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Brown University joins OLH LPS model

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2017-06-26

We are extremely pleased to announce that Brown University Library has joined the Open Library of Humanities' Library Partnership Subsidy system. Located in historic Providence, Rhode Island and founded in 1764, Brown University is the seventh-oldest college in the United States. Brown is an independent, coeducational Ivy League institution comprising undergraduate and graduate programs, plus the [...]

University of the Sunshine Coast joins OLH LPS model

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2017-06-19

We are extremely pleased to announce that the University of the Sunshine Coast has joined the Open Library of Humanities’ Library Partnership Subsidy system. In 2015 the Australian Research Council ranked USC well above or above world standard in nine key research areas and equal to world standard in five others. The Open Library of Humanities is an academic-led, gold open-access publisher [...]

University of St Gallen joins OLH LPS model

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2017-06-12

We are extremely pleased to announce that the University of St Gallen has joined the Open Library of Humanities’ Library Partnership Subsidy system. The University of St Gallen has been part of St.Gallen for more than one hundred years, originally as a “business academy” and today as a university. It gives its students the opportunity to profit from an ideal mix of research and practical [...]

Oklahoma State University joins OLH LPS model

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2017-05-30

We are extremely pleased to announce that Oklahoma State University has joined the Open Library of Humanities’ Library Partnership Subsidy system. Research is one of three essential components of Oklahoma State University’s land-grant mission and brings richness and depth to its teaching and outreach missions. OSU’s faculty and staff are engaged in research across the full spectrum of human [...]

Anglia Ruskin University joins OLH LPS model

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2017-05-22

We are extremely pleased to announce that Anglia Ruskin University has joined the Open Library of Humanities’ Library Partnership Subsidy system. Anglia Ruskin University is one of the largest universities in the East of England, with 35,000 students from 177 countries. We have three, geographically spread libraries: two larger, multidisciplinary libraries at Cambridge and Chelmsford and one [...]

Scholarly Association Journal to Launch on OLH

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2017-05-15

We are delighted to announce the launch of a new journal for Film, Television & Screen Studies in 2017. Open Screens: Journal of the British Association of Film, Television & Screen Studies has successfully applied to join the OLH platform and will launch in Summer 2017. Open Screens is a new society journal for the British Association of Film, Television & Screen Studies [...]

Manchester Metropolitan University joins OLH LPS model

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2017-05-15

We are extremely pleased to announce that Manchester Metropolitan University has joined the Open Library of Humanities' Library Partnership Subsidy system. Manchester Metropolitan University delivers outstanding research that addresses the biggest challenges facing contemporary society. Its researchers are finding ways to improve the quality of life for an ageing population, are [...]

OLH flips innovative archaeology conference proceedings to open access journal

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2017-05-10

We are really pleased to announce that in Summer 2017 the OLH will be publishing the Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal (TRAJ). Formerly an annual conference proceedings volume published primarily by Oxbow Books (a leading publisher within the fields of archaeology and ancient history), the journal developed out of the Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference (TRAC), which has been [...]

Body, Space & Technology to join OLH platform

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2017-05-01

We’re delighted to announce that Body, Space & Technology (BST), a leading journal of contemporary artistic practice and research, will be joining the OLH platform in Summer 2017. Since it launched in 2000, BST has built a strong reputation for scholarly quality and innovation, as well as fostering a global academic community around its published content. BST publishes research into [...]

OLH to publish multi-lingual journal on Foucauldian research

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2017-04-24

We’re really pleased to announce that the OLH will be publishing the interdisciplinary journal, Le foucaldien, from Summer 2017. Based on the well-established foucaultblog, founded by humanities scholars at the University of Zurich in 2013, Le foucaldien is a peer-reviewed open access journal dedicated to research along the lines of the philosopher and historian Michel Foucault [...]

OLH and Liverpool University Press join to flip subscription journal open access

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2017-04-20

We are extremely pleased to announce that the Open Library of Humanities has entered into a partnership with Liverpool University Press to convert the journal Quaker Studies from a subscription journal into a full, gold open-access journal. Quaker Studies is a highly respected inter- and multi-disciplinary peer-reviewed journal that has, according to one reviewer of the journal’s OLH [...]

CFP: Utopia, Now! / Abstract Deadline: 2 May, 2017

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2017-04-10

Utopia, Now! Chelsea College of Arts, 29th-31st August 2017 The sixth and final symposium of the Imaginaries of the Future Leverhulme International Research Network “We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now.” – Martin Luther King “We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable – but then, so did the [...]

CFP: Waste: A Symposium, Papers on Disposability, Decay, and Depletion / Abstract Deadline: 1 May 2017

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2017-04-10

CFP: Waste: A Symposium, Papers on Disposability, Decay, and Depletion Birkbeck, University of London, 21 September 2017 A one-day event to be held at Birkbeck College, University of London, on 21 September 2017. Confirmed keynote speakers: Professor Esther Leslie (Birkbeck, University of London) Dr Leo Mellor (University of Cambridge) Dr Rachele Dini (UCL / [...]

UWE Bristol joins OLH LPS model

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2017-04-06

We are extremely pleased to announce that UWE Bristol has joined the Open Library of Humanities’ Library Partnership Subsidy system. UWE Bristol is a University Alliance university with a common mission to make the difference to our cities and regions. UWE Bristol uses its experience of providing high quality teaching and research with real world impact to shape higher education and research [...]

The Shakespeare Poster

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2017-03-30

Just in time for the Renaissance Society of America's 2017 conference in Chicago (where our Editorial Director Dr Caroline Edwards will be discussing open access publishing on a digital humanities panel), we're delighted to be able to launch the next poster in our OLH Poster Series – The Shakespeare Poster. Designed by acclaimed publishing graphic designer, Becky Chilcott, the series [...]