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6 July 2026
Nordic Journal of African Studies (NJAS) moves to the Open Library of Humanities
Posted by Dr 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… -
30 June 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 Dr 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… -
12 May 2026
The University of Porto joins the Open Library of Humanities
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente VegaThe Open Library of Humanities is pleased to welcome a new supporting institution: The University of Porto. With origins dating back to the 18th century, the University of Porto is a leading teaching and scientific research institution in Portugal and worldwide. It is the second largest Portuguese … -
6 May 2026
Janeway launches new website and brand identity
Posted by OLH JanewayWe are thrilled to announce the launch of Janeway’s newly redesigned website and brand identity, which you can explore here. Over the past two years, we’ve been rethinking how Janeway, our open-source publishing platform, presents itself online. We recognised that our digital presence needed to evo…
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2 July 2026
A Call to Libraries: Redirect Funding, Rebuild Scholarly Publishing
Posted by Dr 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… -
29 March 2026
Reimagining Robin Hood: Scholarly Publishing as a Site of Struggle
Posted by Dr 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… -
26 March 2026
THE LONG READ Infrastructure Landlords: The Rentier Capitalism of Commercial Academic Publishers
Posted by Posted by OLHTHE LONG READ Infrastructure Landlords: The Rentier Capitalism of Commercial Academic Publishers This piece has been written by a friend of the OLH who wishes to remain anonymous. Figure. Pyramid of the Capitalist System (1911), attributed to Nedeljkovich, Brashich, and Kuharich. Originally publis… -
16 March 2026
From User Stories to High-Quality Data: Implementing ROR on the Janeway Platform
Posted by Joe MullerJoe Muller, Senior Publishing Technologies Developer at the Open Library of Humanities, tells us in this case study how and why the Janeway platform uses ROR, ensuring unambiguous author affiliations by retrieving ROR IDs from ORCID profiles as well as allowing authors to find their institution wit…
News from our journals.
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30 June 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 -
12 June 2026
Coronavirus, Psychoanalysis, and Philosophy: Conversations on Pandemics, Politics and Society
Posted by OLH JanewayBook publication Coronavirus, Psychoanalysis, and Philosophy Conversations on Pandemics, Politics and Society Edited By Fernando Castrillón & Thomas Marchevsky London Routledge 2021, ISBN 9780367713669 https://www.routledge.com/Coronavirus-Psychoanalysis-and-Philosophy-Conversations-on-Pandemi… -
12 June 2026
In Freud’s Tracks: Conversations from the Journal of European Psychoanalysis
Posted by OLH JanewayIn Freud’s Tracks: Conversations from the Journal of European Psychoanalysis (Jason Aronson, 2008) Edited by Sergio Benvenuto and Anthony Molino Nominated for a Gradiva Award, 2010. https://rowman.com/isbn/9780765706300/in-freud’s-tracks-conversations-from-the-journal-of-european-psychoanalysis