2 February 2015
Milligan College supports OLH funding model
Posted by Martin Paul Eve
The Open Library of Humanities (OLH) is pleased to announce that Milligan College has joined the international consortium that is financially supporting the OLH, a new academic-led, open-access publisher.
Founded in 1866, Milligan is a Christian liberal arts college located in North…
29 January 2015
Gettysburg College supports OLH model
Posted by Martin Paul Eve
We're extremely pleased to announce that Gettysburg College has joined the international consortium of libraries that financially supports the Open Library of Humanities. Gettysburg College has a strong academic reputation and since its founding in 1832, the College has upheld a rigorous …
28 January 2015
Virginia Tech supports OLH model
Posted by Martin Paul Eve
We're extremely pleased to announce that Virginia Tech has signed up to financially support the Open Library of Humanities. Virginia Tech is known for taking a hands-on, engaging approach to education, preparing scholars to be leaders in their fields and communities. As the commonwealth’s…
28 January 2015
University of Rhode Island supports OLH model
Posted by Martin Paul Eve
We're extremely pleased to announce that the University of Rhode Island has signed up to financially support the Open Library of Humanities. Professor Andrée J. Rathemacher, Head, Acquisitions in the University Libraries at the University of Rhode Island, has previously worked with other …
2 December 2014
OLH opens for submissions
Posted by Martin Paul Eve
We are very pleased to announce that the OLH is now open for submissions to its new megajournal, which covers the humanities disciplines. The submission platform, developed by Ubiquity Press, is based upon PKP's excellent Open Journal Systems, but has been extensively modified to accommod…
7 April 2014
Funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Posted by Martin Paul Eve
We are delighted to be able to announce that the OLH is being funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, who have provided an initial planning grant to the University of Lincoln to build the technological platform, business model and prepare for launching both our megajournal and monograp…
15 May 2013
Roadmap for Technical Pilot
Posted by Martin Paul Eve
We're pleased to announce that the roadmap for the technical pilot platform for the OLH megajournal is nearing completion.
In order to implement an efficient XML-first publication environment, the platform will consist of (among many other aspects):
A document management an…
26 March 2013
OLH Committee Minutes Now Available
Posted by Martin Paul Eve
You can now follow the discussions of each of the OLH's autonomous committees by downloading our ratified records of each debate – available on our Committee Minutes page. We'll be using this page to upload all forthcoming discussions.
Each set of minutes is focussed around 2 or 3 …
18 January 2013
Launching the Project
Posted by Martin Paul Eve
Since the initial call to arms, we've had well over 100 responses and the academic committees continue to grow. We're proud to announce that the project has a name! We are called the Open Library of Humanities (OLH) and our domain is openlibhums.org. We have a presence on Twitter as @ope…
