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Johns Hopkins University joins OLH LPS model

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2016-08-11

We are extremely pleased to announce that Johns Hopkins University has joined the Open Library of Humanities’ Library Partnership Subsidy system. Founded over 140 years ago, for the past 36 years Johns Hopkins University has spent more money on research than any other U.S. academic institution. The Open Library of Humanities is an academic-led, gold open-access publisher with no author-facing [...]

University of Birmingham joins OLH LPS model

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2016-08-09

We are extremely pleased to announce that the University of Birmingham has joined the Open Library of Humanities’ Library Partnership Subsidy system. Birmingham has been challenging and developing great minds for more than a century. Characterised by a tradition of innovation, research at the University has broken new ground, pushed forward the boundaries of knowledge and made an impact on [...]

University of Patras, Greece joins OLH LPS model

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2016-07-27

We are extremely pleased to announce that the University of Patras in Greece has joined the Open Library of Humanities’ Library Partnership Subsidy system. The University of Patras was founded in the city of Patras in 1964 and it began functioning in the Academic year 1966-67. The University of Patras is significantly active in research and has a reputation for quality and innovative research. [...]

The gold route to open science

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2016-07-25

OLH Founder and Co-Director, Dr Caroline Edwards, recently spoke about open access and open science in Vienna at the invitation of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. Speaking to Ingrid Ladner for scilog, the magazine published by the FWF, Caroline described how she started working in open access publishing and editing, why open science is crucial for [...]

University of Konstanz joins OLH LPS model

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2016-07-25

We are extremely pleased to announce that the University of Konstanz has joined the Open Library of Humanities’ Library Partnership Subsidy system. From the very beginning of the Excellence Initiative in 2006, the University of Konstanz has been successful in all three funding lines of the Excellence Initiative. The goal of the Excellence Initiative is to promote top-level research and to [...]

University of East Anglia joins OLH LPS model

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2016-07-22

We are extremely pleased to announce that the University of East Anglia has joined the Open Library of Humanities’ Library Partnership Subsidy system. A richly diverse research base underpins all activity at the University of East Anglia. Indeed, UEA is 10th in the UK for the quality of its research and 21st overall amongst mainstream British institutions according to REF 2014. The Open [...]

Transforming Scholarship in the Digital Environment

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2016-07-21

OLH Director Dr Caroline Edwards recently addressed an audience at Senate House, University of London, giving a talk as part of the School of Advanced Study's "Social Scholar" seminar series – a series of talks designed to explore the 'social' aspect of research, including social media, public engagement, and digital humanities. Caroline's talk was titled "Transforming Scholarship in the [...]

Fair Open Access

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2016-07-02

The OLH has been working with the Fair Open Access Nework whose first disciplinary group, the Dutch linguistics network LingOA, flipped its journals to open access in Autumn 2015. As a crucial partner in extending "fair open access" across scholarly disciplines, the OLH has been closely liaising with LingOA and its partners to establish a network of editors and their scholarly journals in [...]

Pynchon Notes journal back-archive now available

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2016-05-27

We are pleased to announce, in association with our journal, Orbit, that the back-archive of Pynchon Notes is now available openly and with the blessing of the former editors through the OLH platform. From the Orbit editorial: Well before the launch of Orbit, there was Pynchon Notes. This journal, which ran for thirty years from 1979 to 2009, was a remarkable resource for scholars around the [...]

University of Amsterdam joins OLH LPS model

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2016-05-24

We are extremely pleased to announce that the University of Amsterdam Library has joined the Open Library of Humanities’ Library Partnership Subsidy system. The University of Amsterdam (UvA) has a rich history dating back to 1632, when its forerunner, the Golden Age school Athenaeum Illustre, was established. Today, with some 30,000 students, 5,000 staff, more than 100 nationalities and a [...]

The Open University joins OLH LPS model

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2016-05-19

We are extremely pleased to announce that the Open University has joined the Open Library of Humanities membership scheme. The Open University promotes educational opportunity and social justice by providing high-quality university education to all who wish to realise their ambitions and fulfil their potential. Through academic research, pedagogic innovation and collaborative partnership the [...]

Bath Spa University joins OLH LPS model

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2016-05-17

We are extremely pleased to announce that Bath Spa University has joined the Open Library of Humanities’ Library Partnership Subsidy system. Bath Spa’s vision is to be a leading university in creativity, culture and enterprise. Through inspirational teaching and research, the university aims to transform students’ lives. Based in a World Heritage city and connected to a network of international [...]

CFP: Utopia at the Border / Deadline: Spring, 2017

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2016-04-28

OLH Guest Editors Dr David M. Bell (Sheffield), Dr Nathaniel Coleman (Newcastle) and Dr Kenneth Hanshew (Regensburg) have recently announced their call for contributions for the fourth symposium of the Leverhulme-funded Imaginaries of the Future network. The symposium, which will be held at the University of Regensburg on 20-22 September 2016, will interrogate [...]

C21 Literature (Re-)Launches as an OLH Journal

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2016-04-19

We're delighted to announce the (re-)launch of C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings (ISSN 2045-5216). C21 Literature is a young journal that has quickly established its strong reputation for examining the genres, forms of publication and the circulation of 21st-century writings. Featuring original scholarship from leading as well as emerging academics in the field of [...]

Guardian Article on OLH Published Scholarship

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2016-04-18

OLH authors Stuart Lawson and Jonathan Gray have published an article in the Guardian about their research into the cost of open access publishing. The piece is based on the recent article, "Opening the Black Box of Scholarly Communication Funding: A Public Data Infrastructure for Financial Flows in Academic Publishing," which was published on the Open Library of Humanities on 11 April [...]