From jonathan.gray at okfn.org  Wed May 18 11:03:05 2011
From: jonathan.gray at okfn.org (Jonathan Gray)
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 12:03:05 +0200
Subject: [bibliographica-users] Fwd: Soliciting your participation in the
 Ancient World Open Bibliographies Project
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This is the kind of thing I had in mind for Bibliographica! :-)

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From: Charles E. Jones <cejo at uchicago.edu>
Date: Tue, May 17, 2011 at 3:18 PM
Subject: [Antiquist] Soliciting your participation in the Ancient
World Open Bibliographies Project
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Announcing the

Ancient World Open Bibliographies Project

Our Goal: To provide an online destination for students and scholars
seeking bibliographies about the ancient world. ?In the modern
academy, sometimes too much information is as thorny a problem as too
little. The Ancient World Open Bibliographies seeks to provide
annotated bibliographies on specific subjects that serve as an
introduction to students or to scholars exploring a new area of
research. ?We will also link to existing open-access bibliographical
resources online.

Open Access: The project is currently hosted at a dedicated wiki
(http://ancientbibliographies.libs.uga.edu/ ), with duplication using
the (free) bibliographic citation management software Zotero (see our
group library here:
http://www.zotero.org/groups/ancient_world_open_bibliographies ). ?It
is open access and covered by a Creative Commons license.

Scope: Geographically, we cover Europe, Asia, and Africa. Temporally,
we cover prehistory through ca. 700 CE. Right now the project is
richest in Classical, Near Eastern, and Egyptian Studies, but we
welcome broader contributions within our scope.

How Can You Help?

? 1. Create an annotated bibliography on a topic of your expertise.
? 2. Contribute an existing bibliography you have assembled on a topic
? perhaps one you use for your own work, or distribute to students.
? 3. Add a link to an existing online bibliography you use.
? 4. Encourage your colleagues and students to participate by creating
and sharing their own bibliographies; for example, consider whether
the creation of an collaborative annotated bibliography would work as
a class assignment.

Bibliographies or links can be emailed (see contact info below) or
feel free to edit the wiki, adding a link or a new page (see details
on how to do the latter at
http://ancientbibliographies.libs.uga.edu/wiki/How_To_Contribute ).
Emailed bibliographies in most formats will work: .doc, .pdf, .ris or
other export from EndNote/Refworks/Zotero/etc.

Questions, or Want to Contribute? ?Visit the wiki or blog or contact
Phoebe Acheson (University of Georgia Libraries, pacheson at uga.edu ) or
Chuck Jones (Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NYU,
cejo at uchicago.edu ).

This flier is available at http://tinyurl.com/AWOBflier

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