From: Donald Mastronarde Date: Wednesday, December 26, 2012 Dear friend/colleague, I am a member of the editorial board of a new scholar-driven publishing venture in classical studies, and I am writing to you to invite you to learn about the profile and aims of the series and to consider submitting your work or recommending our series to others. California Classical Studies (CCS) is intended to foster peer-reviewed long-form scholarship with online open access and print-on-demand hard copies and availability of epubs in standard formats. The primary aim of the series is to disseminate basic research (editing and analysis of primary materials both textual and physical), data-heavy research, and highly specialized research of the kind that is either hard to place with the leading publishers in Classics or extremely expensive for libraries and individuals when produced by a leading academic publisher. In addition to promoting archaeological publications, papyrological and epigraphic studies, technical textual studies, and the like, the series will also produce selected titles of a more general profile. Initially we are seeking especially the work of tenured and senior scholars who believe that scholarship should have the widest possible dissemination without barriers of subscription fees or per-item costs and who want to advance the process by which academic culture and personnel processes are adapting to the changing conditions of scholarly publication. By setting an example with high-quality scholarship by established scholars, CCS hopes to create an environment in which untenured scholars too will feel comfortable publishing in this way. By long-form scholarship, we mean anything longer than a standard journal article (as short as, say, 80-100 printed pages). In inviting data-rich work, we also have in mind producing some hybrid works, consisting of a “book” (to be read for free online or purchased in print or in an epub format) and supplementary materials available only online (images, plans, map, datasets, and the like). For more about the series please visit calclassicalstudies.org. If you or a colleague have any questions, please don’t hesitate to email me. Donald Mastronarde Chair, Editorial Board, California Classical Studies