News.

  • 3 December 2014

    OLH opens for submissions

    Posted by Martin Paul Eve
    We are very pleased to announce that the OLH is now open for submissions to its new megajournal, which covers the humanities disciplines. The submission platform, developed by Ubiquity Press, is based upon PKP's excellent Open Journal Systems, but has been extensively modified to accommod…
  • 7 April 2014

    Funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

    Posted by Martin Paul Eve
    We are delighted to be able to announce that the OLH is being funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, who have provided an initial planning grant to the University of Lincoln to build the technological platform, business model and prepare for launching both our megajournal and monograp…
  • 16 May 2013

    Roadmap for Technical Pilot

    Posted by Martin Paul Eve
    We're pleased to announce that the roadmap for the technical pilot platform for the OLH megajournal is nearing completion. In order to implement an efficient XML-first publication environment, the platform will consist of (among many other aspects): A document management an…
  • 26 March 2013

    OLH Committee Minutes Now Available

    Posted by Martin Paul Eve
    You can now follow the discussions of each of the OLH's autonomous committees by downloading our ratified records of each debate – available on our Committee Minutes page. We'll be using this page to upload all forthcoming discussions. Each set of minutes is focussed around 2 or 3 …
  • 19 January 2013

    Launching the Project

    Posted by Martin Paul Eve
      Since the initial call to arms, we've had well over 100 responses and the academic committees continue to grow. We're proud to announce that the project has a name! We are called the Open Library of Humanities (OLH) and our domain is openlibhums.org. We have a presence on Twitter as @ope…