Announcements & blog.

Dear Colleagues, We are very excited to announce the launching of six inaugural papers on the new, peer reviewed, community owned, and fully open access journal Syntactic Theory and Research (STAR) published by the Open Library of Humanities (OLH). As you know, OLH is dedicated to publishing open a…

We are thrilled to announce that our Executive Director, Dr Caroline Edwards, has successfully applied for conferment of her academic title at Birkbeck, University of London. From 1st October 2025, Caroline’s new title will be Professor of Contemporary Literature & Culture. This conferment reco…

Congratulations to our very own Dr Paula Clemente Vega, who has been promoted to OLH Community Outreach Manager! Paula started working at OLH in 2018 and has built a successful career with us focussing on library outreach and advocacy. Many colleagues working in diamond open access publishing will …

We're thrilled to announce the launch issue of Theory and Social Inquiry has been published at the Open Library of Humanities.  As we reported in May 2024, Theory and Social Inquiry is the successor of Theory and Society, a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Springer Nature that covers the…

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…

    Body, Space & Technology, now in its twenty-fifth year of publication, is a leading online interdisciplinary journal, publishing on all aspects of contemporary arts practice.    The EBSCO indexed journal publishes non-themed refereed articles, artist-led perspectives on their practice, toge…

Would you like to know when new articles are published in Syntactic Theory and Research? There are a couple ways to get notified: • Register an account (https://star-linguistics.org/register/step/1/) and check the box labeled “Register for Article Notifications” • Follow our feeds on social media: …

We are very excited to announce the launching of six inaugural papers of STAR.  Stigliano, Laura. 2025. Mixed-identity requirements in ellipsis: the case of topic-remnant elided questions in Spanish. Syntactic Theory and Research 1.1. https://doi.org/10.16995/star.17534. Kovač, Iva & Schoenmak…

As editors of the Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry, we want first of all to state and then to amplify the gratitude that is owed to Scott Thurston for his work in co-founding and leading the journal over the course of 16 years. Scott’s editorship has established a unique and necessary…

We are delighted to announce that Dr Katie da Cunha Lewin and Dr Kiron Ward have been appointed to the Editorship of C21 Literature and that Sunayani Bhattacharya has been appointed to the Deputy Editor Team. Thanks to Dr Caroline Edwards and Professor Sîan Adiseshiah for their stalwart steering of…

The 1926 General Strike in Britain marked a powerful symbolic moment in the modern history of trade unionism. The sheer scale of the strike and its cross-industry solidarity reflected the central role that labor unions had come to play in shaping working-class identity and collective action. At the…