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We are extremely pleased to announce that Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Va. has joined the Open Library of Humanities’ Library Partnership Subsidy system. Virginia Commonwealth University is a Carnegie very high research institution with 15 programs rated among the top 15 in the c…

We are extremely pleased to announce that the University of Lincoln has joined the Open Library of Humanities’ Library Partnership Subsidy system. The University of Lincoln is one of the UK’s best modern universities (according to The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2016). The Open …

The recent rise of the interdisciplinary subfield of “Energy Humanities” as a prominent critical endeavour has seen an efflorescence of academic and cultural production from around the world focussing on the crucial topic of energy resources. A major spur for this work is, of course, the …

We are extremely pleased to announce that the University of Reading has joined the Open Library of Humanities’ Library Partnership Subsidy system. The University of Reading was established in 1892, and is now ranked in the top 1% of universities worldwide (QS University World Rankings 2015/16), w…

One of our OLH journals, 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century, celebrates its 10th anniversary with the publication of a bumper issue that examines the possibilities of the nineteenth-century archive in the digital era.  Issue 21, "The Nineteenth-Century Digital Arc…

We are delighted to launch the first in a series of OLH posters. Designed by acclaimed publishing graphic designer, Becky Chilcott, the series celebrates the launch of the Open Library of Humanities. We will be releasing posters throughout 2016 and 2017, each of which is dedicated to a differ…

We are extremely pleased to announce that Riksbankens Jubileumsfond has agreed to support the Open Library of Humanities’ Library Partnership Subsidy system for the next three years. Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) is an independent foundation with the goal of promoting and supporting research in t…

We are extremely pleased to announce that Brunel University has joined the Open Library of Humanities’ Library Partnership Subsidy system. Brunel University London is a world-class university based in Uxbridge, West London, and was established in 1966. Its mission has always been to combine acade…

The Times Higher Education has published an article today which examines the OLH's aim to "flip" subscription journals to open access via its Library Partnership Subsidy business model. The OLH is supported by an international consortium of research libraries who all contribute to cover t…

We are extremely pleased to announce that the University of Helsinki has joined the Open Library of Humanities’ Library Partnership Subsidy system. The University of Helsinki carries out research of an internationally high standard. Research funding, honours and prizes awarded to its researchers …

This interview with Lauren Collister is part of a series of posts where we ask OLH authors to elaborate on their work and to think more broadly about its general uptake. This interview relates to Lauren’s co-authored article published at the Open Library of Humanities journal: Draucker, F. & Collis…

We are extremely pleased to announce that the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) has agreed to support the Open Library of Humanities’ Library Partnership Subsidy system at a rate equivalent to 15 institutions from 2016-2020. The purpose of the FWF is to support the ongoing development of Austrian scienc…