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 …
9 February 2015
Corban University joins OLH library consortium
Posted by Martin Paul Eve
We're extremely pleased to announce that Corban University has joined the Library Partnership Subsidy system that supports the Open Library of Humanities. Corban is located in Salem, Oregon and fuses a strong Christian ethos with academic rigour across all disciplines: from educat…
6 February 2015
OLH library consortium welcomes Tufts
Posted by Martin Paul Eve
We're extremely pleased to announce that Tufts University has joined the Library Partnership Subsidy system that financially supports the Open Library of Humanities. Tufts is a leader in American higher education, distinctive for its success as a moderately sized university that excels at…
5 February 2015
CFP: Religious Subcultures in Unexpected Places / Deadline: May 1st 2015 / OLH
Posted by Martin Paul Eve
The first in a series of calls for papers for OLH special collections.
In April 2013, the Society for the Anthropology of Religion held its biennial meeting in Pasadena, California, USA. The theme was “Religious Syncretism and Synergies.” This gathering of schol…
3 February 2015
College and Research Library News interview with OLH director and John Willinsky
Posted by Martin Paul Eve
Open access in humanities and social sciences
Visions for the future of publishing
For this month’s column, the editors are gearing up for the Library Publishing Forum, which will be held March 29–30, 2015, at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon. We have interviewed the forum’s keynote sp…
