News.

Longlist and NominationsEvery two years, to coincide with the International Flann O’Brien Society conference, the Society awards two official prizes to the best book-length publication and best essay-length publication on the writing, life, and reception of Brian O'Nolan (pseud. Flann O'Brien,…

We are delighted to announce that Dr Amy Butt has won the 2022 SFRA Innovative Research Award for her article published in the Open Library of Humanities journal. Amy’s article ‘The Present as Past: Science Fiction and the Museum’ was published in 2021 and explores the role and possibilities of sci…

We’re delighted to announce that Professor Martin Eve has received an Open Scholarship Award (2022) in recognition for his work for the Open Library of Humanities. The award was granted by the Canadian Social Knowledge Institute (C-SKI) and its partners, and nominations took place via an open proce…

We are delighted to announce that Dr Janet Smith has been awarded the 2021 Elizabeth Eisenstein Essay Prize for her article published in the OLH journal.The article "Crossing the Border of Citizenship: Helen Taylor, the Independent Radical Democrat Candidate for Camberwell North, 1885" explores the…

Sincere thanks to all who voted in the 2021 International Flann O'Brien Awards. We are delighted to announce the shortlisted candidates below. Based on the public votes, there are 2 shortlisted nominees for Best Book 2019–20, and 7 shortlisted nominees for Best Article 2019…

2021 International Flann O’Brien Society Awards The Father Kurt Fahrt, S.J. Memorial PrizesLonglist and NominationsEvery two years, to coincide with the International Flann O’Brien Society conference, the Society awards two official prizes to the best book-length publication and best essay-len…

We’re delighted to announce that the Open Library of Humanities (OLH) has won the award for Small Digital Publisher of the Year at the Association of Online Publishers (AOP) Digital Publishing Awards 2020 virtual ceremony, celebrated yesterday in London. We would like to send a huge thank you to th…

We are delighted to announce that the Open Library of Humanities has been Highly Commended for the ALPSP Awards for Innovation in Publishing 2020. We would like to send a huge thanks to the judges and many congratulations to the two joint winners, Jus Mundi and The DAISY Consortium. The awards were…

The Open Library of Humanities Shortlisted for Three Publishing AwardsWe are delighted to announce that the Open Library of Humanities has been shortlisted for three different publishing awards: two Association of Publishers (AOP) Digital Publishing Awards in the categories of Best Digital Publishi…

The OLH Open Access Award 2020: call for applicationsThe Open Library of Humanities (OLH) is proud to launch the OLH Open Access Award 2020, a fund dedicated to promoting the benefits and impact of open access to humanities scholars and disciplines and to knowledge worldwide.The Open Library of Hum…

We are delighted to announce that the Open Library of Humanities has been awarded a Coko Foundation’s 2019 Open Publishing Award in the category of Open Publishing Models yesterday at the FORCE2019 conference in Edinburgh Scotland. We would like to send a huge thanks to the judges, and to all the i…

We are extremely pleased to announce that Professor Martin Paul Eve of Birkbeck, University of London, a co-CEO and co-founder with Dr Caroline Edwards of the Open Library of Humanities, has been awarded a 2019 Philip Leverhulme Prize for his research in the field of literary studies.Philip Leverhu…