OLH Welcomes Linnaeus University

The Open Library of Humanities is pleased to welcome a new supporting institution, Linnaeus University (LNU). LNU is a state university located in the Swedish region of Småland, with campuses in Växjö and Kalmar. Established in 2010 through the merger of Växjö University and Kalmar University (Högskolan i Kalmar), Linnaeus University is named in honour of the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus. With more than 40,000 students, LNU offers over 200 degree programs and 1,500 single-subject courses at the bachelor's and master's levels. These programs span six main areas: arts and humanities, health and life sciences, the social sciences, the natural sciences, technology, and business and economics. The university is also recognised for its strong international profile, hosting more than 1,000 international students. 

With this partnership in place, Linnaeus 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 publisher of 33 diamond open access 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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