[BOAI] First Newsletter of the project AGORA

[Herbert Hrachovec]

First Newsletter of the project AGORA: Scholarly Open Access Resources in 
European Philosophy (www.project-agora.eu<http://www.project-agora.eu/>)

Philosophers are increasingly accessing resources in digital form and 
participating in the scholarship of the new digital era. The AGORA project 
aims to experiment with new ways of realising the full potential of the 
technical resources for digital and electronic publication to add new 
dimensions to philosophical scholarship.

Launched in January 2011, the project is adding to existing open access 
content, and developing resources in semantic linking and linked open data to 
create new ways of searching and browsing texts, and of linking texts and 
citations. The project will also explore open peer review as an additional 
mode of peer review afforded by digital publication.

Open access to scholarly resources is increasingly important in philosophy, 
but cannot be taken for granted. Technical resources alone will not guarantee 
open access. Thus, the project will also experiment with different open access 
business models to make open access an institutionally and economically 
sustainable enterprise. The first newsletter of the project is available at 
http://www.project-agora.eu/first-agora-newsletter.


Herbert Hrachovec

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Hochschullehrer Philosophie, Universität Wien