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Penn State University joins OLH LPS model

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2016-10-10

We are extremely pleased to announce that Penn State University has joined the Open Library of Humanities’ Library Partnership Subsidy system. With over $800 million in annual research expenditures, Penn State ranks among the top 20 U.S. research universities, and is one of only two institutions in the nation accorded land grant, sea grant, sun grant, and space grant status. The Open Library [...]

University of Surrey joins OLH LPS model

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2016-10-07

We are extremely pleased to announce that the University of Surrey has joined the Open Library of Humanities’ Library Partnership Subsidy system. Surrey is a world-class, research-led University, committed to research excellence. 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 [...]

Annotran features on Chronicle of Higher Education’s ProfHacker Site

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2016-10-05

We are very pleased to say that the Annotran translation project, run within Birkbeck’s Centre for Technology and Publishing on behalf of the OLH, has featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education’s ProfHacker blog. On the site, Dr Lee Skallerup Bessette writes that: I would have appreciated having this tool when I was teaching literature in translation where we had access to the book, but [...]

CFP: New Approaches to Medieval Water Studies / Deadline: 31 May, 2017

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2016-09-30

Recent scholarship in water studies has generated several germane streams of new methodological approaches, each relevant to medieval history. This OLH Special Collection will showcase the state of the field for medieval water studies, tease out its salient themes, and demonstrate possible futures for the field. In the last decade, new attention has been paid to the role of water as [...]

Multi-lingual publishing at OLH – launch of the French site

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2016-09-27

We are delighted to announce the launch of the first of our planned multi-lingual sites of the Open Library of Humanities multidisciplinary journal. Visitors to the journal's homepage, https://olh.openlibhums.org/, will now be able to select English or French, including all of the journal's information as well as the submission system. This is a huge moment for the OLH – we've been [...]

CFP: Protest and Resistance in Ukrainian Literature / Deadline: 31 May, 2017

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2016-09-26

The social and political history of Ukraine in the last decades has been heavily influenced, and at times dominated, by acts of protest and resistance. As publicly enacted or cultural evocations of struggle, these acts, such as the Orange revolution and Euromaidan protests taking place in 2004-2005 and 2013-2014 respectively, have spurred pro-Western democratic change. These expressions [...]

Birkbeck Centre for Technology and Publishing unveils open-source translation tool based on Hypothesis

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2016-09-21

The Open Library of Humanities is pleased to reveal the first of its software initiatives, funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to Birkbeck, University of London: Annotran. Developed by Dr Marija Katic and Professor Martin Paul Eve in the Centre for Technology and Publishing at Birkbeck, University of London, the tool is based on the Hypothesis annotation framework and allows [...]

Architectural Histories Abandons APCs Through OLH Partnership

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2016-09-20

We are extremely pleased to announce that the journal Architectural Histories, published by Ubiquity Press, is to remove its Article Processing Charges (APCs) through a partnership with the Open Library of Humanities. Architectural Histories is the journal of the European Architectural History Network, which was established in 2005 to support research and education by providing a public [...]

CFP: Postcolonial Perspectives in Game Studies / Abstract Deadline: 15 December, 2016

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2016-09-19

Since the first key publications in the nineties on videogames research in Humanities and Social Sciences contexts, the field of Game Studies has become an established platform for discussion and debate on how games contribute to our cultural, social and aesthetic experiences. Game Studies has, consequently, taken up debates on diversity and inclusion, time and again. Following the [...]

The University of Texas at Austin joins OLH LPS model

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2016-09-16

We are extremely pleased to announce that the University of Texas at Austin has joined the Open Library of Humanities' Library Partnership Subsidy system. Ranked among the biggest and best research universities in the country, UT Austin is home to more than 51,000 students and 3,000 teaching faculty. The university is one of the top 20 public universities according to U.S. News & World [...]

DS/CN and Digital Medievalist to Join OLH Platform

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2016-09-14

We are extremely pleased to announce that Digital Studies / Le champ numérique (DS/CN) and Digital Medievalist are to join the Open Library of Humanities platform. DS/CN is published by the Société canadienne des humanités numériques (CSDH/SCHN), a partner in the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations (ADHO) that has been running for 24 years, with the journal publishing peer-reviewed [...]

The Open Library of Humanities: Year One

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2016-09-12

September 2016 marks the first year anniversary of the launch of the Open Library of Humanities. To celebrate, we thought we'd share some statistics about the platform and its growth! Journals and Articles In the first year, the OLH has hosted 909 articles across the journals that we either directly publish or that we support. This figure includes back-content migration of a [...]

Society Journal, Marvell Studies, to Join OLH Platform

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2016-09-09

We are extremely pleased to announce that the journal Marvell Studies is to join the Open Library of Humanities platform. Marvell Studies is the official journal of the Andrew Marvell Society, which brings together scholars from around the world working in the Early Modern period. The society was founded in 2001 and has been publishing a Newsletter since 2009, which has responded to the [...]

OLH and University of Wales Press partner to convert journal to full open access

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2016-09-07

We are extremely pleased to announce that the Open Library of Humanities has entered into a partnership with the University of Wales Press to convert the International Journal of Welsh Writing in English into a full, gold open-access journal. Independent peer-review of this journal called it “an absolutely essential resource for any scholar, student or general reader with an interest in [...]

C21 Literature CFP: The Literature of the Anthropocene / Deadline: 31 October, 2017

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2016-09-06

One of our OLH journals, C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings, has recently publicised a Call for Articles for a special issue on "The Literature of the Anthropocene." Below is the full information for the CFP, which was originally posted here. The concept of the Anthropocene, deemed by Bruno Latour “the best alternative we have to usher us out of the notion of [...]