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Thinking out loud. .... Given the open access availability of Perseus, couldn't a sort of competing app be developed? Sent from my iPad > On Feb 6, 2014, at 10:20 AM, "Charles E. Jones" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > (With all due respect) In your dreams! > > Details on how libraries are going to license this stuff are thin at the moment - possibly through De Gruyter? > > Edwin Donnelly and others have worked to make the open (i.e. old) Loebs accessible: > http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2012/06/loebolus-loebs.html > > -Chuck- > > > ________________________________________ > From: The Digital Classicist List [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Gabriel Bodard [[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2014 10:00 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: [DIGITALCLASSICIST] Fwd: INFO: Loeb Online > > Anyone know anything about this Loeb announcement? Will the texts be > open access, or even better, open licensed? > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: INFO: Loeb Online > Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 14:34:39 +0000 > From: Clark, Stephen <[log in to unmask]> > To: <[log in to unmask]> > > > http://www.hup.harvard.edu/features/loeb/digital.html > > > Forthcoming in Fall 2014: The Digital Loeb Classical Library® > > "The Loeb Classical Library® <http://www.hup.harvard.edu/loeb>, founded > by James Loeb in 1911, has from the very beginning fostered its stated > mission to make classical Greek and Latin literature accessible to the > broadest range of readers. The *digital Loeb Classical library* extends > this mission for readers of the twenty-first century. Harvard University > Press is honored to renew James Loeb’s vision of accessibility and with > the introduction of the digital Loeb Classical Library presents an > interconnected, fully searchable, perpetually growing, virtual library > of all that is important in Greek and Latin literature. Epic and lyric > poetry; tragedy and comedy; history, philosophy, and oratory; the great > medical writers and mathematicians; those Church fathers who made > particular use of the Classics—in short, our entire Greek and Latin > Classical heritage is represented here with up-to-date texts and > accurate and literate English translations. 523 volumes of fully > searchable Latin, Greek, and English texts are available in a modern and > elegant interface, allowing readers to browse, search, bookmark, > annotate, and share content with ease."