News

Brief planned OLH downtime

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2015-10-17

This is a service announcement that we plan for an estimated 15-20 minutes downtime across the OLH platform at 10am (GMT +1) tomorrow (Sunday, 18th October 2015). This downtime is to take action to mitigate against our server host’s planned 48 hours downtime and it should drastically reduce the outage. Status information is available at status.openlibhums.org Update, 10.30am: the downtime is now [...]

More on OLH discoverability

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2015-10-16

In a previous post we spoke about ongoing discoverability work. This brief update is to say that this work is now leading to success. Firstly, we have a report that our integration with Serials Solutions is now working and we are listed as a database there: Secondly, we are pleased to say that the OLH is catalogued under OCLC Worlcat record #911968193. Many thanks to the University of Florida, [...]

Liverpool John Moores University joins OLH LPS model

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2015-10-15

We are extremely pleased to announce that Liverpool John Moores University has joined the Open Library of Humanities’ Library Partnership Subsidy system. A strong teaching and research institution, Liverpool John Moores University was one of the highest climbers nationally in the UK’s 2014 Research Excellence Framework, which assesses the quality of research. The Open Library of Humanities is an [...]

Aberystwyth University joins OLH LPS model

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2015-10-14

We are extremely pleased to announce that Aberystwyth University has joined the Open Library of Humanities’ Library Partnership Subsidy system. Aberystwyth University possesses a long and distinguished record of undertaking cutting edge research that has been recognised as being world leading or internationally excellent in terms of originality, significance and rigour. The Open Library of [...]

Harvard Library joins OLH LPS model

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2015-10-13

We are extremely pleased to announce that Harvard Library has joined the Open Library of Humanities’ Library Partnership Subsidy system. Harvard is among the most prestigious institutional libraries in the world. The Open Library of Humanities is an academic-led, gold open-access publisher with no author-facing charges. With funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the platform covers its [...]

OLH partners with LingOA and Ubiquity Press to provide long-term sustainability for flipped journals

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2015-10-12

We are very pleased to announce that the Open Library of Humanities has partnered with the LingOA initiative and with Ubiquity Press to support the transition of subscription linguistics journals to a pure OA model. The LingOA project is designed to move linguistics journals out of unaffordable subscription models and into a pure, gold OA environment. Ubiquity Press is the technological platform [...]

Queen Mary University of London joins OLH LPS model

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2015-10-09

We are extremely pleased to announce that Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) has joined the Open Library of Humanities’ Library Partnership Subsidy system. QMUL is one of the UK’s leading research-focused higher education institutions. With around 17,840 students, 4,000 staff and an annual turnover of £300m, it is one of the biggest University of London colleges. The Open Library of [...]

OLH discoverability work

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2015-10-08

In response to a request today, we present here a brief update on the work we’re undertaking to ensure OLH is discoverable. We are first and foremost working to get all our OAI endpoints up and working. This will enable the completion of the Paperity indexing process which in turn will feed into EBSCOhost and will then be pulled down into various types of library cataloguing software. Secondly, [...]

De Montfort University joins OLH LPS model

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2015-10-08

We are extremely pleased to announce that De Montfort University has joined the Open Library of Humanities’ Library Partnership Subsidy system. De Montfort University (DMU) is a prominent research and teaching institution in the UK with a long and vibrant history of improving people’s lives through education. Originally founded as the Leicester School of Art in 1870, the university has evolved [...]

An interview with OLH author Helen Rogers about 19th-century convict experiences

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2015-10-06

This interview with Helen Rogers is part of a series of posts where we ask OLH authors to elaborate on their work and to think more broadly about its general uptake. This interview relates to Helen Rogers’s article published at the Open Library of Humanities journal: Rogers, H 2015 ‘A Very Fair Statement of His Past Life’: Transported Convicts, Former Lives and Previous Offences. Open Library of [...]

Dublin City University becomes first Irish institution to join OLH

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2015-10-05

Dublin City University is excited to join the Open Library of Humanities, becoming the first Irish University to do so. Christopher Pressler, DCU’s Director of Library Services said, ‘DCU has a strong history in supporting Open Access, and as Ireland’s University of Enterprise we are very pleased to add our support to the OLH.’ DCU also holds the Co-Chair, (with University College London) of the [...]

Two jobs building OLH technology

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2015-10-02

We’re very pleased to be able to announce that Birkbeck, University of London is hiring two development staff members to build technology for the Open Library of Humanities. These two posts can be viewed on the Birkbeck website: a Senior Software Developer and a Software Developer/Digital Humanities Specialist. Birkbeck is an equal opportunities employer and encourages applications from all [...]

Pacific University joins OLH LPS model

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2015-10-02

We are extremely pleased to announce that the Pacific University Libraries have joined the Open Library of Humanities’ Library Partnership Subsidy system. Pacific University (Forest Grove, Oregon) offers a unique combination of undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs in the liberal arts and sciences, education, business, optometry, and the health professions. The University traces [...]

University of Salford becomes 100th institution to join OLH LPS model

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2015-10-01

We are extremely pleased to announce that the University of Salford has joined the Open Library of Humanities’ Library Partnership Subsidy system. Salford has an international reputation as a research-informed institution that creates and applies new ideas, turning them into opportunities to benefit individuals and the knowledge economy, via a portfolio of over £20 million across research and [...]

Short unplanned downtime: Thursday 1st October 2015

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2015-10-01

This morning the OLH tech. team detected a short period of downtime on the server lasting approximately 45 minutes. This caused OLH journals to be unavailable. We apologise for this inconvenience and offer the following by way of a transparent report. This unplanned downtime was caused by the first occurrence of an unforeseen event on our new infrastructure. Our web server encountered an error [...]