The University of Porto joins the Open Library of Humanities

The Open Library of Humanities is pleased to welcome a new supporting institution: The University of Porto. With origins dating back to the 18th century, the University of Porto is a leading teaching and scientific research institution in Portugal and worldwide. It is the second largest Portuguese university by number of enrolled students and has one of the most noted research outputs in Portugal. U.Porto today comprises 15 schools and an associated business school, and 45 scientific research institutions spread across three campuses. The university offers around 600 programmes, ranging from degrees to professional training courses. 

With this partnership in place, the University of Porto, through its Faculty of Architecture (FAUP), 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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