OLH Welcomes Hollins University

The Open Library of Humanities is pleased to welcome a new supporting institution: Hollins University. Hollins University offers rigorous liberal arts education for undergraduate students from its 475-acre campus in Virginia’s beautiful Roanoke Valley. Founded in 1842, Hollins was one of the earliest institutions to offer undergraduate education to women in the United States. With a focus on academic excellence and experiential learning, Hollins integrates tradition with a forward-looking liberal arts program that emphasizes critical thinking and collaboration. The university has a rich tradition of distinguished alumnae, including authors, journalists, and Pulitzer Prize winners. 

With this partnership in place, Hollins University demonstrates its support for diamond open access, as part of its financial commitment to the open dissemination of research and scholarship. 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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