Toward Open Access in Ancient Studies: The Princeton-Stanford Working Papers in Classics By Walter Scheidel and Brent Shaw

https://www.academia.edu/3166602/Toward_Open_Access_in_Ancient_Studies_The_Princeton_Stanford_Working_Papers_in_Classics The authors' experience with founding and managing an open-access Internet site for publishing scholarly preprints, the Princeton-Stanford Working Papers in Classics, raises issues about the status of publication in classical studies. Open-access e-prints offer unique advantages in terms of availability and dated registration of work, but raise concerns about certification and permanent archiving. E-prints and traditional publications are currently complementary. Yet the worlds of scholarly publication and academic evaluation of ... .