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An Fód Dúchais: Home, Heritage and Origins The 8th International Flann O’Brien Conference Alley Arts & Conference Centre, Strabane, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland 24-27th June 2025   Following successful conferences in Cluj (2023); Boston (2022); Dublin (2019); Salzburg (2017); Prague (2015); …

We are delighted to announce that Theory and Social Inquiry has launched with its new publisher, the Open Library of Humanities. The journal is now open to submissions on its new platform.

The Open Library of Humanities (OLH) is pleased to publish its 2023-2024 annual report. This covers the financial year from August 2023 to July 2024, a transitional period in our evolution as an academic-led diamond open access publisher.  In addition to our financial overview, the report outlines …

The launch party for Theory and Social Inquiry was held on the rooftop terrace of the Intercontinental Hotel in Montreal on August 10, 2024.  It featured lively discussions, a great turnout, and an almost too metaphorically perfect rainbow.  Thank you to everyone who made the party a great success…

The ILR/RIT journals is now published by the Open Library of Humanities.

  Body, Space & Technology, now in its twenty-fourth year of publication, is a leading online interdisciplinary journal, publishing on all aspects of contemporary arts practice.    The EBSCO indexed journal publishes non-themed refereed articles, artist-led perspectives on their practice, to…

The Open Library of Humanities is pleased to announce a new supporting institution, DePauw University. Founded in 1837, DePauw University is a private liberal arts college in Greencastle, Indiana, United States. Nationally recognized, DePauw provides a set of exceptional college experiences marked …

Earlier this year, the Open Library of Humanities announced 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. This year, our OLH Open Access awards have been awarded to three organi…

The International Flann O’Brien Society is delighted to announce the appointment of Maebh Long (University of Waikato) as the society’s new President. Dr Long is the author of the award-winning Assembling Flann O'Brien, the editor of the award-winning Collected Letters of Flann O'Brien, and a gener…

A message from our Executive Director, Dr Caroline Edwards Like many academic organisations, the OLH team has become increasingly alarmed at Elon Musk’s behaviour following his acquisition of Twitter almost two years ago. Since Musk fired 80% of Twitter’s staff in early 2023, we have noticed a shar…

To allow for more submissions and considering everybody's hectic summer schedule the special issue editors extend the deadline to 31st of October.  We hope this way potential authors feel encouraged to submit their work. If submitting to the collection, please don't forget to mention your submissio…

We are very pleased to announce that we have recently welcomed our first UK Platinum super-supporter to our library board, the University of Leeds. Founded in 1904, The University of Leeds is a public research university in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. The university is among the Russell Group o…