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For the second time this year, research published by the Open Library of Humanities has made headline news appearance, this time featuring on the home page of the Guardian. The article in question, “You have to keep track of your changes”: The Version Variants and Publishing History of David Mit…

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. …

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 Uni…

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 P…

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 …

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 Excell…

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 resea…

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, publi…

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 liais…

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,…

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…

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 t…