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We are thrilled to announce the launch of Janeway’s newly redesigned website and brand identity, which you can explore here. Over the past two years, we’ve been rethinking how Janeway, our open-source publishing platform, presents itself online. We recognised that our digital presence needed to evo…

In January 2026, the Open Library of Humanities (OLH) published the first iteration of our Artificial Intelligence (AI) Policy in response to the growing need for guidance on the use of generative AI in scholarly publishing. The journey to producing a workable policy for all our journals has been m…

Reimagining Robin Hood: Scholarly Publishing as a Site of Struggle  Wanted.  Not a person, but a principle: that knowledge should be free. Download JPG Download PDF A4 Download PDF A3 With this poster, the Open Library of Humanities reimagines Robin Hood for scholarly communications, not as a nost…

THE LONG READ Infrastructure Landlords: The Rentier Capitalism of Commercial Academic Publishers This piece has been written by a friend of the OLH who wishes to remain anonymous. Figure. Pyramid of the Capitalist System (1911), attributed to Nedeljkovich, Brashich, and Kuharich. Originally publis…

Today we celebrate the 10th anniversary of Glossa, one of our diamond open access linguistics journals. The history of Glossa is closely intertwined with that of the Open Library of Humanities. It was one of our first journal flips in 2015, when OLH launched with just seven journals and 100 support…

Date: Wednesday 01 April 2026 Time: 5-6:30 pm BST. Check your timezone here Registration: Free. Please register here   Figure:  Fragment from Farinella, M., (2018) “Of Microscopes and Metaphors: Visual Analogy as a Scientific Tool”, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 8, 18. doi: https:…

Joe Muller, Senior Publishing Technologies Developer at the Open Library of Humanities, tells us in this case study how and why the Janeway platform uses ROR, ensuring unambiguous author affiliations by retrieving ROR IDs from ORCID profiles as well as allowing authors to find their institution wit…

The Open Library of Humanities is pleased to welcome a new supporting institution: The University of Salzburg.   The University of Salzburg is a comprehensive public research university located in the UNESCO World Heritage city of Salzburg, Austria. Founded in 1622 and re-established in 1962, the u…

We are pleased to announce that Regeneration; Environment, Art, Culture, published by the Open Library of Humanities, has won the 2025 Best New Journal Award from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ).  Regeneration: Environment, Art, Culture is an open-access, double anonymous peer-rev…

The Open Library of Humanities is pleased to welcome a new supporting institution: Hollins University. Hollins University offers rigorous liberal arts education for undergraduate students from its 475-acre campus in Virginia’s beautiful Roanoke Valley. Founded in 1842, Hollins was one of the earlie…

The Open Library of Humanities (OLH) is delighted to announce that it has published its Artificial Intelligence (AI) Policy following more than a year-long consultation process with our journals' editorial teams. You can read the policy here. The policy details the OLH's stance that responsible and…

The Open Library of Humanities is seeking a PhD student to assist with editorial, marketing and technical duties as part of our small, hardworking team. The placement is only available to CHASE-funded researchers at CHASE institutions. The position is fully set up for remote working, and applicatio…