26 March 2013
OLH Committee Minutes Now Available
Posted by Martin Paul Eve
You can now follow the discussions of each of the OLH's autonomous committees by downloading our ratified records of each debate – available on our Committee Minutes page. We'll be using this page to upload all forthcoming discussions. Each set of minutes is focussed around 2 or 3 …
15 February 2013
OLH featured in Times Higher Education Cover Story
Posted by Martin Paul Eve
This week the debate over "gold" open access in the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) was given further attention in the Times Higher Education's cover story. The article featured interview material with OLH Academic Project Directors Dr Martin Paul Eve and Dr Caroline Edwards, as well as …
12 February 2013
A New Breed of Open Access Publisher
Posted by Martin Paul Eve
We're honoured that in his Guardian article, "PeerJ leads a high-quality, low-cost new breed of open-access publisher" (12th February), Mike Taylor cites the Open Library of Humanities as one of three new Open Access publishers (with PeerJ and eLife) who are radically changing the landscape o…
1 February 2013
OLH article on the Chronicle of Higher Education
Posted by Martin Paul Eve
We're delighted that the OLH has been receiving a widespread level of attention within the first week of the launch of our new website. This week, the Chronicle of Higher Education ran an article on the project, which featured as their top news story of the day. As Jennifer Howard writes: …
1 February 2013
Martin Eve writes for the LSE Impact Blog
Posted by Martin Paul Eve
  This week, the influential LSE Impact Blog published Martin Eve's article on future directions in academic publishing and the OLH. As Martin writes, whilst the "serials crisis" facing academic publishing (in which university library budgets are unable to keep pace with the costs of purch…
25 January 2013
Open Access Monographs Conference
Posted by Martin Paul Eve
OLH Founding Members Dr Martin Paul Eve and Dr Caroline Edwards have been invited as speakers at the first conference to address the issue of open access monographs in the humanities and social sciences (HSS). The conference is being co-organised by JISC Collections and the OAPEN Foundation o…
18 January 2013
Mike Taylor in The Guardian
Posted by Martin Paul Eve
  For those who missed it, Mike Taylor, a member of our Advocacy Forum, has a piece in The Guardian that's been making waves. In it, Mike provocatively writes: Our job is to make knowledge. If we make it, then brick it up behind a wall, we're wasting our time and our funders' money – …
18 January 2013
Launching the Project
Posted by Martin Paul Eve
  Since the initial call to arms, we've had well over 100 responses and the academic committees continue to grow. We're proud to announce that the project has a name! We are called the Open Library of Humanities (OLH) and our domain is openlibhums.org. We have a presence on Twitter as @ope…
14 January 2013
The Future of Publishing
Posted by Martin Paul Eve
What does the future of academic publishing look like? What would it look like were we not entrenched in the historically contingent accident that has moulded the current system as it stands? Part of the OLH project is to think critically and imaginatively about what we could have and what we…
14 January 2013
Building a Library for the Future
Posted by Martin Paul Eve
Since 1986, subscription costs for academic journals have risen by 300% above inflation. In addition to exponentially increased research output over this period this has triggered what is known as “the serials crisis”; the inability of library budgets to keep pace with the prices set by publi…
14 January 2013
Unlocking Access to Scholarly Research
Posted by Martin Paul Eve
Research that is funded by universities and other public bodies, or those committed to the production of knowledge and the advancement of society, should be available to read. There is currently, however, a massive inequality between groups who have access to this research. We propose that re…