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Today we celebrate the 10th anniversary of Glossa, one of our diamond open access linguistics journals. The history of Glossa is closely intertwined with that of the Open Library of Humanities. It was one of our first journal flips in 2015, when OLH launched with just seven journals and 100 support…

The Open Library of Humanities (OLH) is proud to continue its work towards its open access mission across the globe with the OLH Open Access Award 2025, a fund dedicated to promoting the benefits and impact of open access to humanities scholars and disciplines and to knowledge worldwide.  The Open …

Earlier this year, the Open Library of Humanities announced the OLH Open Access Award 2024, a fund dedicated to promoting the benefits and impact of open access to humanities scholars and disciplines and to knowledge worldwide. This year, our OLH Open Access awards have been awarded to three organi…

We are thrilled to announce that Glossa, one of our published journals, has reached an incredible milestone: the publication of its 1000th article! This achievement reflects the hard work, dedication, and commitment of the entire Glossa community — editors, reviewers, authors, and readers. Glossa j…

The Open Library of Humanities (OLH) is proud to continue its work towards its open access mission across the globe with the OLH Open Access Award 2024, a fund dedicated to promoting the benefits and impact of open access to humanities scholars and disciplines and to knowledge worldwide. The O…

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…

Winners of the OLH Open Access Award 2023 announcedEarlier this year, the Open Library of Humanities announced the OLH Open Access Award 2023, a fund dedicated to promoting the benefits and impact of open access to humanities scholars and disciplines and to knowledge worldwide. Our OLH Open Access …

As part of our 2023-2030 plan for sustainable growth of the OLH, we are pleased to be re-constituting our Library Board as one of three elected Advisory Boards.  We were delighted to have received such strong candidates and are very grateful to all of those who participated in the election pro…

We are delighted to announce that our Executive Director and co-founder of the Open Library of Humanities Dr Caroline Edwards has been elected to the OASPA Board of Directors. She and three other newly elected members will begin their 3-year term in September 2023. The other elected members include…

As part of our 2023-2030 plan for sustainable growth of the OLH, we are pleased to announce that the OLH Library Board is being re-constituted as one of three elected Advisory Boards. As a strictly not-for-profit publisher with no shareholders, the OLH exists purely for the intellectual and ac…

The OLH Open Access Award 2023: call for applications The Open Library of Humanities (OLH) is proud to continue its work towards its open access mission across the globe with the OLH Open Access Award 2023, a fund dedicated to promoting the benefits and impact of open access to humanities scho…

We are thrilled to announce that we have finalised the transition of our journals from their previous publication service provider, Ubiquity Press, to the Janeway platform run by the Open Library of Humanities (OLH). All our journals with the exception of the ones we fund but are published by other…