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2 December 2024
OLH Welcomes the University of Klagenfurt
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
The Open Library of Humanities is pleased to announce a new supporting institution, the University of Klagenfurt (AAU). AAU is the largest academic institution in Carinthia, Austria, and a hub for the whole of the Alps-Adriatic region in terms of knowledge acquisition, exchange and transfer. Establ…
26 November 2024
OLH Welcomes the University of Greifswald
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
The Open Library of Humanities is pleased to announce a new supporting institution, the University of Greifswald. Founded in 1456 in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany, the University of Greifswald is one of Europe’s oldest and the fourth oldest in present-day Germany. With over 10,000 students…
25 November 2024
OLH Welcomes the University of North Dakota
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
The Open Library of Humanities is pleased to announce a new supporting institution, the University of North Dakota (UND). UND is a public research university in Grand Forks, North Dakota. It was established by the Dakota Territorial Assembly in 1883, six years before the establishment of the state …
1 October 2024
OLH annual report 2023-2024
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
The Open Library of Humanities (OLH) is pleased to publish its 2023-2024 annual report. This covers the financial year from August 2023 to July 2024, a transitional period in our evolution as an academic-led diamond open access publisher.  In addition to our financial overview, the report outlines …
10 September 2024
OLH Welcomes DePauw University
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
The Open Library of Humanities is pleased to announce a new supporting institution, DePauw University. Founded in 1837, DePauw University is a private liberal arts college in Greencastle, Indiana, United States. Nationally recognized, DePauw provides a set of exceptional college experiences marked …
10 September 2024
Winners of the OLH Open Access Award 2024 announced
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
Earlier this year, the Open Library of Humanities announced the OLH Open Access Award 2024, a fund dedicated to promoting the benefits and impact of open access to humanities scholars and disciplines and to knowledge worldwide. This year, our OLH Open Access awards have been awarded to three organi…

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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…
18 October 2023
Dawn of the Zombie Journal: New Poster Celebrates History of OA Community Activism
Posted by Katherine Parker-Hay
To celebrate Open Access Week 2023 (and its proximity to Halloween), the OLH is launching the Zombie Poster. This commemorates the term ‘zombie journal’, first used by linguists in 2015 following the mass resignation of editors at the Elsevier journal Lingua. Protesting Elsevier’s claim to ‘own’ th…
31 March 2023
Research into Janeway user needs during copyediting
Posted by Joseph Muller and Katherine Parker-Hay
 A blog post by Joseph Muller, Publishing Technologies Developer for JanewayJoseph Muller is a developer working on the Janeway project. In this blog post, he explores a move towards human-centred software design, informed by User Experience research, that the OLH are experimenting with i…
29 November 2022
A Year with the Open Library of Humanities
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
A Year with the Open Library of Humanities A blog post by Lindsey Beth Zelvin, CHASE Editorial, Marketing and Technical Intern for OLHLindsey Beth Zelvin is the CHASE Editorial, Marketing and Technical Intern for the Open Library of Humanities. She is coming to the end of a yearlong place…
14 September 2022
Open Insights: Choosing the Open Library of Humanities journal (OLHJ) as the Publisher for your Special Collection
Posted by Dr Katherine Parker-Hay
Choosing OLHJ as the Publisher for your Special Collection An Open Insights blog post by Katherine Parker-HayKatherine Parker-Hay is an Editorial Officer for the Open Library of Humanities where she oversees editorial processes and production. She has a PhD from the University of Sussex and ha…

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27 November 2024
Call for Contributions: Special issue on Thomas Pynchon in Eastern Europe: Translation, Dissemination, Reception
Posted by Sascha Pöhlmann
Guest editors: Sergej Macura (University of Belgrade), Gábor Tamás Molnár (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest) The international reception of Thomas Pynchon’s work has not received much scholarly attention, even though Pynchon is generally recognized as one of the most influential American prose wr…
27 November 2024
TRAJ Call for Editorial Board Members
Posted by Emily Hanscam
The Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal (TRAJ) is a peer-reviewed, open access journal published by the Open Library of Humanities, providing a venue for innovative and interdisciplinary research in the field of Roman Archaeology. The journal promotes the use of theoretical approaches to the Roma…
19 November 2024
Convocatoria anual de propuestas de números especiales de la <em>Revista Internacional del Trabajo </em>
Posted by The ILR Editorial Team
La Revista Internacional del Trabajo invita a presentar propuestas de números especiales que contribuyan a la investigación en un área específica que se inscriba dentro de los objetivos y el ámbito de la Revista, es decir, hacer avanzar la investigación académica y fomentar debates y toma de decisi…
19 November 2024
Appel annuel à propositions de numéros spéciaux de la <em>Revue internationale du Travail </em>
Posted by The ILR Editorial Team
La Revue internationale du Travail lance un appel à propositions pour des numéros spéciaux qui contribuent à la recherche dans un domaine spécifique relevant des orientations et thématiques de la Revue, à savoir enrichir la recherche universitaire, alimenter les débats et éclairer les décisions dan…
19 November 2024
<em>International Labour Review</em> Annual Call for Special Issue Proposals 
Posted by The ILR Editorial Team
The International Labour Review (ILR) invites proposals for special issues that contribute to research in a specific area that falls within the aims and scope of the journal, i.e. to advance academic research and foster informed policy debates and decision-making across a spectrum of work and emplo…
28 October 2024
Replication in the Humanities: Editorial for the June 2024 issue
Posted by Arthur C. Petersen
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 $6.75 (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, JP, CA or AU]…