News.

We are pleased to share that CDRXIV, a new preprint server from CarbonPlan, has officially launched. CDRXIV is powered behind the scenes by Janeway, with the Open Library of Humanities providing technical infrastructure and development support. This project reflects Janeway’s flexibility as an open…

We’re delighted to announce that our Executive Director, Dr Caroline Edwards, will be participating in the Open Science & Scholarship Festival 2025, organised in collaboration with LSE, the Francis Crick Institute and the UCL Office for Open Science & Scholarship. The festival will take pla…

CFP for a Special Collection at OLHJ (Open Library of the Humanities Journal) Language Diversity in Game Studies Para ver la versión en español de la convocatoria para artículos por favor ver abajo. Game scholars do not only examine games; they also examine game studies. For instance, feminist game…

The OLH is pleased to welcome a field-defining journal to its portfolio of leading humanities and social sciences titles. Energy Humanities, which will begin publishing at the OLH in 2026, is a rigorous, highly respected journal in the interdisciplinary field of energy studies. Influential scholars…

Save the date: The Lower Decks 2.0: A Symposium on Janeway and Open Access

Para ver la versión en español de la convocatoria para artículos por favor ver abajo. Game scholars do not only examine games; they also examine game studies. For instance, feminist game researchers have rightly discussed gender inequality within their own academic field. However, another matter of…

In this Editorial for the December 2024 issue [click here to browse the issue online; click here to view and download a PDF of the entire issue; and to order a printed copy for $7.01 (no-profit-to-journal price) through Amazon, choose for instance one of the following market places: US, UK, DE, FR…

In March 2024, the OLH accepted an application from the International Labour Review (ILR), who have moved from legacy publisher Wiley and relaunched as a diamond open access journal with the OLH in April 2025. In this article, the OLH’s User Experience Researcher and Content Strategist Dr Katherine…

Sincere thanks to all who voted in the 2025 International Flann O’Brien Society Awards. The votes have been tallied and we are now delighted to announce the shortlisted candidates.  Based on the public votes, there are 3 shortlisted nominees in the Best Book category, and 5 shortlisted nominees for…

The International Labour Review, one of the world’s leading publications on world-of-work knowledge and research, transitions to open access with the Open Library of Humanities. GENEVA (ILO News) – The International Labour Review (ILR), one of the leading publications covering global work and emplo…

CFP for a Special Collection at OLHJ (Open Library of the Humanities Journal) Victorian Infrastructures and their Environmental Legacies Edited by Julia Ditter and Irmtraud Huber Infrastructures have recently drawn critical interest from anthropology, geography, science and technology studies, engi…

Earlier this week we launched the Open Journals Collective (OJC), an equitable, sustainable, community-led alternative to the big deals and transformative agreements offered by corporate academic publishers. The OJC is a collective of libraries and university-based publishers working to change the …