OLH Welcomes the University of Greifswald

The Open Library of Humanities is pleased to announce a new supporting institution, the University of Greifswald. Founded in 1456 in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany, the University of Greifswald is one of Europe’s oldest and the fourth oldest in present-day Germany. With over 10,000 students, it is a renowned hub for education and research. The university offers a wide range of disciplines through five faculties: Law and Economics, Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University Medicine, Arts and Humanities, and Theology. It is particularly known for its research in five key fields: community medicine and individualized medicine; environmental change, responses and adaptation; cultures of the Baltic Sea region; plasma physics; and proteome research. Notable alumni include 19th-century landscape painter Caspar David Friedrich, evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr, surgeon Theodor Billroth, zoologist Heinrich Bodinus, and astrophysicist Thomas Henning.

With this partnership in place, the University of Greifswald 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 33 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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