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We are very pleased to announce that we have recently welcomed the KB National Library of the Netherlands as a new Silver super-supporter. The National Library of the Netherlands (in Dutch: KB nationale bibliotheek) is based in The Hague and was founded in 1798. Its mission is to contribute to a sm…

The Open Library of Humanities is pleased to announce a new supporting institution, the University of Klagenfurt (AAU). AAU is the largest academic institution in Carinthia, Austria, and a hub for the whole of the Alps-Adriatic region in terms of knowledge acquisition, exchange and transfer. Establ…

The Open Library of Humanities is pleased to announce a new supporting institution, the University of Greifswald. Founded in 1456 in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany, the University of Greifswald is one of Europe’s oldest and the fourth oldest in present-day Germany. With over 10,000 students…

Promoting Post45 Journal with an OLH Grant The OLH Open Access Award 2023 awardee’s report: Post45 Journal An Open Insights report by Post45 Journal co-editors Annie McClanahan, Associate Professor of English at UC Irvine, and Arthur Z. Wang, Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Penns…

The Open Library of Humanities (OLH) is pleased to publish its 2023-2024 annual report. This covers the financial year from August 2023 to July 2024, a transitional period in our evolution as an academic-led diamond open access publisher.  In addition to our financial overview, the report outlines …

The Open Library of Humanities is pleased to announce a new supporting institution, DePauw University. Founded in 1837, DePauw University is a private liberal arts college in Greencastle, Indiana, United States. Nationally recognized, DePauw provides a set of exceptional college experiences marked …

Earlier this year, the Open Library of Humanities announced the OLH Open Access Award 2024, a fund dedicated to promoting the benefits and impact of open access to humanities scholars and disciplines and to knowledge worldwide. This year, our OLH Open Access awards have been awarded to three organi…

A message from our Executive Director, Dr Caroline Edwards Like many academic organisations, the OLH team has become increasingly alarmed at Elon Musk’s behaviour following his acquisition of Twitter almost two years ago. Since Musk fired 80% of Twitter’s staff in early 2023, we have noticed a shar…

We are very pleased to announce that we have recently welcomed our first UK Platinum super-supporter to our library board, the University of Leeds. Founded in 1904, The University of Leeds is a public research university in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. The university is among the Russell Group o…

We are thrilled to announce that Glossa, one of our published journals, has reached an incredible milestone: the publication of its 1000th article! This achievement reflects the hard work, dedication, and commitment of the entire Glossa community — editors, reviewers, authors, and readers. Glossa j…

The Open Library of Humanities is pleased to announce a new member, Birmingham City University. With its history dating back to the 1880s, Birmingham City University is situated within the heart of England’s second city. It gained university status in 1992, the same year work commenced on a new bu…

The Open Library of Humanities is very pleased to announce the launch of a new journal, Theory and Social Inquiry, on our in-house publishing platform Janeway. Theory and Social Inquiry is the successor of Theory and Society, a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Springer Nature that covers…