OLH Welcomes DePauw University

The Open Library of Humanities is pleased to announce a new supporting institution, DePauw University. Founded in 1837, DePauw University is a private liberal arts college in Greencastle, Indiana, United States. Nationally recognized, DePauw provides a set of exceptional college experiences marked by intellectual rigor and shaped by a dynamic faculty. Home to nearly 2000 students, the university offers more than 50 majors within the liberal arts and sciences disciplines. Among the most popular areas of study are economics, communications and computer science. DePauw fosters experiential learning by offering students numerous opportunities to put their knowledge into practice beyond the classroom. Thirty percent of DePauw students engage in real-world research with faculty members, and the university encourages students to take on two or more internships during their time here. 
 
With this partnership in place, DePauw 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. 

If you like the work that the Open Library of Humanities is doing, please consider asking your institution to support us financially. We cannot operate without our library members. More details for libraries can be found on our signup page.