OLH Welcomes Erasmus University Rotterdam

The Open Library of Humanities is pleased to welcome a new supporting institution: Erasmus University Rotterdam. As one of the Netherlands’ leading public research universities, Erasmus University Rotterdam traces its roots back to 1913, when the Netherlands School of Commerce (Nederlandsche Handels-Hoogeschool, NHH) was founded through private initiative with broad support from the Rotterdam business community. Officially established in 1973, the university integrates academic research with excellent, challenging, and inspiring education. It offers a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate degrees, including programmes in business, economics, law, psychology, pedagogy, sociology, public administration, urban management and development, development studies, history, arts and culture, media, philosophy, medicine, and health.

With this partnership in place, Erasmus University Rotterdam through its Open Access Infrastructures Fund 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 35 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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