(I will add it to the Classics Wishlist!)
The basis for the creation of article in the Thesaurus linguae Latinae (TLL) is the material gathered in the so called Zettelarchiv (slips archive). Here are around ten million slips in postcard format, arranged alphabetically by lemma and chronologically within each lemma. -- verbatim from Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
On Monday, March 26, 2012, Washington University Libraries announced the launch of Open Scholarship, an institutional repository providing access to the scholarly output of faculty, staff, and students from Washington University in St. Louis.
The purpose of Open Scholarship is to enhance access to the academic work of WUSTL scholars, gathering items in a single digital place. Developed following the Faculty Senate’s passage of an Open Access Resolution in May of 2011, Open Scholarship is a further step in the university’s commitment to make scholarship and creative works freely and easily available to the world community.
"Our Open Scholarship site enables us to highlight intellectual achievements of our students and faculty," says Shirley K. Baker, vice chancellor for scholarly resources and dean of University Libraries. "While initially we are featuring recently completed theses and dissertations, we will also add to the site publications that faculty and students would like to have made freely available on the Internet."
Even prior to the official launch of the service, the public site tallied more than 1,200 downloads of papers—roughly two downloads per item. Currently the site contains all of the electronic theses and dissertations completed at Washington University in St. Louis since 2009, as well as undergraduate honors theses and the winning essays from the Carl Neureuther Student Book Collection Essay Competition back to 2003. More collections are soon to follow.
Open Scholarship is available at http://openscholarship.wustl.edu. Those interested in submitting scholarly works to the repository will find helpful information in the Author Corner section of the site, which includes frequently asked questions. For more information, contact Tim Lepczyk, digital repository-metadata librarian, at tlepczyk@wustl.edu, or Digital Library Services at 314-935-6349.
Richard Thomas, a professor of classics at Harvard University, and his fellow trustees at Loeb Classical Library— a 515-volume series of essential Latin and Greek texts with their English translations — are hoping to make things a little easier for non-classicists to mine the literature of the ancients. Along with the Harvard University Press, which publishes Loeb's compact, colorful print volumes, the Loeb trustees recently announced that they are preparing to convert the Loeb series to a digital format that would allow any authorized user to search the English translations of the Loeb works for specific words, ideas, and phrases. Libraries would buy licenses to provide students and other authorized users to the digital Loeb, which is expected to go live in 2013. (The Harvard press will continue selling the print versions.)
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