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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…

Welcome to the new website of Medieval Sermon Studies! After several years with Taylor & Francis, MSS will, from the 2027 issue onwards, be published by the Open Library of Humanities. This means that the journal is now officially a Diamond Open Access publication, free for readers and for auth…

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…

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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…

Today we celebrate the 10th anniversary of Glossa, one of our diamond open access linguistics journals. The history of Glossa is closely intertwined with that of the Open Library of Humanities. It was one of our first journal flips in 2015, when OLH launched with just seven journals and 100 support…

Date: Wednesday 01 April 2026 Time: 5-6:30 pm BST. Check your timezone here Registration: Free. Please register here   Figure:  Fragment from Farinella, M., (2018) “Of Microscopes and Metaphors: Visual Analogy as a Scientific Tool”, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 8, 18. doi: https:…