Announcements & blog.

The Open Library of Humanities is pleased to announce a new member, Birmingham City University. With its history dating back to the 1880s, Birmingham City University is situated within the heart of England’s second city. It gained university status in 1992, the same year work commenced on a new bu…

The Open Library of Humanities is very pleased to announce the launch of a new journal, Theory and Social Inquiry, on our in-house publishing platform Janeway. Theory and Social Inquiry is the successor of Theory and Society, a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Springer Nature that covers…

The Open Library of Humanities has made substantial investments over the past few months, including hiring additional staff to improve our open-source platform, meet website accessibility standards, build our journals portfolio, and launch a new publisher website to clarify the work that the organi…

The Open Library of Humanities is pleased to announce a new member, the University of South Florida. Founded in 1956, the University of South Florida (USF) is a public research university located in the Tampa Bay region, with campuses in Tampa, St. Petersburg and Sarasota-Manatee in the United Stat…

We are very pleased to announce that the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt has joined the Open Library of Humanities' (OLH) Library Partnership Subsidy system. The Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (KU) is the only Catholic university in Germany and one of over 200 Catholic univ…

The team are excited to announce our new podcast, The Engineering Deck: A Podcast for the Janeway User Community. In each episode, host Dr Katherine Parker-Hay, who works on user experience, will chat with our lead software engineers about the most significant updates to the Janeway codebase. We wa…

Brave New Worlds: Brian O’Nolan and Aldous Huxley  7–8 February 2025, Aldous Huxley Centre, Zürich Keynote speakers Dr. Maebh Long (University of Waikato)Editor of The Collected Letters of Flann O’Brien and author of Assembling Flann O’Brien Professor Dana Sawyer (Maine College of Art & Desi…

Prior to its first issue, which will appear in early 2025, Syntactic Theory and Research (STAR) is now open for submissions.  

The former Senior Editors of Theory and Society cordially invite you to a Launch Party at ASA for our new journal, Theory and Social Inquiry.  The Launch Party will be held from 6-9 pm on Saturday, August 10 on the rooftop terrace of the Intercontinental Hotel in Montreal.  For background on the ne…

The first issue with the new publisher, Open Library of Humanities, is out! [Click here to browse the issue online; click here to view and download a PDF of the entire issue; and to order a printed copy for $8.61 (no-profit-to-journal price) through Amazon, choose one of the following market places…

 Marvell Studies 9.1 contains articles by James Grantham Turner on Marvell as a reader of Milton and by Jack Avery on John Aubrey as a reader of Marvell’s poetry. It also includes a review of Steven Swarbrick’s The Environmental Unconscious: Ecological Poetics from Spenser to Milto…

The Journal is deeply saddened to hear the news of the passing of Marjorie Perloff, one of the most distinguished critics of innovative poetry of her generation, and a founding member of the journal's editorial board, at her home in California. She was 92. It's hard to imagine what the reception of…