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We are pleased to announce that Regeneration; Environment, Art, Culture, published by the Open Library of Humanities, has won the 2025 Best New Journal Award from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ).  Regeneration: Environment, Art, Culture is an open-access, double anonymous peer-rev…

The Open Library of Humanities is pleased to welcome a new supporting institution: Hollins University. Hollins University offers rigorous liberal arts education for undergraduate students from its 475-acre campus in Virginia’s beautiful Roanoke Valley. Founded in 1842, Hollins was one of the earlie…

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 …

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…

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 …

You can now watch the recording of the panel discussion hosted by the Open Library of Humanities (OLH) during Open Access Week 2025. Watch the recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpnt0mrhZw4  In this webinar, leaders from across the diamond open access community discuss how we can move beyon…

It’s #OAweek, and this year we’re also celebrating 10 years since the publication of the first article in the Open Library of Humanities Journal marking a decade since the launch of the OLH itself. We’re proud to celebrate a decade of scholar-led, diamond open access publishing, sustained by our in…

We're delighted to be publishing our 2024-25 annual report, which outlines the fantastic successes of the entire OLH team over the past financial year from 01 August 2024 to 31 July 2025. In this comprehensive report, you can find out what makes the OLH such a special organisation as well as a lead…

Date:  Friday 24 October 2025  Time:  1:00 – 2:30 pm BST | 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm CET. Check your time zone here.  Registration:  Free. Please register here.  Reflecting on this year’s Open Access Week theme, Who Owns Our Knowledge? the Open Library of Humanities has invited key voices from the diamon…