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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 2024, a fund dedicated to promoting the benefits and impact of open access to humanities scholars and disciplines and to knowledge worldwide. The O…

Caroline EdwardsWelcome to our new website! We've spent the past year thoroughly revamping our online presence. This began with user experience research, which led to a site audit, brand refresh, and a rebuild of the entire site structure. The new design pays tribute to the OLH's political roots an…

Winners of the OLH Open Access Award 2023 announcedEarlier this year, the Open Library of Humanities announced 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. Our OLH Open Access …

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 pro…

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…

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 ac…

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 scho…

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…

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 in…

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'…

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…

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…