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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…

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…

Theme: Users and Community Location: Dublin City University Library, Glasnevin Campus, Dublin, & hybrid streaming online Dates: 21st – 22nd May 2026 Cost: Free Sign-up to attend Janeway is an open-source scholarly publishing platform that has become the software of choice for editors, librarian…

We’re delighted to announce that our Executive Director, Dr Caroline Edwards, will be participating in the Open Science & Scholarship Festival 2025, organised in collaboration with LSE, the Francis Crick Institute and the UCL Office for Open Science & Scholarship. The festival will take pla…

Save the date: The Lower Decks 2.0: A Symposium on Janeway and Open Access

Caroline EdwardsWelcome to our new website! We've spent the past year thoroughly revamping our online presence. This began with user experience research, which led to a site audit, brand refresh, and a rebuild of the entire site structure. The new design pays tribute to the OLH's political roots an…

The Lower Decks: A symposium on Janeway and Open Access PublishingLocation: Birkbeck, University of London, & streaming onlineDates: 07/09/2023 – 08/09/2023Cost: FreeRegistration: https://thelowerdecks.janeway.systems/signup Conference programme: https://thelowerdecks.janeway.systems/progr…

The Lower Decks: A symposium on Janeway and Open Access PublishingLocation: Birkbeck, University of London, & streaming onlineDates: 07/09/2023 – 08/09/2023Cost: FreeRegistration: https://thelowerdecks.janeway.systems/signup Conference programme: https://thelowerdecks.janeway.systems/progr…

Professor Jonathan Gray delivering his seminar talk, "Social Depths: Representing Race & Disability in Comics & Graphic Novels", on Monday 20 February 2023 at City, University of London, UK. Many thanks to those of you who joined us for (or expressed an interest in) Prof Jonathan Gray's sti…

Location: Birkbeck, University of London, & streaming onlineDates: 07/09/2023 – 08/09/2023Cost: FreeSign up to attend: https://thelowerdecks.janeway.systems/signupIn celebration of the ten-year anniversary since the launch of the project of the Open Library of Humanities (OLH), an award-winning…

Live Discussion / Online eventThe Politics and History of Menstruation: Contextualising the Scottish Campaign to End Period PovertyWant to know more about menstrual rights & history in Scotland? Join the editors and contributors of the OLH journal Special Collection “The Politics and History of…

Live Chat | WebinarThe Comics Grid Webinar Series - Live Chats on Comics ScholarshipGraphic Justice: A Comics Grid Webinar with Johanna Commins and Dr Neal CurtisMarvel Worldwide © Secret Wars #6, Jonathan Hickman, Esad Ribic, Ive Svorcina and Chris Eliopoulos, 2015. O.W. Toad © Renee Nault, The Ha…