26 March 2021
Rose Harris-Birtill Appointed as Acting Director of Open Library of Humanities
Posted by Martin Paul Eve
We are pleased to announce that Dr Rose Harris-Birtill, currently Managing Editor, has been appointed as Acting Director of the Open Library of Humanities, beginning 1st June 2021. She steps in to replace Professor Martin Paul Eve, who will be taking research leave in Autumn 2021 and Spring 2022.Dr…
19 March 2021
OLH Report on activities 2020
Posted by Paula Clemente Vega
Report on activitiesIn 2020 the Open Library of Humanities celebrated its 5th anniversary since its launching in September 2015 with only 7 journals and 99 supporting institutions.  The platform was initially funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and now, five years after its launch, enti…
19 March 2021
Join the OLH Team - we are recruiting an Editorial Officer!
Posted by Paula Clemente Vega
The OLH is looking for an outstanding Editorial Officer with excellent organisation and communication skills for a remote role. This remote working role offers a rare and exciting opportunity to become part of an outstanding team for an award-winning open-access academic publisher, The Open Library…
8 March 2021
University of Virginia joins OLH LPS Model
Posted by Paula Clemente Vega
We are delighted to announce that the University of Virginia Library has joined the Open Library of Humanities' Library Partnership Subsidy system. Founded as the heart of the University of Virginia in 1819, the Library’s original purpose remains unchanged: to provide access to accumulated knowledg…
3 March 2021
The University of Iowa joins OLH Library Partnership Subsidy Model
Posted by Paula Clemente Vega
We are very pleased to announce that the University of Iowa has joined the Open Library of Humanities’ Library Partnership Subsidy system. The University of Iowa is a public research university in Iowa City, Iowa. Founded in 1847, it is the oldest and the second-largest university in the state. A m…
10 February 2021
The Open Library of Humanities joins the Portico Digital preservation archive
Posted by Paula Clemente Vega
We are very pleased to announce that the Open Library of Humanities has joined the Portico Digital preservation archive, alongside the CLOCKSS Archive, adding to our guarantee of long-term availability of the material published in our journals. Portico is a community-supported preservation arc…
9 February 2021
Call for Expressions of Interest. The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship
Posted by Paula Clemente Vega
Call for Expressions of Interest. The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics ScholarshipEditorial PositionsThe editors of The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship seek expressions of interest to join our editorial team in the following volunteer positions:·  Editorial and Peer Review Workflow C…
5 February 2021
Freie Universität Berlin joins Open Library of Humanties’ Library Partnership Subsidy
Posted by Paula Clemente Vega
We are very pleased to announce that Freie Universität Berlin has joined the Open Library of Humanities’ Library Partnership Subsidy system. Freie Universität Berlin is a leading research university located in Berlin, Germany. The university is one of the 13 German universities being funded through…
3 February 2021
Recording of the second Comics Grid webinar on Noir and Comics
Posted by Paula Clemente Vega
The Comics Grid Webinar Series - Live Chats on Comics Scholarship Music and Noir in Comics: Reading Thompson and Campbell's Jem and the Holograms and Díaz Canales and Guarnido’s Blacksad with Susan Bond and Hailey J. Austin.You can now watch the recording of our second Comics Grid webinar…
26 January 2021
CFP: Binary Modernisms: Re/Appropriations of Modernist Art in the Digital Age / Deadline: 14 March, 2021
Posted by Paula Clemente Vega
Open Library of Humanities Journal Special Collection: Call for ArticlesBinary Modernisms: Re/Appropriations of Modernist Art in the Digital AgeBinary Modernisms addresses the convergence of modernism and digital technologies in their disruption of traditional methods of art creation. Drawing on ex…
26 January 2021
OLH Managing Editor joins BAME academic leadership programme
Posted by Paula Clemente Vega
We are delighted to announce that Dr Rose Harris-Birtill, Managing Editor at the Open Library of Humanities and Honorary Fellow at the University of St Andrews, has been successfully awarded a place on the StellarHE - Strategic Executive Development for Diverse Leaders in Higher Education programme…
18 January 2021
Open Insights: Social Work and the Necessity of Open Access
Posted by Paula Clemente Vega
Social Work and the Necessity of Open AccessAn Open Insights essay by Daniel J. DunleavyDaniel J. Dunleavy (PhD in Social Work) is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Translational Behavioral Science at Florida State University's College of Medicine. In addition to his interests in beh…