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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:…

Ekphrasis, the verbal representation of visual representation, is one of art’s oldest preoccupations. Over the past decade, we have seen a rise in British and Irish innovative ekphrastic poetry and visual art that responds to poetry. Concurrently, there has been a new wave of interest in the effica…

Joe Muller, Senior Publishing Technologies Developer at the Open Library of Humanities, tells us in this case study how and why the Janeway platform uses ROR, ensuring unambiguous author affiliations by retrieving ROR IDs from ORCID profiles as well as allowing authors to find their institution wit…

The Open Library of Humanities is pleased to welcome a new supporting institution: The University of Salzburg.   The University of Salzburg is a comprehensive public research university located in the UNESCO World Heritage city of Salzburg, Austria. Founded in 1622 and re-established in 1962, the u…

C21 is inviting scholars and researchers to contribute book review essays for upcoming issues. We currently have a selection of titles published in 2025 available for review, spanning film and media studies, cultural studies, and gender and sexuality studies. We invite prospective authors to submit…

We are pleased to announce that Regeneration; Environment, Art, Culture, published by the Open Library of Humanities, has won the 2025 Best New Journal Award from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ).  Regeneration: Environment, Art, Culture is an open-access, double anonymous peer-rev…

  In this Editorial for the December 2025 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, F…

The Open Library of Humanities is pleased to welcome a new supporting institution: Hollins University. Hollins University offers rigorous liberal arts education for undergraduate students from its 475-acre campus in Virginia’s beautiful Roanoke Valley. Founded in 1842, Hollins was one of the earlie…