The University of Texas at Austin joins OLH LPS model

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 16 September 2016

UT Austin

We are extremely pleased to announce that the University of Texas at Austin has joined the Open Library of Humanities' Library Partnership Subsidy system. Ranked among the biggest and best research universities in the country, UT Austin is home to more than 51,000 students and 3,000 teaching faculty. The university is one of the top 20 public universities according to U.S. News & World Report, with the No. 1 accounting, Latin American history and petroleum engineering graduate programs in United States.

The Open Library of Humanities is an academic-led, gold open-access publisher with no author-facing charges. With funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the platform covers its costs by payments from an international library consortium, rather than any kind of author fee.

Professor Martin Paul Eve, a founder and academic project director of the OLH, welcomed the University of Texas at Austin: “It is fantastic that the University of Texas at Austin has joined the OLH LPS model. The humanities are unlikely to achieve open access through the same routes as their scientific counterparts. With the help of institutions like the University of Texas at Austin, we will continue to expand our model for OA in the humanities without author-facing charges.”

Libraries outside the US, UK, EU or Canada interested in joining the OLH Library Partnership Subsidy model should contact Professor Martin Paul Eve: martin.eve@openlibhums.org. UK-based libraries can join through Jisc Collections at http://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/Catalogue/Overview/Index/2120. US-based libraries can join through LYRASIS at https://lyrasis.openlibhums.org. European libraries can sign up at http://lps.openlibhums.org.