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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…

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…

A blog post by Emily Gresham Beamer, CHASE Doctoral Training Partnership Intern. I began my editorial placement with the OLH hoping to develop a specific editorial skillset, and chose the Open Library of Humanities for its commitment to open access publishing. I knew a brilliant and busy tech team …

We are pleased to share that CDRXIV, a new preprint server from CarbonPlan, has officially launched. CDRXIV is powered behind the scenes by Janeway, with the Open Library of Humanities providing technical infrastructure and development support. This project reflects Janeway’s flexibility as an open…

This year has been a productive and exciting one for OLH Technology. Here’s a look at our key achievements:  Platform and Website Development  Successfully developed and deployed the revamped Open Library of Humanities website.   Began development of a new Janeway marketing site.  Hosting and Mig…

The International Labour Review will be published by the Open Library of Humanities from January 2025. La Revue internationale du travail sera publiée par l'Open Library of Humanities à partir de janvier 2025. La Revista Internacional del Trabajo será publicada por la Open Library of Humanities a p…

The STAR site is now live on Janeway.

The team are excited to announce our new podcast, The Engineering Deck: A Podcast for the Janeway User Community. In each episode, host Dr Katherine Parker-Hay, who works on user experience, will chat with our lead software engineers about the most significant updates to the Janeway codebase. We wa…

At the Open Library of Humanities we believe in the power of accessible publishing to foster inclusivity. We are embarking on a project to make it possible for those using Janeway to be compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.2 AA) standards. Steph Driver, Publishing Technol…

OLH and UCL Press are pleased to announce a new journals hosting partnership with Janeway, our in-house open source scholarly publishing platform.  This new partnership will provide a more intuitive, improved navigation experience for UCL's global readership and greater flexibility, owner…

We are very pleased to announce that the OLH's in-house digital publishing platform Janeway has partnered with Open Publishing at UMass Amherst to migrate their journals and conference proceedings. Open Publishing at UMass Amherst provides publishing services for open-access journals and conference…

We were delighted to be able to launch our new Open Library of Humanities Award at the recent two-day international symposium on Janeway and open access publishing, The Lower Decks, held at Birkbeck, University of London on 7-8 September 2023.The inaugural Open Library of Humanities Award 2023 was …