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29 September 2026
OLH joins Library Publishing Coalition’s Strategic Affiliates Program
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente VegaThe Open Library of Humanities has joined the Library Publishing Coalition’s Strategic Affiliates Program, strengthening our connections with the international library and open access academic publishing community. The Library Publishing Coalition is an independent, community-led membership associa… -
2 September 2026
OLH flips Oxford University journal away from a commercial publisher
Posted by Professor Caroline EdwardsThis September, OLH welcomes another journal that is flipping from a commercial publishing model. The Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal (OUCLJ) will leave Taylor and Francis and move to OLH in Spring 2027. Launched in 2001, the OUCLJ is the flagship journal of Oxford University’s postgradu… -
20 August 2026
Winners of the OLH Open Access Award 2026 announced
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente VegaEarlier this year, the Open Library of Humanities launched the fifth edition of its OLH Open Access award, an initiative dedicated to advancing open access in the humanities and expanding access to knowledge worldwide. We are pleased to announce that this year’s awards have been granted to six outs… -
24 July 2026
OLH partners with the UK's leading group of science museums
Posted by Professor Caroline EdwardsWe’re delighted to announce that the Science Museum Group Journal will join OLH in Autumn 2026. This engaging publication is the official journal for the five national UK museums in the Science Museum Group – the Science Museum in London, the National Railway Museum in York, Locomotion in County Du… -
16 July 2026
The Hythe Review first issue with OLH
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente VegaWe are thrilled to announce the publications of the first issue of The Hythe Review with the Open Library of Humanities. The Hythe Review joined OLH in 2025, when the Open Library of Humanities partnered with award-winning poetry publisher the87press to relaunch its flagship poetry journal. The fir… -
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…
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29 July 2026
Data as a Story Exhibition
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente VegaData as a Story Exhibition The OLH Open Access Award 2025 Awardee Report, authored by Amie Longthorne, Open Data Management Specialist, Liverpool John Moores University The idea and getting started At Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) we have been proactive raising awareness across all areas… -
22 July 2026
OLH Interview with Semantics of Natural Languages (SNL)
Posted by Dr Maddie SinclairIn this interview, we speak with the editorial team at Semantics of Natural Languages about the journal's transition to diamond open access, the research communities that inspired their approach, and the importance of collective participation in scholarly publishing. OLH: Thank you for agreeing to … -
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…
News from our journals.
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5 October 2026Editorial for the September 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… -
15 September 2026
Alexandre Cremers and Viola Schmitt Join the <em>Semantics of Natural Languages</em> Team
Posted by Clemens MayrWe are delighted to announce that Alexandre Cremers (Vilnius University, Cognistats.eu) and Viola Schmitt (MIT) have joined the editorial team of SNL. Alexandre works at the intersection of theoretical and experimental approaches to meaning, with particular interests in vagueness, quantification, p… -
15 September 2026
Call for OLHJ Special Collection Articles: Eros Across Antiquity, Ecology and Posthumanism
Posted by Nikoleta Zampaki, Andreas Markantonatos, Lorena Rojas-Parma, María Di Muro-PellegrinoThis special collection explores a simple but powerful concept: that love, or eros, as the ancient Greeks called it—is not just a personal emotion but a fundamental force that binds the universe together. From the cosmic particles of ancient philosophy to the algorithms of AI, eros appears again an… -
26 August 2026Statement from the Open Library of Humanities on allegations of generative AI misuse in ‘Legibility and Contestability: Opaque Power, Misattribution, and Fascist Closure’ (McHugh, <em>Political Philosophy</em>, 2026)
Posted by The Open Library of HumanitiesThe Open Library of Humanities (OLH) received a complaint on 19th August 2026 with regard to an article that was recently published in Political Philosophy, ‘Legibility and Contestability: Opaque Power, Misattribution, and Fascist Closure’ (McHugh, 2026). The complainant provided an alleged generat… -
23 August 2026Fall 2026
Posted by Ryan A NetzleyMarvell Studies 11.1 contains articles by Gina Filo, on the link between racial anxiety and defense of the natural environment in “The Mower Against Gardens”; by Julianne Werlin, on the anniversary poem genre, Donne’s Anniversaries, and “The First Anniversary”; and by Martin Dzelainis on the Thomas… -
11 August 2026Call for Articles, Perspectives, Performances, and Reviews
Posted by BST JournalBody, Space & Technology, now in its twenty-sixth year of publication, is a leading online interdisciplinary journal, publishing on all aspects of contemporary arts practice. The Open Access journal publishes non-themed refereed articles, artist-led perspectives on their practice, together w…
