Glossa Publishes its 1000th Article

We are thrilled to announce that Glossa, one of our published journals, has reached an incredible milestone: the publication of its 1000th article! This achievement reflects the hard work, dedication, and commitment of the entire Glossa community — editors, reviewers, authors, and readers.

Glossa joined the Open Library of Humanities in 2015, after the mass resignation of the editors of Elsevier’s title Lingua in protest against the company's refusal to adopt a fully open-access model without high costs and Elsevier’s claim to “own” their journal. Since its relaunch 9 years ago, Glossa has become a leading platform for cutting-edge research in linguistics, providing diamond open access to high-quality scholarly work. This achievement would not have been possible without the dedication and passion of the journal editors, reviewers, authors, and the entire linguistic community.

Prof. Johan Rooryck, co-Editor-in-Chief of Glossa and a linguistics professor at Leiden University, said "I am very pleased that we have just published our 1000th article. By a happy coincidence, exactly 100 months ago, on 1 April 2016, our first paper was published in Glossa. I think our success is proof of concept that an editorial team can easily transfer its entire community – authors, reviewers, readers, and editors – away from an extractive commercial publisher to a community-led and owned high quality Diamond Open Access journal. It was like a family buying a new car. 

"I realize, however, that this would not have been possible without the continued support of OLH, who provide us with the complete infrastructure to publish the journal. I would like to compare OLH to other public amenities, like a public park with sports facilities. In the same way a basketball court in a public park allows people to play basketball if they bring the ball,  OLH provides us with the high-quality infrastructure to play 'journal' if we bring the articles. That is revolutionary, and simple awesome."

OLH Executive Director Dr Caroline Edwards said, "We’re absolutely thrilled that Glossa has reached this important milestone. Thanks to the editorial board’s vision and hard work, as well as the support of the entire linguistics scholarly community, Glossa has demonstrated that moving a journal away from a commercial publisher restores academic community control without sacrificing quality. For decades, commercial providers have engaged in shameless profiteering. Glossa continues to set an important example to other journals – the bubble is bursting in the journals market and academics won’t stand for this kind of profiteering any more."

To everyone who has been part of this journey, thank you for your invaluable contributions and support. Your commitment to open access and academic excellence is what has made this achievement possible.

Here's to the next thousand articles and the continued success of Glossa!