17 October 2015
Brief planned OLH downtime
Posted by Martin Paul Eve
This is a service announcement that we plan for an estimated 15-20 minutes downtime across the OLH platform at 10am (GMT +1) tomorrow (Sunday, 18th October 2015). This downtime is to take action to mitigate against our server host’s planned 48 hours downtime and it should drastically reduce the out…
16 October 2015
More on OLH discoverability
Posted by Martin Paul Eve
In a previous post we spoke about ongoing discoverability work. This brief update is to say that this work is now leading to success. Firstly, we have a report that our integration with Serials Solutions is now working and we are listed as a database there: Secondly, we are pleased to say that the…
15 October 2015
Liverpool John Moores University joins OLH LPS model
Posted by Martin Paul Eve
We are extremely pleased to announce that Liverpool John Moores University has joined the Open Library of Humanities’ Library Partnership Subsidy system. A strong teaching and research institution, Liverpool John Moores University was one of the highest climbers nationally in the UK’s 2014 Resear…
14 October 2015
Aberystwyth University joins OLH LPS model
Posted by Martin Paul Eve
We are extremely pleased to announce that Aberystwyth University has joined the Open Library of Humanities’ Library Partnership Subsidy system. Aberystwyth University possesses a long and distinguished record of undertaking cutting edge research that has been recognised as being world leading or …
13 October 2015
Harvard Library joins OLH LPS model
Posted by Martin Paul Eve
We are extremely pleased to announce that Harvard Library has joined the Open Library of Humanities’ Library Partnership Subsidy system. Harvard is among the most prestigious institutional libraries in the world. The Open Library of Humanities is an academic-led, gold open-access publisher with …
12 October 2015
OLH partners with LingOA and Ubiquity Press to provide long-term sustainability for flipped journals
Posted by Martin Paul Eve
We are very pleased to announce that the Open Library of Humanities has partnered with the LingOA initiative and with Ubiquity Press to support the transition of subscription linguistics journals to a pure OA model. The LingOA project is designed to move linguistics journals out of unaffordable su…
9 October 2015
Queen Mary University of London joins OLH LPS model
Posted by Martin Paul Eve
We are extremely pleased to announce that Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) has joined the Open Library of Humanities’ Library Partnership Subsidy system. QMUL is one of the UK’s leading research-focused higher education institutions. With around 17,840 students, 4,000 staff and an annual tu…
8 October 2015
OLH discoverability work
Posted by Martin Paul Eve
In response to a request today, we present here a brief update on the work we’re undertaking to ensure OLH is discoverable. We are first and foremost working to get all our OAI endpoints up and working. This will enable the completion of the Paperity indexing process which in turn will feed into EB…
8 October 2015
De Montfort University joins OLH LPS model
Posted by Martin Paul Eve
We are extremely pleased to announce that De Montfort University has joined the Open Library of Humanities’ Library Partnership Subsidy system. De Montfort University (DMU) is a prominent research and teaching institution in the UK with a long and vibrant history of improving people’s lives throu…
6 October 2015
An interview with OLH author Helen Rogers about 19th-century convict experiences
Posted by Martin Paul Eve
This interview with Helen Rogers 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 Helen Rogers’s article published at the Open Library of Humanities journal: Rogers, H 2015 ‘A Very Fair Sta…
5 October 2015
Dublin City University becomes first Irish institution to join OLH
Posted by Martin Paul Eve
Dublin City University is excited to join the Open Library of Humanities, becoming the first Irish University to do so. Christopher Pressler, DCU’s Director of Library Services said, ‘DCU has a strong history in supporting Open Access, and as Ireland’s University of Enterprise we are very pleased…
2 October 2015
Two jobs building OLH technology
Posted by Martin Paul Eve
We’re very pleased to be able to announce that Birkbeck, University of London is hiring two development staff members to build technology for the Open Library of Humanities. These two posts can be viewed on the Birkbeck website: a Senior Software Developer and a Software Developer/Digital Humanitie…