26 June 2025
Serving Communities, Not Corporate Shareholders
Posted by Dr Caroline Edwards
OLH Executive Director Dr Caroline Edwards was recently invited to attend an event organised by the N8 Research Partnership, the collective body for eight northern research intensive universities. Held at the University of York on 12 June 2025, this event celebrated the launch of a landmark stateme…
24 June 2025
OLH Welcomes Università della Svizzera italiana
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
The Open Library of Humanities is pleased to welcome a new supporting institution: the Università della Svizzera italiana. Established in 1996, Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) is one of the 12 certified public universities in Switzerland and a member of swissuniversities. With four campuse…
12 June 2025
OLH Welcomes Université catholique de Louvain
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
The Open Library of Humanities is pleased to welcome a new supporting institution: the Université catholique de Louvain. UCLouvain is Belgium's largest French-speaking university. Originally established in 1425, it is also one of the oldest Catholic universities in Europe. With campuses spread acro…
9 June 2025
Reflections on My Time at the Open Library of Humanities
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
A blog post by Naomi Morris, CHASE Editorial, Marketing and Technical Intern for OLH What first drew me to the CHASE placement at OLH was their ethos around open access publishing. I have always been interested in working behind-the-scenes of editorial and publishing and had looked at other interns…
15 May 2025
CDRXIV Launches with Janeway as Technical Partner
Posted by OLH Janeway
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…
15 May 2025
Dr Caroline Edwards to Speak at the Open Science and Scholarship Festival 2025
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
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…
28 April 2025
CFP: Language Diversity in Games Studies (Extended)
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
CFP for a Special Collection at OLHJ (Open Library of the Humanities Journal) Language Diversity in Game Studies Para ver la versión en español de la convocatoria para artículos por favor ver abajo. Game scholars do not only examine games; they also examine game studies. For instance, feminist game…
24 April 2025
Field-defining journal on Energy Humanities moves to the OLH
Posted by Dr Caroline Edwards
The OLH is pleased to welcome a field-defining journal to its portfolio of leading humanities and social sciences titles. Energy Humanities, which will begin publishing at the OLH in 2026, is a rigorous, highly respected journal in the interdisciplinary field of energy studies. Influential scholars…
24 April 2025
The Lower Decks 2.0: A Symposium on Janeway and Open Access
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
Save the date: The Lower Decks 2.0: A Symposium on Janeway and Open Access
16 April 2025
International Labour Review inspires innovations in multilingual publishing at the OLH
Posted by Dr Katherine Parker-Hay
In March 2024, the OLH accepted an application from the International Labour Review (ILR), who have moved from legacy publisher Wiley and relaunched as a diamond open access journal with the OLH in April 2025. In this article, the OLH’s User Experience Researcher and Content Strategist Dr Katherine…
7 April 2025
International Labour Review transitions to open access
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
The International Labour Review, one of the world’s leading publications on world-of-work knowledge and research, transitions to open access with the Open Library of Humanities. GENEVA (ILO News) – The International Labour Review (ILR), one of the leading publications covering global work and emplo…
3 April 2025
CFP: Victorian Infrastructures and their Environmental Legacies
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
CFP for a Special Collection at OLHJ (Open Library of the Humanities Journal) Victorian Infrastructures and their Environmental Legacies Edited by Julia Ditter and Irmtraud Huber Infrastructures have recently drawn critical interest from anthropology, geography, science and technology studies, engi…