Announcements & blog.

Reimagining 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…

Today we celebrate the 10th anniversary of Glossa, one of our diamond open access linguistics journals. The history of Glossa is closely intertwined with that of the Open Library of Humanities. It was one of our first journal flips in 2015, when OLH launched with just seven journals and 100 support…

The Open Library of Humanities is pleased to welcome a new supporting institution: The University of Salzburg.   The University of Salzburg is a comprehensive public research university located in the UNESCO World Heritage city of Salzburg, Austria. Founded in 1622 and re-established in 1962, the u…

We are pleased to announce that Regeneration; Environment, Art, Culture, published by the Open Library of Humanities, has won the 2025 Best New Journal Award from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ).  Regeneration: Environment, Art, Culture is an open-access, double anonymous peer-rev…

The Open Library of Humanities is pleased to welcome a new supporting institution: Hollins University. Hollins University offers rigorous liberal arts education for undergraduate students from its 475-acre campus in Virginia’s beautiful Roanoke Valley. Founded in 1842, Hollins was one of the earlie…

The Open Library of Humanities (OLH) is delighted to announce that it has published its Artificial Intelligence (AI) Policy following more than a year-long consultation process with our journals' editorial teams. You can read the policy here. The policy details the OLH's stance that responsible and…

  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 $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, …

Ekphrasis, the verbal representation of visual representation, is one of art’s oldest preoccupations. Over the past decade, we have seen a rise in British and Irish innovative ekphrastic poetry and visual art that responds to poetry. Concurrently, there has been a new wave of interest in the effica…

C21 is inviting scholars and researchers to contribute book review essays for upcoming issues. We currently have a selection of titles published in 2025 available for review, spanning film and media studies, cultural studies, and gender and sexuality studies. We invite prospective authors to submit…

  In this Editorial for the December 2025 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, F…

From October until December 2025 C21 Literature hosted an Open Access Academic Publishing and Academic Communication intern through the StARIS programme at St Andrews University. Our intern, Ines Tramarin, worked on various aspects of our social media strategy. As she's concluded her time with us n…

Editorial processes have been resumed at our editorial HQ and Volume 16 (2026) will be published on a rolling basis as soon as articles become ready. Volume 16 can be found at https://www.comicsgrid.com/issue/1782/info/.https://www.comicsgrid.com/issue/1782/info/. As you know, the Special Collectio…