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From October until December 2025 C21 Literature hosted an Open Access Academic Publishing and Academic Communication intern through the StARIS programme at St Andrews University. Our intern, Ines Tramarin, worked on various aspects of our social media strategy. As she's concluded her time with us n…

Editorial processes have been resumed at our editorial HQ and Volume 16 (2026) will be published on a rolling basis as soon as articles become ready. Volume 16 can be found at https://www.comicsgrid.com/issue/1782/info/.https://www.comicsgrid.com/issue/1782/info/. As you know, the Special Collectio…

The Open Library of Humanities (OLH) is delighted to announce that it has published its Artificial Intelligence (AI) Policy following more than a year-long consultation process with our journals' editorial teams. You can read the policy here. The policy details the OLH's stance that responsible and…

The Open Library of Humanities is seeking a PhD student to assist with editorial, marketing and technical duties as part of our small, hardworking team. The placement is only available to CHASE-funded researchers at CHASE institutions. The position is fully set up for remote working, and applicatio…

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 2026, a fund dedicated to promoting the benefits and impact of open access to humanities scholars and disciplines and to knowledge worldwide. The Open …

Free & Equal is proud to report on our record of acceptances and turnaround time for our first year of operation. The data below refers to submissions received during the twelve-month period from September 13, 2024 (the date our journal opened) to September 13, 2025.    Article submissions: 388…

Dear colleagues, Season's greetings! It's that time of the year again. We have wrapped up The Comics Grid's 15th volume, corresponding to 2025.This past year was, once again, an exceptionally active one. The Times They Are a-Changin' We would like to express our heartfelt appreciation to all collea…

The Open Library of Humanities is pleased to welcome a new supporting institution: Erasmus University Rotterdam. As one of the Netherlands’ leading public research universities, Erasmus University Rotterdam traces its roots back to 1913, when the Netherlands School of Commerce (Nederlandsche Handel…

We’re excited to announce the launch of a major new journal, following news of another mass editorial resignation (read open letter) at Springer Nature.  This week, the Editors-in-Chief and Associate Editors of the Journal of Philosophical Logic published an open letter announcing that they will le…

We are pleased to share that our Special Collection: Graphic Biographical Fiction has launched today, Monday 8 December 2025, with an initial set of two articles:  Üstbaş, M., (2025) “Velázquez’s The Ladies-in-Waiting in Panels: Recreating a Painting within the Poetics of Comics”, The Comics Grid: …

Guest editors Mira Benjamin and Scott McLaughlin invite contributions to a special issue of video articles 'On Music', which asks what an evolving discourse around embodied research and videographic scholarship can offer to music as a field; and what music can offer to embodied research. Journal of…

The Open Library of Humanities is pleased to welcome a new supporting institution: Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research (ZfL). Founded in 1996 and based in Berlin, the Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research is a humanities institute for literary studies in interdisciplinary …