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24 July 2026
OLH partners with the UK's leading group of science museums
Posted by Professor Caroline EdwardsWe’re delighted to announce that the Science Museum Group Journal will join OLH in Autumn 2026. This engaging publication is the official journal for the five national UK museums in the Science Museum Group – the Science Museum in London, the National Railway Museum in York, Locomotion in County Du… -
16 July 2026
The Hythe Review first issue with OLH
Posted by Paula Clemente VegaWe are thrilled to announce the publications of the first issue of The Hythe Review with the Open Library of Humanities. The Hythe Review joined OLH in 2025, when the Open Library of Humanities partnered with award-winning poetry publisher the87press to relaunch its flagship poetry journal. The fir… -
6 July 2026
Nordic Journal of African Studies (NJAS) moves to the Open Library of Humanities
Posted by Paula Clemente VegaWe are thrilled to welcome another diamond open access journal to the Open Library of Humanities: Nordic Journal of African Studies (NJAS). NJAS is an interdisciplinary African Studies journal that publishes original empirical and theoretical research in the social sciences, cultural and historical… -
1 July 2026
OLH welcomes Medieval Sermon Studies
Posted by OLHWe are pleased to welcome another journal to our portfolio, Medieval Sermon Studies, which is moving from Taylor & Francis to the Open Library of Humanities and will be published under a diamond open access model. Medieval Sermon Studies is an international, peer-reviewed journal published annu… -
2 June 2026
New Open Access Journal to Launch Following Resignation of Editorial Team from Natural Language Semantics
Posted by Professor Caroline EdwardsThe Open Library of Humanities is pleased to announce the launch of a new diamond open access journal in linguistics, following the resignation of the editorial team of Natural Language Semantics (NLS) from Springer Nature. The editors are launching a new journal, Semantics of Natural Languages, wi… -
12 May 2026
The University of Essex joins the Open Library of Humanities
Posted by Paula Clemente VegaThe Open Library of Humanities is pleased to welcome a new supporting institution, the University of Essex. The University of Essex is committed to making change happen through research and education, and boasts a diverse global community of staff and students from more than 140 countries, an expa…
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29 July 2026
Data as a Story Exhibition
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente VegaData as a Story Exhibition The OLH Open Access Award 2025 Awardee Report, authored by Amie Longthorne, Open Data Management Specialist, Liverpool John Moores University The idea and getting started At Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) we have been proactive raising awareness across all areas… -
22 July 2026
OLH Interview with Semantics of Natural Languages (SNL)
Posted by Dr Maddie SinclairIn this interview, we speak with the editorial team at Semantics of Natural Languages about the journal's transition to diamond open access, the research communities that inspired their approach, and the importance of collective participation in scholarly publishing. OLH: Thank you for agreeing to … -
2 July 2026
A Call to Libraries: Redirect Funding, Rebuild Scholarly Publishing
Posted by Paula Clemente VegaTwo months ago, we launched our Robin Hood poster as a call to reimagine scholarly communication beyond commercial control. The campaign encourages libraries to redirect even a small proportion of their expenditure away from the big five commercial publishers and towards community-owned, diamond op… -
24 June 2026
Constellations of Open Access: Reflections on a Year at the Open Library of Humanities
Posted by OLHA blog post by Emily Gresham Beamer, CHASE Doctoral Training Partnership Intern When I set out to choose the organisation for my CHASE Doctoral Partnership placement year, the Open Library of Humanities (OLH) was at the top of my list, drawn as I was to the OLH’s open access publication model of co… -
13 April 2026
The Making of OLH's AI Policy
Posted by Dr Simon EverettIn January 2026, the Open Library of Humanities (OLH) published the first iteration of our Artificial Intelligence (AI) Policy in response to the growing need for guidance on the use of generative AI in scholarly publishing. The journey to producing a workable policy for all our journals has been m… -
30 March 2026
Reimagining Robin Hood: Scholarly Publishing as a Site of Struggle
Posted by Paula Clemente VegaReimagining Robin Hood: Scholarly Publishing as a Site of Struggle Wanted. Not a person, but a principle: that knowledge should be free. Download JPG Download PDF A4 Download PDF A3 With this poster, the Open Library of Humanities reimagines Robin Hood for scholarly communications, not as a nost…
News from our journals.
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30 July 2026
CFP: Racing After Technology
Posted by Al EvangelistaCALL FOR PROPOSALS Racing After Technology: Asian American Digital Choreographies and Embodied Research in an Anti-Black World Guest Editor: Al Evangelista, Oberlin College The Journal of Embodied Research (JER) invites videographic submissions (3-20 minutes in length) for a special issue on how ra… -
21 July 2026
Call for OLHJ Special Collection Articles: Restor(y)ing the Archive: Explorations of Storytelling as a Critical Praxis
Posted by Kamila Krakowska Rodrigues, Bram Ieven, Sanne Rotmeijer and Bareez MajidAlthough storytelling is usually not seen as one of the core tasks of traditional institutional archives, through their selection processes and ways of organising archival material these archives do have a significant impact on the directions that stories of cultural heritage can take. And like man… -
1 July 2026Editorial for the June 2026 issue
Posted by Arthur C. PetersenThis issue [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 $9.99 (no-profit-to-journal price) through Amazon, choose for instance one of the following market places: US, UK, DE, FR, ES, IT, NL, PL, SE, BE, IE, JP, C… -
12 June 2026EJP joining the Open Library of the Humanities!
Posted by Winter 2026The EJP has been accepted to be a part of the Open Library of the Humanities! By joining with OLH, we have not only secured a sound and generative future for the journal, but their open-source publishing platform allows us to focus our efforts on what matters most to us: reviewing submissions, laun… -
12 June 2026
Against the Grain: Emergent Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Autism
Posted by Spring 2026Surveying the cutting-edge of psychoanalytic thinking, this new Feature seeks to highlight the brilliance of contemporary approaches to autism that contest the established hegemony of cognitive-behavioral methodologies. -
12 June 2026
Conversations with Lacan: Seven Lectures for Understanding Lacan
Posted by OLH JanewayConversations with Lacan: Seven Lectures for Understanding Lacan by Sergio Benvenuto Published December 17, 2019 by Routledge 198 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations ISBN 9780367148812 https://www.routledge.com/Conversations-with-Lacan-Seven-Lectures-for-Understanding-Lacan/Benvenuto/p/book/9780367148812
