Resources.
We provide humanities scholars and librarians with the critical tools to support their own open-access advocacy.
Browse our open-access advocacy resources, which are all available to re-use under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). We have also provided links to resources from other open-access organisations.
To celebrate the ten-year anniversary of the OLH in 2023, we extended our Resources to include some of our earlier documents and materials, as a record of how we grew. This list brings together key milestones, minutes, previous campaigns, and significant marketing activities from the past decade.
Open access advocacy.
| Name | Type | Description | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Poster series | Posters | A series of posters highlighting our publishing work with various humanities communities, each dedicated to a different historical period | 2016, 2017, 2021 |
| Bookmarks | Bookmarks | Based on the OLH's poster series, and artwork by Nicky Borowiec, these were made for promotional purposes for Open Access Week 2022 | 2022 |
| Janeway training videos | Video series | Over the last year we've undertaken many training sessions. This page provides links to sessions that were run for version 1.4.2, 1.4 and 1.3.10. | 2023 |
| Supporter Badges | Supporter Badges | Downloadable digital supporter badges for all our institutions, in recognition of their continuing commitment to supporting open access in the humanities | 2023 |
| Paywall: The Business of Scholarship | Documentary | Examination of the profit-driven academic publishing industry, by Jason Schmitt | 2018 |
| Open Access and the Humanities | Ebook | OLH co-founder Martin Paul Eve's monograph on the histories, contexts, and controversies for open access, specifically in the humanities. | 2022 |
| OLH mini-documentary | Video | A short video documentary about the OLH, humanities open access and sustainable diamond OA publishing models | 2018 |
| The OLH library brochure | A short, visual document that provides a summary of the most relevant aspects of the OLH's work and what we offer | 2023 | |
| FAQs | Webpage | FAQs divided into sections for librarians, editors, and authors | 2023 |
| Glossary | Webpage | List of frequently used open-access terms | 2023 |
| Reading List | Webpage | A dynamic and growing bibliography of open-access reading materials | 2023 |
The OLH archive.
| Name | Type | Description | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Insights | Blog series | A series of think pieces about open-access publishing in the OLH orbit | 2018 - present |
| Janeway Review | Blog | First-hand account of Janeway's strengths and areas for improvement by Johan Rooryck, Editor-in-Chief of linguistics journal Glossa | 2022 |
| EIFL Introduction to Janeway publishing platform | Video | Learn more about Janeway, a free, open-source publishing platform developed by the OLH's in-house tech team at Birkbeck, University of London. | 2019 |
| Organisational Milestones | Blog series | Highlights from the OLH's past news items | 2013-present |
| Webinars and OLH events | Videos | A selection of the OLH webinars and online events | 2018-present |
| 'Janeway: A Scholarly Communications Platform' | Peer-reviewed article | Founders of the OLH's publishing platform, Janeway, reflect on the history and significance of the project | 2018 |
| 'Assessing Open Source Journal Management Software' | Peer-reviewed article | Review of Janeway against competitor submission platforms | 2020 |
| EmpowOA twitter chats | Wakelet | Curated list of twitter chats from the EmpowOA series | 2018-2020 |
| OLH conference poster | Poster | Graphic representation of the OLH buisness model | 2020 |
| OLH infographic | Infographic | Graphic representation of the OLH buisness model | 2020 |
| 'Lessons from the Open Library of Humanities' | Peer-reviewed article | A reflection on the challenges and successes of the project on its five year anniversary | 2020 |
Toolkit.
Links to external resources from trusted open-access organisations
