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CALL FOR PROPOSALS Racing After Technology: Asian American Digital Choreographies and Embodied Research in an Anti-Black World Guest Editor: Al Evangelista, Oberlin College The Journal of Embodied Research (JER) invites videographic submissions (3-20 minutes in length) for a special issue on how ra…

Data as a Story Exhibition  The OLH Open Access Award 2025 Awardee Report, authored by Amie Longthorne, Open Data Management Specialist, Liverpool John Moores University The idea and getting started At Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) we have been proactive raising awareness across all areas…

This past January, our Executive Director, Professor Caroline Edwards, was invited to speak at the Open Access and the Commons: The many faces of scholar-led publishing event, organised by the LSE Open Research Community. The discussion explored the future of open access publishing and the role of …

We’re delighted to announce that the Science Museum Group Journal will join OLH in Autumn 2026. This engaging publication is the official journal for the five national UK museums in the Science Museum Group – the Science Museum in London, the National Railway Museum in York, Locomotion in County Du…

In this interview, we speak with the editorial team at Semantics of Natural Languages about the journal's transition to diamond open access, the research communities that inspired their approach, and the importance of collective participation in scholarly publishing. OLH: Thank you for agreeing to …

Although storytelling is usually not seen as one of the core tasks of traditional institutional archives, through their selection processes and ways of organising archival material these archives do have a significant impact on the directions that stories of cultural heritage can take. And like man…

We are thrilled to announce the publications of the first issue of The Hythe Review with the Open Library of Humanities. The Hythe Review joined OLH in 2025, when the Open Library of Humanities partnered with award-winning poetry publisher the87press to relaunch its flagship poetry journal. The fir…

We are thrilled to welcome another diamond open access journal to the Open Library of Humanities: Nordic Journal of African Studies (NJAS). NJAS is an interdisciplinary African Studies journal that publishes original empirical and theoretical research in the social sciences, cultural and historical…

Two months ago, we launched our Robin Hood poster as a call to reimagine scholarly communication beyond commercial control. The campaign encourages libraries to redirect even a small proportion of their expenditure away from the big five commercial publishers and towards community-owned, diamond op…

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We are pleased to welcome another journal to our portfolio, Medieval Sermon Studies, which is moving from Taylor & Francis to the Open Library of Humanities and will be published under a diamond open access model. Medieval Sermon Studies is an international, peer-reviewed journal published annu…

A blog post by Emily Gresham Beamer, CHASE Doctoral Training Partnership Intern When I set out to choose the organisation for my CHASE Doctoral Partnership placement year, the Open Library of Humanities (OLH) was at the top of my list, drawn as I was to the OLH’s open access publication model of co…