5 March 2022
Migration of OLH journals to Janeway completed
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
We are thrilled to announce that we have finalised the transition of our journals from their previous publication service provider, Ubiquity Press, to the Janeway platform run by the Open Library of Humanities (OLH). All our journals with the exception of the ones we fund but are published by other…
24 February 2022
The Open Library of Humanities welcomes Iowa State University as a higher tier supporter
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
We are very pleased to announce that we have recently welcomed a new higher-tier supporter to our library board.  Iowa State University Library is a signatory of the Open Access 2020 Initiative and is active in national and international efforts to advance open access. As part of a land-grant …
23 February 2022
Five universities from the Sikt consortium join the OLH Library Partnership Subsidy model
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
We are pleased to announce that Sikt — Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research and the Open Library of Humanities have signed a one-year agreement that provides support for OLH from five of their member institutions: University of Bergen, Molde University College, Norwegian U…
3 February 2022
Open Insights: An interview with Adrian Curtin and Adam Whittaker
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
Representing Classical Music in the Twenty-First CenturyAn Open Insights interview with Adrian Curtin and Adam Whittaker Dr Adam Whittaker is Head of Pedagogy and a Lecturer in Music at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and is an internationally rec…
28 January 2022
The Open Library of Humanities Wins Open Scholarship Award (2022)
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
We’re delighted to announce that Professor Martin Eve has received an Open Scholarship Award (2022) in recognition for his work for the Open Library of Humanities. The award was granted by the Canadian Social Knowledge Institute (C-SKI) and its partners, and nominations took place via an open proce…
25 January 2022
Open Licensing and the Open Library of Humanities
Posted by Martin Paul Eve
In the humanities disciplines, Creative Commons licensing has been among the most contentious aspects of open access. Historians have raised concerns about the re-contextualisation of their scholarship by extreme political groups and art historians have been worried about the potential implications…
21 January 2022
Le foucaldien relaunched as GENEALOGY+CRITIQUE
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
From 2022, the peer-reviewed, open-access journal Le foucaldien, published by the London-based Open Library of Humanities (OLH), and the affiliated foucaultblog appear under the new title GENEALOGY+CRITIQUE at genealogy-critique.net. The relaunch broadens the scope of the journal and its blog by in…
17 December 2021
CFP: The Working-Class Avant-Garde / Deadline: 29 April, 2022.
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
Open Library of Humanities Journal Special Collection: Call for ProposalsThe Working-Class Avant-Garde The idea of a working-class avant-garde may seem a contradiction to some. The avant-garde, so often an elite realm of the arts, has proved to favour those with the requisite social, cultural …
17 December 2021
The Chalmers University of Technology joins the OLH LPS Model
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
We are pleased to announce that the Chalmers University of Technology has joined the Open Library of Humanities’ Library Partnership Subsidy system. Founded in 1829, the Chalmers University of Technology conducts research and offers education from bachelor’s level to master’s and doctoral degrees i…
17 December 2021
Open Insights: Solving The Biggest Problem with Open Access with an OLH Grant
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
The OLH Open Access Award 2020 awardee’s report: the Open Access Digital Theological LibrarySolving The Biggest Problem with Open Access with an OLH GrantAn Open Insights essay by Thomas E. Phillips, Digital Theological LibraryThe Open Access Digital Theological Library (OADTL), the only fully Open…
1 December 2021
The Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics joins OLH LPS Model
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
We are pleased to announce that the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics has joined the Open Library of Humanities’ Library Partnership Subsidy system. Founded in 1949, the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics (NYTK) is part of the most prestigious research institute network in Hungary. A…
1 December 2021
OLH welcomes the University of Aberdeen as a bronze super-supporter
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
We are very pleased to announce that we have recently welcomed a new bronze super-supporter to our library board, the University of Aberdeen. Founded in 1495, the University of Aberdeen is Scotland's third oldest university and the fifth oldest in the UK. With more than 14,000 students from many co…