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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

We are extremely pleased to announce that the Pacific University Libraries have joined the Open Library of Humanities’ Library Partnership Subsidy system. Pacific University (Forest Grove, Oregon) offers a unique combination of undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs in the liberal…

We are extremely pleased to announce that the University of Salford has joined the Open Library of Humanities’ Library Partnership Subsidy system. Salford has an international reputation as a research-informed institution that creates and applies new ideas, turning them into opportunities to bene…

This morning the OLH tech. team detected a short period of downtime on the server lasting approximately 45 minutes. This caused OLH journals to be unavailable. We apologise for this inconvenience and offer the following by way of a transparent report. This unplanned downtime was caused by the first…

This article with Keith Johnston is the first in 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 the first research article published at the Open Library of Humanities journal: Johnston, K M 2015 “3D…

The composition of saints' lives in medieval literature was more than an act of devotion. Alongside allowing their authors to explore and express their faith, the writing of saints' lives provided opportunities to explore subjects such as the foundation myths of religious communities, tra…

We're very please to announce a partnership between Paperity, the open-access aggregator, and the Open Library of Humanities. This is part of our ongoing commitment to solid discoverability principles for open-access articles at the OLH. Paperity is the first multi-disciplinary aggregator of…

It is with great pleasure that we announce the launch of the Open Library of Humanities. Over two years in the planning and execution, the platform starts with seven journals, supported by 99 institutions. Our estimated publication volume for year one is 150 articles across these venues. …