The Open Library of Humanities launches Regeneration: Environment, Art, Culture

The Open Library of Humanities is very pleased to welcome Regeneration: Environment, Art, Culture as the newest academic journal to join our catalogue. As a peer-reviewed, open-access journal of the environmental humanities, Regeneration brings humanists, activists, artists, and scientists into open conversation around environmental matters. The journal prioritises scholarship that places disparate fields, disciplines, archives, and ways of knowing in dialogue. Regeneration will be published three times a year. The editors welcome a wide range of submissions, particularly those that take full advantage of a multi-modal format, that seek to establish new methods for the evolving study of the environment, and that challenge the conventional academic essay form.

Regeneration will be edited by Prof. Stephanie Foote (West Virginia University), Prof. Anthony Lioi (The Juilliard School), and Prof. Dana Luciano (Rutgers University), under the guidance of an Editorial Board composed of thirty leading scholars of the environmental humanities. This journal launch has been possible thanks to the support of the more than 340 library partners that financially support the Open Library of Humanities, making diamond open access possible. 

Dr Caroline Edwards, Executive Director of the OLH, said “It’s fantastic news to be launching Regeneration. The environmental humanities are so important to helping us collectively forge responses to the climate emergency. Regeneration responds to this pressing need. Experimental and collaborative by design, the journal brings scholars, artists, and activists into dialogue – free for anyone to submit work and for anyone to read.”

“Scholarship in the environmental humanities transcends not only disciplinary boundaries, but also conventional academic formats. As an open-access, multi-media journal, Regeneration is poised to bring the best critical EH thinking to a wide audience,” said Prof. Stephanie Foote, one of the journal’s founding editors.   

Regeneration is one of seven new journals joining the OLH in 2023-2024, along with five journals that are “flipping” away from subscription models, including: Political Philosophy; Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science; Review of the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, and Quaker Studies (formerly published by Liverpool University Press in partnership with the OLH). Thanks to the support of our international network of library members, the OLH has been able to undertake the complex, skilled technical work of migrating these journals and committing to fund the cost of their publication in perpetuity.

 About OLH: The Open Library of Humanities is an award-winning, academic-led, diamond open-access publisher of 30 journals based at Birkbeck, University of London. With initial funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and subsequent support from Arcadia, a charitable fund, the platform covers its costs by payments from an international library consortium rather than any author fee. This funding mechanism enables equitable open access in the humanities disciplines, with charges neither to readers nor authors. 

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