OLH Welcomes the Université de Montréal

We are pleased to announce that the Université de Montréal has joined the Open Library of Humanities' (OLH) Library Partnership Subsidy system. The Université de Montréal is a French-language public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Dating back to 1878, the institution comprises thirteen faculties, more than sixty departments and two affiliated schools: the Polytechnique Montréal (School of Engineering; formerly the École polytechnique de Montréal) and HEC Montréal (School of Business). It offers more than 650 undergraduate programmes and graduate programmes, including 71 doctoral programmes. The school is co-educational, and has 34,335 undergraduate and 11,925 post-graduate students (excluding affiliated schools). Notable alumni of the university include Roger Guillemin, co-recipient of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine; Louise Arbour, former chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda; Joanne Liu, international president of Doctors Without Borders; and the late Pierre Elliott Trudeau, one of Canada’s best-known prime ministers.

With this partnership in place, the Université de Montréal demonstrates its support of diamond open access. The Open Library of Humanities is collectively funded by its member libraries and wouldn't be able to operate without their generous support. Redirecting funds for the support of scholar-led diamond OA initiatives is vital for the survival of not-for-profit platforms such as OLH. It helps build an academic publishing ecosystem based on equity and on a vision of academic research as a global public good.

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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