Opuscula -- an interesting experiment in scholarly publishing

My colleague Mark Crane have offices across the hall from each other and we sometimes talk face to face and voice to voice (!) .  Sometimes we talk about the present and future of scholarly publishing.  So today Mark crossed the hall and told me about the following project:

Opuscula: Short Texts of the Middle Ages and Renaissance is a peer-reviewed, on-line journal/text series published by Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of Saskatchewan, specializing in short texts of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. We seek single-witness editions of a broad range of pre-modern texts including but not limited to literary and philosophical works, letters, charters, court documents, and notebooks.

The goal of the journal is to establish open access to a substantial body of small but complete texts in scholarly editions to researchers and educators. Our first issue will be published in 2011.

I look forward to it!