18 November 2021
OLH welcomes the University of Manchester as a gold super-supporter
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
We are very pleased to announce that we have recently welcomed a new gold super-supporter to our library board, the University of Manchester. Part of the prestigious Russell Group of universities, the University of Manchester is a highly respected centre of teaching excellence and innovative resear…
17 November 2021
Recording of the Fourth Comics Grid Webinar on Wrestling Graphic Novels
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
The Comics Grid Webinar Series - Live Chats on Comics Scholarship Wrestling Graphic Novels: A Comics Grid Webinar with Anna Marta Marini and Jessica FontaineYou can now watch the recording of our fourth Comics Grid webinar on Wrestling Graphic Novels organised on October 26th. On this webinar …
11 November 2021
New OLH poster, the Comic Superheroes Poster
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
Our journal flipping poster is now available to download, print and share!Following the success of our previous posters — the Victorian Poster, the Constructivist Poster, the Muybridge Poster and the Shakespearean Poster — we're delighted to launch our newest poster in the series, the Comic Su…
2 November 2021
Janeway partners with Next Generation Library Publishing (NGLP) project
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
We were pleased to announce the launching of the new partnership between Janeway and the Next Generation Library Publishing (NGLP) project last week. As part of this new collaboration Janeway will be joining the California Digital Library and Longleaf to pilot three different service models for the…
26 October 2021
Join the Janeway team – We are recruiting a Senior Publishing Technology Developer
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
The Birkbeck Centre for Technology and Publishing is seeking an enthusiastic individual to join the Janeway publishing platform software engineering team in this exciting remote working opportunity. Joining a team of three developers, the post-holder’s main role will be to help deliver publish…
19 October 2021
The Open Library of Humanities welcomes four more higher tier supporters
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
We are pleased to announce that we have recently welcomed four new higher tier super-supporters to our library board: Lancaster University, University of Glasgow, University of Edinburgh and University of Southampton. They have been awarded one of our higher tier supporter badges in recognition of …
16 October 2021
Article in the OLH flagship journal wins the Elizabeth Eisenstein Essay Prize
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
We are delighted to announce that Dr Janet Smith has been awarded the 2021 Elizabeth Eisenstein Essay Prize for her article published in the OLH journal.The article "Crossing the Border of Citizenship: Helen Taylor, the Independent Radical Democrat Candidate for Camberwell North, 1885" explores the…
15 October 2021
The University of Potsdam joins OLH LPS model
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
We are pleased to announce that the University of Potsdam has joined the Open Library of Humanities' Library Partnership Subsidy system. The University of Potsdam is a public university in Potsdam, capital of the state of Brandenburg, Germany. Founded in 1991, the University of Potsdam is a modern …
8 October 2021
The University of Leeds joins OLH LPS Model
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
We are pleased to announce that the University of Leeds has joined the Open Library of Humanities' Library Partnership Subsidy system. The University of Leeds is a public research university in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It was officially founded in 1904, but the university's origins can be tr…
1 October 2021
Open Insights: Open Access Scientific Journals – The Beginning of an Era
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
The OLH Open Access Award 2020 awardee’s report: the National Library of Kosovo Open Access Scientific Journals – The Beginning of an Era An Open Insights essay by Zaide Krapi, National Library of Kosovo Last year, we applied to the Open Library of Humanities Open Access Award 2020, a new…
21 September 2021
Mentorship, open access and violin memes: my time as an intern at the Open Library of Humanities
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
Mentorship, open access and violin memes: my time as an intern at the Open Library of Humanities - a blog post by Francesca TambelliniMy name is Francesca Tambellini, and from 28 June to 9 July 2021, I became the Open Library of Humanities’ first ever intern. I am originally fr…
11 September 2021
OLH reopens applications to flip subscription journals to open access
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
We are delighted to announce that the Open Library of Humanities is now open to expressions of interest from subscription journals in the humanities seeking to move to a gold open access (OA) publishing model without author-facing charges (‘diamond’ OA).The Open Library of Humanities (OLH) is a cha…
