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Earlier this year, the Open Library of Humanities (OLH) launched the fourth OLH Open Access Award 2025, an initiative dedicated to advancing open access in the humanities and to knowledge worldwide. We are pleased to announce that this year’s awards have been granted to three outstanding individual…

A blog post by Emily Gresham Beamer, CHASE Doctoral Training Partnership Intern. I began my editorial placement with the OLH hoping to develop a specific editorial skillset, and chose the Open Library of Humanities for its commitment to open access publishing. I knew a brilliant and busy tech team …

In this interview, we speak with Naomi Morris, Editorial Officer at the Open Library of Humanities, about her creative-critical PhD, professional journey, and the rewarding challenges of working in open-access publishing. Can you tell us a bit about your academic and professional background? What i…

We’re thrilled to announce that the OLH is partnering with award-winning poetry publisher the87press to relaunch its flagship poetry journal The Hythe Review.  Established in 2018, the87press is an Asian, LGBTQIA+, and neurodiverse led literary arts organisation based in South London. The press pub…

Capacity-Building Workshops and Advocacy for Diamond Open Access in India The OLH Open Access Award 2024 Awardee Report, authored by Priya, Library Assistant, Parsar Bharti, and Research Scholar, Central University of Himachal Pradesh. The global Open Access movement began with key initiatives such…

Dear Colleagues, We are very excited to announce the launching of six inaugural papers on the new, peer reviewed, community owned, and fully open access journal Syntactic Theory and Research (STAR) published by the Open Library of Humanities (OLH). As you know, OLH is dedicated to publishing open a…

We are thrilled to announce that our Executive Director, Dr Caroline Edwards, has successfully applied for conferment of her academic title at Birkbeck, University of London. From 1st October 2025, Caroline’s new title will be Professor of Contemporary Literature & Culture. This conferment reco…

Congratulations to our very own Dr Paula Clemente Vega, who has been promoted to OLH Community Outreach Manager! Paula started working at OLH in 2018 and has built a successful career with us focussing on library outreach and advocacy. Many colleagues working in diamond open access publishing will …

We're thrilled to announce the launch issue of Theory and Social Inquiry has been published at the Open Library of Humanities.  As we reported in May 2024, Theory and Social Inquiry is the successor of Theory and Society, a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Springer Nature that covers the…

OLH Executive Director Dr Caroline Edwards was recently invited to attend an event organised by the N8 Research Partnership, the collective body for eight northern research intensive universities. Held at the University of York on 12 June 2025, this event celebrated the launch of a landmark stateme…

The Open Library of Humanities is pleased to welcome a new supporting institution: the Università della Svizzera italiana. Established in 1996, Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) is one of the 12 certified public universities in Switzerland and a member of swissuniversities. With four campuse…

The Open Library of Humanities is pleased to welcome a new supporting institution: the Université catholique de Louvain. UCLouvain is Belgium's largest French-speaking university. Originally established in 1425, it is also one of the oldest Catholic universities in Europe. With campuses spread acro…