News.

11 November 2021
New OLH poster, the Comic Superheroes Poster
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
Our journal flipping poster is now available to download, print and share!Following the success of our previous posters — the Victorian Poster, the Constructivist Poster, the Muybridge Poster and the Shakespearean Poster — we're delighted to launch our newest poster in the series, the Comic Su…
2 November 2021
Janeway partners with Next Generation Library Publishing (NGLP) project
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
We were pleased to announce the launching of the new partnership between Janeway and the Next Generation Library Publishing (NGLP) project last week. As part of this new collaboration Janeway will be joining the California Digital Library and Longleaf to pilot three different service models for the…
27 July 2021
The Open Library of Humanities welcomes its first five new higher tier supporters
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
We are delighted to announce that we have recently welcomed our first five new higher tier super-supporters to our library board: King's College London, The Open University, University College London (UCL), University of Sheffield and University of York. These five super-supporters are the first to…
15 July 2021
New OLH membership badges
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
The Open Library of Humanities would not be able to continue to operate without our library members. We owe our success to our over 300 member institutions and, in gratitude for their generous support, today we are launching our new badges, which we hope our supporting members will display with pri…
14 July 2021
Consortium of 15 universities joins OLH LPS Model: The Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA)
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
We are pleased to announce that the Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) and the Open Library of Humanities (OLH) have signed a three-year collective agreement that provides multi-year support for OLH from all of the BTAA’s fifteen member libraries. This move was made possible thanks to the OLH Open Co…
4 May 2021
The Open Library of Humanities Merges with Birkbeck, University of London
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
We are delighted to announce that the Open Library of Humanities has officially transferred to Birkbeck University of London. The Open Library of Humanities was established in 2015 and has been running as an independent registered charity since then with the help of Birkbeck University of London wh…
29 March 2021
Birkbeck awarded £200,000 grant to support the work of the Open Library of Humanities
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
We are pleased to announce that Birkbeck, University of London has been awarded a grant of £200,000 from Arcadia, a charitable fund of Dr Lisbet Rausing and Professor Peter Baldwin, to support the innovative research and work of the Open Library of Humanities.The Open Library of Humanities (OLH), b…
26 March 2021
Rose Harris-Birtill Appointed as Acting Director of Open Library of Humanities
Posted by Martin Paul Eve
We are pleased to announce that Dr Rose Harris-Birtill, currently Managing Editor, has been appointed as Acting Director of the Open Library of Humanities, beginning 1st June 2021. She steps in to replace Professor Martin Paul Eve, who will be taking research leave in Autumn 2021 and Spring 2022.Dr…
10 February 2021
The Open Library of Humanities joins the Portico Digital preservation archive
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
We are very pleased to announce that the Open Library of Humanities has joined the Portico Digital preservation archive, alongside the CLOCKSS Archive, adding to our guarantee of long-term availability of the material published in our journals. Portico is a community-supported preservation arc…
26 January 2021
OLH Managing Editor joins BAME academic leadership programme
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
We are delighted to announce that Dr Rose Harris-Birtill, Managing Editor at the Open Library of Humanities and Honorary Fellow at the University of St Andrews, has been successfully awarded a place on the StellarHE - Strategic Executive Development for Diverse Leaders in Higher Education programme…
16 October 2020
Open Library of Humanities Wins Small Digital Publisher of the Year
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
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…
25 September 2020
The Open Library of Humanities Celebrates its 5th Birthday
Posted by Rose Harris-Birtill
The Open Library of Humanities today celebrates its 5th anniversary since we launched our platform on 28th September 2015 with only 7 journals and 99 supporting institutions. Five years on, our sustainable business model has attracted nearly 300 supporting institutions, proving the succes…