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Our Executive Director Dr Caroline Edwards was recently interviewed by the UK Serials Group (UKSG) as part of their podcast series, "Knowing Me, Knowing UKSG." Caroline spoke about her career journey as a literature scholar, co-founding the OLH, and what her current role involves.  Caroline also di…

Karl E. Peters, Professor Emeritus of Religion, passed away last night. A respected scholar and teacher, Karl dedicated his life to exploring the intersection of science and religion, leaving a lasting impact on the field.   He served as Professor of Religion at Rollins College in Winter Park, Flor…

It is time to cast your vote in the 2025 International Flann O’Brien Society Awards! Longlist and Nominations Every 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 public…

Free & Equal received 151 submissions in 2024. We launched September 13, 2024, so this represents 3.5 months of submissions. Many thanks to our community, and we hope that people will continue to submit.

Free & Equal: A Journal of Ethics and Public Affairs is pleased to announce a $2000 prize for the best essay published by an early career scholar in legal, moral, or political philosophy published in the journal in the years 2025 and 2026.  We define early career scholars as those no more than …

The OLH Open Access Award 2023 awardee’s report: Grassroots - Journal of Political Ecology.  An Open Insights report by Meenakshi N Ambujam, Swiss National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of International Development, University of Oxford, and Editor at Grassroots. In the 2023 OL…

The Open Library of Humanities is pleased to welcome a new supporting institution, Linnaeus University (LNU). LNU is a state university located in the Swedish region of Småland, with campuses in Växjö and Kalmar. Established in 2010 through the merger of Växjö University and Kalmar University (Högs…

The Open Library of Humanities (OLH) is proud to continue its work towards its open access mission across the globe with the OLH Open Access Award 2025, a fund dedicated to promoting the benefits and impact of open access to humanities scholars and disciplines and to knowledge worldwide.  The Open …

We're delighted to have published a special issue on the narraitve ethics of Ali Smith's Seasonal Quartet, edited by Agnes Andeweg (Utrecht University) and Jesse van Amelsvoort (University of Amsterdam). The articles published in this special issue originated at the MLA International Symposium held…

An Fód Dúchais: Home, Heritage and Origins The 8th International Flann O’Brien Conference Alley Arts & Conference Centre, Strabane, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland 24-27th June 2025 Keynote speakers: Dr Tobias W. Harris (Birkbeck College, University of London), Dr Michael Pierse (Queens Univers…

In this Editorial for the September 2024 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 $8.43 (no-profit-to-journal price) through Amazon, choose for instance one of the following market places: US, UK, DE, FR…

In November, the OLH team was delighted to host our 2024 Editors Workshop, ‘Community and Inclusion in Scholarly Publishing’. This event brought together editors from many of our OLH journals to discuss important and evolving topics in open access scholarly publishing, ranging from the need for gre…