don’t know, you should find out, because this is a big issue that directly relates to your career.  Looking at article comments, and the current Twitter search for Jstor, can give you a fascinating glimpse at others’ worldviews (whatever yours might be.) As for mine, I find myself in agreement with the comments by Peter Suber in 2008, on an Open Access manifesto apparently written by Swarz.

Open Access Journal Projects at Duke and UGA

This morning I learned from my former Duke colleague, Digital Strategist Paolo Mangiafico (@paoloman) that the Duke Libraries and the editors of Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies have taken that journal open-access, using the Open Journal Systems software.  A couple of hours later, along came notice from current colleague Andy Carter (@cartandy) that the first open-access issue of the Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement is live. This is a journal (although obviously not one about Classics!) hosted by the UGA  Library, also using Open Journal Systems.

I first learned about OJS in a session on open-access journals at THATCamp SE in Atlanta in March. It’s great to see scholarly journals, especially a fairly prominent journal in Classics, moving to open-access in general, and especially heartening for me to see the fruitful collaborations between university libraries and the editors of scholarly journals on campus.  At Duke, the close relationship between Classics and the Libraries is longstanding (all those papyri!).  A press release on the new open-access journals at Duke closes with a heartening quote from Joshua D. Sosin:

The Duke Libraries and the Department of Classical Studies have long collaborated to provide free, web-based access to some of the University’s most ancient materials. We are thrilled to be able to extend that partnership to scholarly research. Socrates famously did not accept fees; this piece of critical infrastructure allows us to do the same!

Do you work on a scholarly journal? If you’re thinking at all about open-access journal publishing, do talk to your university library – they may be the partner who can make it work.

UGA Libraries Classics-Related Acquisitions: April 2011

In the four weeks since my last post on this topic, the UGA Libraries added 5140  items to the Main Library collection. Works of interest to those in Classics and related fields include the following (in LC call number order):

• Peripatetic philosophy, 200 BC to AD 200: an introduction and collection of sources in translation
  Location: Main Library 6th floor B111 .P47 2010
• Hemlock cup: Socrates, Athens, and the search for the good life,  Hughes, Bettany.
  Location: Main Library 6th floor B316 .H84 2011
• Cambridge companion to Socrates
  Location: Main Library 6th floor B317 .C35 2011
• Socrates, Rudebusch, George, 1957-
  Location: Main Library 6th floor B317 .R83 2009
• Cratylus of Plato: a commentary, Ademollo, Francesco, 1973-
  Location: Main Library 6th floor B367 .A93 2011
• Plato and sex, Sandford, Stella, 1966-
  Location: Main Library 6th floor B398.L9 S26 2010
• Philosopher’s song: the poets’ influence on Plato, Crotty, Kevin, 1948-
  Location: Main Library 6th floor B398.P6 C76 2009
• On the most ancient wisdom of the Italians: drawn out from the origins of the Latin language, Vico, Giambattista, 1668-1744.
  Location: Main Library 6th floor B3581.D42 E5 2010
• Orphic gold tablets and Greek religion: further along the path
  Location: Main Library 6th floor BL785 .O76 2011
• Mystery cults in the ancient world, Bowden, Hugh.
  Location: Main Library 6th floor BL795.M9 B68 2010
• Power of religion in late antiquity
  Location: Main Library 6th floor BR162.3 .P69 2009
• Connaitre l’antiquite: individus, reseaux, strategies du XVIIIe au XXIe sie€cle
  Location: Main Library 4th floor D56 .C66 2010
• Birth of classical Europe: a history from Troy to Augustine, Price, S. R. F.
  Location: Main Library 4th floor D57 .P75 2010
• Monde de l’itinerance en Mediterranee de l’antiquite a l’epoque moderne: procedures de controle et d’identification: tables rondes, Madrid 2004-Istanbul 2005
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DE2.5 .M653 2009
• Classical tradition
  Location: Main Library 1st floor Reference Main Ref DE60 .C55 2010
• Archaologische Forschungen zur Siedlungsgeschichte von Ephesos in geometrischer, archaischer und klassischer Zeit: Grabungsbefunde und Keramikfunde aus dem Bereich von Koressos, Kerschner, Michael.
  Location: Main Library 4th floor Folio DF261.E5 K47 2008
• From Roman to early Christian Thessalonike: studies in religion and archaeology
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DF261.T49 F76 2010
• War, democracy and culture in classical Athens
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DF285 .W3 2010
• Belisarius: the last Roman general, Hughes, Ian, M.A.
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DF572.8.B4 H84 2009
• Archeologia preromana in Emilia occidentale: la ricerca oggi tra monti e pianura, Milano, 5 aprile 2006
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DG55.E54 A73 2009
• Decorazione pittorica nei contesti funerari della Sicilia: III-IV secolo d.C , Cipriano, Giuseppina.
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DG55.S5 C55 2010
• Roma illustrata: representations de la ville: actes du colloque international de Caen, 6-8 octobre 2005
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DG63 .R628 2008
• Santuario di Hera al Capo Lacinio: l’analisi della forma, il restauro e la ricerca archeologica
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DG70.C77 S26 2009
• Ancient Rome, Dunstan, William E.
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DG77 .D86 2011
• Santuario di Vesta: la casa delle vestali e il Tempio di Vesta, VIII sec. a.C.- 64 d.C. : rapporto preliminare
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DG133 .S27 2010
• Ecritures, cultures, societes dans les necropoles d’Italie ancienne: table ronde des 14-15 decembre 2007
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DG223.7.T6 M68 2007
• Umbrorum gens antiquissima Italiae: studi sulla societa e le istituzioni dell’Umbria preromana, Sisani, Simone.
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DG225.U52 S57 2009
• From the Gracchi to Nero: a history of Rome 133 BC to AD 68, Scullard, H. H. (Howard Hayes), 1903-1983.
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DG254 .S35 2011
• Great fire of Rome: the fall of the emperor Nero and his city, Dando-Collins, Stephen.
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DG285.3 .D36 2010
• Europe’s barbarians, AD 200-600,  James, Edward, 1947-
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DG312 .J365 2009
• Bronze Age cemeteries at Karmi Palealona and Lapatsa in Cyprus: excavations by J.R.B. Stewart
  Location: Main Library 4th floor Folio DS54.3 .B765 2009
• Herakleides: a portrait mummy from Roman Egypt, Corcoran, Lorelei Hilda, 1953-
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DT62.M7 C67 2010
• Taste or taboo: dietary choices in antiquity, Beer, Michael.
  Location: Main Library 2nd floor GT2850 .B44 2010
• Western Roman Atlantic facade: a study of the economy and trade in the Mar Exterior from the Republic to the Principate
  Location: Main Library 5th floor Folio HF377 .W39 2010
• Inside the city in the Greek world: studies of urbanism from the Bronze Age to the Hellenistic period
  Location: Main Library 5th floor HT384.G8 I576 2009
• Freedman in the Roman world, Mouritsen, Henrik.
  Location: Main Library 5th floor HT731 .M68 2011
• Colonne de Marc Aurele, Depeyrot, Georges.
  Location: Main Library 7th floor Folio NA9340.R4 D46 2010
• Roman imperialism and civic patronage: form, meaning, and ideology in monumental fountain complexes, Longfellow, Brenda, 1973-
  Location: Main Library 7th floor NA9413.R57 L66 2011
• Waters of Rome: aqueducts, fountains, and the birth of the Baroque city, Rinne, Katherine Wentworth.
  Location: Main Library 7th floor NA9415.R7 R56 2010
• Verwandelte Gotter: antike Skulpturen des Museo del Prado zu Gast in Dresden
  Location: Main Library 7th floor Folio NB87.D73 V47 2009
• Ara Pacis: ein Staatsmonument des Augustus auf dem Marsfeld, Mlasowsky, Alexander.
  Location: Main Library 7th floor NB133 .M53 2010
• Catalogo de’ bronzi e degli altri metalli antichi di Luigi Lanzi: dal collezionismo mediceo al museo pubblico lorenese: Firenze, Biblioteca degli Uffizi, ms. 105 con ed. anast. delle tavole di Francesco Marchissi …, Zaccagnino, Cristiana.
  Location: Main Library 7th floor NB135.L363 Z33 2010
• Sculpture romane, Gaborit, Jean-Rene.
  Location: Main Library 7th floor Folio NB175 .G336 2010
• Studies in classical linguistics in honor of Philip Baldi
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor P26.B33 S78 2010
• Classical dictionaries: past, present and future
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA51 .C54 2010
• Aner Polytropos: ricerche di filologia Greca antica dedicate dagli allievi a Franco Montanari
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA227 .A54 2010
• Language and ritual in Sabellic Italy: the ritual complex of the third and fourth Tabulae Iguvinae, Weiss, Michael L.
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA2461 .W45 2010
• Leggere greco e latino fuori dai confini nel mondo antico: atti del I Congresso nazionale dell’Associazione italiana di cultura classica, Lecce, 10-11 maggio 2008 Associazione italiana di cultura classica. Congresso nazionale
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA3013 .A78 2008
• Semeion philia : studi di letteratura greca offerti ad Agostino Masaracchia
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA3061 .S46 2009
• Traditional elegy: the interplay of meter, tradition, and context in early Greek poetry, Garner, Robert Scott, 1973-
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA3113 .G37 2011
• Ifigenia di Eschilo: filologia e drammaturgia nell’Agamennone, Barbieri, Michele.
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA3825.A8 B37 2009
• Aesop and the imprint of medieval thought: a study of six fables as translated at the end of the Middle Ages, De Weever, Jacqueline, 1932-
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA3858 .D4 2011
• Aristophanes and the poetics of competition, Biles, Zachary P., 1968-
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA3879 .B355 2011
• Aristophanes’ comedy of names: a study of speaking names in Aristophanes, Kanavou, Nikoletta, 1977-
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA3879 .K36 2011
• Helena, Euripides.
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA3976 .G3 2010
• Porphyry’s Homeric questions on the Iliad: text, translation, commentary, Porphyry, ca. 234-ca. 305.
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA4035.P7 Q4713 2011
• Soranos von Ephesos, Peri psyches: Sammlung der Testimonien, Kommentar und Einleitung, Podolak, Pietro, 1979-
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA4435.S2 P47 2010
• Creative eloquence: the construction of reality in Cicero’s speeches, Gildenhard, Ingo, 1970-
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA6285 .G55 2011
• Recovering the ancient view of founding: a commentary on Cicero’s De Legibus, Caspar, Timothy W., 1971-
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA6296.D323 C37 2011
• Per via d’annotationi: le glosse inedite di Alessandro Piccolomini all’Ars poetica di Orazio, Refini, Eugenio, 1984-
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA6393.E7 P5337 2009
• Vecchio e il serpent : Ovidio, Medea e il ringiovanimento di Esone, Masselli, Grazia Maria.
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA6519.M9 M37 2009
• Approaches to teaching the works of Ovid and the Ovidian tradition
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA6537 .A77 2010
• Ovid, Volk, Katharina, 1969-
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA6537 .V65 2010
• Petronii Arbitri Satyricon 100-115: edizione critica e commento, Vannini, Giulio.
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA6559 .V36 2010
• Brill’s companion to Silius Italicus
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA6695 .B75 2010
• Virgil, Smith, Alden.
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA6825 .S633 2011
• Now and Rome: Lucan and Vergil as theorists of politics and space, Willis, Ika, 1975-
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA6825 .W5365 2011

UGA Libraries Classics-Related Acquisitions: March 2011

In the four weeks since my last post on this topic, the UGA Libraries added 4547  items to the Main Library collection. Works of interest to those in Classics and related fields include the following (in LC call number order):

• Examined lives : from Socrates to Nietzsche, Miller, Jim, 1947-.
  Location: Main Library 6th floor B104 .M56 2011
• Free will : origins of the notion in ancient thought, Frede, Michael.
  Location: Main Library 6th floor B187.F7 F74 2011
• Plato and the Talmud, Howland, Jacob.
  Location: Main Library 6th floor B395 .H8525 2011
• Pharmakon: Plato, drug culture, and identity in ancient Athens, Rinella, Michael A. (Michael Anthony)
  Location: Main Library 6th floor B395 .R56 2010
• On Aristotle on interpretation. 1-3 Boethius, d. 524.
  Location: Main Library 6th floor B439 .B6513 2010
• Commentary on Aristotle’s Prior analytics : Old Armenian text with an English translation, introduction, and notes, David, the Invincible.
  Location: Main Library 6th floor B440 .D313 2010
• Being, nature, and life in Aristotle: essays in honor of Allan Gotthelf
  Location: Main Library 6th floor B485 .B383 2010
• Aristotle on the nature of truth, Long, Christopher P. (Christopher Philip), 1969-
  Location: Main Library 6th floor B491.T78 L66 2010
• Naturalistic psychology in Galen and stoicism, Gill, Christopher, 1946-
  Location: Main Library 6th floor B577.G24 G55 2010
• Augustine and philosophy
  Location: Main Library 6th floor B655.Z7 A89 2010
• Virgin mother goddesses of antiquity, 1st ed., Rigoglioso, Marguerite.
  Location: Main Library 6th floor BL325.M6 R54 2010
• Ancient Greek religion, 2nd ed., Mikalson, Jon D., 1943-
  Location: Main Library 6th floor BL783 .M55 2010
• Ritual dynamics and religious change in the Roman Empire: proceedings of the eighth Workshop of the International Network Impact of Empire (Heidelberg, July 5-7, 2007) Impact of Empire (Organization). Workshop (8th : 2007 : Heidelberg, Germany)
  Location: Main Library 6th floor BL803 .I57 2007
• Unreliable witnesses: religion, gender, and history in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean, Kraemer, Ross Shepard, 1948-
  Location: Main Library 6th floor BL815.W6 K73 2011
• Moment’s ornament: the poetics of nympholepsy in ancient Greece, Pache, Corinne Ondine, 1963-
  Location: Main Library 6th floor BL820.N95 P33 2011
• Augustine and the Trinity, Ayres, Lewis.
  Location: Main Library 6th floor BR65.A9 A98 2010
• ‘In search of truth’: Augustine, Manichaeism and other gnosticism: studies for Johannes van Oort at sixty
  Location: Main Library 6th floor BR65.A9 I5 2011
• Last pagans of Rome, Cameron, Alan, 1938-
  Location: Main Library 6th floor BR170 .C36 2011
• Archaeology of anthropogenic environments
  Location: Main Library 2nd floor CC81 .A68 2010
• De Lycie en Cabalide: la convention entre les Lyciens et Termessos pres d’Oinoanda, Rousset, Denis.
  Location: Main Library 2nd floor Folio CN350 .R68 2010
• Origins of aesthetic thought in ancient Greece: matter, sensation, and experience, Porter, James I., 1954-
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DF78 .P76 2010
• Political economies of the Aegean Bronze Age: papers from the Langford Conference, Florida State University, Tallahassee, 22-24 February 2007 Langford Conference of the Department of Classics (2007 : Florida State University)
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DF220 .L36 2007
• Marathon: how one battle changed Western civilization, 1st ed., Billows, Richard A.
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DF225.4 .B55 2010
• Ancient Crete: from successful collapse to democracy’s alternatives, twelfth to fifth centuries BC, Wallace, Saro, 1973-
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DF261.C8 W35 2010
• Est enim ille flos Italiae– : vita economica e sociale nella Cisalpina romana : atti delle giornate di studi in onore di Ezio Buchi, Verona 30 novembre-1 dicembre 2006, 1. ed.
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DG51 .E78 2008
• Art in Roman life: villa to grave, De Puma, Richard Daniel, 1942-
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DG78 .D47 2009
• Roman diasporas: archaeological approaches to mobility and diversity in the Roman empire
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DG190 .R653 2010
• Clodia Metelli: the tribune’s sister, Skinner, Marilyn B.
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DG260.C6 S56 2011
• Augustus: image and substance, 1st ed., Levick, Barbara.
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DG279 .L44 2010
• Empress of Rome: the life of Livia, Dennison, Matthew.
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DG279.L585 A3 2010
• Claudius Caesar: image and power in the early Roman empire, Osgood, Josiah, 1974-
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DG284 .O84 2011
• Gruppi di potere nella Roma tardoantica (350-395 d.C.), Poglio, Federico Alberto.
  Location: Main Library 4th floor Folio DG316.7 .P64 2007
• Berenike and the ancient maritime spice route, Sidebotham, Steven E.
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DT73.B375 S4 2011
• Carthaginians, Hoyos, B. D. (B. Dexter), 1944-
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DT269.C34 H69 2010
• Kinship myth in ancient Greece, 1st ed., Patterson, Lee E. (Lee Everett), 1968-
  Location: Main Library 2nd floor GN585.G85 P37 2010
• Searching for the Silures : an Iron Age tribe in South-East Wales, Howell, Raymond, 1947-
  Location: Main Library 2nd floor GN780.22.G7 H68 2009
• Calabria tirrenica nell’antichita: nuovi documenti e problematiche storiche: atti del convegno, Rende, 23-25 novembre 2000
  Location: Main Library 2nd floor GN818.C28 T47 2008
• Prehistory of Asia Minor : from complex hunter-gatherers to early urban societies, During, Bleda S.
  Location: Main Library 2nd floor GN855.T83 D87 2011
• Oxford handbook of social relations in the Roman world
  Location: Main Library 5th floor HN10.R7 O94 2011
• Children, memory, and family identity in Roman culture
  Location: Main Library 5th floor HQ511 .C55 2010
• Great cities in history
  Location: Main Library 5th floor HT111 .G74 2009
• Formation of Roman urbanism, 338-200 B.C.: between contemporary foreign influence and Roman tradition, Sewell, Jamie.
  Location: Main Library 5th floor HT114 .S494 2010
• Slavery in the Roman world, Joshel, Sandra R. (Sandra Rae), 1947-
  Location: Main Library 5th floor HT863 .J67 2010
• Peace, war and gender from antiquity to the present: cross-cultural perspectives 1. Aufl. International Congress of Historical Sciences (20th : 2005 : Sydney, N.S,W.)
  Location: Main Library 6th floor JZ6405.W66 I58 2005
• Architettura Romana i grandi monumenti di Roma
  Location: Main Library 7th floor NA310 .A745 2009
• Case del potere nell’antica Roma, 1. ed., Carandini, Andrea, 1937-
  Location: Main Library 7th floor NA324 .C25 2010
• Monumento all’arco nei trionfi dell’antica Roma: un saggio sull’architettare, Paglieri, Rinangelo.
  Location: Main Library 7th floor NA9370.R6 P34 2010
• How to read Greek vases, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
  Location: Main Library 7th floor NK4645 .M475 2010
• Investigationes Anatolicae: Gedenkschrift fur Erich Neu
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor P945 .S65 no. 52
• Hesiod, the other poet: ancient reception of a cultural icon, Koning, Hugo H.
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA9 .M686 Suppl. no. 325
• Solon the Athenian, the poetic fragments, Noussia Fantuzzi, Maria.
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA9 .M686 Suppl. no. 326
• Euripides and the language of craft, Stieber, Mary C. (Mary Clorinda)
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA9 .M686 Suppl. no. 327
• Grandeur de l’homme au siecle de Pericles, Romilly, Jacqueline de.
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA3015.H43 R64 2010
• Studi sul romanzo latino, Garbugino, Giovanni.
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA3040 .G28 2010
• Allusion, authority, and truth: critical perspectives on Greek poetic and rhetorical praxi
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA3095 .A55 2010
• Archaic and classical Greek epigram
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA3123 .A73 2010
• Pubblico a teatro nella Grecia antica, Loscalzo, Donato.
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA3201 .L67 2008
• Matter of the page: essays in search of ancient and medieval authors, Butler, Shane, 1970-
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA3521 .B88 2011
• Aesopi Phrygis Fabulae graece et latine: cum aliis quibusdam opusculis, quorum indicem sequens pagella indicabit.
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor Hargrett Rare Books Rare Bk PA3855 .A2 1558
• Ananios of Kleitor: poems & fragments and their reception from antiquity to the present, Economou, George.
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA3866.A13 E26 2009
• Euripides’ Electra: a commentary, Roisman, Hanna.
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA3973.E5 R65 2011
• Homer’s Odyssey and the Near East, Louden, Bruce, 1954-
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA4167 .L67 2011
• Musees de mots: l’heritage de Philostrate dans la litterature occidentale
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA4272.Z5 M87 2010
• Gleiche im Verschiedenen: Metapher des Sports und Lob des Siegers in Pindars Epinikien, Lattmann, Claas.
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA4276 .L38 2010
• Feminist readings of Antigone
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA4413.A7 F46 2010
• Fragmenta poetarum Latinorum epicorum et lyricorum : praeter enni annales et Ciceronis Germanicique Aratea, Ed. 4
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA6283.A2 F763 2011
• Iuuenalis; Persius. [Second Aldine edition.]. Juvenal.
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor Hargrett Rare Books Rare Bk PA6446 .A2 1515
• Satyrs of Decimus Junius Juvenalis: and of Aulus Persius Flaccus, The 6th ed., adorn’d with sculptures. Juvenal.
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor Hargrett Rare Books Rare Bk PA6447.E5 D7 1735
• P. Ovidii Nasonis Heroidum epistula 10 : Ariadne Theseo : introduzione, testo e commento, Battistella, Chiara.
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA6519.H7 B29 2010
• Commentary on Ovid, Tristia, book 2 , Ingleheart, Jennifer.
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA6519.T9 I54 2010
• Theatralite de l’oeuvre ovidienne
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA6537 .T44 2009
• Virgile et l’amour: les Bucoliques, Stroppini, Gianfranco.
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA6804.B7 S76 2010
• Father of us all: war and history, ancient and modern, 1st U.S. ed., Hanson, Victor Davis.
  Location: Main Library 2nd floor U27 .H378 2010
• Reinstating the hoplite: arms, armour and phalanx fighting in archaic and classical Greece, Schwartz, Adam, 1973-
  Location: Main Library 2nd floor U33 .S349 2009
• Armee romaine et la religion sous le Haut-Empire romain: actes du quatrieme Congres de Lyon (26-28 octobre 2006)
  Location: Main Library 2nd floor U35 .A747 2006

THATCamp 5: Open-Access, Kindles, Crowdsourcing

Okay, if I don’t get more terse we’re never going to get through THATCamp SE.  Day one continued:

At lunch we had “dork shorts” which were timed 3-minute talks on anything anybody wanted to show.  Topics included a documentary about an Atlanta punk band, a blog about rural life which featured a lovely photo of a ca. 1940 man with his pet skunk, and UGA’s <emma> program, used in writing classes, which allows collaborative markup of student papers.

After lunch 1: Open Access Publishing, hosted by me. I was a little thoughtless at 9am and put things on the whiteboard that I thought would make good discussions, forgetting that then I would have to a) attend and b) HOST the discussions.  And people signed up for them!  This was number 1.  It was kind of a general conversation, with several librarians present who had experience hosting open access journals using the Open Journal Systems software (at Duke, GA Tech, and UGA), a grad student who works on the OA journal Southern Spaces at Emory, and a faculty member who edits a major journal that is not open-access.  We talked about business models (Mellon support, departmental support, support by an organization like ATLA), OA in Humanities as opposed to Sciences, and reasons why OA is important (I especially liked the mention of the need to make research accessible to communities being studied, in some fields.)

After lunch 2: My colleague from UGA, Caroline Barratt, and I hosted an intimate conversation about our current project using Kindles for all course readings in an English class.  This was very productive for us – we took a lot of notes about interesting questions to ask when we hold focus groups later this semester – and those present seemed to enjoy it also, with a wide-ranging discussion including practical issues as well as big topics like “what is the book” and “what is reading.”

After lunch 3: Crowdsourcing Digital Humanities Projects; I was hosting again. I was hoping to get advice on how to manage the human side of a project like the Ancient World Open Bibliographies. I was struck by the great diversity of experiences and expertise present at this session.  Participants talked about: a women’s collective project in India, crowdsourcing the transcription of the Cardinal Newman letters at Emory (interestingly, the volunteers were not collected using the internet, but came mostly via newsletters and news articles), open-access software projects, and a project to collaboratively write a latin textbook. We talked about the importance of passion in volunteers (which is why there’s a Wookieepedia) – and how it can’t be artificially created – and, failing passion, the need to “make it fun” or even sneak crowdsourcing into a project (like ReCaptcha).

By this point someone in another session was beginning to tweet about zombies, so the UGA contingent regrouped and headed back to Athens.  I don’t know how anyone had the energy to go out, but  gather some THATCampers continued conversations into the evening.

Previous posts on THATCamp SE:

• THATCamp SE 1:  Timelines Assignment
• THATCamp SE 2: Online Collections
• THATCamp SE 3: Google Earth
• THATCamp SE 4: Making Digital Collections Work for the Scholar