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A Year with the Open Library of Humanities
Posted by Paula Clemente Vega on 2022-11-29
A Year with the Open Library of Humanities A blog post by Lindsey Beth Zelvin, CHASE Editorial, Marketing and Technical Intern for OLHLindsey Beth Zelvin is the CHASE Editorial, Marketing and Technical Intern for the Open Library of Humanities. She is coming to the end of a yearlong placement with OLH which she began in November 2021. Lindsey is in the second year of her PhD in [...]
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Open Insights: Choosing the Open Library of Humanities journal (OLHJ) as the Publisher for your Special Collection
Posted by Katherine Ruth Parker-Hay on 2022-09-14
Choosing OLHJ as the Publisher for your Special Collection An Open Insights blog post by Katherine Parker-HayKatherine Parker-Hay is an Editorial Officer for the Open Library of Humanities where she oversees editorial processes and production. She has a PhD from the University of Sussex and has been involved with various research projects seeking to make universities more equitable and [...]
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Open Insights: An interview with Bettina Bildhauer, Camilla Røstvik and Sharra Vostral
Posted by Katherine Ruth Parker-Hay on 2022-07-12
The Politics and History of Menstruation: Contextualising the Scottish Campaign to End Period Poverty An Open Insights Interview with Bettina Bildhauer, Camilla Røstvik and Sharra VostralFeatured image: Matriline by Bibo Keeley, digital image, 2016Bettina Bildhauer (BB) is Professor of German at University of St Andrews, Camilla Mørk Røstvik (CMR) is Lecturer in Modern & Contemporary Art [...]
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Open Insights: Early Career Researchers and the Importance of Open Access
Posted by Paula Clemente Vega on 2022-05-24
Early Career Researchers and the Importance of Open AccessAn Open Insights blog post by Lindsey Beth Zelvin Lindsey Beth Zelvin is the CHASE Editorial, Marketing and Technical Intern for the Open Library of Humanities. She began this placement in November 2021. Lindsey is in the first year of her PhD in Narrative Nonfiction at the University of Kent in Canterbury. Her work investigates the [...]
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Open Insights: An interview with Adrian Curtin and Adam Whittaker
Posted by Paula Clemente Vega on 2022-02-03
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 recognised scholar in musicology and music education. Dr Adrian Curtin is a senior lecturer in the [...]
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Open Insights: Social Work and the Necessity of Open Access
Posted by Paula Clemente Vega on 2021-01-18
Social Work and the Necessity of Open AccessAn Open Insights essay by Daniel J. DunleavyDaniel J. Dunleavy (PhD in Social Work) is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Translational Behavioral Science at Florida State University's College of Medicine. In addition to his interests in behavioral health and public health policy, he has interest in the philosophy of science, open science, [...]
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Open Insights: An Interview with Johan Rooryck, Open Access Champion for cOAlition S
Posted by Paula Clemente Vega on 2020-04-28
An Open Insights interview with Johan Rooryck, Open Access Champion for cOAlition SJohan Rooryck is Open Access Champion for cOAlition S. He is Professor of French Linguistics at Leiden University (The Netherlands). He has over 20 years’ experience as an editor, first as the Executive Editor of Lingua (Elsevier) and since 2015 as the co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Fair Open Access journal [...]
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On Consortial Funding Models for Open Access in 2020 and Beyond
Posted by Paula Clemente Vega on 2020-04-27
On Consortial Funding Models for Open Access in 2020 and BeyondWe were pleased, recently, to be able to publish an article on what we have learned from the first half-decade of running the Open Library of Humanities: Eve, Martin, Paula Vega, and Caroline Edwards, ‘Lessons From the Open Library of Humanities’, LIBER Quarterly, 30.1 (2020), 1–18 <https://doi.org/10.18352/lq.10327>. As you [...]
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Open Insights: An Interview with Ignasi Labastida
Posted by Paula Clemente Vega on 2019-11-04
Licensed to Open: An Open Insights Interview with Ignasi LabastidaIgnasi Labastida (PhD in Physics) is Head of the Research Unit at the University of Barcelona's Learning and Research Resources Centre (CRAI) where he also directs the Office for the Dissemination of Knowledge. He is a member of the Steering Committee of Info and Open Access Policy Group at the LERU (League of European [...]
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Open Insights: An Interview with Jeroen Sondervan
Posted by Paula Clemente Vega on 2019-09-20
An Open Insights interview with Jeroen SondervanJeroen Sondervan is Open Access Publishing Consultant for Utrecht University and currently appointed as project leader open access for the UU Open Science Programme. He has been a commissioning editor for Amsterdam University Press from 2007 until 2016. For over 10 years he has been working on open access journals and monographs, with a special [...]
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Open Insights: An interview with Helen Saunders, OLH Editorial Officer
Posted by Paula Clemente Vega on 2019-07-05
An Open Insights interview with Helen Saunders, OLH Editorial OfficerHelen Saunders is Editorial Officer at Open Library of Humanities which she joined in September 2018 having previously worked at Bloomsbury Academic. She completed her PhD at King’s College London in 2017, writing on modernist literature and fashion, with a particular interest in James Joyce, and is currently preparing her first [...]
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Open Insights: An Interview with Martin Paul Eve, Andy Byers and Mauro Sanchez
Posted by Paula Clemente Vega on 2019-06-07
An Open Insights interview with Martin Paul Eve, Andy Byers and Mauro SanchezJaneway is a free, open source publishing platform developed by the Centre for Technology and Publishing at Birkbeck to support the Open Library of Humanities' goals. Professor Martin Paul Eve, Co-Director of the OLH serves as the Project Lead for Janeway. Andy Byers and Mauro Sanchez, both Senior Publishing Technology [...]
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Open Insights: Entrevista con Arianna Becerril
Posted by Paula Clemente Vega on 2019-05-15
AmeliCA, Conocimiento Abierto para Latinoámerica y el Sur Global Entrevista con Arianna BecerrilArianna Becerril-García es Profesora-Investigadora titular de la Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales de la Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México. También es Directora Ejecutiva de Redalyc, la Red de Revistas Científicas de América Latina y el Caribe, España y Portugal, y Presidenta de [...]
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Open Insights: An Interview with Arianna Becerril
Posted by Paula Clemente Vega on 2019-05-14
AmeliCA, Open Knowledge for Latin America and the Global South An Open Insights interview with Arianna BecerrilArianna Becerril-García is a Professor in the School of Political and Social Sciences at the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico. She is also the Executive Director of Redalyc project (Red de Revistas Científicas de América Latina y El Caribe, España y Portugal) and the [...]
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Launching the OLH Advocacy Network
Posted by Paula Clemente Vega on 2019-01-24
In 2018 the OLH launched the EmpowOA programme, designed to provide scholars and librarians working in the humanities with tools, spaces and cogent arguments about open access. Visitors to the website can now make use of a collection of advocacy resources and read our new Open Insights series featuring interviews and opinion pieces from a rich variety of scholars and librarians within the [...]
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