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3 February 2022
Open Insights: An interview with Adrian Curtin and Adam Whittaker
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
Representing Classical Music in the Twenty-First CenturyAn Open Insights interview with Adrian Curtin and Adam Whittaker Dr Adam Whittaker is Head of Pedagogy and a Lecturer in Music at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and is an internationally rec…
25 January 2022
Open Licensing and the Open Library of Humanities
Posted by Martin Paul Eve
In the humanities disciplines, Creative Commons licensing has been among the most contentious aspects of open access. Historians have raised concerns about the re-contextualisation of their scholarship by extreme political groups and art historians have been worried about the potential implications…
16 December 2021
Open Insights: Solving The Biggest Problem with Open Access with an OLH Grant
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
The OLH Open Access Award 2020 awardee’s report: the Open Access Digital Theological LibrarySolving The Biggest Problem with Open Access with an OLH GrantAn Open Insights essay by Thomas E. Phillips, Digital Theological LibraryThe Open Access Digital Theological Library (OADTL), the only fully Open…
24 November 2021
New OLH poster, the Barbara Kruger Poster
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
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'…
18 November 2021
OLH welcomes the University of Manchester as a gold super-supporter
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
We are very pleased to announce that we have recently welcomed a new gold super-supporter to our library board, the University of Manchester. Part of the prestigious Russell Group of universities, the University of Manchester is a highly respected centre of teaching excellence and innovative resear…
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…
19 October 2021
The Open Library of Humanities welcomes four more higher tier supporters
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
We are pleased to announce that we have recently welcomed four new higher tier super-supporters to our library board: Lancaster University, University of Glasgow, University of Edinburgh and University of Southampton. They have been awarded one of our higher tier supporter badges in recognition of …
1 October 2021
Open Insights: Open Access Scientific Journals – The Beginning of an Era
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
The OLH Open Access Award 2020 awardee’s report: the National Library of Kosovo Open Access Scientific Journals – The Beginning of an Era An Open Insights essay by Zaide Krapi, National Library of Kosovo Last year, we applied to the Open Library of Humanities Open Access Award 2020, a new…
21 September 2021
Mentorship, open access and violin memes: my time as an intern at the Open Library of Humanities
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
Mentorship, open access and violin memes: my time as an intern at the Open Library of Humanities - a blog post by Francesca TambelliniMy name is Francesca Tambellini, and from 28 June to 9 July 2021, I became the Open Library of Humanities’ first ever intern. I am originally fr…
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…
20 July 2021
Open Insights: Open Access Scientific Journals – The Beginning of an Era
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
The OLH Open Access Award 2020 awardee’s report: the National Library of KosovoOpen Access Scientific Journals – The Beginning of an EraAn Open Insights essay by Zaide Krapi, Head of the Periodical Sector, National Library of KosovoFirstly, on behalf of the National Library of Kosovo, I would like …
15 June 2021
Recording of the third Comics Grid Webinar on Graphic Science and Narrative Drawing
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
The Comics Grid Webinar Series - Live Chats on Comics Scholarship Graphic Science and Narrative Drawing: A Comics Grid Webinar with Lydia Wysocki and Paul Fisher Davies.You can now watch the recording of our third Comics Grid webinar on Graphic Science and Narrative Drawing organised on June 1…