Named after the late Ross Scaife, the Scaife Digital Library is being developed as a distributed collection and a method whereby humanists from around the world can automatically aggregate their content. The Scaife Digital Library contains durable objects that (1) have received peer review, (2) are in sustainable formats such as the epiDoc TEI stylesheet, (3) have a long-term home such as an institutional repository separate from the producer of the object, and (4) are available under open licensing for third-party redistribution and/or further development....
The distributed digital library and DHQ issue are beautiful, fitting ways to honor Ross Scaife (1960-2008). Ross was one of the leading proponents of OA in the field of classics, which has been one of the leading fields of the humanities in exploring the possibilities of OA.
I knew Ross and admired his work. Although my own field (philosophy) is in the humanities, and I was thinking about OA in the humanities while working for OA in the sciences, it was Ross, and his colleague Barbara McManus, who first nudged me to write about OA in the humanities.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
