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.
