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The Open Library of Humanities has joined the Library Publishing Coalition’s Strategic Affiliates Program, strengthening our connections with the international library and open access academic publishing community. The Library Publishing Coalition is an independent, community-led membership associa…

This September, OLH welcomes another journal that is flipping from a commercial publishing model. The Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal (OUCLJ) will leave Taylor and Francis and move to OLH in Spring 2027. Launched in 2001, the OUCLJ is the flagship journal of Oxford University’s postgradu…

Earlier this year, the Open Library of Humanities launched the fifth edition of its OLH Open Access award, an initiative dedicated to advancing open access in the humanities and expanding access to knowledge worldwide. We are pleased to announce that this year’s awards have been granted to six outs…

We’re delighted to announce that the Science Museum Group Journal will join OLH in Autumn 2026. This engaging publication is the official journal for the five national UK museums in the Science Museum Group – the Science Museum in London, the National Railway Museum in York, Locomotion in County Du…

We are thrilled to announce the publications of the first issue of The Hythe Review with the Open Library of Humanities. The Hythe Review joined OLH in 2025, when the Open Library of Humanities partnered with award-winning poetry publisher the87press to relaunch its flagship poetry journal. The fir…

We are thrilled to welcome another diamond open access journal to the Open Library of Humanities: Nordic Journal of African Studies (NJAS). NJAS is an interdisciplinary African Studies journal that publishes original empirical and theoretical research in the social sciences, cultural and historical…

We are pleased to welcome another journal to our portfolio, Medieval Sermon Studies, which is moving from Taylor & Francis to the Open Library of Humanities and will be published under a diamond open access model. Medieval Sermon Studies is an international, peer-reviewed journal published annu…

The Open Library of Humanities is pleased to announce the launch of a new diamond open access journal in linguistics, following the resignation of the editorial team of Natural Language Semantics (NLS) from Springer Nature. The editors are launching a new journal, Semantics of Natural Languages, wi…

The Open Library of Humanities is pleased to welcome a new supporting institution, the University of Essex.  The University of Essex is committed to making change happen through research and education, and boasts a diverse global community of staff and students from more than 140 countries, an expa…

The Open Library of Humanities is pleased to welcome a new supporting institution: The University of Porto. With origins dating back to the 18th century, the University of Porto is a leading teaching and scientific research institution in Portugal and worldwide. It is the second largest Portuguese …

We are thrilled to announce the launch of Janeway’s newly redesigned website and brand identity, which you can explore here. Over the past two years, we’ve been rethinking how Janeway, our open-source publishing platform, presents itself online. We recognised that our digital presence needed to evo…

In January 2026, the Open Library of Humanities (OLH) published the first iteration of our Artificial Intelligence (AI) Policy in response to the growing need for guidance on the use of generative AI in scholarly publishing. The journey to producing a workable policy for all our journals has been m…