9 August 2023
Programme now live: The Lower Decks: A symposium on Janeway and Open Access Publishing
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
The Lower Decks: A symposium on Janeway and Open Access PublishingLocation: Birkbeck, University of London, & streaming onlineDates: 07/09/2023 – 08/09/2023Cost: FreeRegistration: https://thelowerdecks.janeway.systems/signup Conference programme: https://thelowerdecks.janeway.systems/progr…
12 July 2023
OLH Executive Director Caroline Edwards Elected to the OASPA Board of Directors
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
We are delighted to announce that our Executive Director and co-founder of the Open Library of Humanities Dr Caroline Edwards has been elected to the OASPA Board of Directors. She and three other newly elected members will begin their 3-year term in September 2023. The other elected members include…
4 July 2023
Andy Byers, developer and co-founder of Janeway participates in the editorial board of the Open Access Journals Toolkit
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
OASPA (Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association) and DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) have released a new Open Access Journals Toolkit. The Toolkit is a collaborative project developed with input from a diverse editorial board including our own Andy Byers, Senior Publishing Technol…
3 July 2023
Join the OLH / Janeway team – We are recruiting a Publishing Technologies Librarian
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
Join the OLH / Janeway team – We are recruiting a Publishing Technologies LibrarianThe Open Library of Humanities (OLH) is seeking an enthusiastic individual with an IT and/or Publishing background to join our award-winning team in running the Janeway publishing platform.Joining our existing team o…
16 May 2023
Nominations now open for the OLH Library Board
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
As part of our 2023-2030 plan for sustainable growth of the OLH, we are pleased to announce that the OLH Library Board is being re-constituted as one of three elected Advisory Boards. As a strictly not-for-profit publisher with no shareholders, the OLH exists purely for the intellectual and ac…
18 April 2023
University of Tennessee joins OLH LPS Model
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
We are pleased to announce that the University of Tennessee, Knoxville has joined the Open Library of Humanities' (OLH) Library Partnership Subsidy system. The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is the flagship land-grant university of the state of Tennessee. Founded as Blount College in 1794, two…
5 April 2023
OLH publication on the history of Becket’s name features in The Times
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
We are very pleased to say that an article published in the Open Library of Humanities journal has been recently featured in The Times. The article in question, “Who Put the ‘a’ in ‘Thomas a Becket’? The History of a Name from the Angevins to the Victorians” by John Jenkins, examines the history of…
31 March 2023
Research into Janeway user needs during copyediting
Posted by Joseph Muller and Katherine Parker-Hay
A blog post by Joseph Muller, Publishing Technologies Developer for JanewayJoseph Muller is a developer working on the Janeway project. In this blog post, he explores a move towards human-centred software design, informed by User Experience research, that the OLH are experimenting with i…
31 March 2023
OLH annual report 2022
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
The Open Library of Humanities (OLH) is an award-winning, academic-led, diamond open-access publisher of 28 journals based at Birkbeck, University of London. With initial funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and subsequent support from Arcadia, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Profes…
30 March 2023
The University of Delaware Joins OLH LPS Model
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
We are pleased to announce that the University of Delaware has joined the Open Library of Humanities' (OLH) Library Partnership Subsidy system. With roots dating back to 1743, the University of Delaware is one of the oldest universities in the U.S. Originally founded as a seminary in New London, Pe…
23 March 2023
Braunschweig University Library joins OLH LPS Model
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
We are pleased to announce that the University Library of TU Braunschweig has joined the Open Library of Humanities' (OLH) Library Partnership Subsidy system. Technische Universität Braunschweig, commonly referred to as TU Braunschweig, is the oldest Institute of Technology in Germany. T…
2 February 2023
The Lower Decks: A Symposium on Janeway and Open Access Publishing
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
Location: Birkbeck, University of London, & streaming onlineDates: 07/09/2023 – 08/09/2023Cost: FreeSign up to attend: https://thelowerdecks.janeway.systems/signupIn celebration of the ten-year anniversary since the launch of the project of the Open Library of Humanities (OLH), an award-winning…
