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26 June 2025
Serving Communities, Not Corporate Shareholders
Posted by Dr Caroline Edwards
OLH Executive Director Dr Caroline Edwards was recently invited to attend an event organised by the N8 Research Partnership, the collective body for eight northern research intensive universities. Held at the University of York on 12 June 2025, this event celebrated the launch of a landmark stateme…
24 June 2025
OLH Welcomes Università della Svizzera italiana
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
The Open Library of Humanities is pleased to welcome a new supporting institution: the Università della Svizzera italiana. Established in 1996, Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) is one of the 12 certified public universities in Switzerland and a member of swissuniversities. With four campuse…
12 June 2025
OLH Welcomes Université catholique de Louvain
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
The Open Library of Humanities is pleased to welcome a new supporting institution: the Université catholique de Louvain. UCLouvain is Belgium's largest French-speaking university. Originally established in 1425, it is also one of the oldest Catholic universities in Europe. With campuses spread acro…
15 May 2025
CDRXIV Launches with Janeway as Technical Partner
Posted by OLH Janeway
We are pleased to share that CDRXIV, a new preprint server from CarbonPlan, has officially launched. CDRXIV is powered behind the scenes by Janeway, with the Open Library of Humanities providing technical infrastructure and development support. This project reflects Janeway’s flexibility as an open…
15 May 2025
Dr Caroline Edwards to Speak at the Open Science and Scholarship Festival 2025
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
We’re delighted to announce that our Executive Director, Dr Caroline Edwards, will be participating in the Open Science & Scholarship Festival 2025, organised in collaboration with LSE, the Francis Crick Institute and the UCL Office for Open Science & Scholarship. The festival will take pla…
24 April 2025
Field-defining journal on Energy Humanities moves to the OLH
Posted by Dr Caroline Edwards
The OLH is pleased to welcome a field-defining journal to its portfolio of leading humanities and social sciences titles. Energy Humanities, which will begin publishing at the OLH in 2026, is a rigorous, highly respected journal in the interdisciplinary field of energy studies. Influential scholars…

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9 June 2025
Reflections on My Time at the Open Library of Humanities
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
A blog post by Naomi Morris, CHASE Editorial, Marketing and Technical Intern for OLH What first drew me to the CHASE placement at OLH was their ethos around open access publishing. I have always been interested in working behind-the-scenes of editorial and publishing and had looked at other interns…
16 April 2025
International Labour Review inspires innovations in multilingual publishing at the OLH
Posted by Dr Katherine Parker-Hay
In March 2024, the OLH accepted an application from the International Labour Review (ILR), who have moved from legacy publisher Wiley and relaunched as a diamond open access journal with the OLH in April 2025. In this article, the OLH’s User Experience Researcher and Content Strategist Dr Katherine…
6 March 2025
On Clarivate’s Recent Announcement
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
Clarivate’s recent announcement has sparked significant concern among librarians and information professionals. The proposed changes could restrict libraries from securing perpetual access to print books and ebooks, forcing institutions into ongoing subscription-based agreements. This approach, whi…
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…

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29 June 2025
Winners of 2025 Flann O'Brien Awards Announced! 
Posted by International Flann O'Brien Society
Winners Announced! Every two years, to coincide with the International Flann O’Brien Society conference, the Society awards official prizes to the best article/book chapter and best single author or edited monograph on the writing, life, and reception of Brian O'Nolan published over a 2-year period…
21 June 2025
Orthodoxy and Popular Culture: Editorial for the March 2025 issue
Posted by Arthur C. Petersen
In this Editorial for the March 2025 issue [click here 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,…
19 June 2025
Students' Work-In-Progress Competition
Posted by RHETM Editorial Team
The editors and governing board of Review of the History of Economic Thought and Methodology (RHETM) are delighted to announce the third Students’ Work-In-Progress Competition.  The Students’ Work-In-Progress Competition offers an opportunity for students to work with RHETM’s experienced editors an…
2 June 2025
New Publication: Special Issue on Indigenous Speculative Fiction
Posted by Sascha Pöhlmann
Orbit is proud to announce the publication of a special issue devoted to Indigenous speculative fiction, edited by James Donahue. The critical introduction attempts a quick history by means of a thought experiment, highlighting the social and political work engaged by Indigenous speculative fiction…
16 April 2025
Worldviews and IRAS: Editorial for the December 2024 issue
Posted by Arthur C. Petersen
In this Editorial for the December 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 $7.01 (no-profit-to-journal price) through Amazon, choose for instance one of the following market places: US, UK, DE, FR…
13 April 2025
2025 International Flann O’Brien Society Awards Shortlist Announced!
Posted by The International Flann O’Brien Society
Sincere thanks to all who voted in the 2025 International Flann O’Brien Society Awards. The votes have been tallied and we are now delighted to announce the shortlisted candidates.  Based on the public votes, there are 3 shortlisted nominees in the Best Book category, and 5 shortlisted nominees for…