Issues of the Open Access for Humanities Research in Europe ～on the case of philosophical researches

This is to report what was talked about and discussed in the session, “Seniors’ Round Table Meeting” given on March 1st at Tsurumi-University, under the above title. During my working on the translation of a book on Wittgenstein and William James, I frequently visited the site of the WAB to make use of its database. I owe much to its open-access circumstances and its welldesigned system. Most of all my exegetic questions were solved. The Open-access to data-basis or sites of any kinds appears now to meet the world-wide tendencies and needs. But there, along with it, emerges another horizon of complicated ethical problems. The wider the space opens, the more its unknown corners would be darkened. The freer the way runs, the more slippery the road becomes. However, we must solve our problems one by one, anchoring in our reality, our own rough ground of human-being-ness as Wittgenstein advocated.