15 July 2024
OLH Welcomes Birmingham City University
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
The Open Library of Humanities is pleased to announce a new member, Birmingham City University. With its history dating back to the 1880s, Birmingham City University is situated within the heart of England’s second city. It gained university status in 1992, the same year work commenced on a new bu…
11 July 2024
STAR now open for submissions
Posted by Syntactic Theory and Research Editorial Team
Prior to its first issue, which will appear in early 2025, Syntactic Theory and Research (STAR) is now open for submissions.
25 May 2024
Climate Change and Blockchain: Editorial for March 2024 issue
Posted by Arthur C. Petersen
The first issue with the new publisher, Open Library of Humanities, is out! [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 $8.61 (no-profit-to-journal price) through Amazon, choose for instance one of the following …
21 May 2024
Spring 2024
Posted by Ryan A Netzley
Marvell Studies 9.1 contains articles by James Grantham Turner on Marvell as a reader of Milton and by Jack Avery on John Aubrey as a reader of Marvell’s poetry. It also includes a review of Steven Swarbrick’s The Environmental Unconscious: Ecological Poetics from Spenser to Milto…
20 May 2024
Coming soon: Special Collection - Contemporary Research in Sign Languages of the Lusophone World
Posted by Marisa Cruz
This special collection focuses on the linguistic diversity of sign languages across Lusophone countries. Despite sharing Portuguese as their national/official language, the sign languages used by deaf communities within these countries are in fact, often unrelated and unintelligible to each other,…
14 May 2024
The Open Library of Humanities launches Theory and Social Inquiry
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
The Open Library of Humanities is very pleased to announce the launch of a new journal, Theory and Social Inquiry, on our in-house publishing platform Janeway. Theory and Social Inquiry is the successor of Theory and Society, a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Springer Nature that covers…
24 April 2024
OLH launches 7 new journals
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
The Open Library of Humanities has made substantial investments over the past few months, including hiring additional staff to improve our open-source platform, meet website accessibility standards, build our journals portfolio, and launch a new publisher website to clarify the work that the organi…
5 April 2024
OLH Welcomes the University of South Florida
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
The Open Library of Humanities is pleased to announce a new member, the University of South Florida. Founded in 1956, the University of South Florida (USF) is a public research university located in the Tampa Bay region, with campuses in Tampa, St. Petersburg and Sarasota-Manatee in the United Stat…
5 April 2024
OLH Welcomes the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
We are very pleased to announce that the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt has joined the Open Library of Humanities' (OLH) Library Partnership Subsidy system. The Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (KU) is the only Catholic university in Germany and one of over 200 Catholic univ…
26 March 2024
Marjorie Perloff (1931-2024)
Posted by Scott Thurston
The Journal is deeply saddened to hear the news of the passing of Marjorie Perloff, one of the most distinguished critics of innovative poetry of her generation, and a founding member of the journal's editorial board, at her home in California. She was 92. It's hard to imagine what the reception of…
26 March 2024
Janeway launches podcast to communicate software release updates.
Posted by Posted by Katherine Parker-Hay and Andy Byers
The team are excited to announce our new podcast, The Engineering Deck: A Podcast for the Janeway User Community. In each episode, host Dr Katherine Parker-Hay, who works on user experience, will chat with our lead software engineers about the most significant updates to the Janeway codebase. We wa…
19 March 2024
Our Commitment to Accessibility
Posted by Andy Byers & Steph Driver
At the Open Library of Humanities we believe in the power of accessible publishing to foster inclusivity. We are embarking on a project to make it possible for those using Janeway to be compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.2 AA) standards.
Steph Driver, Publishing Technol…