OLH Welcomes the University of Klagenfurt

The Open Library of Humanities is pleased to announce a new supporting institution, the University of Klagenfurt (AAU). AAU is the largest academic institution in Carinthia, Austria, and a hub for the whole of the Alps-Adriatic region in terms of knowledge acquisition, exchange and transfer. Established in 1970, AAU offers diverse bachelor's, master's, and doctoral programs in the field of engineering, management and economics, social sciences, culture, and languages. With over 12,000 students split into four faculties and 33 departments, the university fosters innovation through research, teaching, and collaborations. Located near Lake Wörthersee in Klagenfurt, a safe and charming city near the Slovenian and Italian borders, AAU supports multilingualism and regional integration. Its campus includes several central facilities such as the Robert Musil Institute, the Karl Popper Kolleg, the University Cultural Centre (UNIKUM), the build! Gründerzentrum (a start-up incubation centre), the University Sports Centre (USI), and the Klagenfurt University Library.

With this partnership in place, the University of Klagenfurt 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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