4 May 2020
Disability and Access to Research: Open for Whom?
Posted by Paula Clemente Vega
Disability and Access to Research: Open for Whom?The current conditions of life under pandemic lockdown have spurred calls for broader access to the scholarly literature as the daily experiences of many disabled people are, quite literally, brought home to a broader portion of the research communit…
28 April 2020
Open Insights: An Interview with Johan Rooryck, Open Access Champion for cOAlition S
Posted by Paula Clemente Vega
An Open Insights interview with Johan Rooryck, Open Access Champion for cOAlition SJohan Rooryck is Open Access Champion for cOAlition S. He is Professor of French Linguistics at Leiden University (The Netherlands). He has over 20 years’ experience as an editor, first as the Executive Editor of Lin…
27 April 2020
On Consortial Funding Models for Open Access in 2020 and Beyond
Posted by Paula Clemente Vega
On Consortial Funding Models for Open Access in 2020 and BeyondWe were pleased, recently, to be able to publish an article on what we have learned from the first half-decade of running the Open Library of Humanities: Eve, Martin, Paula Vega, and Caroline Edwards, ‘Lessons From the Open Library of H…
24 April 2020
Coming soon: New Special Collection in Spanish to Launch in the Open Library of Humanities Journal
Posted by Dr Rose Harris-Birtill
We are extremely pleased to announce that a new Special Collection in Spanish, “Colonialities in Dispute: Discourses on Colonialism and Race in Spain” (Colonialidades en Disputa: Discursos sobre Colonialismo y Raza en el Estado Español), will launch this winter in the Open Library of Humanities meg…
16 March 2020
Webinar: Open Access and Medieval Studies: New Approaches to Water and Beyond
Posted by Paula Clemente Vega
Webinar: Open Access and Medieval Studies: New Approaches to Water and BeyondDate: Tuesday 24th March 2020Time: 11:00-12:00am GMT. Check your timezone here Registration: Please register hereTo join the webinar: Please install the Zoom meetings application from the Zoom Download Centre before t…
16 March 2020
Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (ZAS) joins OLH LPS model
Posted by Paula Clemente Vega
We are very pleased to announce that the Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (ZAS) has joined the Open Library of Humanities' Library Partnership Subsidy system. The Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (ZAS) is a non-university research centre located in the federal state of Berlin. The research cent…
5 March 2020
University of Kassel joins OLH LPS model
Posted by Paula Clemente Vega
We are extremely pleased to announce that the University of Kassel has joined the Open Library of Humanities' Library Partnership Subsidy system. The University of Kassel, known in German as Universität Kassel and informally as Uni Kassel, is a public university located in Kassel, Hesse, in central…
27 February 2020
University of Winnipeg joins OLH LPS model
Posted by Paula Clemente Vega
We are very pleased to announce that the University of Winnipeg has joined the Open Library of Humanities' Library Partnership Subsidy system. The University of Winnipeg, also known as UWinnipeg, is a public research university, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The university was established in 1967 …
18 February 2020
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin joins OLH LPS Model
Posted by Paula Clemente Vega
We are extremely pleased to announce that Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin has joined the Open Library of Humanities' Library Partnership Subsidy system. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (abbreviated HU Berlin) is recognised as one of Europe’s pioneering higher education institutions, with a world clas…
13 February 2020
University of Arizona Libraries joins OLH LPS model
Posted by Paula Clemente Vega
We are very pleased to announce that the University of Arizona Libraries has joined the Open Library of Humanities' Library Partnership Subsidy system.The University of Arizona is a leading research institution located in Tucson, Arizona, and one of the nation's top public universities, according t…
10 February 2020
OLH Readership in 2019 and a Reflection on the First Half Decade
Posted by Paula Clemente Vega
Publishing in open access formats implies a series of challenges and opportunities. The opportunity of having research published openly is that it will always improve the speed, efficiency and efficacy of research, its reproducibility and the potential for collaboration. Open access also increases …
28 January 2020
Applications are now open for German journals to join the Open Library of Humanities
Posted by Paula Clemente Vega
Applications are now open for German journals to join the OLHAs part of the OLH-DE project, the Open Library of Humanities seeks applications from subscription-based German journals to expand its portfolio. The OLH-DE project is a collaborative project between the University of Konstanz and the Ope…