LINGUIST List 21.3917 Tue Oct 05 2010 FYI: Language Description Heritage Open Access Library Editor for this issue: Brent Miller <brentlinguistlist.org> To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.cfm. Directory         1.    Michael Cysouw, Language Description Heritage Open Access Library Message 1: Language Description Heritage Open Access Library Date: 04-Oct-2010 From: Michael Cysouw <cysouwlmu.de> Subject: Language Description Heritage Open Access Library E-mail this message to a friend Dear Colleagues, If you have any long out-of-print studies, unpublished data collections, or other works of which you are the sole copyright holder, please consider to share them with the wider linguistic community at the Language Description Heritage (LDH) open access digital library, available online at: http://ldh.livingsources.org (or http://www.facebook.com/LanguageDescriptionHeritageProject) The goal of the LDH is to make available existing descriptive and analytic work about the world’s languages. The main focus is to provide easy access to traditionally difficult to obtain scientific contributions. Specifically, there are many unpublished theses and manuscripts with valuable data on individual languages that are often unknown and unavailable to the wider linguistic community. Also many out-of-print publications with a limited availability in research libraries deserve a much wider audience and recognition. To enhance to flow of scientific discussion, we offer this platform to make electronic versions of said contributions freely available. The Language Description Heritage Digital Library minimally provides photographic scans, downloadable in PDF format (more is planned for the future). Most importantly, (almost) all content in this digital library is available under a permissive Creative Commons (CC-by) license, so everything can be freely used for all scientific purposes. When you are the author and/or rights-holder of a suitable publication, please and consider making your works available under a CC-license. This is a very simply process. Basically, you sign a permission form (http://ldh.livingsources.org/files/2009/08/formular13081.pdf) and send this to us. Detailed instructions can be found at http://ldh.livingsources.org/for-authors/. We recommend you assign a bare CC-by (“Attribution”) license to your work, though you might also opt for an even freer CC-zero (“No Rights Reserved”, equivalent to “Public Domain”). Clear and open licensing enhances the exchange of scientific ideas. In choosing a license, please be aware that there is a difference between scientific recognition and commercial recognition of your work. Whatever license you choose for your work, this does not regulate scientific recognition! To obtain more scientific recognition it is best to make your work as broadly and easily available as possible, so others can find and acknowledge your work without restriction. To enhance the exchange of scientific results, we recommend you to choose a highly permissive license. The LDH is being compiled at the Max Planck Society in Germany, specifically at the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig in cooperation with the Max Planck Digital Library in Munich. Best, Michael Cysouw --------------- Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology – Library Language Description Heritage (LDH) Project Deutscher Platz 6 04103 Leipzig, Germany email: ldheva.mpg.de Scientific Mentoring: Prof. Dr. Bernard Comrie, Dr. Michael Cysouw Library Assistance: Gisela Lausberg, Kirstin Baumgarten Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 05-Oct-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.