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23 January 2025
OLH Welcomes Linnaeus University
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
The Open Library of Humanities is pleased to welcome a new supporting institution, Linnaeus University (LNU). LNU is a state university located in the Swedish region of Småland, with campuses in Växjö and Kalmar. Established in 2010 through the merger of Växjö University and Kalmar University (Högs…
20 January 2025
The OLH Open Access Award 2025: call for applications
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
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 2025, a fund dedicated to promoting the benefits and impact of open access to humanities scholars and disciplines and to knowledge worldwide.  The Open …
19 December 2024
OLH Welcomes the University of North Dakota
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
The Open Library of Humanities is pleased to announce a new supporting institution, the University of North Dakota (UND). UND is a public research university in Grand Forks, North Dakota. It was established by the Dakota Territorial Assembly in 1883, six years before the establishment of the state …
9 December 2024
OLH welcomes the National Library of the Netherlands as a Silver super-supporter
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
We are very pleased to announce that we have recently welcomed the KB National Library of the Netherlands as a new Silver super-supporter. The National Library of the Netherlands (in Dutch: KB nationale bibliotheek) is based in The Hague and was founded in 1798. Its mission is to contribute to a sm…
2 December 2024
OLH Welcomes the University of Klagenfurt
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
The Open Library of Humanities is pleased to announce a new supporting institution, the University of Klagenfurt (AAU). AAU is the largest academic institution in Carinthia, Austria, and a hub for the whole of the Alps-Adriatic region in terms of knowledge acquisition, exchange and transfer. Establ…
26 November 2024
OLH Welcomes the University of Greifswald
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
The Open Library of Humanities is pleased to announce a new supporting institution, the University of Greifswald. Founded in 1456 in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany, the University of Greifswald is one of Europe’s oldest and the fourth oldest in present-day Germany. With over 10,000 students…

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27 January 2025
Enhancing Grassroots - Journal of Political Ecology with an OLH Grant
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
The OLH Open Access Award 2023 awardee’s report: Grassroots - Journal of Political Ecology.  An Open Insights report by Meenakshi N Ambujam, Swiss National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of International Development, University of Oxford, and Editor at Grassroots. In the 2023 OL…
14 October 2024
Promoting Post45 Journal with an OLH Grant
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
Promoting Post45 Journal with an OLH Grant The OLH Open Access Award 2023 awardee’s report: Post45 Journal An Open Insights report by Post45 Journal co-editors Annie McClanahan, Associate Professor of English at UC Irvine, and Arthur Z. Wang, Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Penns…
5 February 2024
Open Access = Access for All.
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
A blog post by Dr Steph Driver, OLH’s new accessibility specialist developer. "Nothing about us without us" is the central tenant of disability rights movements across the globe. I am but one disabled voice. I can code. I can facilitate. I can advocate, but to make Janeway accessible we need t…
18 October 2023
Dawn of the Zombie Journal: New Poster Celebrates History of OA Community Activism
Posted by Katherine Parker-Hay
To celebrate Open Access Week 2023 (and its proximity to Halloween), the OLH is launching the Zombie Poster. This commemorates the term ‘zombie journal’, first used by linguists in 2015 following the mass resignation of editors at the Elsevier journal Lingua. Protesting Elsevier’s claim to ‘own’ th…
31 March 2023
Research into Janeway user needs during copyediting
Posted by Joseph Muller and Katherine Parker-Hay
 A blog post by Joseph Muller, Publishing Technologies Developer for JanewayJoseph Muller is a developer working on the Janeway project. In this blog post, he explores a move towards human-centred software design, informed by User Experience research, that the OLH are experimenting with i…
29 November 2022
A Year with the Open Library of Humanities
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
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 place…

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17 January 2025
Ali Smith Special Issue
Posted by Dr Caroline Edwards
We're delighted to have published a special issue on the narraitve ethics of Ali Smith's Seasonal Quartet, edited by Agnes Andeweg (Utrecht University) and Jesse van Amelsvoort (University of Amsterdam). The articles published in this special issue originated at the MLA International Symposium held…
21 December 2024
Religious Robots: Editorial for the September 2024 issue
Posted by Arthur C. Petersen
In this Editorial for the September 2024 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 $8.43 (no-profit-to-journal price) through Amazon, choose for instance one of the following market places: US, UK, DE, FR…
27 November 2024
Call for Contributions: Special issue on Thomas Pynchon in Eastern Europe: Translation, Dissemination, Reception
Posted by Sascha Pöhlmann
Guest editors: Sergej Macura (University of Belgrade), Gábor Tamás Molnár (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest) The international reception of Thomas Pynchon’s work has not received much scholarly attention, even though Pynchon is generally recognized as one of the most influential American prose wr…
28 October 2024
Replication in the Humanities: Editorial for the June 2024 issue
Posted by Arthur C. Petersen
This 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 $6.75 (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, JP, CA or AU]…
5 October 2024
An Fód Dúchais: Home, Heritage and Origins
Posted by Ruben Borg
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); …
3 October 2024
Theory and Social Inquiry Launches with the Open Library of Humanities
Posted by The Theory and Social Inquiry Editorial Team
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.