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Results of OLH library board
Posted by Paula Clemente Vega on 2023-08-24
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 process this summer. We are very happy to announce our 15 newly elected Library Board members who will [...]
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OLH Executive Director Caroline Edwards Elected to the OASPA Board of Directors
Posted by Paula Clemente Vega on 2023-07-12
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 Susan Murray from African Journals Online, Sofie Wennström from Stockholm University Press, and [...]
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Join the OLH / Janeway team – We are recruiting a Publishing Technologies Librarian
Posted by Paula Clemente Vega on 2023-07-03
Join the OLH / Janeway team – We are recruiting a Publishing Technologies LibrarianThe Open Library of Humanities (OLH) is seeking an enthusiastic individual with an IT and/or Publishing background to join our award-winning team in running the Janeway publishing platform.Joining our existing team of three developers we are looking for a staff member to help us with our outreach and support [...]
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Nominations now open for the OLH Library Board
Posted by Paula Clemente Vega on 2023-05-16
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 academic good of the research that we publish. This mission is shared by hundreds of stakeholders who [...]
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University of Tennessee joins OLH LPS Model
Posted by Paula Clemente Vega on 2023-04-18
We are pleased to announce that the University of Tennessee, Knoxville has joined the Open Library of Humanities' (OLH) Library Partnership Subsidy system. The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is the flagship land-grant university of the state of Tennessee. Founded as Blount College in 1794, two years before Tennessee became a state, UT Knoxville has grown into the state’s premier public [...]
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The University of Delaware Joins OLH LPS Model
Posted by Paula Clemente Vega on 2023-03-30
We are pleased to announce that the University of Delaware has joined the Open Library of Humanities' (OLH) Library Partnership Subsidy system. With roots dating back to 1743, the University of Delaware is one of the oldest universities in the U.S. Originally founded as a seminary in New London, Pennsylvania, the school had relocated and gone through several name changes before it officially [...]
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Braunschweig University Library joins OLH LPS Model
Posted by Paula Clemente Vega on 2023-03-24
We are pleased to announce that the University Library of TU Braunschweig has joined the Open Library of Humanities' (OLH) Library Partnership Subsidy system. Technische Universität Braunschweig, commonly referred to as TU Braunschweig, is the oldest Institute of Technology in Germany. The university was founded in 1745 as Collegium Carolinum and is a member of TU9, an incorporated [...]
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The OLH Open Access Award 2023: call for applications
Posted by Paula Clemente Vega on 2023-02-01
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 scholars and disciplines and to knowledge worldwide. The Open Library of Humanities is an [...]
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CHASE placement opportunity at the Open Library of Humanities to assist with Editorial, Marketing and Technical duties
Posted by Paula Clemente Vega on 2022-11-09
CHASE placement opportunity at the Open Library of Humanities to assist with Editorial, Marketing and Technical dutiesThe Open Library of Humanities is seeking a PhD student to assist with editorial, marketing and technical duties as part of our small, hardworking team. The placement is available to arts and humanities PhD students at CHASE member institutions. The position is fully set up for [...]
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Janeway Systems partners with three more institutions to migrate their journals
Posted by Paula Clemente Vega on 2022-05-25
We are very pleased to announce that Janeway, our in-house publishing platform, has partnered with three more institutions to migrate their journals: Ghent University Library, the University of Iowa Libraries and Washington University in St Louis. These three new partnerships with Janeway will provide publishing infrastructure for the submission, curation, processing and preservation of the open [...]
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Migration of OLH journals to Janeway completed
Posted by Paula Clemente Vega on 2022-03-04
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 publishers, such as Quaker Studies and Francospheres by Liverpool University Press, are now all [...]
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Le foucaldien relaunched as GENEALOGY+CRITIQUE
Posted by Paula Clemente Vega on 2022-01-21
From 2022, the peer-reviewed, open-access journal Le foucaldien, published by the London-based Open Library of Humanities (OLH), and the affiliated foucaultblog appear under the new title GENEALOGY+CRITIQUE at genealogy-critique.net. The relaunch broadens the scope of the journal and its blog by including various approaches of historical-genealogical research and critical theory [...]
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New OLH poster, the Barbara Kruger Poster
Posted by Paula Clemente Vega on 2021-11-24
New journal flipping poster available to download, print and share!Following the success of our previous poster, the Comics Superheroes Poster, we are delighted to be able to launch our next poster of the journal flipping series, the Barbara Kruger Poster. This new poster is inspired in the artist's iconic feminist work Untitled (Your body is a battleground), created in 1989 for the Women's March [...]
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New OLH poster, the Comic Superheroes Poster
Posted by Paula Clemente Vega on 2021-11-11
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 Superheroes Poster. Designed by the talented graphic designer, Nicky Borowiec, the poster celebrates [...]
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Janeway partners with Next Generation Library Publishing (NGLP) project
Posted by Paula Clemente Vega on 2021-11-02
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 software components developed through the Next Generation Library Publishing project.Janeway is our [...]
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