12 March 2015
Kenyon College signs up to OLH model
Posted by Martin Paul Eve
We're extremely pleased to announce that Kenyon College Library has become a member of the Open Library of Humanities' Library Partnership Subsidy system. Founded in 1824, Kenyon is the oldest private college in Ohio. The small college originally educated all-male clergymen for frontier A…
5 March 2015
Coates Library, Trinity University signs up to OLH model
Posted by Martin Paul Eve
We're extremely pleased to announce that Coates Library, Trinity University has become a member of the Open Library of Humanities' Library Partnership Subsidy system. Founded on the vision of a few Texas pioneers who believed in the transformational powers of higher education, today Trini…
4 March 2015
Editorial Workflow Code
Posted by Martin Paul Eve
We're very pleased to announce today the first release of unique code developed for the Open Library of Humanities by Ubiquity Press. The patch for OJS 2.4.3 alters the workflow so that Section Editors make draft decisions that are then overseen by Editors.
Dr. Martin Paul Eve, one of t…
27 February 2015
CFP: American Literature and the Transnational Marketplace / Deadline: 1 August, 2015
Posted by Martin Paul Eve
The last fifteen years have seen substantial changes in the way scholars have engaged with US literature and culture. In particular, the rise of two methodological paradigms, TRANSNATIONALISM and PRINT CULTURE STUDIES, have paved the way for exciting new approaches to key questions that h…
26 February 2015
Dickinson College joins OLH LPS network
Posted by Martin Paul Eve
We're extremely pleased to announce that Dickinson College has become a member of the Open Library of Humanities' Library Partnership Subsidy system. Chartered in 1783 (the first college chartered in the newly recognized United States), Dickinson is a highly selective, private liberal-art…
24 February 2015
Baylor University joins OLH library consortium
Posted by Martin Paul Eve
We're extremely pleased to announce that Baylor University has joined the Open Library of Humanities' Library Partnership Subsidy system. Baylor University, a private Christian university and a nationally ranked research institution, provides a vibrant campus community for more than 16,00…
23 February 2015
CFP: Multifocal and Collaborative Approaches to South Asian History / Deadline: 31 August, 2015
Posted by Martin Paul Eve
“Big picture” history is vulnerable to the distortion of the wide-angle lens and the grandiosity of the panorama. Microhistory has become the norm on account of offering fine-grained fidelity to “lived experience,” yet it can suffer from myopia and make a fetish of uniqueness, or overreac…
20 February 2015
Bethel University joins OLH library partnership model
Posted by Martin Paul Eve
We're extremely pleased to announce that Bethel University has joined the Open Library of Humanities' Library Partnership Subsidy system. Bethel University is a top-ranked, evangelical Christian university based in St. Paul, Minnesota.
The Open Library of Humanities is a gold open-acces…
16 February 2015
KU Leuven becomes first Belgian institution to sign up to OLH
Posted by Martin Paul Eve
We're delighted to be able to announce that the prestigious KU Leuven in Belgium has signed up to financially support the Open Library of Humanities. Visionary director of the Artes Library, Dr. Demmy Verbeke, has been a long-standing supporter of open access publishing and has receiv…
13 February 2015
CFP: Healing Gods, Heroes and Rituals in the Graeco-Roman World / Deadline: 25 May, 2015
Posted by Martin Paul Eve
The connection between belief and healing has featured in almost every human civilization. From its central presence in the narratives of the Abrahamic religions, through to studies of the placebo effect, societies have long been fascinated by the capacity of faith to heal, wheth…
12 February 2015
Washington University in St Louis joins OLH library consortium
Posted by Martin Paul Eve
We're extremely pleased to announce that Washington University in St. Louis has joined the Library Partnership Subsidy system that underwrites the Open Library of Humanities. Founded in 1853, Washington University’s mission is to discover and disseminate knowledge, and protect the freedom…
10 February 2015
CFP: Teaching and Learning in Antiquity / Deadline: May 1st 2015 / OLH
Posted by Martin Paul Eve
As the chorus of Aeschylus' Agamemnon reminds us through the maxim pathei mathos (“through suffering comes learning”), ancient notions of teaching and learning extend well beyond the walls of the classroom. Despite Aeschylus' concise formulation, the complex processes underlying …
