OLH Welcomes Birmingham City University

The Open Library of Humanities is pleased to announce a new member, Birmingham City University. With its history dating back to the 1880s, Birmingham City University is situated within the heart of England’s second city. It gained university status in 1992, the same year work commenced on a new building for the Birmingham School of Jewellery, which is the largest School of Jewellery in Europe. In 2007, the University changed its name to Birmingham City University and received a new logo, a reworking of the tiger crest used by the University of Central England in Birmingham. The university serves 31,000 students from 100 countries and has 2,300 members of teaching staff across its four facilities. It offers Undergraduate and Postgraduate study, as well as Foundation years, Short Courses and Degree Apprenticeships, with every course requiring the completion of a placement with companies such as the BBC, IBM, Microsoft, NHS, Selfridges and more.
 
With this partnership in place, Birmingham City University 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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