8 May 2018
University of Hull joins OLH LPS model
Posted by James Smith
We are extremely pleased to announce that the University of Hull has joined the Open Library of Humanities' Library Partnership Subsidy system. The University of Hull was founded in 1927 and is England’s 14th-oldest university. The University has a proud heritage of academic excellence, and a histo…
3 May 2018
Queen’s University Belfast joins OLH LPS model
Posted by James Smith
We are extremely pleased to announce that Queen’s University Belfast has joined the Open Library of Humanities' Library Partnership Subsidy system. Queen's University Belfast is ranked in the top one percent of universities in the world. Founded in 1845 as Queen's College Belfast, it became an inde…
30 April 2018
Open Insights: An Interview with Jane Winters
Posted by James Smith
Open Access and the Archived Web An Open Insights interview with Jane WintersJane Winters is Professor of Digital Humanities at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. She has led or co-directed a range of digital projects, including most recently Big UK Domain Data for the Arts …
26 April 2018
Universitäts-und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt joins OLH LPS model
Posted by James Smith
We are extremely pleased to announce that the Universitäts-und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt has joined the Open Library of Humanities' Library Partnership Subsidy system.  The ULB Darmstadt is the Central University Library of the Technische Universität Darmstadt and serves research, teaching an…
23 April 2018
MacEwan University joins OLH LPS model
Posted by Martin Paul Eve
We are extremely pleased to announce that MacEwan University has joined the Open Library of Humanities' Library Partnership Subsidy system. Founded in 1971, MacEwan University inspires its students with a powerful combination of academic excellence and personal learning experiences. Offering m…
20 April 2018
Université de Lorraine becomes first French institution to join OLH LPS model
Posted by Martin Paul Eve
We are extremely pleased to announce that the Université de Lorraine has become the first French university to join the Open Library of Humanities' Library Partnership Subsidy system.  The Université de Lorraine is a pioneering university in the collaboration between arts, technology and indus…
16 April 2018
Open Insights: An Interview with Janneke Adema and Sam Moore
Posted by James Smith
The Radical Open Access Collective: Community, Resilience, CollaborationAn Open Insights interview with Janneke Adema and Sam MooreJanneke Adema and Sam Moore are the authors of a March 2018 UKSG Insights essay entitled Collectivity and collaboration: imagining new forms of com…
16 April 2018
Bates College joins OLH LPS model
Posted by Martin Paul Eve
We are extremely pleased to announce that Bates College has joined the Open Library of Humanities' Library Partnership Subsidy system. Since 1855, Bates College has been dedicated to the emancipating potential of the liberal arts. Bates educates the whole person through creative and rigorous schola…
3 April 2018
Open Insights: The Open Access Companion to the Canterbury Tales
Posted by James Smith
Heading for the Open Rogue: The Open Access Companion to the Canterbury TalesAn Open Insights interview with Alex MuellerImage: William Blake's engraving of Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrims.I suspect that scholars and librarians feel roughly the same way about academic publishers. They find it incr…
19 March 2018
Open Insights: An Interview with Ernesto Priego
Posted by James Smith
The Comics Grid: Open access challenges and opportunitiesAn Open Insights interview with Ernesto PriegoDr Ernesto Priego is a lecturer at City, University of London and the Editor-in-Chief and co-founder of The Comics Grid Journal of Comics Scholarship, a prize-winning op…
17 March 2018
University of Huddersfield Press Becomes First to Use Hosted Janeway Service for Journals
Posted by Martin Paul Eve
The Open Library of Humanities, Birkbeck’s Centre for Technology and Publishing, and the University of Huddersfield Press have entered into an agreement to migrate the Press’s journals to the Janeway platform.Janeway is a modern, open-source academic publishing platform written in Python using th…
9 March 2018
Introducing EmpowOA at OLH
Posted by James Smith
Humanities publishing can be a harsh and unforgiving place for open access.We understand. In 2018, the Open Library of Humanities will pool its knowledge and resources to empower its membership, its authors and the wider humanities open access community. Now is the time to form the bonds that w…