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UCL joins OLH LPS model

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2015-09-18

We are extremely pleased to announce that University College London (UCL) has joined the Open Library of Humanities’ Library Partnership Subsidy system. UCL is one of the world’s leading universities and the top-rated university in the UK for “research strength” in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework. UCL is also home to the UK’s first purely open-access university press, which launched [...]

Open Library of Humanities obtains formal charitable status

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2015-09-04

We are pleased to announce that the Open Library of Humanities (a UK company limited by guarantee with no shareholders) is now formally registered as a UK charity (registered charity number 1163413). While the motivation for the platform has always been to create a publisher with a not-for-profit mission devoted solely to the advancement of education through open-access publishing, formal [...]

University of North Texas joins OLH LPS model

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2015-08-27

The University of North Texas Libraries has become one of the newest members of the Open Library of Humanities Library Partnership Subsidy system. A program designed to make scholarly knowledge more accessible, the partnership eliminates costly article processing charges many researchers must pay before publishing in open-access journals. “We’re pleased to offer an additional avenue for [...]

ASIANetwork Exchange: A Journal of Asian Studies for the Liberal Arts to join OLH

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2015-08-26

The Open Library of the Humanities is pleased to announce that the ASIANetwork Exchange: A Journal of Asian Studies for the Liberal Arts has joined its ranks for launch! The journal is the publication of ASIANetwork, a consortium of approximately 160 U.S.-based Liberal Arts Colleges with Asian Studies programs. The journal is a double-blind peer reviewed journal that publishes research and [...]

SOAS joins OLH LPS model

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2015-08-24

We are extremely pleased to announce that SOAS University of London has joined the Open Library of Humanities’ Library Partnership Subsidy system. SOAS is the only Higher Education institution in Europe specialising in the study of Asia, Africa and the Near and Middle East. The Open Library of Humanities is an academic-led, gold open-access publisher with no author-facing charges. With [...]

Ghent University joins OLH LPS

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2015-08-20

We are extremely pleased to announce that Ghent University has joined the Open Library of Humanities’ Library Partnership Subsidy system. Ghent University is one of the major Belgian universities . Ghent University distinguishes itself as a socially committed and pluralistic university, embracing fundamental independent research as a principle. Eleven faculties at the university cover a wide [...]

Royal Holloway, University of London joins OLH LPS model

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2015-08-13

We are extremely pleased to announce that Royal Holloway, University of London has joined the Open Library of Humanities’ Library Partnership Subsidy system. Royal Holloway is one of the UK’s leading research-intensive universities, with 19 academic departments spanning the arts and humanities, sciences, social sciences, management and economics. The Open Library of Humanities is an [...]

University of Manchester joins OLH LPS model

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2015-08-05

We are extremely pleased to announce that the University of Manchester has joined the Open Library of Humanities’ Library Partnership Subsidy system. Part of the prestigious Russell Group of universities, The University of Manchester is the largest single-site university in the UK, with the biggest student community. The Open Library of Humanities is an academic-led, gold open-access publisher [...]

University of Huddersfield joins OLH LPS funding model

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2015-08-03

We are extremely pleased to announce that the University of Huddersfield has joined the Open Library of Humanities’ Library Partnership Subsidy system. The University of Huddersfield’s researchers are dedicated to solving the problems and answering the questions posed by industry, science and society as a whole. Huddersfield has also been extremely active in the open-access sphere with its own [...]

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 [...]

Multilingual Publishing Panel

Posted by Martin Paul Eve on 2015-07-14

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]