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Today, the 22nd May 2018, the OLH’s Martin Paul Eve, Professor of Literature, Technology and Publishing at Birkbeck, University of London, gave evidence to the Wellcome Trust's review on its open access policy.Eve said: "it is heartening that the Wellcome Trust, a key promoter of open access, has o…

Humanities Open Access: A Future for Researchers and LibrariansAn Open Insights interview with Demmy VerbekeDemmy Verbeke was trained as a Neo-Latinist, receiving his PhD in Classics from KU Leuven in 2005, and was a post-doctoral research fellow at Harvard University (2006-7), the University of …

We are extremely pleased to announce that the University of Washington has joined the Open Library of Humanities' Library Partnership Subsidy system. The University of Washington is one of the world’s preeminent public universities. The UW’s impact on individuals, their region and the world is prof…

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…

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…

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 …

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…