OLH Welcomes Université catholique de Louvain

The Open Library of Humanities is pleased to welcome a new supporting institution: the Université catholique de Louvain. UCLouvain is Belgium's largest French-speaking university. Originally established in 1425, it is also one of the oldest Catholic universities in Europe. With campuses spread across six locations in Belgium—including Louvain-la-Neuve, Woluwe, Mons, Tournai, Brussels, and Charleroi Saint-Gilles—Université catholique de Louvain hosts 15 schools and faculties, offering degree programmes and research in a wide range of subjects such as theology, law and criminology, management, psychology and educational science, public health, and architecture. UCLouvain's most notable alumni include mathematician Vitold Belevich, Queen Mathilde of Belgium, and economist Vera Songwe.

With this partnership in place, UCLouvain 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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