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To celebrate Open Access Week 2023 (and its proximity to Halloween), the OLH is launching the Zombie Poster. This commemorates the term ‘zombie journal’, first used by linguists in 2015 following the mass resignation of editors at the Elsevier journal Lingua. Protesting Elsevier’s claim to ‘own’ th…

The various genres under the umbrella of speculative fiction – including but not limited to science fiction, fantasy, horror, and alternate history – have long been popular across diverse reading audiences. More importantly, authors have used these genres to provide thoughtful …

We were delighted to be able to launch our new Open Library of Humanities Award at the recent two-day international symposium on Janeway and open access publishing, The Lower Decks, held at Birkbeck, University of London on 7-8 September 2023.The inaugural Open Library of Humanities Award 2023 was …

The Lower Decks: A symposium on Janeway and Open Access PublishingLocation: Birkbeck, University of London, & streaming onlineDates: 07/09/2023 – 08/09/2023Cost: FreeRegistration: https://thelowerdecks.janeway.systems/signup Conference programme: https://thelowerdecks.janeway.systems/progr…

We are very pleased to announce that we have recently welcomed the University of Sussex to our library board as a new silver super-supporter. A leading research university, the University of Sussex was the first of the new wave of UK universities founded in the 1960s, receiving its Royal …

As part of our 2023-2030 plan for sustainable growth of the OLH, we are pleased to be re-constituting our Library Board as one of three elected Advisory Boards.  We were delighted to have received such strong candidates and are very grateful to all of those who participated in the election pro…

The Lower Decks: A symposium on Janeway and Open Access PublishingLocation: Birkbeck, University of London, & streaming onlineDates: 07/09/2023 – 08/09/2023Cost: FreeRegistration: https://thelowerdecks.janeway.systems/signup Conference programme: https://thelowerdecks.janeway.systems/progr…

Marvell Studies 8.1 contains articles by Ross Lerner on race-making and the curse of Ham in “The First Anniversary of the Government under His Highness the Lord Protector” and by Dominic Gavin on the Protestant critique of sacred space in “Bermudas.” It also …

The Journal is saddened to hear of the loss of poet Gavin Selerie, following cancer. Gavin has been described by Robert Hampson as 'one of the most obviously scholarly of contemporary British poets'. He was born in Hampstead in 1949 and educated at Haileybury, Lincoln College, Oxford, Sussex …

We are delighted to announce that our Executive Director and co-founder of the Open Library of Humanities Dr Caroline Edwards has been elected to the OASPA Board of Directors. She and three other newly elected members will begin their 3-year term in September 2023. The other elected members include…

OASPA (Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association) and DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) have released a new Open Access Journals Toolkit. The Toolkit is a collaborative project developed with input from a diverse editorial board including our own Andy Byers, Senior Publishing Technol…

Winners Announced! Every two years, to coincide with the International Flann O’Brien Society conference, the Society awards official prizes to the best article/book chapter and best single author or edited monograph on the writing, life, and reception of Brian O'Nolan published over a 2-year period…