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The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship is seeking contributions to its book reviews section. The journal seeks 2,000- to 2,500-word scholarly reviews of academic publications on comics and graphic novels, historical to contemporary, global north to global south, in all comics cultures…

As part of our 2023-2030 plan for sustainable growth of the OLH, we are pleased to announce that the OLH Library Board is being re-constituted as one of three elected Advisory Boards. As a strictly not-for-profit publisher with no shareholders, the OLH exists purely for the intellectual and ac…

Sincere thanks to all who voted in the 2023 International Flann O'Brien Society Awards. We are delighted to announce the shortlisted candidates below. Based on the public votes, there are 2 shortlisted nominees for Best Book 2021–22, and 5 shortlisted nominees for Best Article 2021–22. The winners …

The new Flann O'Brien podcast, "Radio Myles", is now live!Episode 1 is an introduction to Flann O'Brien, with host Toby Harris and his first guest, O'Brien expert Professor Joseph Brooker [YouTube, Apple, Spotify, Google].In Episode 2, Toby and Chicago author Vincent Francone di…

We are pleased to announce that the University of Tennessee, Knoxville has joined the Open Library of Humanities' (OLH) Library Partnership Subsidy system. The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is the flagship land-grant university of the state of Tennessee. Founded as Blount College in 1794, two…

We are very pleased to say that an article published in the Open Library of Humanities journal has been recently featured in The Times. The article in question, “Who Put the ‘a’ in ‘Thomas a Becket’? The History of a Name from the Angevins to the Victorians” by John Jenkins, examines the history of…

Longlist and NominationsEvery two years, to coincide with the International Flann O’Brien Society conference, the Society awards two official prizes to the best book-length publication and best essay-length publication on the writing, life, and reception of Brian O'Nolan (pseud. Flann O'Brien,…

 A blog post by Joseph Muller, Publishing Technologies Developer for JanewayJoseph Muller is a developer working on the Janeway project. In this blog post, he explores a move towards human-centred software design, informed by User Experience research, that the OLH are experimenting with i…

The Open Library of Humanities (OLH) is an award-winning, academic-led, diamond open-access publisher of 28 journals based at Birkbeck, University of London. With initial funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and subsequent support from Arcadia, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Profes…

Today, we publish Callie Gardner's beautiful essay on Anna Mendelssohn and Veronica Forrest-Thomson. This article is published posthumously, following the tragic loss of Callie in July 2021. Earlier that year, Callie had signed off the final version of their article, and was looking forward to the …

We are pleased to announce that the University of Delaware has joined the Open Library of Humanities' (OLH) Library Partnership Subsidy system. With roots dating back to 1743, the University of Delaware is one of the oldest universities in the U.S. Originally founded as a seminary in New London, Pe…

We are pleased to announce that the University Library of  TU Braunschweig has joined the Open Library of Humanities' (OLH) Library Partnership Subsidy system. Technische Universität Braunschweig, commonly referred to as TU Braunschweig, is the oldest Institute of Technology in Germany. T…