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The Open Library of Humanities is pleased to welcome a new supporting institution: Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research (ZfL). Founded in 1996 and based in Berlin, the Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research is a humanities institute for literary studies in interdisciplinary …

You can now watch the recording of the panel discussion hosted by the Open Library of Humanities (OLH) during Open Access Week 2025. Watch the recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpnt0mrhZw4  In this webinar, leaders from across the diamond open access community discuss how we can move beyon…

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…

We're delighted to be publishing our 2024-25 annual report, which outlines the fantastic successes of the entire OLH team over the past financial year from 01 August 2024 to 31 July 2025. In this comprehensive report, you can find out what makes the OLH such a special organisation as well as a lead…

Date:  Friday 24 October 2025  Time:  1:00 – 2:30 pm BST | 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm CET. Check your time zone here.  Registration:  Free. Please register here.  Reflecting on this year’s Open Access Week theme, Who Owns Our Knowledge? the Open Library of Humanities has invited key voices from the diamon…

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…

Earlier this year, the Open Library of Humanities (OLH) launched the fourth OLH Open Access Award 2025, an initiative dedicated to advancing open access in the humanities and to knowledge worldwide. We are pleased to announce that this year’s awards have been granted to three outstanding individual…

We’re thrilled to announce that the OLH is partnering with award-winning poetry publisher the87press to relaunch its flagship poetry journal The Hythe Review.  Established in 2018, the87press is an Asian, LGBTQIA+, and neurodiverse led literary arts organisation based in South London. The press pub…

Dear Colleagues, We are very excited to announce the launching of six inaugural papers on the new, peer reviewed, community owned, and fully open access journal Syntactic Theory and Research (STAR) published by the Open Library of Humanities (OLH). As you know, OLH is dedicated to publishing open a…

We are thrilled to announce that our Executive Director, Dr Caroline Edwards, has successfully applied for conferment of her academic title at Birkbeck, University of London. From 1st October 2025, Caroline’s new title will be Professor of Contemporary Literature & Culture. This conferment reco…

Congratulations to our very own Dr Paula Clemente Vega, who has been promoted to OLH Community Outreach Manager! Paula started working at OLH in 2018 and has built a successful career with us focussing on library outreach and advocacy. Many colleagues working in diamond open access publishing will …

We're thrilled to announce the launch issue of Theory and Social Inquiry has been published at the Open Library of Humanities.  As we reported in May 2024, Theory and Social Inquiry is the successor of Theory and Society, a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Springer Nature that covers the…