OLH Welcomes the University of Salzburg

The Open Library of Humanities is pleased to welcome a new supporting institution: The University of Salzburg.  

The University of Salzburg is a comprehensive public research university located in the UNESCO World Heritage city of Salzburg, Austria. Founded in 1622 and re-established in 1962, the university combines a centuries-long academic tradition with a modern research-led teaching environment, all from the magnificent Salzburg city centre. One of Austria’s leading research institutions, the University of Salzburg is also the largest university in Salzburg, serving 18,000 students across more than 90 degree programmes.  

With this partnership in place, the University of Salzburg has shown its support for 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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