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West Texas A&M University joins OLH LPS model

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2015-07-15

We are extremely pleased to announce that West Texas A&M; University has joined the Open Library of Humanities’ Library Partnership Subsidy system. West Texas A&M; University (WTAMU), rich in history that dates to 1910, is the northernmost senior institution of higher learning in Texas. As the only bachelor’s and master’s degree-granting state university within a 100-mile radius, WTAMU’s primary [...]

Multilingual Publishing Panel

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2015-07-13

One of the OLH's committee members Nirmala Menon (Indian Institute of Technology, Indore, India), who sits on our Internationalisation Committee, will be leading a panel on "Digital Publishing and Comparative Literature" at the forthcoming International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA) annual conference to be held in Vienna, July 2016. The panel will discuss the crisis in [...]

University of Kansas joins OLH LPS funding model

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2015-07-13

We are extremely pleased to announce that the University of Kansas (KU) has joined the Open Library of Humanities' Library Partnership Subsidy system. KU has been a leader in the open access movement for over a decade, with its faculty passing an open access policy in 2009, making it the first public university in the United States with such a policy. A member of the prestigious [...]

University of Glasgow joins OLH LPS funding model

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2015-07-09

We are extremely pleased to announce that the University of Glasgow has joined the Open Library of Humanities' Library Partnership Subsidy system. Founded in 1451, the University of Glasgow is the fourth oldest university in the English-speaking world. Today it sits in the top 1% of the world's universities. The Open Library of Humanities is an academic-led, gold open-access publisher with [...]

West Virginia Wesleyan College joins OLH LPS funding model

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2015-07-07

We are extremely pleased to announce that West Virginia Wesleyan College has joined the Open Library of Humanities' Library Partnership Subsidy system. Founded in 1890, West Virginia Wesleyan College is a private residential college that is affiliated with The United Methodist Church. The College has 1,400 students and offers 44 majors and 34 minors along with graduate programs in [...]

Birkbeck awarded $741,000 grant to expand Open Library of Humanities platform

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2015-07-06

Birkbeck, University of London has, been awarded a three-year grant of $741,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to cement and expand a new model for open-access publishing in the humanities disciplines. The Open Library of Humanities platform, directed by Dr. Martin Paul Eve and Dr. Caroline Edwards – both faculty members in Birkbeck’s School of Arts – will allow access to peer-reviewed [...]

University of Florida joins OLH LPS funding model

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2015-06-25

We are extremely pleased to announce that the University of Florida Libraries has joined the Open Library of Humanities' Library Partnership Subsidy system. The University of Florida (UF) is a major, public, comprehensive, land-grant, research university. The state’s oldest and most comprehensive university, UF is among the nation’s most academically diverse public universities. The Open [...]

University of Groningen joins OLH LPS model

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2015-06-18

We are extremely pleased to announce that the University of Groningen has joined the Open Library of Humanities' Library Partnership Subsidy system. Innovative, research-driven and rooted in the number-one knowledge hub of the Northern Netherlands, the University of Groningen is an internationally oriented university with 30,000 students. The Open Library of Humanities is an [...]

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill joins OLH LPS model

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2015-06-17

We are extremely pleased to announce that the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has joined the Open Library of Humanities' Library Partnership Subsidy system. UNC-Chapel Hill, America’s first public university, is a global higher education leader known for innovative teaching, research and public service. A member of the prestigious Association of American Universities, Carolina [...]

University of Kent joins OLH LPS model

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2015-06-15

We are extremely pleased to announce that the University of Kent has joined the Open Library of Humanities' Library Partnership Subsidy system. Kent's status as a leading UK research university was underlined in the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014, which assesses quality of research in UK higher education institutions (HEIs) where it was ranked 17th in the UK for research intensity [...]

East Carolina University joins OLH LPS model

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2015-06-12

We are extremely pleased to announce that East Carolina University has joined the Open Library of Humanities' Library Partnership Subsidy system. ECU has a mission to act as a national model for student success, public service and regional transformation, including improving quality of life through cultural enrichment and the arts. The Open Library of Humanities is an academic-led, gold [...]

Yale University Library joins the Open Library of Humanities’ Library Partnership Subsidy System

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2015-06-03

The Yale University Library has recently joined the Open Library of Humanities' (OLH) Library Partnership Subsidy system. The partnership will offer the Yale community, and scholars worldwide, greater access to high quality, open access publications in the humanities. Dr. Martin Paul Eve, a founder and academic project director of the OLH, stated, “I am delighted that Yale has joined us. [...]

University of St. Andrews joins OLH LPS model

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2015-06-02

We are extremely pleased to announce that the University of St. Andrews has joined the Open Library of Humanities' Library Partnership Subsidy system. St Andrews is Scotland's first university and the third oldest in the English-speaking world, founded in 1413. Over six centuries it has established a reputation as one of Europe's leading and most distinctive centres for teaching and [...]

Uppsala University joins OLH LPS model

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2015-06-01

We are extremely pleased to announce that Uppsala University has joined the Open Library of Humanities' Library Partnership Subsidy system. Uppsala University is the first university in Sweden, founded in 1477, with 45,000 students here. The university pursues world-class research and high quality education for the benefit of society and business on a global level. The Open Library [...]

Duke joins OLH LPS membership plan

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2015-05-29

We're extremely pleased to announce that Duke University has signed up to financially support the Open Library of Humanities. Duke University is an internationally prestigious institution with a mission “to advance the frontiers of knowledge and contribute boldly to the international community of scholarship”. The Open Library of Humanities is a strongly peer-reviewed, open-access, [...]