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From February until May 2026 C21 Literature hosted an Open Access Academic Publishing and Academic Communication intern through the StARIS programme at St Andrews University. This semester, our intern, Anna Macleod, worked on a range of tasks at the journal. We asked Anna to reflect on her work at …

We are excited to launch with a slate of first articles already accepted, which we are making available as pre-publication versions here (official, typeset versions coming soon): Yurika Aonuki: Scale-sensitivity of comparatives and measure phrase interpretations in Gitksan Keny Chatain & Phili…

The Open Library of Humanities is pleased to announce the launch of a new diamond open access journal in linguistics, following the resignation of the editorial team of Natural Language Semantics (NLS) from Springer Nature. The editors are launching a new journal, Semantics of Natural Languages, wi…

We, the editors and former editors of Natural Language Semantics, are thrilled to announce the launch of Semantics of Natural Languages (SNL), a new diamond open access journal. SNL is the scholar-owned and scholar-led intellectual successor to Natural Language Semantics. It is published with Open …

The Open Library of Humanities is pleased to welcome a new supporting institution, the University of Essex.  The University of Essex is committed to making change happen through research and education, and boasts a diverse global community of staff and students from more than 140 countries, an expa…

The Open Library of Humanities is pleased to welcome a new supporting institution: The University of Porto. With origins dating back to the 18th century, the University of Porto is a leading teaching and scientific research institution in Portugal and worldwide. It is the second largest Portuguese …

We are thrilled to announce the launch of Janeway’s newly redesigned website and brand identity, which you can explore here. Over the past two years, we’ve been rethinking how Janeway, our open-source publishing platform, presents itself online. We recognised that our digital presence needed to evo…

The87press welcomes you to The Hythe Review which was launched as part of our commitment to widening critical conversations in literature, and poetry more specifically. We are deeply concerned by and mindful of the decline of literary studies in the Global North and the increasing insularity of Eng…

In January 2026, the Open Library of Humanities (OLH) published the first iteration of our Artificial Intelligence (AI) Policy in response to the growing need for guidance on the use of generative AI in scholarly publishing. The journey to producing a workable policy for all our journals has been m…

  This 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 $9.99 (no-profit-to-journal price) through Amazon, choose for instance one of the following market places: US, UK, DE, FR, ES, IT, NL, PL, SE, BE, IE, JP, …

Reimagining Robin Hood: Scholarly Publishing as a Site of Struggle  Wanted.  Not a person, but a principle: that knowledge should be free. Download JPG Download PDF A4 Download PDF A3 With this poster, the Open Library of Humanities reimagines Robin Hood for scholarly communications, not as a nost…

THE LONG READ Infrastructure Landlords: The Rentier Capitalism of Commercial Academic Publishers This piece has been written by a friend of the OLH who wishes to remain anonymous. Figure. Pyramid of the Capitalist System (1911), attributed to Nedeljkovich, Brashich, and Kuharich. Originally publis…