Bring a Scholastic text into the open.

People who care about the texts. Someone reading Billuart for their own study who has already typed up a tractate. Someone who translated a question of the Salmanticenses because they wanted their students to have it. Someone working through Cajetan and keeping notes that could just as well be a public edition.

That work usually lives in a personal folder, a private blog, or a shared document that quietly disappears. ScholaThomistica is trying to make it cumulative instead.

• A Latin transcription of a public-domain Scholastic work, or of a tractate, question, or article inside one.
• A translation of any of the above that you wrote yourself (AI-assisted is fine, as long as you reviewed it) and are willing to release into the open corpus.
• Bibliographic improvements: author dates, work titles, the hierarchy of a partially imported volume.

Contributions are reviewed before they become part of the library. The review step protects the corpus and protects you from accidental mistakes.

The original Latin texts hosted here are public domain. Nobody owns Billuart, Cajetan, Bañez, or the Salmanticenses simply by putting their words on a website.

Translations are different. If you translate a text, even with help from AI, you may hold rights in that translation. When you submit it here, you agree to release it into the open corpus under the license described in the Terms of Service.

In plain language: do not submit work here if you need to keep exclusive control over it. Submit it if you want it to be freely available, reusable, downloadable, and useful to people you may never meet.

ScholaThomistica does not become the owner of the original public-domain Latin. It also does not stop you from using your own work elsewhere. If you contributed a transcription or translation, you can still post it on your site, print it, share it, cite it, include it in a book, or sell a printed edition.

The point of contributing here is not to transfer control to the platform. The point is to make the text available in a public, durable, and useful place.

Reading the texts is free, and the corpus stays the common-good part of the project. It does not sit behind a paywall.

If ScholaThomistica later offers paid features, they should be tools around the corpus — research workflows, exports, assistance for scholars — not access to the texts themselves. The texts are downloadable. If you don’t trust any platform, take what you need with you. That is part of the point.