5 June 2020
Call for papers for Sean Bonney (1969-2019) special issue CALL CLOSED
Posted by Scott Thurston
We are seeking papers for a special issue dedicated to the work of Sean Bonney (1969-2019).   The author of numerous pamphlets and full-length collections, including Our Death (2019), Letters against the Firmament (2015), Happiness (2011), The Commons (2011), Document (2008), Ba…
3 June 2020
The University of Stuttgart joins OLH LPS model
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
We are very pleased to announce that the University of Stuttgart has joined the Open Library of Humanities' Library Partnership Subsidy system. The University of Stuttgart (German: Universität Stuttgart) is a research university founded in 1829 located in Stuttgart, Germany. With a history that dat…
26 May 2020
Mount Royal University joins OLH LPS model
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
We are very pleased to announce that Mount Royal University has joined the Open Library of Humanities' Library Partnership Subsidy system. Mount Royal University (MRU) is a Canadian public university located in Calgary, Alberta. The university was founded in 1910, following a charter by the Alberta…
19 May 2020
Special issue on Peter Larkin
Posted by Scott Thurston
We are delighted to publish the first article in our special collection based on the symposium ‘Peter Larkin: Poetry, Phenomenology, and Ecology’ which took place at the University of Warwick on 26th of April 2017. It is guest edited by Professor Emma Mason of the University of Warwick. A report de…
13 May 2020
The University of Eastern Finland joins OLH LPS model
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
We are very pleased to announce that the University of Eastern Finland has joined the Open Library of Humanities' Library Partnership Subsidy system. The University of Eastern Finland is one of the largest universities in Finland. It was founded in 2010 by a merger of two previously independent uni…
11 May 2020
The University of Oslo joins OLH LPS model
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
We are very pleased to announce that the University of Oslo has joined the Open Library of Humanities' Library Partnership Subsidy system. The University of Oslo (Norwegian: Universitetet i Oslo), until 1939 named the Royal Frederick University (Norwegian: Det Kongelige Frederiks Universitet), is t…
4 May 2020
Disability and Access to Research: Open for Whom?
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
Disability and Access to Research: Open for Whom?The current conditions of life under pandemic lockdown have spurred calls for broader access to the scholarly literature as the daily experiences of many disabled people are, quite literally, brought home to a broader portion of the research communit…
28 April 2020
Open Insights: An Interview with Johan Rooryck, Open Access Champion for cOAlition S
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
An Open Insights interview with Johan Rooryck, Open Access Champion for cOAlition SJohan Rooryck is Open Access Champion for cOAlition S. He is Professor of French Linguistics at Leiden University (The Netherlands). He has over 20 years’ experience as an editor, first as the Executive Editor of Lin…
27 April 2020
On Consortial Funding Models for Open Access in 2020 and Beyond
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
On Consortial Funding Models for Open Access in 2020 and BeyondWe were pleased, recently, to be able to publish an article on what we have learned from the first half-decade of running the Open Library of Humanities: Eve, Martin, Paula Vega, and Caroline Edwards, ‘Lessons From the Open Library of H…
24 April 2020
Coming soon: New Special Collection in Spanish to Launch in the Open Library of Humanities Journal
Posted by Dr Rose Harris-Birtill
We are extremely pleased to announce that a new Special Collection in Spanish, “Colonialities in Dispute: Discourses on Colonialism and Race in Spain” (Colonialidades en Disputa: Discursos sobre Colonialismo y Raza en el Estado Español), will launch this winter in the Open Library of Humanities meg…
17 April 2020
Special issue on Race
Posted by Scott Thurston
We are delighted to report that the first three articles of our special issue on Race and Innovative Poetry, guest-edited by Professor Sandeep Parmar of the University of Liverpool, have now been published. The authors are Dai George (University College London); Nisha Ramayya (Queen Mary, Universit…
16 March 2020
Webinar: Open Access and Medieval Studies: New Approaches to Water and Beyond
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
Webinar: Open Access and Medieval Studies: New Approaches to Water and BeyondDate: Tuesday 24th March 2020Time: 11:00-12:00am GMT. Check your timezone here Registration: Please register hereTo join the webinar: Please install the Zoom meetings application from the Zoom Download Centre before t…