Announcements & blog.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…