16 October 2018
Open Insights: An Interview with James Smith
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
Open Access and Open Data: Perspectives from an Early Career Researcher and OA AdvocateAn Open Insights interview with James SmithDr James L. Smith is an author, editor and former marketing officer for the Open Library of Humanities. He recently started a Postdoctoral Fellowship in the department o…
2 October 2018
University Library Siegen joins OLH LPS model
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
We are extremely pleased to announce that the University Library Siegen has joined the Open Library of Humanities' Library Partnership Subsidy system. The University of Siegen is a German public research institution that is part of the society of Germany's leading research universities (Deutsche Fo…
21 September 2018
McGill University joins OLH LPS model
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
We are extremely pleased to announce that McGill University has joined the Open Library of Humanities' Library Partnership Subsidy system. McGill University is one of Canada's best-known institutions of higher learning and one of the leading universities in the world. With students coming to McGill…
17 September 2018
Open Insights: OA, Career Progression and the Threat of the ‘Generational Fallacy’
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
An Open Insights essay by Jennifer Edmond Jennifer Edmond is a recovering alt-ac professional recently named to the position of Associate Professor of Digital Humanities at Trinity College Dublin. She is also the President of the Board of Directors of the DARIAH-ERIC, a pan-European research i…
1 September 2018
Open Insights: An Interview with Camilla Rostvik and Aileen Fyfe
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
Exploring Women’s Involvement in Scientific Publication and Editorial Decision-Making at the Royal SocietyAn Open Insights interview with Camilla Rostvik and Aileen FyfeCamilla Rostvik and Aileen Fyfe are the authors of the essay “Ladies, Gentlemen, and Scientific Publication at the Royal Society, …
4 August 2018
Open Insights: What’s to Be Done? Thoughts on Moving the Open Access Conversation Forward
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
An Open Insights essay by Michael Roy Stephen Buranyi’s piece from last summer “Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science?” (short answer: yes) and Jon Tennant’s “Scholarly publishing is broken. Here’s how to fix it” are timely reminders that the ope…
9 July 2018
Leeds Beckett University joins OLH LPS model
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
We are extremely pleased to announce that Leeds Beckett University has joined the Open Library of Humanities’ Library Partnership Subsidy system. Leeds Beckett University has around 2,900 staff and more than 28,000 students from almost 100 countries around the world; it contributes an estimated £50…
5 July 2018
Join the OLH Team - we're recruiting a Software Engineer!
Posted by OLH Janeway
Working with the Birkbeck Centre for Technology and Publishing the Open Library of Humanities is looking for a new Software Engineer to work on publishing technology software such as our platform, Janeway.The ideal candidate will be a highly productive and motivated individual, proficient in a rang…
30 June 2018
Open Insights: An Interview with Caroline Magennis
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
#Agreement20: Capturing the 20th Anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement in Open AccessAn Open Insights interview with Caroline MagennisDr Caroline Magennis is a Lecturer in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature at the University of Salford and the Chair of &nb…
19 June 2018
Liverpool University Press journal, Francosphères, to flip to full open-access with funding from the Open Library of Humanities
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
We are extremely pleased to announce that our international library partners have voted to accept Francosphères' application to join the Open Library of Humanities. This is part of our partnership with Liverpool University Press, and is the second journal – following Quaker Studies last year– that …
13 June 2018
OLH Editor Ernesto Priego Speaks on Open Access and the Humanities in Ljubljana
Posted by Martin Paul Eve
On 22 May 2018 the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ljubljana and OpenAIRE National Open Access Desk (NOAD) organised a symposium on the theme of Open Access in the Humanities held at the University of Ljubljana. The conference, which explored the issues involved in the development of research …
11 June 2018
Middlebury College joins OLH LPS model
Posted by Martin Paul Eve
We are extremely pleased to announce that Middlebury College has joined the Open Library of Humanities' Library Partnership Subsidy systemThe 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, t…